Professor Zuzana Zajickova from Barry University, USA, joined the team of the STARSS project for three months in fall 2019. Her stay here has been funded by the Fulbright Commission.
It is of great success that a research work focused on the novel application of polymer-based monolithic columns in supercritical fluid chromatography, which she conducted during her relatively short visit, resulted in highly innovative results. The high quality of the work was confirmed by publishing them in the top experimental ISI journal Analytical Chemistry (IF2019 6.785, D1, American Chemical Society); Zuzana Zajickova, Lucie Nováková, and Frantisek Svec, Monolithic Poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) Columns for Supercritical Fluid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Polypeptide, Anal. Chem. 2020, 92, 17, 11525–11529; DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02874. Noticeably, the manuscript impressed the reviewers as it has been accepted less than one month after the submission!
Professor Zajickova’s novel work, in cooperation with two STARSS experts from the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University, contributed to the introduction of monolithic columns in the field of supercritical fluid chromatography technique. She demonstrated gradient separation of a mixture of large polypeptides carried out using monolithic poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) column and carbon dioxide/methanol mobile phase. Thus, her research broadened the capability of currently rapidly expanding separation technique.
This publication provides another proof of the contribution of the STARSS project to the advanced research on separation science. This is the fourth article coauthored by the Analytical Chemistry Group members published this year in the journal Analytical Chemistry. It also verifies our successful international cooperation with renowned international scientists.
Text: Assoc. Prof. PharmDr. Petr Chocholouš, Ph.D.
Photography: Faculty of Pharmacy archive