Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 397
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pharmaceutical and forensic analysis; environmental analytical chemistry; drugs of abuse; drug/drug interactions; method development for enviro/bioanalysis; separation methods (GC, HPLC, LC–MS/MS); mass spectrometry and isotope ratio mass spectrometry; development and application of innovative sorbents for extraction of pollutants from water; fate and behaviour of organic contaminants, drugs, toxic metals, pesticides and emerging pollutants in the environment and during wastewater treatment; analysis of bioactive species from herbal matrices, application of nuclear instrumental methods for analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) has now been employed in a variety of vastly different settings for over 40 years. By using an accelerator system as a mass spectrometer, we can achieve an improvement in the sensitivity of isotopic abundance measurements by several orders of magnitude in comparison to standard mass spectrometers. In particular, AMS provides the means to measure minute traces of long-lived radioisotopes of cosmogenic or anthropogenic origin in practically every aspect of the natural and physical world. This Special Issue will thus outline topics of current AMS research interest. For example, articles on AMS instrumentation and methodologies, applications in archaeology, astrophysics, biomedicine, climate studies, atmospheric and environmental 14C, oceanography, and nuclear waste management.
Dr. James Barker
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- accelerator mass spectrometry
- AMS
- instrumentation
- methodologies
- archaeology
- astrophysics
- biomedicine
- climate studies
- oceanography
- nuclear waste management
