To let the young scientists and students have better chromatography-related knowledge, a series of educational tutorials on the theoretical and practical aspects of modern liquid phase separation techniques were held in the DICP, CAS on Nov.10-14, 2014. Invited by Prof. Guowang Xu, Dr. Gerard Rozing gave these tutorials. The contents included: 1) fundamentals, optimization and practical aspects of (U)HPLC as well as how to find the best column and conditions for (U)HPLC and optimization in particular Kinetic Plot method; 2) column technology for UHPLC. totally porous vs. superficially porous particles as well as instrumental aspects, practice and constraints of UHPLC; 3) Multidimensional HPLC; 4) how to optimize your (U)HPLC separation for optimal coupling with mass spectrometry; 5) CE-MS with coaxial sheath flow interface, practical aspects, and new CE-MS IF developments.
About fifty young researchers attended the tutorials, and finally 20 students for MS or PhD degree took final examination to get a credit for the course. Through this training, the participants achieve a deeper insight and understanding on the modern liquid phase separation techniques, which will be helpful for their future work.
Dr. Gerard Rozing is a famous chromatographist. Since 2000, he became Agilent Technologies University Relations and External Scientific Collaborations Manager, In 2006 he became Agilent Technologies Research Fellow. He retired on Sept. 1, 2012,. (Text: Xianzhe Shi, Photo: Xiaoli Hou).
