People’s Hygiene Publishing House, Beijing 1990. A book with 222 pages and 186 drawings and photographs, introducing TLC densitometry and the related instrumentations, emphasizing on its applications in pharmaceutical analysis.

Bioorg. Chem. 50, 1-10 (2013). Review of the current status of research on sesame lignans, regarding analytical methods, biological activities and biosynthesis. The papers described the revolutionary change in the type of techniques used and reported some of the TLC and HPTLC methods that allowed for lignan separation and quantification.

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 1997, 244 pages, ISBN 3-540-62459-7. A book on preparative isolation techniques with one chapter on planar chromatography, including various aspects of prep. TLC as well as centrifugal TLC.

LC-GC-Int. 6, 406-410 (1993). Review of contemporary TLC including hyphenated techniques such as TLC/MS, TLC/IR, radio scanning. Improvements of separation methodology. Postulated: a device for combining sample preparation/sample application.

J. of Chromatogr. A 1218 (19), 2684-2691 (2011). Review on TLC/bioautography. Discussion of three versions of bioautography, i.e. contact, immersion and direct bioautography. The focus is put on direct bioautography and many applications are quoted, not only for testing various groups of compounds, but also for investigating biochemical processes and factors influencing bacterial growth. Various related methods can be included into direct bioautography, of which TLC-bioluminescence screening is the most promising one.

J. Planar Chromatogr. 24, 454-462 (2011). The scientometric study of the changes in basic chromatographic characteristics was carried out based on the analysis of papers published from 1980 to 1990 and from 2000 to 2010 in the following journals: J. Planar Chromatogr., Chromatographia, Anal. Chem., J. Anal. Chem., Russian J. Physical Chem., Sorption and Chromatographic Processes (Russia) as well as the abstracts of the articles published in CAMAG Bibliography Service (CBS). Based on the contents of the published articles the main analytical characteristics of planar chromatography were described: type of chromatographic chamber, variants of the plate used, development, previous preparation of the chamber and the plate, application of sample, composition of mobile phases, etc. The results obtained are of interest for analysts, manufacturers and designers of chromatographic equipment and apparatus for planar chromatography and other specialists working in the different areas of planar chromatography.

J. Liq. Chromatogr. Relat. Tech. 38, 381-389 (2015). Review of the materials, techniques and instruments for the detection and quantification of radiolabeled compounds by planar radiochromatography. Special reference is made to sample preparation, stationary phases (including instant TLCD sheets), initial zone application, mobile phases, stationary phase development, and zone detection and quantification.

Trends Anal. Chem. 82, 22-34 (2016). Review of recent developments in the field of compact mass spectrometers as chromatographic detectors, including features to extract individual TLC zones and deliver them directly to the electrospray ionization (ESI) or atmospheric-pressure chemical ionization (APCI) source.