Liquid Chromatography of Synthetic Polymers: Entropy/Enthalpy Compensation and Critical Conditions

本書闡明了在高效能液相色譜（HPLC）中，聚合物所發生的熵/焓補償這一特殊現象。許多出版物，包括一些書籍，專注於合成聚合物的分子特徵，這些材料目前以大量且穩定增長的數量生產，並應用HPLC方法。了解聚合物的分子特徵對於其正確應用以及回收和修復是不可或缺的。聚合物科學家通常專注於聚合物的合成和潛在應用，而未能充分重視一個重要的核心環節，即在結構-性質關聯發展的背景下進行全面的特徵描述。本書的其中一個目標就是填補這一空白。熵/焓補償過程在聚合物特徵描述的先進方法中扮演著決定性角色，例如在臨界條件下的液相色譜、溶劑梯度相互作用色譜和溫度梯度相互作用色譜。所有從事聚合物科學各個方面的化學家都會發現本書是發展結構-性質關聯的寶貴資源。

Dr. Muhammad Imran Malik graduated from Karl-Franzens-Universitäte Graz, Austria, in polymer chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Bernd Trathnigg in 2009. Later, he worked in the research groups of Prof. Harald Pasch, University of Stellenbosch South Africa (2010-2011), and Prof. Taihyun Chang, POSTECH South Korea (2015), as a post-doctoral research scientist. The research focus of Dr. Malik in all above-mentioned positions was analytical polymer science. In 2012, he joined the International Center of Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, as an assistant professor. The major research interest of Dr. Malik is synthesis of novel polymeric architecture and development of comprehensive analytical methods for polymers. His research interests extend to polymer stabilized nanoparticles and their applications, such as sensors, drug delivery, molecularly imprinted polymers, and organic solar cells. Dr. Malik has authored/co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, six chapters in edited books, and one authored book entitled "Advanced Separation Techniques for Polyolefins" along with one edited book entitled "Molecular Characterization of Polymers". Dr. Malik also has one US and one Pakistan patent to his credit while three more are filed. Currently, Dr. Malik is an associate professor at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi.

Dr. Dusan Berek graduated from Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he spent his entire professional career. He was not allowed to leave Slovakia for a postdoctoral stay abroad. His studies concentrated on methods for liquid chromatography--separation of synthetic polymers, synthesis of column packings and role of enthalpic interactions in the separation process. He was able to defend his D.Sc. (Research Professor) Thesis in the Slovak Technical University, but only after the political change in the country in 1989. He hassupervised 15 Ph.D. students, three of them from abroad.

He was elected the scientist of year of Slovakia in 1999 for a set of published studies, Innovator of Slovakia 2001 for a patent licensed to a Swedish company and Academician of the Slovak Scientific Society in 2004. He has been active in Polymer Division of IUPAC, former European Chemical Federation, Slovak Chemical Society (president for two terms of office) and Central European Group of separation Sciences. He acted as the chairman of Czechoslovak and later of Slovak National Committee for IUPAC for 15 years.

Dr. Berek has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications (over 30 as a single author), which were so far quoted over 3,500 times, seven chapters in edited books, and he himself edited two books. He is an author or a co-author of over 60 patents, six of them were licensed to companies. Unfortunately, Dusan Berek passed on June 28, 2022 in Ljubljana, Slovakia, while he was there for a lecture in a conference.

穆罕默德·伊姆蘭·馬利克博士於2009年在奧地利格拉茨的卡爾-弗朗茲-大學獲得聚合物化學學位，指導教授為伯恩德·特拉斯尼格教授。隨後，他在南非斯坦陵布什大學的哈拉德·帕施教授（2010-2011年）和韓國POSTECH的蔡賢教授（2015年）研究小組中擔任博士後研究科學家。馬利克博士在上述所有職位的研究重點是分析聚合物科學。2012年，他加入卡拉奇大學的國際化學與生物科學中心，擔任助理教授。馬利克博士的主要研究興趣是合成新型聚合物結構以及開發聚合物的綜合分析方法。他的研究興趣還擴展到聚合物穩定的納米顆粒及其應用，如傳感器、藥物傳遞、分子印刷聚合物和有機太陽能電池。馬利克博士已發表或合著超過100篇同行評審的論文，編輯書籍中的六個章節，以及一本名為《聚烯烴的先進分離技術》的專著，還有一本編輯書籍《聚合物的分子特徵化》。馬利克博士擁有一項美國專利和一項巴基斯坦專利，另外還有三項專利正在申請中。目前，馬利克博士是卡拉奇大學國際化學與生物科學中心的副教授。

杜尚·貝雷克博士畢業於斯洛伐克科學院聚合物研究所，並在那裡度過了他的整個職業生涯。他未被允許離開斯洛伐克進行海外的博士後研究。他的研究集中於液相色譜法的分離合成聚合物、合成柱填料以及焓相互作用在分離過程中的作用。他能夠在斯洛伐克科技大學成功辯護其D.Sc.（研究教授）論文，但這僅在1989年該國政治變革後才得以實現。他指導了15名博士生，其中三名來自國外。

他於1999年被選為斯洛伐克年度科學家，以表彰其一系列已發表的研究，2001年因一項授權給瑞典公司的專利而被評選為斯洛伐克創新者，並於2004年成為斯洛伐克科學學會的院士。他在IUPAC的聚合物部門、前歐洲化學聯盟、斯洛伐克化學學會（擔任兩屆會長）和中歐分離科學小組中積極參與。他擔任捷克斯洛伐克及後來的斯洛伐克國家委員會IUPAC的主席長達15年。

貝雷克博士已發表或合著超過200篇同行評審的論文（其中超過30篇為單獨作者），這些論文至今被引用超過3,500次，並在編輯書籍中撰寫了七個章節，他本人編輯了兩本書。他是超過60項專利的作者或合著者，其中六項已授權給公司。不幸的是，杜尚·貝雷克於2022年6月28日在斯洛伐克盧布爾雅那去世，當時他正在那裡參加一個會議的講座。