Nanomaterials Applied to Analytical Chemistry

Dear Colleagues,

Nanoscience and nanotechnology, which produce materials for their applications well below the submicroscopic level (<100 nm), have reached an extraordinary level of development. At the nm level, surface physics and chemistry start to dominate the material’s properties. If such a fact is properly considered and managed, it can be of high utility in different disciplines.

In the case of Analytical Chemistry, nanomaterials occupy an important place in current research, especially in sample preparation procedures. Proof of this is the extremely high number of publications that appear each year that broaden more and more the applications and utilities of these materials with unique properties.

This Special Issue intends to compile recent and novel application of nanomaterials (metal–organic frameworks, covalent–organic frameworks, magnetic or nonmagnetic coated and noncoated nanoparticles, carbon-based nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes, nanohorns, graphene, fullerenes, and others, etc.) in sample preparation procedures. Applications of nanomaterials in solid-phase extraction (SPE), including its dispersive (dSPE) or conventional mode as well as its miniaturized (µSPE, pipette tip SPE, etc.) or magnetic versions (m-dSPE, m-µdSPE, etc.), in solid-phase microextraction (SPME), matrix solid-phase dispersion (MSPD), stir bar (SBSE) or stir cake (SCSE) sorptive extraction, among others, and their combinations with liquid-phase extraction procedures, are highly welcome as well as review articles.

I hope you will find this Special Issue of interest. Your contribution will absolutely promote its success.

Sincerely yours,

Prof. Dr. Javier Hernández-Borges
Dr. Javier González-Sálamo
Guest Editors

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