Publications related to Column chromatography

Development of a magnetic calcium-alginate hydrogel-sphere encapsulated with Fe-Mn-Zr ternary metal composite for heavy metal adsorption

Heavy metal contamination has become one of the greatest global environmental problems. In this study, a magnetic calcium-alginate hydrogel-sphere encapsulated with Fe-Mn-Zr ternary-metal composite (MCHETC) was prepared through a combined co-precipitation ...

2023

Advancing Glycan Analysis: Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy for Database-Driven Identification

Ali H Abikhodr

Glycans play a pivotal role in both physiological processes; however, the field of glycobiology remains relatively understudied within biochemistry. The intricate complexity of glycans, coupled with their abundance of isomeric forms, presents formidable ch ...

EPFL2023

Maximizing friction by liquid flow clogging in confinement

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora, Xiaoqi Zhang, Shan Chen

In the nanoscale regime, flow behaviors for liquids show qualitative deviations from bulk expectations. In this work, we reveal by molecular dynamics simulations that plug flow down to nanoscale induces molecular friction that leads to a new flow structure ...

SPRINGER2022

Standard-Free Quantification of Dicarboxylic Acids: Case Studies with Salt-Rich Effluents and Serum

Christian Ludwig, Daniil Salionov, Sasa Bjelic

The present study evaluates the ionization efficiency (IE) of linear and branched C2–C14 dicarboxylic acids (DCAs) by electrospray ionization (ESI) under different conditions. The influence of the concentration of organic modifier (MeOH); mobile phase addi ...

2022

Identification of Isomeric Biomolecules by Infrared Spectroscopy of Solvent-Tagged Ions

Oleg Boyarkine, Andrei Zviagin

The difference in functionality of many isomeric biomolecules requires their analytical identification for life science studies. We present a universal approach for quantitative identification of different small- to medium-sized isomeric biomolecules that ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Super adsorption performance of carboxymethyl cellulose/copper oxide-nickel oxide nanocomposite toward the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

A novel nanocomposite bead based on polymeric matrix of carboxymethyl cellulose and copper oxide-nickel oxide nanoparticles was synthesized, characterized, and applied for adsorptive removal of inorganic and organic contaminants at trace level of part per ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Proof-of-concept analytical instrument for label-free optical deconvolution of protein species in a mixture

Gabriel Aeppli

The adoption of process analytical technologies by the biopharmaceutical industry can reduce the cost of therapeutic drugs and facilitate investigation of new bioprocesses. Control of critical process parameters to retain critical product quality attribute ...

ELSEVIER2021

Buffered Coordination Modulation as a Means of Controlling Crystal Morphology and Molecular Diffusion in an Anisotropic Metal-Organic Framework

Berend Smit, Sudabeh Jawahery

Significant advances have been made in the synthesis of chemically selective environments within metal-organic frameworks, yet materials development and industrial implementation have been hindered by the inability to predictively control crystallite size ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (-)-Arborisidine and (-)-19-epi-Arborisidine Enabled by a Catalytic Enantioselective Pictet-Spengler Reaction

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Rémi Julien Sylvain Andres

A five-step total synthesis of arborisidine, a caged pentacyclic monoterpene indole alkaloid, has been accomplished in both racemic and enantioselective manners. The synthesis features the following three key steps: (a) a regioselective Pictet-Spengler rea ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Quantification of THC in Cannabis plants by fast-HPLC-DAD: A promising method for routine analyses

Christophe Roussel, Céline Burnier

Nowadays, Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) is mainly used in forensic sciences but suffers from limitations when the analysed compounds are thermally instable as it is the case for THC-A (Tetrahydrocannabinolic Acid) which is converted into Del ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Analysis of functional groups in atmospheric aerosols by infrared spectroscopy: systematic intercomparison of calibration methods for US measurement network samples

Satoshi Takahama, Matteo Reggente

Peak fitting (PF) and partial least squares (PLS) regression have been independently developed for estimation of functional groups (FGs) from Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra of ambient aerosol collected on Teflon filters. PF is a model that quant ...

Copernicus GmbH2019

Multiplexed Middle-Down Mass Spectrometry as a Method for Revealing Light and Heavy Chain Connectivity in a Monoclonal Antibody

Yury Tsybin, Natalia Gasilova, Laure Menin, Anton Kozhinov, Konstantin Nagornov, Luca Fornelli, Kristina Srzentic, Daniel Ayoub

Pairing light and heavy chains in monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) using top-down (TD) or middle-down (MD) mass spectrometry (MS) may complement the sequence information on single chains provided by high-throughput genomic sequencing and bottom-up proteomics, ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Isomer-Pure Bis-PCBM-Assisted Crystal Engineering of Perovskite Solar Cells Showing Excellent Efficiency and Stability

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jingshan Luo, Chenyi Yi, Dongqin Bi, Norman Pellet, Xiong Li, Fei Zhang, Shilong Wang

A fullerene derivative (alpha-bis-PCBM) is purified from an as-produced bis-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (bis-[60]PCBM) isomer mixture by preparative peak-recycling, high-performance liquid chromatography, and is employed as a templating agent for ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

New ionization and tagging methods for mass spectrometry

Xiaoqin Zhong

Mass spectrometry (MS) is an essential detection tool in bioanalytical chemistry owing to its exceptional selectivity and sensitivity, paired with rapid analyte identification and quantification. In this thesis, two classical MS and a newly developed ioniz ...

EPFL2017

New evidence for disinfection, self-cleaning and pollutant degradation mediated by GF-TiO2-Cu mats under solar/visible light in mild oxidative conditions

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Stefanos Giannakis, Michaël Bensimon, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo

This study presents the performance of GF-mats loaded with TiO2 and Cu under solar/visible light leading to bacterial inactivation and pollutant degradation at both solid-air and solid-liquid interfaces. The GF-mats show effective water disinfection, self- ...

Elsevier2017

Ketenimines from Isocyanides and Allyl Carbonates: Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of β,γ-Unsaturated Amides and Tetrazoles

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Mathias Mamboury, Guanyinsheng Qiu

The reaction of allyl ethyl carbonates with isocyanides in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(OAc)2 provided ketenimines through b-hydride elimination of the allyl imidoylpalladium intermediates. The insertion of the isocyanide into the p-allyl Pd co ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

High-throughput computational screening of nanoporous adsorbents for CO2 capture from natural gas

Berend Smit, Efrem Daniel Braun, Sondre Kvalvag Schnell

With the growth of natural gas as an energy source, upgrading CO2-contaminated supplies has become increasingly important. Here we develop a single metric that captures how well an adsorbent performs the separation of CH4 and CO2, and we then use this metr ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Piezoresistive Membrane Surface Stress Sensors for Characterization of Breath Samples of Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Terunobu Akiyama, Frédéric Loizeau, Pedro Romero, Christoph Gerber

For many diseases, where a particular organ is affected, chemical by-products can be found in the patient's exhaled breath. Breath analysis is often done using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, but interpretation of results is difficult and time-co ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Standard addition strip for quantitative electrostatic spray ionization mass spectrometry analysis: Determination of caffeine in drinks

Hubert Girault, Christophe Roussel, Liang Qiao, Elena Tobolkina

Standard addition strips were prepared for the quantitative determination of caffeine in different beverages by electrostatic spray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESTASI-MS). The gist of this approach is to dry spots of caffeine solutions with different con ...

Elsevier2014

Advantages of Extended Bottom-Up Proteomics Using Sap9 for Analysis of Monoclonal Antibodies

Yury Tsybin, Luca Fornelli, Kristina Srzentic, Daniel Ayoub, Unige Anna Laskay

Despite the recent advances in structural analysis of monoclonal antibodies with bottom-up, middle-down, and top-down mass spectrometry (MS), further improvements in analysis accuracy, depth, and speed are needed. The remaining challenges include quantitat ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014