Carbon-Based Materials for Toxin Analysis
A special issue of C (ISSN 2311-5629).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine toxins; analytical chemistry; liquid chromatography; validation; solid phase extraction; chromatographic method development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Carbon-based materials have great potential to be used as sorbents due to their ultrahigh surface area. They have been used for the removal of algal toxins, as they show a very high adsorption capacity. Regarding marine toxins, they show a great capacity to extract lipophilic toxins in shellfish muscle, such as yessotoxins, okadaic acid, and dinophysistoxin-1. Therefore, graphene and others in this family are promising nanomaterials in wastewater treatment and in marine toxin analysis. Liquid chromatography along with liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry methods have also been optimized using carbon-based materials for the separation and quantification of some marine toxins. There is still a great deal of work to be developed in these fields regarding methods of analysis and sample extraction and the different types of samples where these materials can be used.
In this Special Issue “Carbon-Based Materials for Toxin Analysis”, we invite authors to submit original communications, research articles, and reviews on the experimental and theoretical aspects of carbon-based materials to be used in all aspects related to the analysis of toxins.
Some of the key aspects relevant to this Issue are:
- Theoretical and computational models to explain the behavior of graphene and others in this family when interacting with toxins.
- Sample clean-up procedures with the use of carbon-based materials for toxins.
- Optimization of analytical methods for toxins when using carbon-based materials.
- New methods of analysis.
Dr. Ana María Botana
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Carbon-based materials
- Toxin analysis
- Sample extraction
- Theoretical models
- Computational models
