Purity of double hydrophilic block copolymers revealed by capillary electrophoresis in the critical conditions

Journal of Chromatography A

Volumn 1372, Issue , 2014, Pages 187-195

  Sutton, Adam T ^a   Read, Emmanuelle ^b   Maniego, Alison R ^a   Thevarajah, Joel J ^a   Marty, Jean Daniel ^b   Destarac, Mathias ^b   Gaborieau, Marianne ^a   Castignolles, Patrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

Block copolymers; Capillary electrophoresis; Critical conditions; Pressure assisted CE CC; Purity; Residual homopolymer quantification

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; AMIDES; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROOSMOSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; HYDROGELS; HYDROPHILICITY; NANOFLUIDICS; OSMOSIS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYMERS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

CAPILLARY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS; CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; CRITICAL CONDITION; DOUBLE-HYDROPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMERS; N- ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE; PURITY; PURITY DETERMINATION; RESIDUAL HOMOPOLYMER QUANTIFICATION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

COPOLYMER; HOMOPOLYMER; POLY(ACRYLAMIDO N PROPYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUM CHLORIDE B N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); POLY(ACRYLIC ACID B ACRYLAMIDE); POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHILICITY; POLYMERIZATION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84916197495     PISSN: 00219673     EISSN: 18733778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2014.10.105     Document Type: Article

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