title: Short metal capillary columns packed with polymer-coated fibrous materials in high-temperature gas chromatography.
abstract: The high-temperature gas chromatographic (GC) separation of several semivolatile compounds is studied with a short metal capillary column packed with fibrous material, having a polydimethylsiloxane coating thereon. Taking advantage of the excellent heat-resistance of the fiber and also the combination of the surface-deactivated metal capillary, a temperature-programmed separation up to 450 degrees C is successfully demonstrated for the separation of polymer standard samples. The average molecular weight of the commercially-available polymer standard samples for size exclusion chromatography (SEC) is estimated by high-temperature GC analysis and compared with the nominal value determined by a conventional SEC method. Although a slight deviation for the number-average molecular weight is observed between the GC and SEC analysis, the data for the weight-average molecular weight shows a good agreement in these methods. The results also suggest the future possibility of the fiber-packed metal capillary as a miniaturized GC column with an increased sample loading capacity.
authors.affiliation: School of Materials Science, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Mitsuhiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Motohiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imaizumi
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ban
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeichi
authors.forename: Hiroo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wada
authors.forename: Kiyokatsu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jinno