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Call for papers: themed collection dedicated to food authenticity and integrity

Cover image for Analytical Methods issue 2You are invited to contribute to the joint Analyst and Analytical Methods themed collection showcasing the latest discoveries and developments in food authenticity and integrity; including the analysis and detection of food fraud, contamination, adulteration and spoilage.

For your article to be considered for the themed collection we must receive your manuscript by 13 July 2015.

Guest Edited by Professor Roy Goodacre and Dr David Ellis at The University of Manchester, this upcoming collection will showcase the latest developments on food analysis by leading researchers from academia, industry and government departments.

As you are no doubt aware the recent horsemeat scandal throughout Europe rocked the food industry and this precipitated the recent Elliott review. History across the globe reminds that our food is under constant threat from adulteration and previous examples include: melamine in milk, dioxins in pork, and microbial pathogens. Adulteration, contamination and spoilage of food has therefore always been an international problem and there is a constant requirement for analytical methods to be developed in order to assess the food we, our companion animals and veterinary animals consume.

Submissions are welcome to both Analyst and Analytical Methods for the themed collection which will include research and reviews across the fundamental and applied analytical sciences.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you are interested in submitting a Communication, full paper or review article for the collection, or if you would like more information about the journals or themed collection

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Congratulations to the Analytical Methods poster prize winner at Electrochem 2014

Congratulations to Hope Adamson who was recently awarded an Analytical Methods poster prize at the Electrochem2014conference which took place at Loughborough University, UK from 7th9th September. Hope Adamsons poster was entitled Fourier Transformed AC Voltammetry New insights into bioinorganic catalysts and she was awarded the prize by Professor Roger Mortimer, one of the organising committee members.

The Electrochemconference series is an established annual UK & Ireland event, where a cross-disciplinary range of electrochemistry, fundamental and applied, is on show with a particular view on broadening exchange of knowledge, providing information about the latest research developments, linking academia to industry and suppliers, and engaging with the next generation of electrochemists and electrochemical entrepreneurs.

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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. Enjoy the reading!

Determination of boron in silicon without use of additional complexing agents
Matthias Balski, Franziska Emmerling, Heinrich Kipphardt and Ulrich Panne 
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00410H, Paper

Rapid and quantitative analysis of pesticides in fruits by QuEChERS pretreatment and low-temperature plasma desorption/ionization orbitrap mass spectrometry
Anastasia Albert, Andrea Kramer, Simon Scheeren and Carsten Engelhard 
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00103F, Paper

Time-gated fluorescence sensor for silver ions using Mn:CdS/ZnS quantum dots/DNA/gold nanoparticle complexes
Xiaoyan Leng, Dawei Huang, Chenggang Niu, Xiaoyu Wang, Guangming Zeng and Qiuya Niu 
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY42129E, Paper

Rapid measurement of total polyphenols content in cocoa beans by data fusion of NIR spectroscopy and electronic tongue
Xingyi Huang, Ernest Teye, Livingstone K. Sam-Amoah, Fangkai Han, Liya Yao and William Tchabo 
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00223G, Paper

Protein/peptide purification by three-well OFFGEL electrophoresis with immobilized ultra narrow pH gradient gels
Elena Tobolkina, Fernando Cortés-Salazar, Liang Qiao and Hubert H. Girault 
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00088A, Paper

A formaldehyde trace gas sensor based on a thermoelectrically cooled CW-DFB quantum cascade laser
Jingsong Li, Uwe Parchatka and Horst Fischer 
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41964A, Paper

New insights on blue pigments used in 15th century paintings by synchrotron radiation-based micro-FTIR and XRD
Nati Salvadó, Salvador Butí, Miguel A. G. Aranda and Trinitat Pradell 
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 3610-3621
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00424H, Paper

Real-time detection of chemical warfare agent simulants in forensic samples using active capillary plasma ionization with benchtop and field-deployable mass spectrometers
Morphy Dumlao, Pablo Martinez-Lozano Sinues, Maryia Nudnova and Renato Zenobi 
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 3604-3609
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00303A, Paper

Determination of iodinated X-ray contrast agents in pharmaceutical formulations and artificial urine samples by differential pulse voltammetry
Piotr Markowski, Katarzyna Piwowar and Irena Baranowska 
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00538D, Paper

Amplified fluorescence sensing of miRNA by combination of graphene oxide with duplex-specific nuclease
Shuang Guo, Fan Yang, Yulin Zhang, Yong Ning, Qunfeng Yao and Guo-Jun Zhang 
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 3598-3603
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00345D, Paper

Which spectroscopic technique allows the best differentiation of coffee varieties: comparing principal component analysis using data derived from CD-, NMR- and IR-spectroscopies and LC-MS in the analysis of the chlorogenic acid fraction in green coffee beans
Sagar Deshpande, Rasha M. El-Abassy, Rakesh Jaiswal, Pinkie Eravuchira, Bernd von der Kammer, Arnulf Materny and Nikolai Kuhnert 
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 3268-3276
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41970C, Paper

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Congratulations Milton Lee!

A photograph of Professor Milton LeeEditorial Board Member Milton Lee was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by LC-GC Europe, in recognition of his ’outstanding achievements in hyphenated chromatographic techniques and for distinguished service to the international chromatographic community’.

See some of his contributions to Analytical Methods below.

Size separation of biomolecules and bioparticles using micro/nanofabricated structures
Jie Xuan and Milton L. Lee
Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 27-37
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41364K, Critical Review

Equilibrium distribution sampling device for preparation of calibration mixtures for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Xiaofeng Xie, Tai V. Truong, Jacolin A. Murray, Jesse A. Contreras, H. Dennis Tolley and Milton L. Lee
Anal. Methods, 2013,5, 6312-6318
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41393D, Paper

One-step conversion of dipicolinic acid to its dimethyl ester using monomethyl sulfate salts for GC-MS detection of bacterial endospores
Aaron N. Nackos, Tai V. Truong, Trenton C. Pulsipher, Jon A. Kimball, H. Dennis Tolley, Richard A. Robison, Calvin H. Bartholomew and Milton L. Lee
Anal. Methods, 2011,3, 245-258
DOI: 10.1039/C0AY00270D, Paper

Differentiation of Bacillus endospore species from fatty acid methyl ester biomarkers
Tai V. Truong, Aaron N. Nackos, John R. Williams, Douglas N. VanDerwerken, Jon A. Kimball, Jacolin A. Murray, Jason E. Hawkes, Donald J. Harvey, H. Dennis Tolley, Richard A. Robison, Calvin H. Bartholomew and Milton L. Lee
Anal. Methods, 2010,2, 638-644
DOI: 10.1039/B9AY00198K, Paper

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