Performance of palm fibers as stationary phase for capillary gas chromatographic separations

RSC Advances Pub Date: 2018-10-04 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA05792C

Abstract

Herein we report the first example of exploring bio-based materials, palm fibers (PFs), as a stationary phase for capillary gas chromatographic separations. The PFs capillary column was fabricated by the sol–gel coating method and showed a weak polar nature and high column efficiency over 4699 plates per m for n-dodecane, naphthalene and n-octanol. Importantly, the column exhibited high selectivity and resolving capability for more than a dozen mixtures covering a wide-ranging variety of analytes and isomers. In addition, it was applied for the determination of isomer impurities in real samples, proving its good potential for practical gas chromatographic analysis.

Graphical abstract: Performance of palm fibers as stationary phase for capillary gas chromatographic separations
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