https://www.selleckchem.com/products/abt-199.html We present a facile sample partitioning method to enable rapid and low-cost digital PCR (dPCR) assays. By subdividing a high percentage of the sample volume into a large number of equal volume compartments with a self-digitization (SD) chip, this method can achieve a low-waste and high-order sample discretization in a matter of minutes. The SD chip contains a set of parallel microfluidic channels used for sample delivery, and each channel is connected with two rows of cylindrical wells to hold the discretized sample. By utilizing a degassed PDMS sealing slab as a detachable vacuum pumping source, the SD chip automatically generate large arrays of small sample volumes without requirement of external pumping and valving components. Unlike most microfluidic chamber-based methods for sample discretization, our detachable SD chip allows for discretizing sample with air flushing, then peeling off the cover PDMS slab and sealing the digitized samples with oil layer. Due to obviation of time-consuming oil flushing, such microfluidic device can achieve much faster digitization of sample volumes. Furthermore, this digitization chip can partition more than 90% of a sample volume, which is important for the applications where the amount of material available is small. We also demonstrated the utility of the proposed SD chip by applying it to a dPCR assay. Quadrupole based mass spectrometry based detection has experienced enormous improvements in terms of sensitivity over the last centuries. This development has not been equally matched with improvements in selectivity. Hence, the use of unit mass based MS/MS transitions or high resolution (HRMS) based extracted ion chromatograms is gradually becoming insufficient in the field of high sensitivity multi-residue analysis (e.g. pesticides in food). As a consequence, commercial instruments hyphenating ion mobility (IMS) with low or high resolution mass spectrometry based detection ha