Silica Surfaces and Their Modifications for Analytical Chemistry
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Structure".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 5582
Special Issue Editor
Interests: liquid chromatography (HPLC, UPLC); analytical chemistry; stationary phases synthesis and characterization; surface phenomena in liquid chromatography; solvation processes; retention mechanism in RP LC, HILIC, PALC; purely aqueous separation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Silica gel is the most common material applied as a column packing for liquid chromatography. It may be used as an adsorbent for normal phase chromatography and in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography. Silica gel may be also modified to obtain chemically bonded stationary phases with hydrophobic or hydrophilic functional groups for reversed phase chromatography. These modifications that may be carried out in different methodologies allow to obtain expected surface properties of the stationary phases, dedicated to specific chromatographic mode and offer unusual selectivity. Despite of liquid chromatography, silica gel and its modifications are commonly applied for materials used for sample preparation, extraction, purification, ect.
The main aim of the Special Issue on "Silica Surfaces and Their Modifications for Analytical Chemistry" is to be an open forum where researchers may share their investigations and findings in this still evolving field and, due to the open access platform, increase their visibility. Contributions to this issue, both in the form of original research and review articles, may cover all aspects of production, modification, characterization and application of silica materials in analytical chemistry, are particularly welcome.
Prof. Dr. Szymon Bocian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Silica gel
- Silica surface modification
- Separation techniques
- Stationary phases
- Chromatography
- Extraction techniques
- Sample preparation
