State of the Art in Separation Science

Dear Colleagues,

The term “Separation techniques” refers to a group of analytical techniques used to separate the components of a homogenous mixture that are further detected, identified and quantitatively determined.

Though separation can involve distillation and evaporation, typically in analytical chemistry, separation techniques include all types of chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques, such as:

• Gas Chromatography (GC)
• Liquid Chromatography (LC)
• High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
• LC-MS
• LC-MS/MS
• LC-NMR
• 2D LC
• 2D GC
• GC-MS
• Capillary Electrochromatography (CEC)
• Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC)
• Affinity Electrophoresis
• Capillary Electrophoresis
• Gel Electrophoresis
• Immunoelectrophoresis
• Isoelectric Focusing ((IEF)
• Isotachophoresis (ITP)

Significant advances have been made in the last few decades, including in instrumentation as well as the materials used in stationary or mobile phases. All these advances are following the principles of Green Analytical Chemistry. Therefore, automation, speed and safety are of great importance.

Two-dimensional techniques as well as hyphenated with spectroscopic techniques have improved the feature characteristics of established separation techniques making them the best analytical tool in the analysis of any kind of sample derived from various chemistry sectors as well other scientific fields such as food science, veterinary medicine, biology, dentistry, archeology, forensics, pharmaceutical chemistry, medicine, environmental science etc. To that end major advances in separation science have led to significant findings in the above mentioned scientific fields.

The questions that arise are: What is the state of the art in Separation Sciences? What advances have been reported recently? Last but not least, what are the future perspectives?

The aim of this Topical Collection is to have the answers to these questions addressed by the experts in the field, who are invited to contribute with a research or review article.

Prof. Dr. Victoria Samanidou
Collection Editor

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