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3 unusual facts about chromatography


Muhammad Yar Khuhawar

Currently, he is working with more than 50 researchers, focusing in the field of Chromatography and Electrophoresis for analytical method development for metals, non-metals and biological active compounds from wide variety of real samples.

His research group has synthesized a number of Schiff base polymers and have developed new stationary phase for Gas Chromatography and sensitive Liquid Chromatography procedures for the determination of pesticide malathion.

Polypure

The compounds are produced using a proprietary purification technology called Sample Displacement Chromatography (SDC).


Affinity chromatography

Most monoclonal antibodies have been purified using affinity chromatography based on immunoglobulin-specific Protein A or Protein G, derived form bacteria.

Bioanalysis

The most frequently used techniques are: liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) for 'small' molecules and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for macromolecules

ChemStation

Agilent ChemStation, a software to control Agilent liquid chromatography systems

Fast protein liquid chromatography

FPLC was developed and marketed in Sweden by Pharmacia in 1982 and was originally called fast performance liquid chromatography to contrast it with HPLC or high-performance liquid chromatography.

Headspace

Headspace technology, the gaseous constituents of a closed space above liquids or solid emitting and vapors measured using headspace gas chromatography

Henry M. Fales

Fales received several awards including Chromatographer of the Year of the Washington Chromatography Discussion Group (1973), DHEW Superior Service Awards (1973, 1986), the Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington in 1977, and a Professional Service Award of Alpha Chi Sigma, Washington, D.C. (1988).

History of chromatography

The earliest use of chromatography—passing a mixture through an inert material to create separation of the solution components based on differential adsorption—is sometimes attributed to German chemist Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, who in 1855 described the use of paper to analyze dyes.

Meg Gardiner

"CSI is great, but I wanted to go beyond it. In the real world, crime lab technology is not an infallible truth-o-meter. Physical evidence is not in fact bulletproof. Real life is murkier—and more fascinating. That's what Jo explores. She goes beyond DNA sequencing and gas chromatography to uncover why a victim has died. And she can come at cases from fresh, atypical angles."

Polypure

That is, individual PEG molecules bind to the matrix within a chromatography column at differing affinity depending on their molecular weight.


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