Column Handbook for Size Exclusion Chromatography

Book excerpt: The column is the heart of a chromatographic system. For the first time, complete and authoritative information on columns for size exclusion and gel filtration chromatography is available in a single volume containing contributions from every major manufacturer worldwide and many renowned column users. This comprehensive handbook covers the technology, characterization, application, evaluation, maintenance, and quality control of commercial analytical and preparative columns for SEC, GFC, and two closely related techniques, hydrodynamic chromatography and high osmotic pressure chromatography. Experienced column users discuss various applications in organic and aqueous mobile phases for synthetic and biopolymers, small solutes, biopharmaceutical therapeutics, and high-temperature SEC.