title: Introduction to "Fundamentals of Preparative and Nonlinear Chromatography" by G. Guiochon, A. Felinger, D.G. Shirazi [Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2nd ed., 2006, Ch. 1].
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: massimo.morbidelli@chem.ethz.ch.
authors.forename: Massimo
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authors.lastname: Morbidelli