ABSTRACT
It has now been many years since Burchard and Cowie (1) stressed the importance of light scattering in “…ing information in depth on…polymers…” Although light scattering was not the only method in use at that time (early 1971), the authors expressed their hope that it would become obvious “…to the unconverted that to neglect light scattering [MALS] would be to proceed under a distinct disadvantage…” Since that time, there has been a great increase in the number of laboratories throughout the world that now use such techniques. A major impetus to this increased use of light scattering measurements, especially in combination with chromatographic separations, has been the advent of exceptional instrumentation and software.
