Equation (2) uses H and u in their reduced forms, h and ν, and is often employed for physicochemical comparison purposes. The A and C terms directly depend on the particle diameter, so the reduction in particle size enhances the performance of the separation. Nevertheless, this leads to an immediate drawback: columns packed with smaller particles have lower permeability and this causes higher backpressures, according to Darcy's law [Equation (3)]. This means that optimal flow rates for fully-porous particles will generate backpressures several times higher in columns packed with sub-3-µm or sub-2-µm particles than in the case of the 5-µm particles. However, this drawback can be bypassed by using superficially porous particles: the solid core increases the permeability of the chromatographic bed and, as a consequence, core-shell particles generate lower backpressures than fully-porous particles of the same diameter [22]. As higher flow rates can be employed, this contributes to a reduction in the axial (longitudinal) diffusion component of peak broadening, the B term in the van Deemter equation. Kirkland developed the core-shell silica particles with the aim of reducing the diffusion path of the molecules into the pores. The intra-particle diffusion path in the core-shell particles is reduced in comparison to traditional totally porous particles, decreasing the C term, although this reduction has been found experimentally to be much smaller than theoretically expected [9]. The combination of large efficiencies and resolutions with reduced backpressures is the consequence of several additive physical and chemical factors that lead to reduced A and B terms and that are made possible by the unique characteristics of superficially silica particles and their packing, which has been called “the core-shell advantage” [23].