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  • Title: Control of electroosmotic flow in nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis by polymer capillary coatings.
    Author: Steiner F, Hassel M.
    Journal: Electrophoresis; 2003 Jan; 24(3):399-407. PubMed ID: 12569532.
    Abstract:
    In aqueous capillary electrophoresis the electroosmotic flow (EOF) can be strongly suppressed or eliminated by coating the capillary surface silanols either by buffer additive adsorption or chemical modification. Hydrophilic coatings, e.g., polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) proved to be most efficient for EOF control in applications like DNA analysis. In nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis (NACE), however, the EOF cannot be totally suppressed with these capillaries and coating efficiency turned out to be solvent-depending. In this paper, fused-silica capillaries with monomeric and polymeric coatings differing in hydrophobicity and chemical properties (vinyl, vinyl acetate, vinyl alcohol and acrylates with different alkyl chain length) were investigated. Besides studying the EOF characteristics with different organic solvents and water, gas chromatography (GC) measurements were carried out to probe the silanol reduction via ether retention and the surface hydrophobicity by retention of nonane. Good correlations between GC results and EOF magnitude could be found. It could be demonstrated that the polymeric coating has to be solvatized by the buffer solvent to reduce the EOF. The PVA coating was optimal for aqueous systems but not effective for some nonaqueous buffers. On the other hand, polyvinyl acetate and polyethyl acrylate as polymeric coatings proved to be optimal to reduce the EOF in NACE.
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