Multidimensional and comprehensive separations

Multidimensional separations involve taking the species that are eluted from one chromatographic system and then separating them on another chromatographic system, which has different separation selectivity.  When all of the output form the first separation system is passed to the second system (rather than just selected parts of the first output), then the resultant separation is termed "comprehensive".  Australia is recognised internationally for research in comprehensive separations conducted in the gas phase (GCxGC), primarily as a result of research conducted at RMIT.  New hardware for GCxGC has been patented and commercialised and has been applied to a wide range of very complex samples.  Development of comprehensive liquid phase separation systems is an important goal for Australian research.

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