Issue 87, 2015

Highly ordered monolithic structures by directional freezing and UV-initiated cryopolymerisation. Evaluation as stationary phases in high performance liquid chromatography

Abstract

Rigid aligned polymers were prepared by directional freezing and photo-initiated cryopolymerisation. Poly[poly(ethyleneglycol) diacrylate] (polyPEGDA) and poly(butyl methacrylate-co-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate) [poly(BuMA-co-EDMA)] macroporous polymers were prepared by directional freezing of the polymerisation mixture in liquid nitrogen and photo-initiated polymerisation in the frozen state. The polymerisation mixtures consisted of monomer/s (total monomer concentrations > 25 wt%), dioxane as solvent and 2,2-dimethoxy-2-phenylacetophenone as photo-initiator. The porous properties of the macroporous polymers were tuned by modifying the monomer concentration in the polymerisation mixture and the immersion rate. The results obtained suggest that the freezing of the solvent crystals occurs in the direction of the temperature gradient from the surface of the reactor to its centre rather than in the freezing direction. The aligned polymers were prepared in situ within pre-treated cycloolefin copolymer (COC) tubing and the resulting materials were tested as stationary phases for the separation of biomolecules under reversed-phase and hydrophobic interaction chromatography.

Graphical abstract: Highly ordered monolithic structures by directional freezing and UV-initiated cryopolymerisation. Evaluation as stationary phases in high performance liquid chromatography

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Jul 2015
Accepted
13 Aug 2015
First published
13 Aug 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 71131-71138

Highly ordered monolithic structures by directional freezing and UV-initiated cryopolymerisation. Evaluation as stationary phases in high performance liquid chromatography

R. Dario Arrua and E. F. Hilder, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 71131 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA15114G

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