The wide range of chromatographic techniques share one common aim: to separate a material into its components. A material, your sample, is dissolved in a solvent, called the mobile phase. This mixture ...

Micellar electrokinetic chromatography is a modified version of capillary electrophoresis which is used to separate a wide range of molecules, from inorganic ions to large biopolymers. Electrophoresis ...

Chromatography is the science of separating molecules of interest to identify, quantify or even purify them. Properties of the target molecules such as their solubility, size or hydrophobicity give ...

Flash column chromatography is a method of chemical separation that is used to purify chemical mixtures. It is also known as flash purification, due to its function as a purification method. It is ...

Gas chromatography is a common chromatography technique used to separate and analyze volatile chemical compounds which do not decompose. It is typically used to separate different compounds within a ...

Liquid chromatography (LC) is a chromatographic technique used to separate and analyze mixtures of chemical components in solution, to determine if a specific component is present or absent and, if ...

In Star Trek, Mr. Spock’s hand-held tricorder can instantly tell what something is made of. We don’t have tricorders yet, but we’re getting close. Portable devices just a little too big to hold in one ...