Polymers are mainly characterized by molar mass, chemical composition, functionality and architecture. The determination of the complex structure of polymers by chromatographic and spectroscopic methods is one of the major concerns of polymer analysis and characterization. This lab manual describes the experimental approach to the chromatographic analysis of polymers. Different chromatographic methods, their theoretical background, equipment, experimental procedures and applications are discussed. The book will enable polymer chemists, physicists and material scientists as well as students of macromolecular and analytical science to optimize chromatographic conditions for a specific separation problem. Special emphasis is given to the description of applications for homo- and copolymers and polymer blends.

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Autorentext

Guilaume Greyling is a Postdoc Fellow at University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Previously he worked as Research Scientist for iThemba LABS and holds a PhD in Chemistry and Polymer Science from University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Harald Pasch holds the SASOL Chair of Analytical Polymer Science at the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has great experience in analytical polymer science and polymer separation and fractionation techniques. His research is focused on the development of multidimensional analytical techniques for complex polymers, in particular efficient multi-dimensional coupling of separation methods and hyphenation of separation methods through complementary analytical methodology. Harald Pasch is one of the series editors of the series Springer Laboratory: Manuals in Polymer Science

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 2 Thermodynamics of Polymer Chromatography.- 3 Equipment and Materials.- 4 Size Exclusion Chromatography.- 5 Liquid Adsorption Chromatography.- 6 Liquid Chromatography at the Critical Point of Adsorption.- 7 Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography.