Modern Sample Preparation Approaches for Separation Science
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2019) | Viewed by 82213
Special Issue Editor
Interests: analytical chemistry; sample preparation; microextraction techniques; chromatography; hyphenated techniques (GC-MS and LC-MS); environmental analysis; biological analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Sample preparation is an essential step in most of the analytical methods for environmental and biomedical analysis, since the target analytes are often not detected in their in-situ forms, or the results are distorted by interfering species. The sample preparation techniques often involve elaborate and time-consuming procedures that can take up to 80% of the total analysis time.
In the last decade, modern sample preparation techniques have aimed to comply with the green analytical chemistry principles, leading to simplification, miniaturization, easy manipulation of the analytical devices, low costs, strong reduction or absence of organic toxic solvents, as well as low sample volume requirements.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to contribute with original research articles, related to the state-of-the-art of microextraction techniques in sample preparation. We are particularly interested in researches that work towards new sample enrichment approaches for separation science, e.g., chromatography, electrophoresis and/or hyphenated techniques.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- new sample preparation concepts
- selective enrichment methods
- sorption-based material, nanomaterial or nanostructured material for sample preparation
- online-sample preparation strategies
Dr. Nuno Neng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sample preparation
- enrichment techniques
- sorption-based methods
- nanomaterial
- nanostructured materials
- online-sample preparation
- microextraction techniques
- new analytical strategies
- environmental analysis
- biological analysis
- chromatography
- hyphenated techniques
- capillary electrophoresis
- trace analysis