Dual-field and flow-programmed lift hyperlayer field-flow fractionation.

Field and flow programming and their combination, dual programming, are shown to extend the particle size range to which a single flow/hyperlayer field-flow fractionation (FFF) run is applicable to approximately 1-50 microns. The rationale for programming flow/hyperlayer FFF (or other forms of lift hyperlayer FFF) is to expand the diameter range of micron size particles that can be resolved in a single run. By contrast, the reason for programming normal-mode FFF, the only kind of programming previously realized in FFF, is to reduce the analysis time of submicron particle samples of considerable size variability. These differences are explained in detail in relationship to the basic mechanisms governing retention in normal, steric, and lift hyperlayer FFF. Experiments are described in which field, flow, and dual programming are used to expand the accessible diameter range of flow/hyperlayer FFF. An example is shown in which 11 sizes of latex microspheres in the 2-48-microns diameter range are separated by dual programming in 11 min.

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