We have developed a high surface area (~300 m2/g) electropositive filter where the active component is a 2 nanometer diameter alumina (AlOOH) fiber, dispersed on microglass fibers. It is capable of collecting 99.9999+% virus when flowing through a thin (1.5 mm) filter at flowrates of 1 cc/sec/cm2 and will also filter nucleic acids very efficiently. Some proteins appear to be separated (presumably by charge, not size since this is not a membrane). I wonder whether this material could serve as a packing material for LC in aqueous solutions? It appears to me that it has an extraordinary number of theoretical plates. Any suggested applications?

Thank You
Fred Tepper
Argonide Nanomaterials
www.argonide.com