09913 IUPAC Gold Book - capillary electrophoresis 10.1351/goldbook.09913 09913 current initialism: CE mentioned: capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) 1 Separation method based solely on the differences in the electrophoretic mobilities of charged species in capillaries. The background electrolyte may be an aqueous or non-aqueous solution. The electrolytes can contain additives, which can interact with the charged species and alter their electrophoretic mobilities. The use of the term capillary electrophoresis (CE) as a collective term for all capillary electromigration techniques is not recommended, as some of these techniques involve separation mechanisms other than electrophoresis. The basic kind of CE is capillary zone electrophoresis in which separation takes place in the homogeneous solution of the background electrolyte on the basis of different electrophoretic mobilities of analytes in a free solution. capillary affinity electrophoresis https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09911 PAC, 2017, 90, 181. 'Terminology of separation methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 213 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2017-0111) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09913/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09913/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09913/plain Citation: 'capillary electrophoresis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.09913 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-25T21:02:53+00:00