Achievements in Capillary Gas Chromatography

Since Golay s proposal of the use of the capillary column, capillary gas chromatography has exhibited spectacular growth, maturing into a powerful analytical technique. Some of the more notable achievements in capillary gas chromatography are listed in Table 3.1. 

1958 Theory of capillary column performance, GC Symposium in Amsterdam 

Fused silica introduced by Hewlett-Packard 1981-1984 Deactivation procedures and cross-linked stationary phases 1981-1988 Interfacing capillary columns with spectroscopic detectors (MS, FTIR, AED) 1983 Megabore column introduced as an alternative to the packed column 

1992-2005 Programmed-temperature vaporizer electronic pressure-controlled sample inlet systems -ms grade columns, solid-phase microextraction sampling techniques, large-volume injectors, integrated guard columns, multidimensional GC, sol-gel columns, improvements in silphenylene phases, advances in GC-MS, more affordable benchtop GC-MS systems 

Source-. Some data from Agilent Technologies. 

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