Recent innovations in UHPLC columns and instrumentation

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 14-20

  Walter, Thomas H ^a   Andrews, Richard W ^a  

^a WATERS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Charged surface particle; Column efficiency; Core shell particle; Extra column dispersion; Reversed phase separation; Solid core particle; Sub 2 m particle; UHPLC; UHPLC column; UHPLC system

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; DISPERSIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PHASE SEPARATION; POROUS MATERIALS;

CHARGED SURFACES; COLUMN EFFICIENCY; CORE PARTICLES; CORE-SHELL PARTICLE; REVERSED-PHASE SEPARATION; UHPLC; UHPLC SYSTEM;

IONIC STRENGTH;

ACIDITY; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; DEVICES; DISPERSION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; IONIC STRENGTH; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SOLID STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNOLOGY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 84911864201     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: 18793142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2014.07.016     Document Type: Review

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