“…Use of CE in DNA analysis can dramatically reduce separation times because high electric fields can be utilized without heat buildup in the separation media, which can reduce resolution and degrade the sample. Aqueous solutions of hydrophilic polymers such as methylcellulose [1][2][3][4], hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) [5,6,14], hydroxypropylcellulose (HPC) [7,14], hydroxypropylmethylcellulose [7,8], linear polyacrylamide (PAA) [9][10][11]14], poly-N,N-dimethylacrylamide (pDMA) [15], polyvinyl alcohol [8,12], and polyethyleneoxide (PEO) [12,13] have been used successfully as separation media in CE. The relative importance of polymer properties such as persistence length, hydrophilicity, and molecular mass in altering electrophoretic mobility of polyelectrolyte analytes is still not well understood, however.…”