Preparation and evaluation of a double-hydrophilic interaction stationary phase based on bovine serum albumin and graphene quantum dots modified silica.

The bovine serum albumin (BSA) was firstly bonded on the surface of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) functionalized silica as the stationary phase named as BSA@GQDs@SiO which can perform hydrophilic interaction between the stationary phase and analytes. Characteristic methods including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), elemental analysis (EA), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) were applied to estimate the chemical bonding results and morphological features of the prepared materials. In the chromatographic evaluation part, the BSA@GQDs@SiO column showed excellent separation efficiency for the analysis of hydrophilic compounds involving nucleosides and bases, acids, phenols, quinolones, vitamins and alkaloids, which proved the prepared column can exhibit hydrophilic interaction mode with other interactions including hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interaction.

One-pot method for the synthesis of β-cyclodextrin and covalent organic framework functionalized chiral stationary phase with mixed-mode retention mechanism.

As a welcomed porous material, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have many advantages and are widely used in various aspects. Particularly, COFs have aroused great attentions of scientists in chromatographic separation field due to their outstanding advantages, such as high stability, large specific surface area and multiple voids. However, endowing COFs with chirality to construct chiral stationary phase (CSP) function is still facing many challenges.

Striped covalent organic frameworks modified stationary phase for mixed mode chromatography.

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have showed expected potential in chromatographic separation due to unique structure and excellent performance. Nowadays, COF materials applied as chromatographic stationary phases is still in its infancy. Here, we modified COF materials on silica using benzene-1,4,5-tetracarboxylic dianhydride (PMDA) and 1,3,5-tris-(4-aminophenyl)triazine (TAPT) monomers by one-pot synthetic method for performing mixed-mode function, named as SiO@COF.