Advances in Stationary Phases for Liquid Chromatography

This year, the Chromatographic Society Spring meeting and AGM was held at the impressive Madejski Stadium, home to Reading Football and London Irish Rugby clubs, from the 21st – 22nd May 2008. The adjacent conference and hotel facilities, providing both comfort and convenience, made for an ideal venue.

The presentations, stretching over two information packed days, included sessions on ‘Current state-of-the-art and future directions’, ‘Stationary Phase characterisation’, ‘Industrial perspectives’ and ‘Novel supports and stationary phase’. These were interspersed by three scientific vendor presentations. Whilst sub 2 μm silica phases were well featured in a number of talks, it was the performance of the superficially porous particles and the potential of monoliths which stole the show. The principal sponsors of the event were Agilent Technologies (Gold sponsor) and significant sponsorship was also provided by Merck Sharpe & Dohme (Harlow).

Many of these presentations are available for view on the members section of the Chromatographic Society web site (www.chromsoc.com).