What Is Holding FFF Back in Industrial Settings?

Name: What Is Holding FFF Back in Industrial Settings?
Uploaded: 2026-07-06T14:30:00Z
Duration: 6 min 27 s
Description: Panelists agree that a shortage of trained users underpins all other barriers to FFF becoming a validated routine tool in industrial settings.

Author(s)Lars Nilsson, Susanne Boye, Valentina Marassi

Panelists agree that a shortage of trained users underpins all other barriers to FFF becoming a validated routine tool in industrial settings.

Field-flow fractionation (FFF) has come a long way since its origins in the late 1960s. Once reliant on hand-built channels and lab-customized components, the technique has matured into a commercially available, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-compatible analytical platform, and its community of practitioners is growing with it. In this panel discussion, four leading FFF experts share their perspectives on where the technique stands today and where it is headed.