Coupled chromatographic techniques cross-fractionation

This book covers some of the significant advances in hyphenated chromatographic separation methods for polymer characterization. Chromatographic separation techniques in this volume include size-exclusion chromatography, liquid chromatography, and field flow fractionation methods that are used in conjunction with information-rich detectors such as molecular size-sensitive or compositional-sensitive detectors or coupled in cross-fractionation modes. 

Combination with other liquid chromatographic techniques is also reported by several workers. Orthogonal coupling of an SEC system to another high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system K, Kj to achieve a desired cross-fractionation was proposed. It was an SEC-SEC mode, using the same polystyrene column, but the mobile phase in the first system was chosen to accomplish only a hydrodynamic volume separation, and the mobile phase in the second system was chosen so as to be a thermodynamically poorer solvent for one of the monomer types in the copolymer, in order to fractionate by composition under adsorption or partition modes as well as size exclusion. 

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