Chromatography and Electrophoresis

As the central laboratory for analytical and preparative material separation of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, the Department of Chromatography & Electrophoresis offers an extensive range of analytical methods. We apply instrumental chromatographic and electrophoretic separations as well as hyphenated techniques.

In qualitative analyses, we determine the presence of specific components (i.e. postulated products in a reaction mixture). Furthermore, we determine the concentration of desired components in quantitative analyses.

Research Topics

Atmospheric-pressure plasma

The plasma state of matter is defined as a gas wherein a certain portion of particles are ionized. Plasmas can be classified by.... [more]

Instrumental developments

Our group is engaged in service analytics to support the chemical synthesis and catalysis research groups at our institute. Therefore, application development as well as instrumental developments in the field of analytical chemistry is performed in close collaboration with our precision engineering workshop. [more]