“…This technology combines solid–liquid separation, concentration and primary purification into one unit, which can certainly reduce the processing times and improve the process efficiency. − In addition, EBA has high productivity due to relatively high operation velocity and low back-pressure. During the past two decades, many kinds of EBA processes have been developed for primary protein separation, such as ion exchange, , hydrophobic interaction, − affinity, − etc. In recent years, mixed-mode chromatography (MMC) was introduced as a novel technology for protein separation, which combines multiple binding modes, like ionic exchange, hydrophobic interaction, hydrogen bonding, etc.…”