Methods are provided herein for separating an aromatic compound from a lube base stock by contacting a lube base stock containing an aromatic compound with an organosilica material.

A silica-passivated article is disclosed, including a fluidic path, a fluidic path surface facing the fluidic path, and a conformal coating disposed on a passivated portion of the fluidic path surface between the fluidic path surface and the fluidic path such that the fluidic path is maintained remote from the passivated portion of the fluidic path surface across the conformal coating. The conformal coating is a silica-based coating, includes carbon-based moieties each covalently bound to singular silicon atoms of the silica-based coating, is substantially free of carbon-based moieties each covalently bound to more than one silicon atom of the silica-based coating, and is substantially free of layers of bulk silicon. The passivated portion of the fluidic path surface constitutes at least 67% of the fluidic path surface by surface area. A method for forming the silica-passivated article is disclosed including applying silsesquioxane to the fluidic path and curing.

The present disclosure is directed to nonporous polymer particles having an average particle size of 1 to 10 micrometers and being functionalized with an immunoglobulin-binding protein. The functionalized particles of the present disclosure can be used to purify a range of immunoglobulins with affinity to the immunoglobulin-binding protein.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a porous monolith polymeric composition having utility in catalysis, chromatography, filtration, and electro-kinetic pumps, devices incorporating such composition and methods of making and using such monoliths. In some embodiments the monoliths can include a skeletal core having a substantially homogeneous polymeric composition of two or more organic silane monomers and pores that define an interstitial volume in the skeletal core. The pores can include macropores and less than 5% of the interstitial volume can be mesopores. Such monoliths can, in some embodiments, be disposed in a housing having at least one wall that defines a chamber such that all fluid flowing into the chamber passes through the pores of the monolith.

The subject invention concerns metal or metalloid oxide-based sol-gel hybrid sorbent and methods of synthesis. In one embodiment, the sorbent is a ZrO.sub.2 polypropylene oxide based sol-gel. The subject invention also concerns a hollow tube or capillary internally coated with a sorbent of the invention. Sorbent coated tubes and capillaries of the invention can be used in extraction and/or enrichment of samples to be analyzed for catecholamines and related compounds.

A catalyst system comprising a combination of: 1) one or more catalyst compounds having at least one nitrogen linkage and at least one oxygen linkage to a transition metal; 2) a support comprising an organosilica material, which is a mesoporous organosilica material; and 3) an optional activator. Useful catalysts include ONNO-type transition metal catalysts, ONYO-Type transition metal catalysts, and/or oxadiazole transition metal catalysts. The organosilica material is a polymer of at least one monomer of Formula [z0Z2 SiCH2]3(1), where Z.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1-C.sub.4alkyl group, or a bond to a silicon atom of another monomer and Z.sup.2 represents a hydroxyl group, a C.sub.1-C.sub.4alkoxy group, a C.sub.1-C.sub.6alkyl group, or an oxygen atom bonded to a silicon atom of another monomer. This invention further relates to processes to polymerize olefins comprising contacting one or more olefins with the above catalyst system.

A superpolar sorbent network is a sol-gel network of at least one metal oxide precursor condensed and at least one polyhydroxy molecule. The metal oxide precursor is a silicate precursor, aluminate precursor, titanate precursor, zirconate precursor, germinate precursor, or any combinations thereof, and the polyhydroxy molecule has a multiplicity of hydroxyl groups. The polyhydroxy molecule can be an organic molecule derived from nature. The superpolar sorbent network can be used as a particulate or bulk sorbent for sampling or removal of analytes or contaminants from an environment or can be coated on a tube or particulate substrate for use as a chromatographic stationary phase.

A device for extraction of analytes with aromatic cycles, preferably analytes with aromatic cycles for which the octanol-water partition coefficient is more than 10.sup.3, the analytes being contained in a liquid phase, the extraction device including a support and an adsorption layer at least partially covering the support, the adsorption layer being porous SiOxCyHz.

Ionic liquid (IL)-mediated sol-gel hybrid organic-inorganic materials present enormous potential for effective use in analytical microextraction. One obstacle to materializing this prospect arises from high viscosity of ILs significantly slowing down sol-gel reactions. A method was developed which provides phosphonium-based, pyridinium-based, and imidazolium-based IL-mediated advanced sol-gel organic-inorganic hybrid materials for capillary microextraction. Scanning electron microscopy results demonstrate that ILs can serve as porogenic agents in sol-gel reactions. IL-mediated sol-gel coatings prepared with silanol-terminated polymers provided up to 28 times higher extractions compared to analogous sol-gel coatings prepared without any IL in the sol solution. This study shows that IL-generated porous morphology alone is not enough to provide effective extraction media: careful choice of the organic polymer and the precursor with close sol-gel reactivity must be made to ensure effective chemical bonding of the organic polymer to the created sol-gel material to be able to provide the desired sorbent characteristics.

The present inventive concept relates to an aluminosilicate structure body with a novel crystal structure and, more specifically, to an aluminosilicate structure body having a novel crystal structure and a skein-shaped morphology, a method for preparing the same, and an HPLC column filled with the same as a stationary phase. The aluminosilicate structure body according to the present inventive concept has a novel crystal structure and a skein-shaped morphology, and thus has a specific surface area increased to up to 300 m.sup.2/g so as to improve separation ability; and does not undergo a structural change with pH changes, and thus can be usefully used in a wider range of pH conditions than existing silica gel which has been conventionally used as a stationary phase for HPLC columns.