Molecules — Section Editors

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

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

Department of Civil Engineering, Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, 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)

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

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

RMIT University Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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Interests: chemometrics, food chemistry, rapid analytical methods, foodomics, food origin and traceability, infrared, electronic noses, process analytics, multivariate analysis
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

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

Department of Analytical and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, Ourense Campus, E32004 Ourense, Spain
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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

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
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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
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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

Department of Environmental Analysis, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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Interests: analytical chemistry; methods development; environmental protection; pharmaceutical analysis

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

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

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