Wu C.-S.(ed.) Handbook of Size Exclusion Chromatography

Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1995. – 515 p. (Chromatographic science series, Vol. 69)Molecular weight and molecular weight distribution are well known to affect the properties of polymeric materials. Even though for decades viscosity has been an integral part of product specifications used to characterize molecular weight of polymeric materials in industry, the need to define the molecular weight distribution of a product has attracted little attention. However, in recent years producers and users of polymeric materials have become ever more interested in value-added polymers with not only specific molecular weights but also optimal molecular weight distribution to offer unique performance advantages to products.
In fact, molecular weight distribution has become an important marketing feature for polymeric products in the 1990s. It is very common these days to see new grades of polymeric materials introduced to the marketplace that are specially designed to have either narrow or bimodal molecular weight distribution. In the case of a copolymer, the stress is on the uniformity in composition distribution throughout the entire molecular weight distribution. Therefore, the need to improve the analytical capability in R&D to characterize molecular weight distribution by size exclusion chromatography or gel permeation chromatography has become increasingly urgent in recent years.
Determination of molecular weight distribution of a polymer is very often not a simple task. This is one of the reasons it is still not commonly used as a final product specification. Many books have been published on size exclusion chromatography. However, there has still been a need for a book that stresses practical applications of size exclusion chromatography to the important polymeric materials in industry. Hopefully the valuable experiences of the authors in this book.Edward G. Malawer - Introduction to Size Exclusion Chromatography
Elizabeth Meehan - Semirigid Polymer Gels for Size Exclusion Chromatography
Roy Eksteen and Kelli J. Pardue - Modified Silica-Based Packing Materials for Size Exclusion Chromatography
Christian Jackson and Howard G. Barth - Molecular Weight-Sensitive Detectors for Size Exclusion Chromatography
Alfred Rudin - Determination of Molecular Weight Distributions of Copolymers by Size Exclusion Chromatography
Paul J. Wang Size Exclusion Chromatography of Polyamides, Polyesters, and Fluoropolymers
Tertutake Homma and Michiko Tazaki - Size Exclusion Chromatography of Natural and Synthetic Rubber
Richard R. Davison, Charles J. Glover, Barry L. Burr, and Jerry A. Bullin - Size Exclusion Chromatography of Asphalts
Fu-mei C. Lin -Size Exclusion Chromatography of Acrylamide Homopolymer and Copolymers
Dennis J. Nagy - Aqueous Size Exclusion Chromatography of Polyvinyl Alcohol
Bruce D. Lawrey - Size Exclusion Chromatography of Polyvinyl Acetate
Chi-san Wu, James F. Curry, Edward G. Malawer, and Laurence Senak - Size Exclusion Chromatography of Vinyl Pyrrolidone Homopolymer and Copolymers
Anthony H. Conner - Size Exclusion Chromatography of Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives
Michael E. Himmel, Juraj Mlynár, and Simo Sarkanen - Size Exclusion Chromatography of Lignin Derivatives
Jau-Yi Chuang - Size Exclusion Chromatography of Starch
Michael E. Himmel, John O. Baker, and David J. Mitchell - Size Exclusion Chromatography of Proteins