ABSTRACT

High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has become a standard separation technique used in both academic and commercial analytical laboratories. However, there are several drawbacks to standard HPLC, including high solvent consumption, large sample quantity, and decreased detection sensitivity. Micro-HPLC (μHPLC) is a term that encompasses a broad range of sample volumes and column sizes (as shown in Table 3.1), but Saito and coworkers provided narrower de- nitions in their review based on the size of the columns.1