Bo Zhang is an associate professor at Xiamen University, China; a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; a scientific committee member of HPLC2025; associate editor of Journal of Separation Science, and an EAB member of Journal of Chromatography A and Chinese Journal of Chromatography. He was trained as a separation scientist at National Chromatographic Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. He went on to study for his PhD in chromatography at the University of York, UK, from 2002–2007, followed by a postdoc at Imperial College London for two years. In 2009, he took up his current position at Xiamen University, where he runs a pure chromatography research group focused on column technology, advanced manufacture of chromatographic materials, as well as microfluidic technologies for bioseparation.
Bo Zhang from Xiamen University, Xiamen, China discusses his upcoming lecture at HPLC 2026 that reveals a new way to design and manufacture chromatographic materials. This new approach indicates that chromatographic media can be intentionally engineered rather than developed through “trial-and-error” synthesis. By independently controlling particle morphology and pore architecture, separation materials can be rationally designed and optimized for specific applications
Key aspects involved in manufacturing high-quality packed capillary columns, including fritting, column packing, and parallel fabrication, are discussed.
