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6<br />

<strong>Size</strong> <strong>Exclusion</strong><br />

<strong>Chromatography</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

Polyamides, Polyesters,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Fluoropolymers<br />

Christian Dauwe*<br />

PSS Polymer St<strong>and</strong>ards Service<br />

Mainz, Germany<br />

1 INTRODUCTION<br />

Gel permeation chromatography (GPC, also known as SEC or size exclusion<br />

chromatography) has become a well accepted analytical method since its<br />

introduction in the late 1950s by works <strong>of</strong> Porath <strong>and</strong> Flodin (1) <strong>and</strong> Moore (2).<br />

Polymer St<strong>and</strong>ards Service (PSS) share this long-st<strong>and</strong>ing tradition as universal<br />

<strong>and</strong> stable sorbent manufacturer for all types <strong>of</strong> polymer applications.<br />

The analytical departments <strong>of</strong> PSS have collected much practical experience<br />

regarding GPC analysis <strong>of</strong> polyamides <strong>and</strong> polyesters, <strong>and</strong> also to some extent in<br />

the field <strong>of</strong> fluoropolymer analysis.<br />

The group <strong>of</strong> polymers including polyamides, polyesters, <strong>and</strong> fluoropolymers<br />

is <strong>of</strong>ten called performance polymers due to their unique mechanical <strong>and</strong><br />

*Current affiliation: YMC-Europe GmbH, Schermbeck, Germany.<br />

© 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc.

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