This book reviews state-of-the-art polymer chromatography, combining different analytical techniques in multi-dimensional analysis. Covers basic principles and instrumentation of multi-dimensional chromatography and presents experimental analysis protocols.

This book presents the principle ideas of combining different analytical techniques in multi-dimensional analysis schemes. It reviews the basic principles and instrumentation of multi-dimensional chromatography and the hyphenation of liquid chromatography with selective spectroscopic detectors and presents experimental protocols for the analysis of complex polymers.
It is the consequent continuation of "HPLC of Polymers" from 1999 by the same authors. Like its 'predecessor', this book discusses the theoretical background, equipment, experimental procedures and applications for each separation technique, but in contrast treats multi-dimensional and coupled techniques. "Multidimensional HPLC of Polymers" intends to review the state of the art in polymer chromatography and to summarize the developments in the field during the last 15 years. With its tutorial and laboratory manual style it is written for beginners as well as for experienced chromatographers, and will enable its readers (polymer chemists, physicists and material scientists, as well as students of polymer and analytical sciences) to optimize the experimental conditions for their specific separation problems.

Being an amendment of the previous textbook 'HPLC of Polymers', extending into multidimensional techniques and couplings of chromatographic techniques as well as with other analytical tools, this book is the first comprehensive practice-oriented presentation of hyphenated techniques in polymer HPLC for the analysis of complex synthetic polymers Right in the scope of the series "Springer Laboratory", this book can be used as a textbook or as a lab manual, presenting both important background and concepts as well as laboratory instructions/protocols Discusses the theoretical background, equipment, experimental procedures and applications for each separation technique, enabling polymer chemists, physicists and material scientists, as well as students of polymer and analytical sciences to optimize experimental conditions for their specific separation problem Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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

Introduction.- Theory of Polymer Chromatography.- Interactive Modes of Polymer Chromatography.- Equipment and Materials.- Multidetector Size Exclusion Chromatography.- Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography.- Hyphenation of Polymer Chromatography with Information-Rich Detectors.- Polyolefin Analysis by Multidimensional Liquid Chromatography.- Conclusions and Future Trends.