Studies of New Materials for Separations

该项目由助理教授Luis A.冒号 纽约州立大学布法罗分校得到分析和表面化学的支持 在化学部的计划。 这项工作将使用溶胶-凝胶 合成化学键合固定相的技术 色谱法，特别是高效液相色谱法 色谱法（HPLC）和电色谱法在开放和包装 列. 将所需的官能团引入到聚合物中， 在二氧化硅的制造过程中，溶胶-凝胶试剂将产生Si-C 不发生水解的键，并提供 多层次的 这些特性特别有希望解决 目前存在的问题，适当的填料和表面分离， 将对影响化学品的变量进行研究 玻璃形成过程中的反应。 一些 技术（ESCA，西姆斯，FTIR等）将用于检查 玻璃的物理化学性质，然后通过检查 色谱性能 总体目标是将 工艺参数、物料特性和分选 性能 液相色谱法是分离 将化合物的复杂混合物转化为它们各自的成分。 的 这项工作的目的是提供一种全新的方法来合成 分离发生的材料。 此类应用 分离广泛应用于诸如环境分析， 药物分析，以及许多其他。 该项目的重点是 使材料的性能上级现有材料。

This project, directed by Assistant Professor Luis A. Colon at SUNY-Buffalo, is supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry. The work will use sol-gel technology to synthesize chemically bonded stationary phases for use with chromatographic methods, particularly high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and electrochromatography in open and packed columns. The incorporation of the desired functional groups into the sol-gel reagents during the fabrication of the silica will create Si-C bonds that do not undergo hydrolysis and provide a material that is multilayered. These characteristics are especially promising for solving the existing problem of suitable packing and surfaces for separations at high pH. Studies will be done of the variables affecting the chemical reactions involved in the glass formation process. A number of techniques (ESCA, SIMS, FTIR and others) will be used to examine the physicochemical properties of the glasses, followed by examination of the chromatographic performance. The overall objective is to correlate the processing parameters, the material characteristics and the separation performance. Liquid chromatographic methods are powerful techniques to separate complex mixtures of compounds into their individual constituents. The purpose of this work is to provide an entirely new way to synthesize the materials upon which the separation takes place. Applications of such separations are wide-spread in areas such as environmental analysis, pharmaceutical analysis, and many others. The focus of the project is to make materials with properties superior to those now available.