“…Apart from Stalcup's meticulous works in depicting the retention characteristics of the SCIL SPs, study on the applications of SCIL SPs functionalized with short alkyl chains was conducted by Bi et al [81,82] and our group [56,57,59,60]. Given the improved RP performance of SCIL SP prepared via polymerization procedure, large aromatic probes, such as PAHs, were included in the chromatographic assessment [83].…”