Capillary electrophoresis is a technique that has been successfully applied in the identification and determination of a great amount of chemical compounds, the analysis of biomolecules with a high molecular weight and tests of separation of living cells, in fields such as food, environment, clinical and forensic analysis and proteomics.
The book published by the Universidad de Granada Press under the title “Capillary electroforesis: an approach from the detection technique”, coordinated by the professors of Analytical Chemistry of the UGR Alberto Fernández Gutiérrez and Antonio Segura Carretero, deals with the definition of Capillary Electrophoresis and mass spectrometry as a source of plasma connected by induction to this technique, the volume deals with aspects such as basic equipment, the phases of the analytical process or the practical aspects for the development of analytical methodologies.
The electrophoretic process has been defined as “the differential movement” or the migration of ions in dissolution by attraction or repulsion in an electric field”. In practice, they place a positive electrode (anode) and a negative one (cathode) in a solution containing ions. Afterwards, when they apply voltage to the electrodes, “ions with different charge, anions with negative charge and cations with positive charge, move through the solution to the electrode of opposite charge”.
In more than 476 pages, with the collaboration of the researchers and experts who participated in 2004 in the Conference on Capillary Electrophoresis of Granada, they deal with the principles, fundamentals and types of Capillary electrophoresis, as well as all the aspects related to this technique that, since the eighties, has been the subject of a special attention and later acceptation in the different ambits of analytical chemistry, mainly due –according to the authors– “to its high resolution power (high efficiency in a short analysis time) and the great variety of experimental types and methodologies”.
Reference
Prof Alberto Fernández Gutiérrez. Dpt of Analytical Chemistry
Phone number. 958 243 297 / 958 243 326.
E-mail: albertof@ugr.es
Phone numbers: 958 243 297 / 243 326.
Antonio Segura Carretero. Dpt Analytical Chemistry
Phone numbers: 958 248 593 / 958 243 326. E-mail. ansegura@ugr.es
