title: Development of an ultra-micro sample injector for gas chromatography using an ink-jet microchip.
abstract: An ultra-micro sample injector for gas chromatography (GC) was developed. An ink-jet microchip, originally used for industrial recorder, was modified at the edge near to an orifice, and fixed into the GC. In order to evaluate the characteristics of this injector, a sample injector and a thermal conductive detector (TCD) were connected directly, while water was used as the test sample. The volume of the droplet, the interval time and the back-pressure to the ink-jet microchip were investigated. Within the range of 1 - 5 nL volume injected sample, the TCD response according to the amount of the sample volume (the volume of one droplet from the ink-jet microchip was about 1 nL) was obtained. A good reproducibility of the peak area was obtained to be about 1.0% of the RSD value. In order to compare the injection method of the ink-jet chip with that using a micro-syringe, the method using the ink-jet chip could introduce 1/1000 of the amount of the sample and gave reproducible results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate Schools of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Takahide
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishiyama
authors.forename: Fumihiro
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eguchi
authors.forename: Tatsuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakagama
authors.forename: Nobuko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Seino
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shinoda
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shimosaka
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hobo
authors.forename: Katsumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uchiyama