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Process control of thin organic-inorganic (multi)layer systems using TOF-SIMS assisted with PCA
(2014)
Room temperature ionic liquids (RTIL) are composed of ions only and are defined as molten salts with a melting point below 100°C1. They have numerous interesting physical properties such as high thermal stability, a wide liquid range and a tuneable viscosity. Besides their low melting points they have also a very low vapour pressure, which enables their analysis in ultra high vacuum devices such as XPS2, 3 and ToF-SIMS2, 4. A systematic study with different ionic liquids was carried out by means of time-of-fight secondary-ion-mass-spectrometry in positive and negative ion mode. Thereby a variation of the anion in 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium based ionic liquids, a variation of the cation including a variation of the side chain length, in bis(triuoromethylsulfonyl)imide based ionic liquids was taken into account. The compounds were measured under bismuth cluster ion (Bi7+) bombardment, and spectral information and general rules for the fragmentation pattern are presented. Evidence for cation-anion interactions (e.g. hydrogen bonding), due to high molecular secondary cluster ions, could be found. The interaction strength could be estimated by ToF-SIMS via correlation of the secondary anion intensity to secondary cluster ion intensity ratio with donor and acceptor numbers.
Static secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) has become a major analytical technique for the analysis of solid surfaces. In the last years it has also been used for the analysis of liquid/frozen surfaces from ionic liquids1-5. However, the mechanism for the emission of secondary ions has not been investigated so far, especially for the state of the art liquid metal ion guns (LMIG), such as the Bi or the BiMn LMIGs. These sources are not only able to provide monoatomic primary ions, but also singly and doubly charged polyatomic primary ion cluster. This new development has led to the investigation of the primary ion particle to specific parameters in order to determine the capabilities of such LMIGs on different target samples. To further the principle understanding of secondary ion emission, a systematic study using Bi1-7+ and Bi1,3,5,7++ primary ions on ionic liquids with considerably different strength of inter-ionic interactions was performed. As model samples the ionic liquids 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([C4C1im][Ac] and [C4C1im][PF6]) were used. To compare spectra or the performance of primary ion particles on substances or substance classes, the SIMS data were evaluated by calculating secondary ion yields, static SIMS limit, disappearing cross section, ion formation efficiency and fragmentation.
Covalent modification of surfaces with carbohydrates (glycans) is a prerequisite for a variety of glycomics-based biomedical applications, including functional biomaterials, glycan-arrays, and glycan-based biosensors. The chemistry of glycan immobilization plays an essential role in the bioavailability and function of surface bound carbohydrate moieties. For biomedical applications the stability over time (shelf life) of a glycan-array is a crucial factor. Basic requirements for the production of microarrays are first of all stable signals without any loss of quality. Therefore, the investigation of the shelf life for carbohydrate microarrays is an important part in the development of glycan-arrays.
Motivated by the need of reliable quality control for glycan microarrays, we developed reference arrays using fluorescent model glycans. Since the long term stability of glycan microarrays is a crucial factor for their clinical application the shelf life at different storage conditions of glycan microarrays was studied in detail using the two model glycan compounds.
Herein, we present a shelf life study of model glycan microarrays on epoxy modified glass surfaces over a period of 320 days. This was carried out using different analyzing techniques such as Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and Fluorescence Spectroscopy. To analyze and interpret the ToF-SIMS dataset the multivariate technique principal component analysis (PCA) was used. The dependence of the array´s shelf life upon storage conditions was specifically studied.