Abstract
Abstract Field-flow fractionation (FFF) peak capacity values have been computed with only two major assumptions: first, the plate height is supposed the sum of only two contributions, axial molecular diffusion and transversal nonequilibrium, and second, the steric effect has been neglected in the equations of retention and peak broadening. Several reduced parameters have been defined to generalize the equations and limit the number of variable parameters. It appears that among the already implemented FFF subtechniques for which the elution spectrum is an explicit function of the principal dimension, or mass, of the retained sample (which excludes electrical FFF), sedimentation FFF has some peculiar characteristics due to the fact that the field-induced velocity depends on a particular sample, while in thermal and flow FFF it is the same for all samples of a given type under fixed experimental conditions. For example, in sedimentation FFF, the axial diffusion contribution to the plate height persists at a ...
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