Description of Invention:
Available for licensing for industrial scale-up production and commercial distribution is an improved countercurrent chromatography apparatus comprising a disk having a series of interconnected and elongated compartments coupled by ducts that form a portion of a groove in a surface of the disk. At least some of the elongated compartments have an aspect ratio of at least greater than two and a width greater than twice the width of the connecting ducts and a length of about 10 to 20 times the length of the connecting ducts. This apparatus may also be used for a large-scale industrial separation by coaxially rotating in centrifugal or gravitational fields.
Inventors:
Yoichiro Ito (NHLBI)
Patent Status:
DHHS Reference No. E-277-2004/0 --
U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/603,975 filed 24 Aug 2004 Licensing Status: This technology is no longer available for licensing.
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