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Porsch, B. et al.

Porsch, Welinder, Körner, Wittgren,

Distribution analysis of ultra-high molecular mass poly(ethylene oxide) containing silica particles by size-exclusion chromatography with dual light-scattering and refractometric detection.

Two different size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) systems, connected in-line either to a low-angle light scattering (LALS) or to a multiangle light scattering (MALS) detector, are employed for determination of molecular mass distributions (MMD) of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) samples having a weight average molecular mass up to eight millions. The detrimental effect of the presence of strongly scattering silica particles in the samples on the light scattering signal can be eliminated using a suitable sample dissolution procedure utilizing silica solubility in aqueous mobile phase. The selection of flow-rate and sample concentration have a large impact on the obtained results. Hydrodynamic retardation phenomena and nonlinearity effects are shown to introduce severe errors in the molecular mass distributions unless flow-rate and sample concentration are kept at sufficiently low levels. Self-compensating ability of the dual detection in flow-rate effects is shown to be the main advantage here. A good agreement between the results obtained using LALS and MALS detection is found provided that a carefully selected angular extrapolation procedure is used in the case of MALS data. Thus, using carefully selected experimental conditions, SEC with light-scattering (LS) and refractometric detection proved to be an efficient technique for MMD characterisation also of ultra-high molecular mass (UHM) PEO polymers.[1]

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Distribution analysis of ultra-high molecular mass poly(ethylene oxide) containing silica particles by size-exclusion chromatography with dual light-scattering and refractometric detection. Porsch, B., Welinder, A., Körner, A., Wittgren, B. Journal of chromatography. A. (2005) [Pubmed]

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