“…Because of the tremendously higher separation power of LC Â LC when compared with its 1D-LC counterpart, the technique has been employed in several fields, e.g., polymers, pharmaceuticals and biological mixtures, natural products, environmental and petrochemical samples, and has been the subject of various reviews (Liu and Lee, 2000;Evans and Jorgenson, 2004;Guttman et al, 2004;Stroink et al, 2005;Dixon et al, 2006;Jandera, , 2012Shalliker and Gray, 2006;Shellie and Haddad, 2006;Dugo et al, 2008a,b;Pol and Hyotylainen, 2008;François et al, 2009a;Herrero et al, 2009;Sandra et al, 2009;Berek, 2010;Pierce et al 2012;Sarrut et al, 2014).…”