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We have great news! Analytical Methods is now indexed in MEDLINE®

We’re pleased to announce that Analytical Methods is now indexed in MEDLINE®. This means that all articles published in Analytical Methods will now be discoverable in this key database for biomedical researchers.

MEDLINE® is a bibliographic database owned by the U.S. National Library of Medicine®, and is the primary component of PubMed®.

Analytical Methods continues to publish early applications of new analytical methods and technologies demonstrating potential for societal impact.

Submit your work now! rsc.li/methods

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New themed collection in Analytical Methods: Advanced Separations

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new themed collection in Analytical Methods focusing on Advanced Separations, guest edited by Analytical Methods Associate Editor, Zhen Liu (Nanjing University, China), Wenwan Zhong (University of California, Riverside, USA) and Takuya Kubo (Kyoto University, Japan).

This collection will welcome review articles and primary research on the following topics:

  • Advanced materials and substances for separation
  • Microchannel or nanochannel based separation (microseparation)
  • Multidimensional separation
  • 3D printing for separation
  • Electrophoretic cytometry
  • Advanced separation techniques for challenging applications (food safety, -omics studies etc.)

The submission deadline for this collection is November 30th 2020.

However, we are very aware of the challenges faced by researchers as COVID-19 continues to affect the world, and we will be very flexible with this deadline. Please do let us know if you’d like to be involved, even if you suspect the deadline above may be unachievable.

 

If you are interested in submitting to this collection, please contact the Analytical Methods Editorial Office at methods-rsc@rsc.org.

Please note that all submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review in accordance with the journal’s normal standards. Articles included in the collection will be published as they are accepted and collected into an online collection.

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New Analytical Methods Associate Editor: Wendell Coltro

Analytical Methods is very pleased to announce the appointment of our newest Associate Editor, Wendell Coltro.


Wendell K. T. Coltro obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the State University of Maringá (2002). He received his MSc (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) in Analytical Chemistry from the University of São Paulo (in the Institute of Chemistry at São Carlos under the supervision of Professor Emanuel Carrilho. In 2006, he was a visiting scholar at The University of Kansas (USA) under the supervision of Professor Sue Lunte. He is currently Associate Professor and Director of Chemistry at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. In the beginning of 2018, he was nominated as affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Science as a young researcher. His research interests involve the development of electrophoresis chips, electrochemical sensors, toner- and paper-based devices as well as 3D printed microfluidic chips for applications in bioanalytical and forensic chemistry.

 

 


Read some of Wendell’s recent Analytical Methods publications below. Free to read* until August 17th 2020.

Fast determination of cocaine and some common adulterants in seized cocaine samples by capillary electrophoresis with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection

DOI: 10.1039/C8AY00795K

Anal. Methods, 2018,10, 2875-2880

Recent advances in toner-based microfluidic devices for bioanalytical applications

DOI: 10.1039/C8AY01095A

Anal. Methods, 2018,10, 2952-2962

Determination of bioavailable lead in atmospheric aerosols using unmodified screen-printed carbon electrodes

DOI: 10.1039/C9AY01301F

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 4875-4881


Submit your best articles to Wendell now!


*Free to read with an RSC Publishing account

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Emerging Investigators Series – Ashu Agarwal

We are delighted to introduce our latest Analytical Methods Emerging Investigator, Ashu Agarwal.

 

Ashu Agarwal is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Director of the Dr. John T Macdonald Foundation Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute at the University of Miami. His undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, and his PhD from University of Florida are both in Materials Science and Engineering. He then gathered postdoctoral research experience in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, and at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. The mission of his Physiomimetic Microsystems Laboratory at the University of Miami is to develop human relevant organ mimic platforms for discovery of therapies and drugs, for modeling of disease states, for conducting mechanistic studies, and for differentiation, maturation and evaluation of stem cells. The lab is supported by multiple NIH consortium grants, early stage commercialization grants from Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, and a sponsored research project from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.

Read Ashu’s Emerging Investigator Series paper ‘Integrated platform for operating and interrogating organs-on-chips‘ and find out more about him in the interview below.

1. Your recent Emerging Investigator Series paper focuses on an integrated platform for the operation and interrogation of organs-on-a-chip. How has your research evolved from your first article to this most recent article?

My graduate work focused on developing nanorobots from biomolecular motors (kinesin) and associated filaments (microtubules). It led to very cool science and good quality papers. I started developing organ on chip applications during my postdoc at Harvard. The first article from my own research lab described a strategy to develop large volume fluidic chips constructed from inert plastic materials (completely PDMS-free) that are reversibly sealed, and ideally suited for organoid and spheroid cultures (Lab on a Chip, 2017, 17, 772 – 781). The article was highlighted as cover and selected as ‘top hot’ article based on peer-review scores. This recent article (Analytical Methods, 2019, 11, 5645 – 5651) describes the development of the hardware ecosystem that a user often needs to operate organ chips. While designing robust organ chips for culturing organoids/spheroids/islets is a major thrust area in my lab, it also important to remove barriers to operate and interrogate those chips using integrated hardware control systems.

 

2. What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment?

Through two recent awards from the NIH, we are embarking on creating human relevant models of two very different diseases: replicating the human islet-immune interactions that lead to type 1 diabetes, and phenotyping the circulating tumor cells and exosomes that lead to metastatic dissemination of breast cancer.

3. In your opinion, what are the key design considerations for developing effective platforms for simple operation of organs-on-a-chip?

Often, hooking up organ chips to pumps, valves and switches at the inflow, and effluent fraction collectors at the outflow, becomes an impediment to the adoption of chip technology by disease biology labs or pharmaceutical industry. An integrated fluid handling platform with associated computer program should help remove those barriers. In addition, an effective fluid platform would also allow integration with imaging platforms, easy connection and detachment of the chip, and reversible access to biological constructs.

4. What do you find most challenging about your research?

Finding the balance between over-designing features (a common engineering trap in academic labs), and not embedding enough functionality for the technology to be useful for the intended end-users.

5. How do you spend your spare time?

I love reading non-fiction, usually biographies, or stories/case-studies of companies and institutions.

 

6. Which profession would you choose if you were not a scientist?

I never thought I would be a scientist. Either a heavy machinery operator, or an offensive linemen, or an entrepreneur. Hopefully, none of those options are still off the table!

7. Can you share one piece of career-related advice or wisdom with other early career scientists?

Create a microenvironment where innovation is celebrated. Keep telling your troops that they can achieve anything they set their minds to; because they often can.

 

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Congratulations to Associate Editor, Zhen Liu!

2020 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship WinnerZhen Liu

Analytical Methods would like to congratulate our Associate Editor, Professor Zhen Liu (Nanjing University, China), on being selected as one of the 2020 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship winners. The prize will be presented to him at Pittcon conference in Chicago, March 1st – 5th, 2020.

Zhen is Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University, China. He obtained his PhD from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of China in 1998. After post-doctoral training at Hyogo University (former Himeji Institute of Technology) in Japan as a JPSP scholar (2000-2002) and at the University of Waterloo in Canada (2002-2005), he joined Nanjing University as a Full Professor in 2005. He was appointed as Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo (2011-2014). He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2014). His research interests include separation science, affinity materials, molecular imprinting, bioassays, single cell analysis, hyphenated analytical approaches, and nanomaterials for cancer therapy. He is particularly interested in integrating multidisciplinary knowledge, expertise and skills to overcome challenges in life science, such as disease diagnosis and cancer therapy.

Please join us in congratulating Zhen on this achievement!

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Emerging Contaminants – themed collection open for submissions

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new themed collection on emerging contaminants, guest edited by Analytical Methods Associate Editor Fiona Regan (Dublin City University), Leon Barron (King’s College London) and Sara Castiglioni (Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri).

Fiona ReganLeon BarronSara Castiglioni

Emerging contaminants are pollutants of growing concern. They are mainly organic compounds such as: pesticides, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, hormones, plasticizers, food additives, wood preservatives, laundry detergents, surfactants, disinfectants, flame retardants, and other organic compounds that were found recently in natural wastewater stream generated by human and industrial activities.

We invite primary research and review content focusing on analytical methods that can be used for sampling and pre-treatment for chemicals of concern, chromatographic and other separation methods, including high resolution screening, mass spectrometry for unknowns in samples, and also new column applications.

We acknowledge that current monitoring methods are infrequent and therefore new methods for measurement of CECs are being developed. These methods include chemical sensors and biosensors as well as passive sampling methods. This themed issue also invites papers on real applications to environmental (water, air, soil) and other samples (biological, micro plastics) to demonstrate the widespread occurrence of these chemicals and the challenges in addressing sample matrix analytically. A growing drive to develop effect based methods is emerging and the challenge of quantifying and addressing chemical cocktails will provide interest to the Analytical Methods audience also. 

If you are interested in submitting to this collection, please contact the Analytical Methods Editorial Office.

Submission deadline: 30th November 2020

However if you feel you are unable to meet this deadline due to Covid-19 but are still interested in submitting to the collection please do let us know. We’re very happy to be flexible with deadlines during these unprecedented times. 

Articles included in this collection will be published as they are accepted, and collated into an online collection. Please note all submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review in accordance with the journal’s normal standards.


Read papers in our sister journals Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts and Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology on the topic of PFAS: rsc.li/pfas

 

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Top 10 most downloaded Analytical Methods articles from April – June 2019

Check out these recent Analytical Methods articles, which were the most downloaded between April and June 2019.

The articles have all been made free to read for the next month. Let us know what you think of them, either in the comments below or on twitter @methodsrsc!

 

Reviews

Carbon quantum dots: synthesis, properties, and sensing applications as a potential clinical analytical method

Saipeng Huang, Wenshuai Liu, Pu Hahn, Xin Zhou, Jiewei Cheng, Huiyun Wen and Weiming Xue

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 2240-2258

DOI: 10.1039/C9AY00068B

 

Methods for the detection of reactive oxygen species

Yinfeng Zhang, Menghong Dai and Zonghui Yuan

Anal. Methods, 2018,10, 4625-4638

DOI: 10.1039/C8AY01339J

 

Communications

Emerging patterns in the global distribution of dissolved organic matter fluorescence

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 888-893

DOI: 10.1039/C8AY02422G

 

Papers

A methodology for the fast identification and monitoring of microplastics in environmental samples using random decision forest classifiers

Benedikt Hufnagl, Dieter Steiner, Elisabeth Renner, Martin G. J. Lӧder, Christian Laforsch and Hans Lohninger

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 2277-2285

DOI: 10.1039/C9AY00252A

 

Analytical determination of heroin, fentanyl and fentalogues using high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array and amperometric detection

Hadil M. Elbardisy, Christopher W. Foster, Loanda Cumba, Lysbeth H. Antonides, Nicolas Gilbert, Christopher J. Schofield, Tarek S. Belal, Wael Talaat, Oliver B. Sutcliffe, Hoda G. Daabees and Craig E. Banks

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 1053-1063

DOI: 10.1039/C9AY00009G

 

Chemical analysis using 3D printed glass microfluidics

Eran Gal-Or, Yaniv Gershoni, Gianmario Scotti, Sofia M. E. Nilsson, Jukka Saarinen, Ville Jokinen, Clare J. Strachan, Gustav Boije af Gennäs, Jari Yli-Kauhaluoma and Tapio Kotiaho

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 1802-1810

DOI: 10.1039/C8AY01934G

 

Using castor oil to separate microplastics from four different environmental matrices

Thomas Mani, Stefan Frehland, Andreas Kalberer and Patricia Burkhardt-Holm

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 1788-1794

DOI: 10.1039/C8AY02559B

 

A switch-on fluorophore using water molecules via hydrogen bonding and its application for bio-imaging of formaldehyde in living cells

Yile Wang, Yifan Chen, Yan Huang, Qi Zhang, Yucang Zhang, Jianwei Li and Chunman Jia

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 2311-2319

DOI: 10.1039/C9AY00281B

 

Technical Briefs

The correlation between regression coefficients: combined significance testing for calibration and quantitation of bias

Analytical Methods Committee

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 1845-1848

DOI: 10.1039/C9AY90041A

 

Why do we need the uncertainty factor?

Analytical Methods Committee

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 2105-2107

DOI: 10.1039/C9AY90050K

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Emerging Investigators Series – Meng Liu

We are delighted to introduce our latest Analytical Methods Emerging Investigator, Meng Liu!

Meng Liu obtained a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2012. He was a postdoctoral fellow co-supervised by Dr. Yingfu Li and Dr. John Brennan at McMaster University between 2013 and 2017. He is now a Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Technology at the Dalian University of Technology. His research interests include functional DNAs and paper-based analytical devices.

Read Meng’s Emerging Investigator Series paper “Graphene oxide-circular aptamer based colorimetric protein detection on bioactive paper” and find out more about him in the interview below.

 

 

 

 

 

Your recent Emerging Investigator Series paper focuses on graphene oxide-circular aptamer based colorimetric protein detection on bioactive paper. How has your research evolved from your first article to this most recent article?

Previously, we report on the first effort to select circular aptamers for proteins (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 8013). However, a great challenge that remains is how to design a biosensing platform that are highly compatible with this circular aptamer and broadly applicable for wide ranging targets.

 

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment?

The circular aptamer can help us to improve the specificity of the sensor.

 

In your opinion, what are the key design considerations for developing a graphene oxide-circular aptamer based assay for colorimetric protein detection on bioactive paper?

The sequence of the circular aptamer should be carefully designed.

 

What do you find most challenging about your research?

How to turn data into knowledge and product.

 

How do you spend your spare time?

Reading and sporting.

 

Which profession would you choose if you were not a scientist?

Doctor.

 

Can you share one piece of career-related advice or wisdom with other early career scientists?

The question mark is the key to any science.

 

If you’d like to read other papers in the Emerging Investigators Series, please visit our website.

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Recent HOT articles in Analytical Methods

Take a look at our new hot articles just published in Analytical Methods. These papers are all free to read for the next few weeks. We hope you enjoy reading them!

Chemical analysis of the Tibetan herbal medicine Carduus acanthoides by UPLC/DAD/qTOF-MS and simultaneous determination of nine major compounds
Ru Li, Sui-ku Liu, Wei Song, Yuan Wang, Yan-jiao Li, Xue Qiao, Hong Liang and Min Ye  
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY01138D, Paper

In situ characterization by Raman and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy of post-Paleolithic blackish pictographs exposed to the open air in Los Chaparros shelter (Albalate del Arzobispo, Teruel, Spain)
Àfrica Pitarch, Juan Francisco Ruiz, Silvia Fdez-Ortiz de Vallejuelo, Antonio Hernanz, Maite Maguregui and Juan Manuel Madariaga  
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 6641-6650
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00539B, Paper

Detection of residual biocides in antibody drug conjugates for ImmunoPET imaging
Colin D. Medley, Jason Gruenhagen, Peter Yehl and Nik P. Chetwyn  
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 6635-6640
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY01418A, Paper

Electrophysiological analysis of biopsy samples using elasticity as an inherent cell marker for cancer detection
Azhar Ilyas, Waseem Asghar, Shahina Ahmed, Yair Lotan, Jer-Tsong Hsieh, Young-tae Kim and Samir M. Iqbal  
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00781F, Paper

Microchip nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis of saturated fatty acids using a new fluorescent dye
M. L. Cable, A. M. Stockton, M. F. Mora, K. P. Hand and P. A. Willis  
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY01243G, Communication

Mobile Water Kit (MWK): a smartphone compatible low-cost water monitoring system for rapid detection of total coliform and E. coli
Naga Siva Kumar Gunda, Selvaraj Naicker, Sujit Shinde, Sanjay Kimbahune, Sandhya Shrivastava and Sushanta Mitra  
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 6236-6246
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY01245C, Paper

Cotton fabric as an immobilization matrix for low-cost and quick colorimetric enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
Saeedeh Bagherbaigi, Emma P. Córcoles and Dedy H. B. Wicaksono  
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY01071J, Paper

A new screening method for recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains based on their xylose fermentation ability measured by near infrared spectroscopy
Hiroyuki Morita, Tomohisa Hasunuma, Maria Vassileva, Akihiko Kondo and Roumiana Tsenkova  
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 6628-6634
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00785A, Paper

A new screening method for recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains based on their xylose fermentation ability measured by near infrared spectroscopy
Hiroyuki Morita, Tomohisa Hasunuma, Maria Vassileva, Akihiko Kondo and Roumiana Tsenkova  
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 6628-6634
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00785A, Paper

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Analytical Methods Poster Prize: International Congress on Analytical Proteomics, Sao Paolo, Brazil

We are pleased to announce that the Metallomics Poster Prize from the recent International Congress on Analytical Proteomics held in Sao Paolo, Brazil has been awarded to Lílian Silveira Travassos do Carmo from Centro Universitário de Brasília-UniCEUB , Brazil .

I am a Biology Major from Centro Universitário de Brasília-UniCEUB (2003), Brazil and have a Masters degree in Biotechnology and Genomic Sciences from Universidade Católica de Brasília (2006), Brazil. I have been working in the areas of biotechnology and molecular biology. Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at Universidade de Brasília and Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, and the emphasis of my work is on Genetics and Proteomics of plant-virus interaction. I have experience in the following fields: gene expression, virus-host interaction, differential expression of proteins, 2-DE and mass spectrometry analyses.

Congratulations to Lílian for her winning poster!

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