“…All electrolytes for the buffer preparation were obtained from VWR International (Darmstadt, Germany), filtered with a syringe filter (0.2 lm pore size, PTFE, VWR International), and degassed by sonication prior to use. The silica-based C8 monolith was prepared by a recipe proposed by Braunbruck et al [27,28]. The precursor mixture contained tetraethylorthosilicate as backbone, triethoxy(octyl)silane for functionalization, and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide as porogen.…”