PMID- 21496824
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110809
LR  - 20110428
IS  - 1873-3778 (Electronic)
IS  - 0021-9673 (Linking)
VI  - 1218
IP  - 20
DP  - 2011 May 20
TI  - Development of a new consumable-free thermal modulator for comprehensive 
      two-dimensional gas chromatography.
PG  - 3070-9
LID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.03.024 [doi]
AB  - A simple and cost-effective GCxGC modulator requiring no moving parts or 
      consumables, hence suitable for field analysis and monitoring, was developed. The 
      modulator was constructed from a specially designed Silcosteel(R) trapping 
      capillary, installed outside the GC oven, and coated inside with 
      polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stationary phase. Dual-stage modulation was 
      accomplished by resistively heating alternate segments of the trap with a 
      custom-designed capacitive discharge power supply. The performance of the 
      proposed modulator was comparable to many GCxGC systems currently in use, with 
      the injection band widths as low as 60 ms at half height. With proper selection 
      of the stationary phase in the trap, the modulator can be used for the analysis 
      of complex mixtures with volatility range spanning from n-C5 to n-C40.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Panic, Ognjen
AU  - Panic O
AD  - Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
FAU - Gorecki, Tadeusz
AU  - Gorecki T
FAU - McNeish, Christopher
AU  - McNeish C
FAU - Goldstein, Allen H
AU  - Goldstein AH
FAU - Williams, Brent J
AU  - Williams BJ
FAU - Worton, David R
AU  - Worton DR
FAU - Hering, Susanne V
AU  - Hering SV
FAU - Kreisberg, Nathan M
AU  - Kreisberg NM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20110321
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Chromatogr A
JT  - Journal of chromatography. A
JID - 9318488
RN  - 0 (Alkanes)
SB  - IM
MH  - Alkanes/chemistry
MH  - Chromatography, Gas/*instrumentation
MH  - Cold Temperature
MH  - Equipment Design
MH  - Flame Ionization
MH  - Hot Temperature
MH  - Models, Chemical
MH  - Volatilization
EDAT- 2011/04/19 06:00
MHDA- 2011/08/10 06:00
CRDT- 2011/04/19 06:00
PHST- 2010/11/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/03/10 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2011/03/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/04/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/04/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/08/10 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0021-9673(11)00372-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.03.024 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Chromatogr A. 2011 May 20;1218(20):3070-9. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.03.024. 
      Epub 2011 Mar 21.