title: Comparison of different packing methods for capillary electrochromatography columns.
abstract: A study was carried out in which 50 microm I.D. fused-silica capillaries were packed with 3 microm octadecylsilane bonded silica, from the same batch, by four methods; liquid slurry and carbon dioxide supercritical carrier, each with and without the use of an ultrasonic probe. A neutral test mixture was analysed by capillary column in reversed-phase mode, and the reproducibility of the electroosmotic flow and of migration time, column efficiency and retention factors, was determined. Initially results suggested that there was no significant difference between properties of columns packed by different methods, and a more thorough statistical evaluation confirmed this; differences observed in the column performance were attributed to random variations between replicate columns, and not between packing methods. However, the variation was least when applying the ultrasonication during liquid slurry.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roulin
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dmoch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Carney
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Bartle
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Euerby
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D014465:Ultrasonics
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D012822:Silicon Dioxide; C042953:octadecyl silane-bonded silica