Special Issue "Mass Spectrometry and Environmental Analysis"

Guest Editor
Dr. Sayed M. Hassan
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, and Director of the Laboratory for Environmental Analysis, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Website: http://www.cropsoil.uga.edu
E-Mail: shassan@uga.edu
Phone: +1 706 227 7993
Fax: +1 706 542 0914
Interests: hyphenation of chromatography and mass spectrometry for trace analysis of organic pollutants and metal speciation; abiotic remediation of halogenated organic contaminants (VOC's, chlorinated solvents, pesticides, PCB's and others) in the environment using mixtures of zero-valent metals and metal sulfides; enhancing bioremediation of contaminated soils using metabolic substrates; artificial wetlands in bio-remediation studies

Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that consists of ionizing chemical compounds to generate charged molecules or molecule fragments and measuring their mass-to-charge ratios. MS is now in very common use in analytical laboratories for both qualitative and quantitative purposes. Its hyphenation to gas chromatography (GC) and later to liquid chromatography (LC) provided powerful tools for determination of organic pollutants in complex environmental matrices thanks to the increased resolution capabilities of chromatography and unprecedented selectivity and sensitivity of the MS.

Environmental analysis aims commonly to monitor and study levels of pollutants in the atmosphere, rivers, soils, and other specific settings. Nowadays, it seems clear to all in the environmental community that, without such development of the capabilities of GC-MS and LC-MS over the past sixty years, it would not be possible to detect and accurately determine many harmful compounds at levels that have never been thought possible.

For this special issue on Mass Spectrometry and Environmental Analysis, I’m eager to entertain papers on instrumental analysis involving mass spectrometer as a detector. These include GC-MS, LC-MS, ICP-MS and applications in environmental and biological studies.

Dr. Sayed M. Hassan
Guest Editor

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• GC-MS
• LC-MS
• ICP-MS
• environmental analysis
• mass spectrometric analysis
• instrumental coupling
• instrumental analysis