Revealing More Info on Your Polymer with the OMNISEC REVEAL ULTRA Connected to an ACQUITY APC

Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) has been embedded in polymer research and the industry for decades. The technique is used as the primary tool to determine molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of polymer samples. The new, user-friendly OMNISEC multi-detector GPC system from Malvern Panalytical with its highly sensitive light-scattering and Refractive Index (RI) detectors, can provide excellent measurements of several materials.

GPC has also been advanced by the Waters ACQUITY Advanced Polymer Characterization (APC) System with the introduction of ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC), allowing the high-resolution and high-speed GPC analyses of materials.

The powerful OMNISEC advanced multi-detector system, and specifically the OMNISEC REVEAL ULTRA multi-detector module, has been redesigned to be combined with the UPLC system from Waters making it possible to analyze polymers by advanced chromatography with improved resolution, reduced sample concentrations, solvent usage and run times.

This talk will discuss how to combine advanced chromatography with multi-detection to reveal more about your polymers over conventional column calibration techniques.

Presenter: Serena Agostini (Product Technical Specialist, Malvern Panalytical)

Dr Serena Agostini is a Product Technical Specialist for separation, GPC/SEC for polymers, at Malvern Panalytical. She studied Industrial Chemistry in Italy at the University of Pisa and then she continued her studies in UK, where she obtained her PhD in polymer chemistry at Durham University. During her studies she developed an interest in polymers synthesis and characterisation. She exploited several polymerisation techniques, such as living anionic polymerisations, and she characterised the polymers she synthesised by using for example, among several characterisations’ techniques, SEC and TGIC. After spending most of her time in academic research, she is now finding new interests in customer support and product development.