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 ...

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 ...

Ion exchange chromatography (IEX) is a versatile and widely used technique for separating biomolecules based on charge. It plays a critical role in protein purification in research and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gas chromatography is an innovative approach to separating and quantitating vaporized compounds through the use of an inert carrier gas. Gas chromatography functions according to similar principles as ...

The Sars-CoV-2 virus has caused a pandemic which has led to nearly 100 million cases globally by the end of 2020. The development of effective vaccines and treatments by companies and governments ...