“…No fewer than three manufacturers are now competing to provide such packing materials including Halo (Advanced Material Technologies, Wilmington, DE, USA), Kinetex (Phenomenex, Torrance, CA, USA), and Poroshell120 (Agilent Technologies, Little Falls, DE, USA). At least two academic groups are developing similar materials [21,22]. The performance of these columns is now equivalent to that of columns packed with sub-2 m particles over which they have the important advantages of requiring markedly lower operating pressures and exhibiting lesser efficiency loss due to thermal effects at high flow rates [10,12,13].…”