Advances in Spectroscopic and Chromatographic Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

This is a call for papers for the Topic “Advances in Spectroscopic and Chromatographic Techniques”, which has been devised in order to highlight the recent advances of these analytical approaches to study the chemical composition and structure of molecules (natural, synthetic, and as sub-products of reaction processes), materials (organic, inorganic and hybrid), macronutrients (lipids, carbohydrates, and proteins), together with water and numerous minor components that can coexist. Spectroscopic analysis is employed to explore (bio)molecules, (nano)materials, and hybrid (nano)composites, providing practical information such as their elemental type, chemical composition, structural, optical and electronic properties, as well as crystallinity. Chromatographic analysis is a laboratory chemical technique for the separation of a mixture into its components. Its aim may be preparative (to separate the components of a mixture for later use, and is thus a form of purification) or analytical (for establishing the presence or measuring the relative proportions of analytes in a mixture). They have many applications in different technological fields, including pure and applied chemistry, material, environmental and food sciences, industrial chemistry and catalysis. The topic “Advances in Spectroscopic and Chromatographic Techniques’’ welcomes high-quality works that focus on the use, optimization, and validation of advanced and innovative spectrometric, spectrophotometric, and chromatographic methodologies for chemical and materials analysis. Relevant themes include, but are not limited to, the following spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques: FT-IR, X-ray diffraction, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), light/neutron scattering, UV–vis and diffuse reflectance UV–vis, fluorescence, GC and LC chromatography and HPLC.

Dr. Giuseppe Vitiello
Dr. Giuseppina Luciani
Dr. Danilo Russo
Topic Editors