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Fujimoto K, Ishikawa S, Watanabe K, Ishii H, Suga K, Nagao D. Correlation of Secondary Particle Number with the Debye-Hückel Parameter for Thickening Mesoporous Silica Shells Formed on Spherical Cores. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:17734-17740. [PMID: 34278159 PMCID: PMC8280692 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c02293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Mesoporous silica shells were formed on nonporous spherical silica cores during the sol-gel reaction to elucidate the mechanism for the generation of secondary particles that disturb the efficient growth of mesoporous shells on the cores. Sodium bromide (NaBr) was used as a typical electrolyte for the sol-gel reaction to increase the ionic strength of the reactant solution, which effectively suppressed the generation of secondary particles during the reaction wherein a uniform mesoporous shell was formed on the spherical core. The number of secondary particles (N 2nd) generated at an ethanol/water weight ratio of 0.53 was plotted against the Debye-Hückel parameter κ to quantitatively understand the Debye screening effect on secondary particle generation. Parameter κa, where a is the average radius of the secondary particles finally obtained in the silica coating, expresses the trend in N 2nd at different concentrations of ammonia and NaBr. N 2nd was much lower than that expected theoretically from the variation of secondary particle sizes at a constant Debye-Hückel parameter. A similar correlation with κa was observed at the high and low ethanol/water weight ratios of 0.63 and 0.53, respectively, with different hydrolysis rate constants. The good correlation between N 2nd and κa revealed that controlling the ionic strength of the silica coating is an effective approach to suppress the generation of secondary particles for designing mesoporous shells with thicknesses appropriate for their application as high-performance liquid chromatography column packing materials.
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- Kota Fujimoto
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-07 Aoba, Aramaki-aza, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-07 Aoba, Aramaki-aza, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-07 Aoba, Aramaki-aza, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- Department
of Sustainable Environmental Engineering, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1, Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-0097, Japan
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-07 Aoba, Aramaki-aza, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-07 Aoba, Aramaki-aza, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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Luo C, DeStefano JJ, Langlois TJ, Boyes BE, Schuster SA, Godinho JM. Fundamental to achieving fast separations with high efficiency: A review of chromatography with superficially porous particles. Biomed Chromatogr 2021; 35:e5087. [PMID: 33566360 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.5087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Revised: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Types of particles have been fundamental to LC separation technology for many years. Originally, LC columns were packed with large-diameter (>100 μm) calcium carbonate, silica gel, or alumina particles that prohibited fast mobile-phase speeds because of the slow diffusion of sample molecules inside deep pores. During the birth of HPLC in the 1960s, superficially porous particles (SPP, ≥30 μm) were developed as the first high-speed stationary-phase support structures commercialized, which permitted faster mobile-phase flowrates due to the fast movement of sample molecules in/out of the thin shells. These initial SPPs were displaced by smaller totally porous particles (TPP) in the mid-1970s. But SPP history repeated when UHPLC emerged in the 2000s. Stationary-phase support structures made from sub-3-μm SPPs were introduced to chromatographers in 2006. The initial purpose of this modern SPP was to enable chromatographers to achieve fast separations with high efficiency using conventional HPLCs. Later, the introduction of sub-2-μm SPPs with UHPLC instruments pushed the separation speed and efficiency to a very fast zone. This review aims at providing readers a comprehensive and up-to-date view on the advantages of SPP materials over TPPs historically and theoretically from the material science angle.
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- Chuping Luo
- Advanced Materials Technology, Inc, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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- Advanced Materials Technology, Inc, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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Hayes PE, Luong JHT, Gilchrist ES, Buzid A, Glennon JD. Profiling of phenolic flavorings using core-shell reversed-phase liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection at a boron-doped diamond electrode. J Chromatogr A 2020; 1612:460649. [PMID: 31708221 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2019.460649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2019] [Revised: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method equipped with a boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrode was established for the simultaneous determination of phenol, 4-ethylphenol (4-EP), guaiacol, 4-ethylguaiacol (4-EG), 4-vinylguaiacol (4-VG), eugenol, and o-, m- and p-cresol. The separation was performed on a reversed-phase HALO C18 core-shell column (3.0 × 50 mm, 2.7 µm) with a mobile phase comprising 10 mM formate, pH 3, and 15% acetonitrile (ACN) (v/v), a flow rate of 1.5 mL/min, corresponding to a total run time of 9 min. The electrochemical detection (ECD) was set at +1.5 V vs. Pd/H2 in oxidative mode. Under optimized operating conditions, good linearity was obtained for the nine phenolics with corresponding coefficients of determination (R2) above 0.998. The limits of detection (LODs, S/N = 3) were 10 nM-1 µM, with an 80-fold increase in sensitivity for guaiacol achieved with ECD over ultraviolet (UV) detection. The sensitive and selective HPLC-ECD method was successfully applied for the identification and quantification of the nine phenolics in Islay, Irish, Scotch, and Highland whiskey samples, with significantly higher concentrations of the flavorings determined in Islay whiskey.
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- Phyllis E Hayes
- Innovative Chromatography Group, Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC) Ireland, School of Chemistry and the Analytical & Biological Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF), University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Ireland
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- Innovative Chromatography Group, Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC) Ireland, School of Chemistry and the Analytical & Biological Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF), University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Ireland
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- Innovative Chromatography Group, Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC) Ireland, School of Chemistry and the Analytical & Biological Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF), University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Ireland
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- Innovative Chromatography Group, Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC) Ireland, School of Chemistry and the Analytical & Biological Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF), University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Ireland.
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- Innovative Chromatography Group, Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC) Ireland, School of Chemistry and the Analytical & Biological Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF), University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Ireland.
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Kaplitz AS, Kresge GA, Selover B, Horvat L, Franklin EG, Godinho JM, Grinias KM, Foster SW, Davis JJ, Grinias JP. High-Throughput and Ultrafast Liquid Chromatography. Anal Chem 2019; 92:67-84. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b04713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Alexander S. Kaplitz
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, United States
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- Advanced Materials Technology, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware 19810, United States
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- Analytical Platforms & Platform Modernization, GlaxoSmithKline, Upper Providence, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, United States
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Liang Y, Zhang L, Zhang Y. Well-Defined Materials for High-Performance Chromatographic Separation. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (PALO ALTO, CALIF.) 2019; 12:451-473. [PMID: 30939031 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anchem-061318-114854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Chromatographic separation has been widely applied in various fields, such as chemical engineering, precision medicine, energy, and biology. Because chromatographic separation is based on differential partitioning between the mobile phase and stationary phase and affected by band dispersion and mass transfer resistance from these two phases, the materials used as the stationary phase play a decisive role in separation performance. In this review, we discuss the design of separation materials to achieve the separation with high efficiency and high resolution and highlight the well-defined materials with uniform pore structure and unique properties. The achievements, recent developments, challenges, and future trends of such materials are discussed. Furthermore, the surface functionalization of separation ma-terials for further improvement of separation performance is reviewed. Finally, future research directions and the challenges of chromatographic separation are presented.
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- Yu Liang
- CAS Key Lab of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, National Chromatographic Research and Analysis Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China;
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- CAS Key Lab of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, National Chromatographic Research and Analysis Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China;
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- CAS Key Lab of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, National Chromatographic Research and Analysis Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China;
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- Yuri Kazakevich
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA
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The high performance of chemically-modified silica gel packing materials is based on the utilization of pure silica gels. Earlier silica gels used to be made from inorganic silica; however, nowadays, silica gels are made from organic silanes. The surface smoothness and lack of trace metals of new silica gels permits easy surface modifications (chemical reactions) and improves the reproducibility and stability. Sharpening peak symmetry is based on developing better surface modification methods (silylation). Typical examples can be found in the chromatography of amitriptyline for silanol testing and that of quinizarin for trace metal testing. These test compounds were selected and demonstrated sensitive results in the measurement of trace amounts of either silanol or trace metals. Here, we demonstrate the three-dimensional model chemical structures of bonded-phase silica gels with surface electron density for easy understanding of the molecular interaction sites with analytes. Furthermore, a quantitative explanation of hydrophilic and hydrophobic liquid chromatographies was provided. The synthesis methods of superficially porous silica gels and their modified products were introduced.
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Qu Q, Si Y, Xuan H, Zhang K, Chen X, Ding Y, Feng S, Yu HQ, Abdullah MA, Alamry KA. Dendritic core-shell silica spheres with large pore size for separation of biomolecules. J Chromatogr A 2018; 1540:31-37. [PMID: 29426717 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2018.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Revised: 01/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Monodispersed core-shell silica spheres with fibrous shell structure and tunable pore size were prepared by using a one-pot oil-water biphase method. The pore size could be tuned from 7 nm to 37 nm by using organic solvents with different polarities as oil phase. The spheres synthesized by using benzene as organic solvent had the maximum pore size of 37 nm and possessed a surface area of 61 m2 g-1. The obtained wide pore core-shell silica spheres were applied for rapidly separating small molecules, peptides, small proteins, and large proteins with molecular weight up to 200 kDa. Since the pore size of the core-shell silica spheres was sufficiently large for the free access of all the solutes, sharp and symmetric peaks were obtained. The separation performance was as high as 264,531 plates m-1 for fluorene. The great efficient separation demonstrates that the wide pore core-shell silica spheres have a great potential for rapid analysis of both small and large solutes with high performance liquid chromatography.
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- Qishu Qu
- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecule Design and Interface Process, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecule Design and Interface Process, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecule Design and Interface Process, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecule Design and Interface Process, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecule Design and Interface Process, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecule Design and Interface Process, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed A, Skinley K, Herodotou S, Zhang H. Core-shell microspheres with porous nanostructured shells for liquid chromatography. J Sep Sci 2017; 41:99-124. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201700850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2017] [Revised: 09/28/2017] [Accepted: 09/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Liverpool; Liverpool UK
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Tanaka N, McCalley DV. Core–Shell, Ultrasmall Particles, Monoliths, and Other Support Materials in High-Performance Liquid Chromatography. Anal Chem 2015; 88:279-98. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b04093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Centre for Research in Biosciences, University of the West of England, Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K
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