Monolithic stationary phases copolymerization

Due to the fact that thermally initiated free radical copolymerization is by far the most routinely employed method for fabrication of organic monolithic stationary phases, the pore formation mechanism is discussed for this particular kind of polymerization. 

In the mid-1980s, Belenkii et al. comprehensively studied the separation of proteins on particle-packed columns of variational length and dimension under gradient conditions [20]. They concluded that a short distance of stationary phase is sufficient to enable protein separation with an acceptable resolution. With respect to that, Tennikova et al. came up with the concept of short monolithic separation beds, realized by copolymerization of glycidyl methacrylate as monomer and high amounts of... 

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