Supported amine polymer adsorbents based on polymers containing only or primarily primary amines sites are to be used as regenerable adsorbents for CO.sub.2 capture from ultra-dilute gas streams, such as ambient air, or from mixtures of gases containing preferably at least I 0% oxygen. and can also be useful for use at the moderate gas pressures found in typical post-combustion capture processes, such as flue gas from large point sources such as coal-fired power plants. Preferred supported solid amine adsorbents of this invention are based on poly(allylamine) (PAA) and poly(vinyl amine) (PVAm), both of which are linear polymers, and their derivatives, containing substantially all primary amine groups, supported on substrates. Preferred such substrates include silica mesocellular foam (MCF) and mesoporous-.gamma.-alumina, as well on mesoporous-.gamma.-alumina coated throughout the pores of MCF, most preferably of monolithic structure. Preferred derivatives include the guanidinylated and cross-linked poly(allylamine) materials.

Direct polymerization of lipid monomers or polymer scaffolding of non-lipid monomers coupled with irradiation or redox polymerization performed at neutral pH resulted in stabilized lipid assemblies. An initiator-buffer component and NaHS03 redox mixture polymerizes reactive lipid monomers at near neutral pH conditions to preserve functionality of reconstituted membrane proteins. Improved stability of black lipid membranes (BLMs) is attained by chemical cross-linking of polymerizable, hydrophobic and commercially available non-lipid monomers partitioned into the suspended lipid membranes, and by suspending the BLMs across low surface energy apertures. Substrate apertures having low surface energy modifiers with amphiphobic properties facilitated a reproducible formation of BLMs by promoting interactions between the lipid tail and the substrate material. In addition, polymeric lipid bilayer membranes were prepared by photochemical or redox initiated polymerization of polymerizable lipid monomers, and disposed onto supporting substrates for use in chromatography columns.

Disclosed is a separation material comprising hydrophobic polymer particles and a coating layer covering at least a portion of a surface of the hydrophobic polymer particles, wherein the coating layer comprises a hydrophilic polymer having hydroxy groups, and the hydrophilic polymer has a group represented by NHR-L or an epoxy group, wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group and L represents a carboxy group or an amino group.

The present disclosure relates to a method of preparing a magnetic particle having a polymer matrix (P) and at least one magnetic core (M), preferably at least two magnetic cores (M), wherein the polymer matrix (P) comprises at least one hypercrosslinked polymer, wherein the method comprises (i) providing at least one magnetic core (M), preferably at least two magnetic cores (M), (ii) providing polymer precursor molecules, (iii) polymerizing the polymer precursor molecules according to (ii) in the presence of the at least one magnetic core (M), thereby forming a particle comprising the at least one magnetic core (M). Further, the present disclosure relates to particles obtained or obtainable by this method as well as to the use of these particles. In a further aspect, the disclosure relates to a method for determining at least one analyte in a fluid sample having the step of contacting of the magnetic particle with a fluid sample having or suspected of having the at least one analyte.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of matrixes made of a porous size exclusion support and a cationic moiety for separating one or more small molecules from one or more large molecules in a sample using differences in one or more properties such as the size of the molecules, charge of the molecules, the isoelectric point (pI) of the molecules, and/or any combination of these properties including methods, systems, and kit embodiments. Also disclosed herein are embodiments of a method of making the matrixes and using the matrixes for separating small molecules from one or more large molecules in a sample.

A silica aggregate includes primary silica particles aggregated, the primary silica particles having an average particle size of 1 nm or more and less than 10 nm, the primary silica particles being crosslinked to each other by a bond containing a siloxane bond.

A method for modifying a support material, in particular a polymeric support material, for use as a stationary phase in an analytical or preparative separation process. The method includes the steps of providing a support material, coating the support material with an oligoamine or polyamine and reacting the support material with a compound comprising a first functional group reactive with amines and/or hydroxy group and an ion-exchange group. Additionally a support material, a chromatography column, a method of chromatographic separation of analytes and the use of such support material.

Polymeric adsorbents useful for solid phase extraction (SPE) comprising a copolymer formed by copolymerizing at least one hydrophobic monomer including divinylbenzene and at least one hydrophilic monomer including acrylonitrile are provided. Also provided are SPE cartridges including a divinylbenzene-acrylonitrile hydrophilic-lipophilic balance adsorbent. Further provided are methods of using a divinylbenzene-acrylonitrile hydrophilic-lipophilic balance adsorbent in conventional and simplified SPE techniques.

The present application relates to a superabsorbent polymer and a method for producing the same. The superabsorbent polymer comprises a core structure, a shell layer covering the core structure and a fiber-modified layer covering an outer surface of the shell layer. With the fiber-modified layer, the superabsorbent polymer not only has good water absorption properties, but also has excellent liquid permeability and permeability.

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