Fig. 1 Characterization of CuCoO-GO (CuO-GO and GO as the control samples. (a) TEM image; (a1) Dark-field TEM image; (a2) Zoomed-in view of dark-field in the red box; (a3-a4) Corresponding elemental mapping in the red box: Cu (green) and Co (brown). Sample: CuCoO-GO; scale bars as specified. (b) AFM image of CuCoO-Go in the larger field of view; (b1) AFM of a single nanosheet of CuCoO-Go; (b2) Height profile correspondingly along the blue line of (b1). scale bars: 5 μm. (c-d) Raman spectra and X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of GO, CuO-GO and CuCoO-GO.
在探究CuCoO-GO的質譜性能時,本文作者在相同的儀器條件下,比較了CuCoO-GO基質與傳統的有機基質CHCA和SA的背景噪聲。如Fig. 2a所示,有機基質(CHCA或SA)在低分子量范圍(m / z <700)內產生強烈的背景噪聲。相比之下,CuCoO-GO的背景很干凈,這證明了CuCoO-GO作為MALDI基質檢測m / z <700范圍內的小分子具有良好的潛力。接著本文作者選擇小分子抗生素磺胺嘧啶(SDZ)和磺胺甲惡唑(SMX)為分析物,分別在正離子和負離子模式下進行MALDI 質譜檢測。如圖2b所示,在任何一種模式中,分析物都有明顯的特征峰和較高的信噪比。本文作者通過實驗證明該方法的檢測極限可達ug/L級別,比之前文獻報道值低幾百倍。同時,本文作者用同位素標記的方法對磺胺嘧啶進行了定量檢測,定量結果表明,無論在水中或牛奶溶液中都具有良好的線性關系,表明該方法可應用于牛奶樣品中殘留抗生素定量分析。
Fig. 2 High performance of CuCoO-GO matrix in MALDI mass spectrometry for antibiotic analysis. (a) The background noise of CuCoO-GO matrix in comparison with traditional organic matrices of CHCA and SA, in the negative-ion mode. (b) The mass spectra of SDZ and SMX in the positive-ion and negative-ion modes using CuCoO-GO matrix. (c) Mass spectra of SDZ and sulfapyridine-13C (internal standard) in the water solution or the milk sample, and the calibration curves for absolute quantitation of SDZ in the negative-ion mode (n=4). Error bar: standard deviation.