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Recent advances in the development and application of microemulsion EKC
Author(s) -
McEvoy Eamon,
Marsh Alex,
Altria Kevin,
Donegan Sheila,
Power Joe
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
electrophoresis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.666
H-Index - 158
eISSN - 1522-2683
pISSN - 0173-0835
DOI - 10.1002/elps.200600451
Subject(s) - microemulsion , pulmonary surfactant , nanotechnology , bioanalysis , aqueous solution , water in oil , nanometre , materials science , chromatography , chemistry , emulsion , organic chemistry , biochemistry , composite material
Microemulsion EKC (MEEKC) is an electrodriven separation technique. Separations are typically achieved using oil‐in‐water microemulsions, which are composed of nanometre‐sized oil droplets suspended in an aqueous buffer. The droplets are stabilised by a surfactant and a cosurfactant. The novel use of water‐in‐oil microemulsions has also been investigated. This review summarises the advances in the development of MEEKC separations and also the different areas of application including determination of log P values, pharmaceutical applications, chiral analysis, natural products and bioanalytical separations and the use of new methods such as multiplexed MEEKC and high speed MEEKC. Recent applications (2004–2006) are tabulated for each area with microemulsion composition details.