SBIR/STTR Research Award
MOLECULAR MIMICRY AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Terrapin Diagnostics Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
SUPERIOR SEPARATION COLUMNS ARE BEING DEVELOPED IN THIS PROJECT TO BE USED WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY (HPLC) SYSTEMS TO DETECT ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINSSUCH AS DDT. THE SEPARATION AND ANALYSIS OF COMPOUNDS BY HPLC SYSTEMS DEPENDS ON THE AMPLIFICATION OF SMALL DIFFERENCES IN THE RELATIVE AFFINITY OF THE COMPOUNDS BETWEEN THE COLUMN MATRIX AND THE SOLVENT. USING A FEW STANDARDIZED COLUMN MATRICES, CURRENT HPLC PROCEDURES REQUIRE ADJUSTMENT OF SOLVENT COMPOSITION TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE SEPARATION OF THE COMPOUNDS. BY CONTRAST, THE CURRENT WORK WILL OPTIMIZE THE COLUMN FOR PREFERENTIAL BINDING OF THE TARGET ANALYTE BY ATTACHING SELECTED MEMBERS OF A NOVEL CLASS OF AFFINITY LIGANDS TO THE COLUMN MATRIX.
Technology keywords
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