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19<br />

Methods <strong>and</strong> Columns<br />

for High-Speed <strong>Size</strong><br />

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

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

Separations<br />

Peter Kilz<br />

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

Mainz, Germany<br />

1 INTRODUCTION<br />

<strong>Size</strong> exclusion chromatography (SEC) is the established method for determining<br />

macromolecular properties in solution. It is the only technique that allows the<br />

efficient measurement <strong>of</strong> property distributions for a wide range <strong>of</strong> application.<br />

Recently, a major goal in industry <strong>and</strong> research alike has been focused on increasing<br />

the throughput <strong>of</strong> analytical instrumentation. This has been forced by increasing<br />

productivity dem<strong>and</strong>s in QC/QA <strong>and</strong> by the use <strong>of</strong> high-throughput screening<br />

techniques in materials science for faster development <strong>of</strong> new products. Increased<br />

analytical throughput can save time <strong>and</strong> resources (e.g., instrumentation) in<br />

production-related fields. In combinatorial research, high-throughput analytical<br />

techniques are a bare necessity, because <strong>of</strong> the huge numbers <strong>of</strong> samples being<br />

synthesized (1,2; <strong>and</strong> references therein). In either situation, the slowest step in the<br />

© 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc.

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