chapter 1. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics in nonlinear chromatography and electrophoresis : theory and applications / Heng Liang, Qian Liu, and Liang-Fei OuYang -- chapter 2. Biomimetic chromatography : a useful tool in the drug discovery process / Marios Chrysanthakopoulos, Fotios Tsopelas, and Anna Tsantili-Kakoulidou -- chapter 3. Solid-phase microextraction for in vivo pharmacokinetics and other stages of drug development / Barbara Bojko and Janusz Pawliszyn -- chapter 4. Identification and detection of antibiotic drugs and their degradation products in aquatic samples / Dror Avisar and Igal Gozlan -- chapter 5. Sample preparation for chromatographic analysis / Antonio Martin-Esteban -- chapter 6. Development of HPLC retention index QSAR models for nontargeted metabolomics / L. Mark Hall, Dennis W. Hill, Lowell H. Hall, Tzipporah M. Kormos, and David F. Grant -- chapter 7. Thin layer chromatography with a controlled gas phase influencing on the separation / V.G. Berezkin, S.N. Shtykov, and E.G. Sumina.