“…Most often, retention is seen to decrease when sample concentration increases (i. e. positive dR/dpcP), as for particulate suspensions. This is the case for synthetic polymers, such as polystyrenesulfonates [8,15,22,24,26,33], polyvinylpyridines [26], or polyethylene oxides [32], but also for an amphiphilic graft copolymer [25], a protein [24], polysaccharides [24,34], and DNAs [20]. It has, however, been observed that the direction of variation of R with sample concentration depends on the eluent ionic strength, which influences the degree of interaction between macromolecules.…”