Analytical Supercritical Fluid Techniques and Methodology: Conceptualization and Reduction to Practice

Abstract

In conclusion, I hope I have shown how we have contributed to the growth and acceptance of SFE as an analytical technique. Developments in our laboratory have closely paralleled studies by my colleagues in their research groups, and I want to acknowledge their assistance and encouragement over the years. I believe our approach at the NCAUR has benefitted considerably from our findings in process development and I encourage analysts to consult the engineering literature in this field whenever possible. Process as well as analytical developments in the field of supercritical fluid technology will be the focus of the 8th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluid Chromatography and Extraction on July 12-16, 1998, in St. Louis, Missouri. Finally, I want to pay particular acknowledgment to my colleagues at NCAUR without whom many of my conceptual ideas would not have been brought to reality. Thanks go to Janet Snyder, Scott Taylor, Fred Eller, James Johnson, Gary List, and Jeffrey Teel. Their efforts aided by the assistance of many capable postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists, including Zhouyao Zhang, Ki-Souk Nam, John France, Russell Holliday, Michael Jackson, Eila Jarvenpaa, and Fabio Favati have made this research and development of analytical SFE possible.