Molar Mass and Molar Mass Distribution of Polystyrene Particle Size Standards
2005; American Chemical Society; Volume: 77; Issue: 21 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1021/ac050795y
ISSN1520-6882
AutoresWen‐Ping Peng, Yi-Chang Yang, Chungwei Lin, Huan‐Cheng Chang,
Tópico(s)Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
ResumoMonodisperse polystyrene microspheres and nanospheres are often used as particle size standards for calibration of size-measuring instruments. They are potentially useful as the mass standards for particle mass spectrometry as well. We demonstrated in this work that it is possible to achieve high-precision mass determination for single polystyrene spheres using a quadrupole ion trap. We introduced the particles into the trap by laser-induced acoustic desorption and probed them with light scattering. Mass-to-charge ratios of the individual particles were determined from applied trap-driving frequencies, voltage amplitudes and the observed starlike oscillatory trajectories projected on the radial plane. Creation of one-electron differentials through charge-state changes by electron bombardment allowed determination for the absolute mass of a single trapped particle to a precision better than 0.1%. Both molar mass and molar mass distribution were deduced from a large number of measurements for NIST polystyrene particle size standards (SRMs 1690 and 1691). Our results are in excellent agreement with the size measurement for the 0.895-μm spheres (NIST SRM 1690), but a small discrepancy (4%) in number-average mass was found for the 0.269-μm spheres (NIST SRM 1691).
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