Dr Steve Page of P&G shares his works on Inverse Gas Chromatography at 2016 European iGC Symposium

I basically gave a talk on consumer product research using inverse gas chromatography, and I concentrated on the fabric care applications. We found inverse gas chromatic to be invaluable, because when you're Talking about complicated 3D dimensional struct, nonwovens, fabrics, textiles, it's very hard to get a surface property from those materials. And often the surface property that you get is an average value, whereas in reality, you have surfactants and binders and processing aids and raw materials that make for a complicated array of surface energies. And yet your analysis comes up with a single value, whereas surface, our inverse gas chromatography does a distribution. Those distributions, we find, are invaluable in doing the modeling for things like fluid handling and soil release, soil absorption, things like that. And so we really like the inverse gastronomy.