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Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry

Volume 14, 2021

New Advances and Applications in Field-Flow Fractionation

Abstract

Field-flow fractionation (FFF) is a family of techniques that was created especially for separating and characterizing macromolecules, nanoparticles, and micrometer-sized analytes. It is coming of age as new nanomaterials, polymers, composites, and biohybrids with remarkable properties are introduced and new analytical challenges arise due to synthesis heterogeneities and the motivation to correlate analyte properties with observed performance. Appreciation of the complexity of biological, pharmaceutical, and food systems and the need to monitor multiple components across many size scales have also contributed to FFF's growth. This review highlights recent advances in FFF capabilities, instrumentation, and applications that feature the unique characteristics of different FFF techniques in determining a variety of information, such as averages and distributions in size, composition, shape, architecture, and microstructure and in investigating transformations and function.

Keyword(s): characterization, engineered nanomaterials, extracellular vesicles, field-flow fractionation, polymer and protein assemblies, separation, transformation and function
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New Advances and Applications in Field-Flow Fractionation
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