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 ...

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 ...

In this month's LCGC Blog, Hayley Brawley and Alexia Kreinbrink explore the challenges facing chromatographers when exploring the complex world of metal speciation. Studying metals in biology is much ...