Chromatography-the Ultimate Analytical Tool

Dear Colleagues,

Since its introduction by the Russian botanist Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet chromatography has been the most powerful analytical tool in Analytical Chemistry.

Separation, qualitative analysis, and quantitative analysis can be achieved by choosing the right conditions. Thus, numerous gas chromatographic, liquid chromatographic, and supercritical fluid chromatographic methods have been developed and applied for most types of samples and most kinds of analytes. Not to mention that older varieties like paper chromatography and thin-layer chromatography were pioneer analytical techniques in many laboratories.

Especially when hyphenated to spectrometric techniques, chromatography also allows the identification of separated analytes in a single run. Highly sophisticated equipment can answer all analytical problems very quickly.

Chromatographers cooperate with many scientific fields and give their lights to medical doctors, veterinarians, food scientists, biologists, dentists, archaeologists, etc.

The choice of two-dimensional approaches can expand the power of chromatographic techniques either in heart-cut or comprehensive modes.

In this Special Issue, the Guest Editors are inviting analytical chemists to prove that their separation technique is the ultimate analytical tool.

Prof. Dr. Victoria Samanidou
Guest Editor

Dr. Natasa Kalogiouri
Assistant Guest Editor

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