A new method for the modification of polypropylene hollow-fiber columns for capillary electrophoresis is reported. Chlorination was first used to activate the capillary inner surface. This was followed by treating the column with an alkaline solution containing polyhydroqpropylcellulose. A protein m
Polypropylene hollow fibers modified with PMMA for capillary electrophoresis
β Scribed by Shize Qi; Milton L. Lee
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-7685
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β¦ Synopsis
A method for modification of polypropylene hollow fibers using graft Ε½ . copolymerization of polymethylmethacrylate PMMA was developed. The unsaturated residues in polypropylene were reacted with borane-dimethylsulfide, and PMMA was graft polymerized on the surface to form a stable coating which reduced the electroosmotic flow and the adsorption of biomolecules. The PMMA modified polypropylene exhibited a lower EOF than fused silica and polypropylene, close to that of bulk PMMA. Samples of nucleotides and pyridines were used to demonstrate the performance of the modified columns. Approximately 100,000 theoretical plates were obtained for lysozyme variants.
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Fused-silica capillaries often lack long-term stability and control of electroosmotic flow in capillary electrophoresis owing to the reactivity of the bulk silica structure in aqueous solutions of high or low pH. Polypropylene hollow fibers, an alternative to fused silica, have been chemically modif
Neutral hydrophilic polymethylmethacrylate PMMA hollow fibers were used as capillary electrophoresis columns. Efficient separations of proteins and nucleotides were obtained with the untreated columns. More than 230,000 theoretical plates were obtained for lysozyme variants. The uniformity and ultra