Characterizing materials using inverse gas chromatography (ICG), is a well-established practice. There have been over several thousand peer reviewed papers published about IGC according to the Web of Science. IGC has also been cited over 5,460 times according to Google Scholar.
By obtaining the thermodynamic quantities, χ12 and χ23, and the chromatographic specific volume of solvents, Vgo, literature on IGC showed that the method can provide the following information on materials:
- Interaction coefficients for polymer-solvent and polymer-polymer systems
- Solubility parameters of polymers and solvents
- Diffusion coefficients of the gases in the polymer layer
- Glass transition temperature of polymers
- Melting temperatures of polymers
- Degree of crystallinity of semi-crystalline polymers
- Thermal behaviors (morphology) of polymers
- Melting point depression of polymer alloy containing a crystallizable photopolymer
- Enthalpy and free energy of mixing and of sorption in polymer-solvent systems
- Surface area of polymer and powders
- Dispersive component of surface energy of materials
- Degree of cross-linking of polymers
- Properties of food and cooking oil
- Properties of materials such as carbon fiber and nano-tubes and fullerene
- Properties of wood, cellulose, cotton, and starch and their blends
- Properties of mineral oxides, plasticizers, surfactants, epoxy-resin curing, paint, coatings and clay
- Properties of grafted polymers, liquid crystalline polymers, conducting polymers, pharmaceutical materials, cement paste, paper fibers, motor oil and aroma-starch aroma-starch
- Determination of Acid-Base Component of the Surface Energy by Inverse Gas Chromatography
- Surface Properties of Calcium Carbonate
- Characterize Cotton Fabrics and their Interactions with Fragrance Molecules at Controlled Relative Humidity
- Characterization of the Performance of Mn/Zr Mixed Oxides as Combustion Catalysts
- Study of the Surface Properties of Slates
- Evaluation of the Thermodynamic Parameters for the Adsorption of Some Hydrocarbons on 4A and 13X Zeolites
- Surface Energy of Active Carbon
- Thermodynamics of Sorption in the Binary Liquid Crystalline System Composed of the Poly(propyleneimine) Dendrimer and p-n-Pentyloxy-p′-cyanobyphenyl • Polystyrene and Organo-montmorillonite/ Polystyrene Nanocomposites
