Biomedical subjects

Ken Hosoya

Publications and source records attributed to Ken Hosoya.

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PubMed2002

Monolithic silica columns for high-efficiency chromatographic separations.

Studies on the structural and chromatographic properties of monolithic silica columns were reviewed. Monolithic silica columns prepared from tetraalkoxysilane by a sol-gel method showed high efficiency and high permeability on the basis of the small-sized silica skeletons, large-sized through-pores, and resulting through-pore size/skeleton size ratios much larger than those found in a particle-packed column.

Chromatography, Liquid↗

PubMed2002

Monolithic silica columns with various skeleton sizes and through-pore sizes for capillary liquid chromatography.

Reduction of through-pore size and skeleton size of a monolithic silica column was attempted to provide high separation efficiency in a short time. Monolithic silica columns were prepared to have various sizes of skeletons (approximately 1-2 microm) and through-pores (approximately 2-8 microm) in a fused-silica capillary (50-200 microm I.D.). The columns were evaluated in HPLC after derivatization to C18 phase. It was possible to prepare monolithic silica structures in capillaries of up to 200 microm I.D. from a mixture of tetramethoxysilane and methyltrimethoxysilane. As expected, a monolithic silica column with smaller domain size showed higher column efficiency and higher pressure drop. High external porosity (> 80%) and large through-pores resulted in high permeability (K = 8 x 10(-14) -1.3 x 10(-12) m2) that was 2-30 times higher than that of a column packed with 5-mirom silica particles. The monolithic silica columns prepared in capillaries produced a plate height of about 8-12 microm with an 80% aqueous acetonitrile mobile phase at a linear velocity of 1 mm/s. Separation impedance, E, was found to be as low as 100 under optimum conditions, a value about an order of magnitude lower than reported for conventional columns packed with 5-microm particles. Although a column with smaller domain size generally resulted in higher separation impedance and the lower total performance, the monolithic silica columns showed performance beyond the limit of conventional particle-packed columns under pressure-driven conditions.

Chromatography, Liquid↗

PubMed2002

Monolithic silica columns for high-efficiency separations by high-performance liquid chromatography.

Generation of a large number of theoretical plates was attempted by capillary HPLC. Monolithic silica columns having small skeletons (ca. 2 microm) and large through-pores (ca. 8 microm) were prepared by a sol-gel method in a fused-silica capillary (50 microm I.D.), and derivatized to C18 phase by on-column reaction. High external porosity (>80%) and large through-pores resulted in high permeability (K= 1.2 x 10(-2) m2). The monolithic silica column in the capillary produced a plate height of about 12 microm in 80% acetonitrile at a linear velocity of 1 mm/s. Separation impedance, E value, was found to be as low as 200, that was about an order of magnitude lower than reported values for conventional columns packed with 5 microm particles. Reproducibility of preparation within +/- 15% was obtained for column efficiency and for pressure drop. It was possible to generate 100,000 plates by using a 130-cm column at very low pressure (<7 kg/cm2). A considerable decrease in column efficiency was observed at high linear velocity, and for solutes with large retention factors due to the slow mobile-phase mass transfer in the large through-pores. The monolithic silica columns, however, showed performance beyond the limit of conventional particle-packed columns in HPLC under favorable conditions.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid↗

PubMed2002

Selective surface modification technique for improvement of chromatographic separation selectivity for sugar derivatives.

Highly cross-linked macroporous polymers were prepared utilizing ethylene dimethacrylate as a cross-linking agent, in the presence or absence of methyl-alpha-D-glucoside as a kind of template molecule with methacrylic acid as a functional monomer. After the preparation of the polymers, we applied a high temperature to the cross-linked polymers to study the changes of adsorption properties of the polymers for sugar derivatives including the template molecule utilized. Interestingly, the heat treatment up to 250 degrees C afforded improvement of relative adsorption affinity for several sugar derivatives including the template molecule, while heat treatment up to 150 degrees C did not afford those improvements. The detailed studies including polymers prepared using acrylic acid as a functional monomer instead of methacrylic acid prove that temperatures higher than the Tg temperature of the polymer derived from a functional monomer such as methacrylic acid and higher than the melting point (mp) of the sugar template are necessary to afford the observed improvement of relative affinity based on the surface modification effects through the heat treatment to cross-linked polymers.

Carbohydrates↗