Advances in continuous polymer analysis in flow with application towards biopolymers

Abstract Biopolymers, polymers derived from renewable biomass sources, have gained increasing attention in recent years due to their potential replace traditional petroleum-based a range of applications. Among the many advantages biopolymers can be included biocompatibility, excellent mechanical properties, and availability feedstock. However, development has been limited by lack understanding properties processing behaviours. Continuous analysis techniques hasten progress this area providing real-time insights into biopolymers. Significant research polymer chemistry focused on petroleum-derived thus provided wealth synthetic analytical methodologies which may applied biopolymer field. Of particular note is application flow technology science its implications for accelerating towards more sustainable environmentally friendly alternatives polymers. In mini review we outlined several most prominent use cases along with current state-of-the art continuous flow, including defining differentiating atline, inline, online offline analysis. We found examples direct field, demonstrate an atline method using size exclusion chromatography. Graphical abstract