Molecules — Section Editors

Section Editor-in-Chief
Australian Centre of Research on Separation Science, School of Physical Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Interests: capillary electrophoresis; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; sample concentration; green sample preparation
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Green Analytical Chemistry

Chemistry Department, Sensory and Science Center, Tufts University, 200 Boston Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
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Interests: gas and liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; chemometrics and data analysis; method and instrument development and validation

Cnr- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Instituto per i Sistemi Biologici (ISB) Rome, Italy
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Interests: HPLC; nano-LC; capillary electrophoresis; electrochromatography; mass spectrometry; micro extraction; sample preparation; chiral separations; food analysis; pharmaceutical analysis

School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
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Interests: microfluidic chip; detection; automated system; spheroid; cancer drug resistance; stretching device; paper-based analytical device
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Application of Paper-Based Analytical Devices

Center for Intelligent Chemical Instrumentation, Clippinger Laboratories, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701-2979, USA
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Interests: chemometrics; forensic chemistry; spectroscopy; separations; machine learning

Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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Interests: plastics, microplastics; environmental analytical Chemistry; development of novel methods for environmental, food and heath care applications
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Compounds Used in Biosorption
Special Issue in Sensors: Environmental Monitoring Biosensors
Special Issue in Biosensors: Biosensors for Environmental Applications
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Plastic Pollution
Special Issue in Molecules: Environmental Monitoring (Bio)sensors

Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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Interests: analytical chemistry; carbohydrate; biomolecular interactions; glycobiology; and protein/peptide pharmaceuticals
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Carbohydrate Recognition

Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres, 31, I-98166 Messina (Vill. S. Agata), Italy
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Interests: speciation of polyelectrolytes; acid-base properties and complexing ability towards different classes of organic and inorganic ligands; modelling in HPLC; modelling of separation of linear and branched polyamines by IC chromatography; speciation of UO22+ in different ionic media; interaction with carboxylic acids at low molecular weight and formation of hydrolytic hetero-metal species; determination of the solubility and activity coefficients of different classes of organic ligands in different ionic media
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Chemical Speciation of Organic and Inorganic components of Environmental and Biological Interest in Natural Fluids: Behaviour, Interaction and Sequestration

Laboratoire des IMRCP, UMR 5623, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul SabatierToulouse, France
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Interests: Mass Spectrometry of Biological Molecules; Quantitative Analytical Biochemistry; Trace Analysis

Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Chemistry, Chair of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Torun, Poland
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Interests: chemometrics, modelling, elemental analysis, ICP-MS, atomic absorption spectroscopy, field flow fractionation, SPLITT, heavy metals and nutrients in the environment

Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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Interests: analytical chemistry; environmental analysis; biofunctional analysis; non-target screening workflows; liquid phase separation strategies (RPLC, HILIC, SFC, etc.); mass spectrometry (ionization techniques and analysers)
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: (Mass Spectrometric) Non Target Screening–Techniques and Strategies

School of Life, Health & Chemical Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Interests: VOC analysis; biomarker discovery; SIFT-MS; TD-GC-MS; metabolomics; non-invasive disease diagnostics

Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, Pavia, Italy
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Interests: Purification and characterization of enzymes and structural proteins; investigation of the proteome of different tissues/fluids by using the conventional methods of proteomics/metabolomics
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Topical Collection in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Advances in Proteomic Research
Special Issue in Molecules: Mass Spectrometric Proteomics
Special Issue in High-Throughput: Respiratory and Neurodegenerative Biomarker Discovery, Validation and Diagnosis
Special Issue in Molecules: Methods for the Purification and Characterization of Proteins/Enzymes

REQUIMTE–LAQV, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Interests: Her research fields cross analytical and environmental chemistry, (bio)sensors, chemically modified electrodes, application of nanofunctional materials and new methodologies for (electro)analysis.
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Special Issue in Molecules: Advanced Analysis of Contaminants of Emerging Concern

Medical University of Lublin, Faculty of Pharmacy with Medical Analytics Division, Chair of Chemistry, Department of Physical Chemistry, 4A Chodźki Street, PL-20093 Lublin, Poland
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Interests: theory and application of liquid chromatography; modern extraction techniques (eg., QuEChERS); detection techniques (DAD, FLD, MS, MS/MS); method development and validation; optimisation of chromatographic systems for separation and quantitative analysis of xenobiotics and others (multicomponent mixtures) in food, environmental and biological samples
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Analysis of Xenobiotics and their Residues in Food, Biological and Environmental Samples by Chromatographic Techniques Coupled with Modern Detection Techniques
Special Issue in Molecules: Identification and Quantitative Analysis of Bisphenols in Food, Biological and Environmental Samples, and Highly Processed Products by Chromatographic Techniques Coupled with Modern Detection Techniques (MS, MS/MS, FLD, and DAD)
Special Issue in Molecules: Activity of the Kynurenine Pathway: Analysis of Tryptophan and its Metabolites in Biological Samples by Chromatographic Techniques Coupled with Modern Detection Techniques
Special Issue in Molecules: Properties of Analytes/Matrices in Selection of Chromatographic Methods and Detection Techniques
Special Issue in Molecules: Modern Analytical Techniques Applied for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Ingredients and Inspect of Composition of Dietary Supplements

Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Biotechnology of Horticultural Crops, Freising, Germany
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Interests: HPLC; UHPLC; GC; mass spectrometry; UV/VIS and IR spectroscopy; fluorimetry; separation of chiral molecules; plant metabolites and hormones; enzyme assays; inhibitors; plasmid biology; electrophoresis; quantitative PCR

School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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Interests: infrared spectroscopy; chemometrics; food chemistry; vibrational spectroscopy; NIR
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Hyperspectral Chemical Imaging for Food Authentication
Special Issue in Foods: Spectroscopy Application in Food Analysis
Special Issue in Fermentation: Bioprocess and Fermentation Monitoring
Special Issue in Fermentation: Bioprocess and Fermentation Monitoring, Volume II
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Non-destructive Sensors in Food Authentication
Special Issue in Sensors: Infrared Spectroscopy and Sensors
Special Issue in Molecules: Food Analytical Chemistry–Advance Instrumental Methods and Sensors

Food Science Lab, Department of Analytical and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Vigo-Ourense Campus, E-32004 Ourense, Spain
Tel. +34-988-387060 (or +34-988-387260); Fax: +34-988-387001
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Interests: food authenticity; food chemistry; Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the food chain; sensorial analysis; functional ingredients; functional foods
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Pesticide Residues in the Environment and Food Chain: Fate, Bioaccumulation and Toxicology
Special Issue in Molecules: Secondary Metabolites in Plant Foods
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Host-Guest Complexes
Special Issue in Molecules: Food Traceability and Authenticity within Analytical Chemistry
Special Issue in Molecules: Green Chemistry for Algae Bioactives in Aquaculture Feeds
Special Issue in Molecules: Modern Analytical Techniques in Metabolomics Analysis

Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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Interests: carbon nanodots with analytical and biomedical applications; nanomaterials and microextraction
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in C: Recent Advances in Carbon Dots

Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, yonseidae-gil 1, Wonju 26493, South Korea
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Interests: GC/MS; LC/MS; sample preparation; SPE; chemical sensors; spectroscopies analytical chemistry
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Forensic Analytical Chemistry

Division of Glycoscience, Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Health. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Centre, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Interests: chromatography and mass spectrometry of biopolymers; glycobiology and glycomics

School of Pharmacy, Shujitsu University, 1-6-1, Nishigawara, Okayama 703-8516, Japan
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Interests: passive smoking; advanced glycation end-products; stress hormone; oxidative stress; oxidative damage; biomarker; sample preparation; solid-phase microextraction; automated analytical systems; high-throughput analysis; chromatography; carcinogens; heterocyclic amines; mycotoxin; volatile organic compounds; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; non-invasive analysis; evaluation of environmental pollution; Sick House Syndrome; food contaminants; early disease diagnosis; GC–MS analysis; LC–MS/MS analysis
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Chromatographic Analysis of Biomarkers in Lifestyle-Related Diseases

Principal Research Officer, Head of Residues Laboratory, Food Safety Department, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown, Dublin 15, Ireland
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Interests: chromatographic separations; sample purification; mass spectrometry; biosensors and immunoassays; residue analysis
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Analysis of Residues in Food and Environment

Department of Chemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
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Interests: pharmaceutical analysis; green chemistry; analytical chemistry; environmental chemistry; subcritical water oxidation; subcritical water extraction and chromatography; supercritical fluid extraction and chromatography; gas chromatography and liquid chromatography; separation and analysis of species from environmental and herbal matrices
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Sub- and Supercritical Fluids and Green Chemistry
Special Issue in Sustainability: Environment-Friendly Chemical Processes

Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Tel. +86 571 87951629
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Interests: mass spectrometric analysis; chiral analysis; pharmaceutical analysis

State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun 130022, China
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Interests: surface electrochemistry; spectroelectrochemistry; Nano electrochemistry; design and the application of electrocatalysts for fuel cells; surface-functionalization and optical; electrical and magnetical properties of metal nanoparticles; controlled synthesis and the application of novel nanomaterials

Chair of Analytical Chemistry, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Interests: chemometrics; environmental analytical chemistry; intelligent data analysis

Department of Pharmacy Build B, level 2; University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara; Via dei Vestini, 31; I-66100 Chieti; Italy
Tel. +3908713554590
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Interests: Innovative (micro) extraction procedures (MEPS, FPSE, DLLME, SULLE, MAE, etc.) and hyphenated instrument configurations; Bioactive compounds (drugs, drugs associations, and natural bioactive compounds); Characterization, fingerprints, and method validation; HPLC; Mass spectrometry (MS and MS/MS).
* More than 121 manuscripts, 97 congress communications, 1 patent subject to approval, 10 book chapters and 2 books, and guest editor for 10 special issues attested scientific activity (based on Scopus (10th of January 2019), h-index 26, 1644 citations)
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Innovative Extraction Techniques and Hyphenated Instrument Configuration for Complex Matrices Analysis
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Product Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry
Special Issue in Molecules: Advances in Chemical Analysis Procedures (Part I): Extraction and Instrument Configuration
Special Issue in Molecules: Advances in Chemical Analysis Procedures (Part II): Statistical and Chemometric Approaches
Special Issue in Molecules: Analytical Methods for Toxics Determination

Institute of Meat and Meat Products (IPROCAR), University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain
Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Interests: meat science and technology; food processing; analytical methodologies; flavor volatile compounds analysis; lipid composition; lipid oxidation; texture analysis; toxic compounds analysis (nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons); statistics and experimental design; sensory analysis; microbiological and safety issues

Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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Interests: liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; development of original extraction procedures (e.g. SPE prototypes; evaluation of last-generation materials as sorbents for SPE and liquid ionics/deep eutectic solvents for DLLME); development and validation of LC methods; LC-DAD-MS/MS profiling of organic micronutrients in foods and biological fluids
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Advances in Food Analysis

Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sassari University, Italy
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Interests: Analytical chemistry; validation of analytical methods; chemometrics and data analysis; environmental chemistry and monitoring; food chemistry and analysis; speciation analysis; science of materials; electroanalytical methods; sensors and biosensors, modification of electrode surfaces; gas-chromatography; liquid chromatography; hyphenated methods; ICP-MS methods; FT-IR methods; determination of trace analytes in foods; food georeferencing and traceability; bioaccumulation of toxic elements in cereals; synthesis and characterization of conductive polymers; biomedical analysis in dental research, studies of equilibria in solution between metal ions and ligands of biological interest; ability of vegetal biomasses in removal of organic pollutants by wastewaters
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Separations: Separation Techniques for Dairy Analysis

Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
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Interests: electroanalytical chemistry; environmental analytical chemistry; food analytical chemistry; analytical chemistry; heavy metals; atmospheric aerosol; seawater; snow; ice; wine; fish
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Determination of Trace Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Environmental Samples

Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Interests: vibrational spectroscopy; chemometrics; Raman microscopy; low frequency Raman spectroscopy; resonance Raman spectroscopy; food analysis; electronic materials analysis
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Raman Spectroscopy: A Spectroscopic 'Swiss-Army Knife'

Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry, Ames, USA
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Interests: mass spectrometry imaging; matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization; plant metabolites; bio-oils; high-resolution mass spectrometry

1. Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert Einstein Strasse 9, D-07745 Jena, Germany
2. Abbe Center of Photonics & Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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Interests: Raman Spectroscopy and Instrumentation; Gas sensing; Fiber sensing; Chemical Imaging; Pharmaceutical spectroscopy and Biosensing; Elucidation of drug target interactions; environmental monitoring
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Biosensors: Raman and IR Spectroscopic Sensing
Special Issue in Fibers: Optical Fiber Sensors
Special Issue in Molecules: Application of Spectroscopic Sensors in Life Science and Analytical Chemistry

Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Spitalstrasse 51, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Interests: analytical chemistry; miniaturization; on-site and field instruments; capillary electrophoresis; flow-injection analysis; chemical sensors; open hardware

Departamento de Química Analítica, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Valencia. Dr. Moliner 50, E46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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Interests: chromatography, sample preparation, colorimetric sensors, analysis of drugs, environmental analysis

Centro de Química e Bioquímica, Centro de Química Estrutural, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
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Interests: sample preparation; microextraction techniques; analytical method development and validation; environmental and biological analysis; chromatography and hyphenated techniques
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Modern Sample Preparation Approaches for Separation Science

Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078-3071, USA
Tel. +405-744-5931; Fax: +405-744-6007
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Interests: bio-separations; enantioseparations; proteomics; protein separations; glycomics; carbohydrate analysis; natural products; environmental analysis by liquid phase separation techniques including capillary electrophoresis; capillary electrochromatography and high performance liquid chromatography and affinity chromatography

University of Gdansk, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Environmental Analysis, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308 Gdansk, Poland
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Interests: analytical chemistry; methods development; environmental protection; pharmaceutical analysis
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Pharmaceutical Residues in the Environment

Laboratory of Supramolecular Crystallography, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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Interests: structural Biology, X-ray crystallography, protein

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Interests: gas and liquid chromatography; electrophoresis; mass spectrometry; instrument development; sample preparation; method development and validation

Department of Analytical Chemistry, Universidad de Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
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Interests: sample preparation; microextraction; nanoparticles and ionic liquid
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Separations: Advances in Micro-Solid Phase Extraction
Special Issue in Molecules: New Materials in Microextraction Techniques
Special Issue in Separations: Five Years of Separations: Feature Paper 2018

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Interests: beverages (wine, beer, non-alcoholic); composition; sensory analysis; production processes; allergens; toxins; waste exploitation; NIR; HPLC; GS-MS; CE; e-nose

- Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Analytical Development Laboratory, Research and Development API Operations, Pharmathen SA, 9th klm Thessaloniki-Thermi, Thessaloniki 57001, Greece
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Interests: pharmaceutical analytical chemistry; method development and validation; sample preparation (derivatization, microextraction, etc); liquid and gas chromatography; capillary electrophoresis; mass spectrometry
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Solid-Phase Microextraction
Special Issue in Molecules: Recent Trends in Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry

Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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Interests: Analytical Chemistry; Molecular and Atomic Spectroscopy; Separation and Preconcentration Techniques; Flow Analysis; Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry and Organized Assemblies; Nanomaterials; Chromatography; Applied Chemometrics
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Biosensors: Optical Diagnostics with Point-of-Care and Point-of-Need Applications

Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Interests: analytical chemistry; sample preparation; separations; HPLC; extraction techniques
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Separations: Trends in Microextraction Techniques for Sample Preparation
Special Issue in Separations: Research as Development Perspective
Special Issue in Molecules: Solid Phase Extraction: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Special Issue in Molecules: Metal Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Application
Special Issue in Separations: Five Years of Separations: Feature Paper 2018
Special Issue in Separations: The Key Elements in the Research Driven Development
Special Issue in Molecules: Advances in Chemical Analysis Procedures (Part I): Extraction and Instrument Configuration
Special Issue in Molecules: Advances in Chemical Analysis Procedures (Part II): Statistical and Chemometric Approaches

University Grenoble Alpes, DPM CNRS UMR 5063, F-38041 Grenoble, France
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Interests: liquid chromatography; capillary electrophoresis; chiral separation; biosensors; fluorescence and fluorescence anisotropy; nucleic acids; aptamers

Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain
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Interests: porous materials; nanomaterials; molecular recognition sorbents; sample treatment; solid-phase extraction; capillary electromigration techniques; capillary/nano liquid chromatography; food analysis
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Analysis of Peptides and Proteins by Electrophoretic Techniques
Special Issue in Molecules: Advances in Molecular Recognition Materials

Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Tokiwadai 79-5, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240 8501, Japan
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Interests: structural biology; NMR, protein; nucleic acids; structure; dynamics; interaction; drug screening
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Recent Advances in Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy