The 10th international conference on countercurrent chromatography held at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, August 1–3, 2018

The 10th International Countercurrent Chromatography Conference (CCC 2018) was held at Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Germany, from August 1st–3rd, 2018. The presentations in the scientific program demonstrated the progress in the field of countercurrent chromatography (CCC) and centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC) in recent years and numerous applications have impressively proven the potential of this all-liquid separation technique not only for academic research but also for industry. Special highlights of the conference were the celebration of the 90th birthday of Dr. Yoichiro Ito, the pioneer of countercurrent chromatography, as well as the foundation of an international “Society of Partition and Countercurrent Chromatography (SPCC)”