The sceintific activities of the Department of Chromatography is widespread and related mainly to analysis as well as research concerning interphase phenomena and molecular spectroscopy. All the issues nowadays dealt with by the employees of the Department can be divided into the following topics:
- applications of chromatographic and capillary electrophoresis techniques in clinical, pharmaceutical, environmental and food analysis as well as in crime detection;
- adjustment of modern sample preparation techniques, i.e.
- supercritical fluid extraction (SFE),
- supported liquid membranes (SLM),
- accelerated solvent extraction (ASE),
- solid phase extraction (SPE),
- solid phase microextraction (SPME),
- matrix solid phase dispersion (MSPD)
- static and dynamic headspace analysis,
- denudation techniques prior to chromatographic analysis,
- preparation and properties determination of silica-gel and controlled porosity glass based sorbents and their application to adsorption processess, chromatography, sample preparation and biocatalysis;
- preparation and properties determination of carbon and carbo-mineral based sorbents and their application to adsorption processess, chromatography, sample preparation, catalysis and biocatalysis;
- investigation of physicochemical phenomena in a selected set of systems;
- theoretical studies of nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of organic compounds (in collaboration with Department of Theoretical Chemistry),
- theoretical determination of vibrational spectra of organic compounds, development and applications of scaling techniques (in collaboration with the University of Jaén, Spain).
