The acoustic spectrophonometer:a novel bioanalytical technique based on multifrequency acoustic devices

摘要

A measurement technique similar to optical absorption spectroscopy but based on evanescent acoustic waves is described in this paper.This format employs a planar spiral coil to vibrate a single crystal of quartz from 6 to 400 MHz,in order to measure multifrequency acoustic spectra.Consistency with the defined Sauerbrey and Kanazawa terms K_1 and K_2 when applied to multiple frequencies was found for these specific operating conditions in terms of a significant fit between the measured and calculated values:For an IgG surface density of 13.5 ng mm~-2 th emeasured value of K_1 is 22.5 X10~-6 and the calculated value is 0.54.Thus for these specfific surface loadings the multifrequency data fits to the predictions of the Sauerbrey model to within 10% and to kanazawa model within 13%.However collective frequency shifts for 5.131 cP solution sof sucrose,dextran and glucose were found to exhibit an unanticipated additional variability (R~2<0.4) wth frequency,but retained a square root of frequency dependency within a factor 2 of the interpolated K_2 values.The response to the 5.131 cP dextran solution was found to be significantly below th eother isoviscous solutions,with a substantially reduced frequency shift and K_2 value than would be expected from its bulk viscosity.In comparison with these viscous solutions,IgG protein films consistently produced linear frequency shifts with little scatter (R_2>0.96) that were proportional to the operating frequency,and fully consistent with the Sauerbrey model under these specific conditions.A t-test value of 14.52 was calculated form the variance and mean of the two groups,and demonstrates that the acoustic spectrophonometer can be used to distinguish between the acoustic impedance characteristics of two chemcial systems that are not clearly differentiable at a single operating frequency.