highly polar and hydrophilic compounds are poorly retained on conventional reversed-phase stationary phases. Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC), as an increasingly important chromatographic mode, has been shown to be most useful for the analysis of highly polar and hydrophilic compounds [1][2][3][4][5]. It enjoyed nearly a decade of rapid growth in the early 2000s [6][7][8][9][10]. In HILIC, a mixture of water and a high percentage of organic modifiers (>65 %) is employed with a polar stationary phase [11][12][13][14][15]. Strongly polar compounds are sufficiently retained, for which HILIC offers different selectivity compared to the traditional RPLC [16][17][18]. Therefore, the analysis of highly hydrophilic and polar compounds by HILIC has been demonstrated as a powerful complementary approach to RPLC [19,20].Stationary phases for HILIC have received a lot of attention. Polar stationary phases are typically used to retain polar solutes in HILIC. In fact, most HILIC separations have been performed on normal phase columns commercially available mainly including bare-silica, amino-silica, cyano-and diol-silica, amide-silica, sulfoalkylbetaine bonded silica, carbohydrate-modified silica, triazol-bonded silica, and polymer-based monolithic columns [21][22][23][24][25][26]. Many new stationary phases and columns with a wide variety of functional groups have been developed exclusively for HILIC in recent years [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. Moreover, more than one retention mechanism and the capability to be operated in different LC modes have been demonstrated [36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. Li et al.[43] developed a new stationary phase that combined both hydrophilic interaction and per aqueous liquid chromatography characteristics. The new phase consisted of carbon nanoparticles immobilized on the surface of porous silica particles. Ma et al. [44] successfully synthesized novel pH-responsive polymer-grafted silica whose hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity changed with pH. Shen et al. [45] Abstract A new stationary phase based on β-cyclodextrin and Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) was prepared. The mass % of the polymer/100 g stationary phase was 23 %. Through investigating the effects of the acetonitrile (ACN) content of the mobile phase, the pH and the column temperature on the retention factor of polar and hydrophilic compounds in the ACN-rich mobile phase, it was found that the new stationary phase had the typical retention behavior of hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC). Moreover, the retention of solutes in the mobile phase exhibited "U-shaped" curves, which was an indication of HILIC/reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) mixed-mode retention behavior. In addition, the separation of some hydrophilic and different polar compounds was achieved by using the new material in HILIC and RPLC modes, respectively.