Disclosed are methods of making a porous particle material for use as stationary media and related chromatographic separation devices utilizing the disclosed stationary media. The porous particle material has a reduced pore volume which yields improved stability and column lifetime, and additionally has a surface coating, resulting in a surface modified porous particle material that minimizes unwanted adsorption interactions with samples to be tested

The present invention relates to a chromatography medium which can be used in affinity chromatography and to a method for the preparation thereof.

The invention is directed to utilization of a series of cross-linked 1,4-benzenediamine-co-alkyldiamine polymers and the use of the polymers to remove mercury from a hydrocarbon in fluid form.

The present invention provides novel chromatographic materials, e.g., for chromatographic separations, processes for their preparation and separations devices containing the chromatographic materials. The preparation of the inorganic/organic hybrid materials of the invention wherein a surrounding material is condensed on a superficially porous hybrid core material will allow for families of different hybrid packing materials to be prepared from a single core hybrid material. Differences in hydrophobicity, ion-exchange capacity, chemical stability, surface charge or silanol activity of the surrounding material may be used for unique chromatographic separations of small molecules, carbohydrates, antibodies, whole proteins, peptides, and/or DNA.

Disclosed are metal organic framework materials (MOFs), comprising an extra-framework NO releasing compound within the internal pores and/or channels of the MOF, the NO-releasing compounds and their preparation and uses. The MOFs and NO-releasing compounds are capable of releasing NO on application of an external stimulus and may provide materials with multiple modes of antibacterial and/or drug action.

The invention is directed to utilization of a series of cross-linked 1,4-benzenediamine-co-alkyldiamine polymers and the use of the polymers to remove mercury from a hydrocarbon in fluid form.

Provided herein is a multi-component chromatographic material and use thereof for reversed-phase liquid chromatography. The multi-component chromatographic materials provided herein comprise a chromatographic core having an exterior surface; and at least two different hydrophobic ligands covalently bound to the exterior surface with a total surface coverage less than 2.0 ?mol/m.sup.2. The multi-component chromatographic materials of the present technology are beneficial for reversed-phase liquid chromatography using highly aqueous mobile phases. For example, chromatographic materials described herein allow mitigating or preventing significant retention loss of reversed-phase liquid chromatography columns after flow interruption.

A method and a system capable of removing carbon dioxide directly from ambient air, and obtaining relatively pure CO.sub.2. The method comprises the steps of generating usable and process heat from a primary production process; applying the process heat from said primary process to co-generate substantially saturated steam, alternately repeatedly exposing a sorbent to removal and to capture regeneration system phases, wherein said sorbent is alternately exposed to a flow of ambient air during said removal phase, to sorb, and therefore remove, carbon dioxide from said ambient air, and to a flow of the process steam during the regeneration and capture phase, to remove the sorbed carbon dioxide, thus regenerating such sorbent, and capturing in relatively pure form the removed carbon dioxide. The sorbent can be carried on a porous thin flexible sheet constantly in motion between the removal location and the regeneration location.

Method for recovering a target protein from a feedstock comprising said target protein and at least one impurity compound selected from host cell proteins (HCP), DNA, RNA or other nucleic acid, the target protein being characterized by a hydrodynamic radius R.sub.h1 and the impurity compound being characterized by a hydrodynamic radius R.sub.h2, wherein R.sub.h1>R.sub.h2, comprising the following steps (i) to (iv) and optionally step (v): (i) providing a polymeric mesh comprising at least one crosslinked polymer containing positively charged amino groups, wherein the polymer has a pore size exclusion limit Rhi which can be set variably; (ii) adapting the variable pore size exclusion limit Rhi of the polymeric mesh such that R.sub.h2<R.sub.hi and R.sub.h1>R.sub.hi; (iii) contacting the polymeric mesh with the feedstock; (iv) separating the polymeric mesh containing the retained impurity compound from the feedstock containing the excluded target protein.

The invention is directed to utilization of a series of cross-linked 1,4-benzenediamine-co-alkyldiamine polymers and the use of the polymers to remove mercury from a hydrocarbon in fluid form.