A Century of Separation Science

by Haleem J. Issaq (Editor)

Overview

A Century of Separation Science presents an extensive overview of the critical developments in separation science since 1900, covering recent advances in chromatography, electrophoresis, field-flow fractionation, countercurrent chromatography, and supercritical fluid chromatography for high-speed and high-throughput analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040213322
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/19/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	776
File size:	61 MB
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Table of Contents

Chromatography - the separation technique of the 20th century; Mikhail Semenovich Tswett - the father of modern chromatography; from crushed bricks to microchips; thin layer chromatography; from thin layer chromatography to high performance thin layer chromatography to planar chromatography; the way it was; gas chromatography - a personal retrospective; the evolution of capillary column gas chromatography - a historical overview; forty years of gas chromatography; liquid crystals stationary phases in gas chromatography - a historical prospective; quantitative retention-eluent composition relationships in partition and adsorption chromatography; hollow sticks with mud inside - the technology of HPLC columns; on the way to a general theory of gradient elution; solvent selection for optimal separation in liquid chromatography; my life in separation sciences - study of separation mechanisms.