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JAAS themed issue for 2011 European Winter Conference

European Winter Conference 2011JAAS will be publishing a themed issue from the upcoming European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, and if you are presenting your work at the conference, we would like to invite you to submit an article for the issue.

Articles can be submitted through the journal website, and the submission deadline for this issue is 25th February.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me in the Editorial office.  We will also have an Exhbition stand at the Conference (Stand number 30), so please do drop by if you’d like discuss any aspect of publishing in JAAS.

Also, take a look at the great articles published in the themed issue from the 2010 Winter Conference, now available online.

I look forward to seeing you all in Zaragoza!

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Photos of the JAAS 25th Anniversary Symposium now online!

A symposium to celebrate 25 successful years of JAAS was held on 23rd November 2010 at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Over 130 participants took part in the event.

Photographs of the speakers and attendees from throughout the day are online now, and watch out for video of the Symposium coming soon!

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JAAS 25th Anniversary Editorials

Read the Editorials from 2010, celebrating 25 years of JAAS!

JAAS—25 years of success!
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 11-13, DOI: 10.1039/B924768H
Detlef Günther, Niamh O’Connor and May Copsey celebrate 25 years of JAAS and what’s coming for JAAS and RSC Publishing in 2010. Steven J. Ray introduces the JAASNews webpage.
 
The introduction of JAAS and the emergence of ICP-mass spectrometry 
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 101-102, DOI: 10.1039/B923534P
JAAS Editorial Board member, Frank Vanhaecke goes back to the beginning of JAAS and ICP-MS.
 
Young Analytical Scientists issue 
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 231-232, DOI: 10.1039/C002741N
JAAS Advisory Board member, Spiros Pergantis introduces the 3rd YAS themed issue.
 
Analytical atomic spectrometry: an active research area in China 
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 447-452, DOI: 10.1039/B927292P
JAAS Advisory Board member, Xiandeng Hou presents a general picture of the status of analytical atomic spectrometry in China.
 
Atomic spectrometry: 2010
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 611-612, DOI: 10.1039/C005046F
Gary Hieftje considers the current state of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, how recent economic problems have impacted the field and looks forward to the future, highlighting recent accomplishments.
 
JAAS 25th Anniversary—Highlighting the past, present and future of atomic spectroscopy 
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 759-759, DOI: 10.1039/C005323F
May Copsey and Detlef Günther take a look at the celebrations for the 25th anniversary year of JAAS, and some of the events planned for the remainder of 2010.
 
8th International Sector Field ICP-MS Conference 
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 921-922, DOI: 10.1039/C005419B
JAAS Advisory Board member, Ashley Townsend provides a personal view on the evolution of Sector-Field ICP-MS instrumentation, an overview of the recent 8th International Sector-Field ICP-MS Conference in Ghent, and asks what the future holds for SF-ICP-MS.
 
Fort Myers, Florida, January 4–9, 2010
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1183-1184, DOI: 10.1039/C005377P
JAAS Advisory Board member, Ramon Barnes considers why the 2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry was considered one of the best so far.
 
Analytical atomic spectrometry in Japan over the last 25 years
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1371-1377, DOI: 10.1039/C005496H
Hiroki Haraguchi and JAAS Editorial Board member, Naoki Furuta look back on the history of analytical atomic spectrometry in Japan over the last 25 years and consider the future prospects.
 
JAAS Editorial Board member, Steve Hill highlights the history of the Atomic Spectrometry Updates
 
25 Years of JAAS and Speciation 
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1673-1673, DOI: 10.1039/C005517B
JAAS Editorial Board member, Joanna Szpunar reflects on the life of JAAS so far, and how it has played a role in the development of speciation analysis.
 
Thirty years ago this month…
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1801-1802, DOI: 10.1039/C0JA00186D
Sam Houk commemorates the appearance of the first ICP-MS paper, which was published in December 1980, approximately 30 years ago.
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JAAS to publish themed issue from APWC 2010

The 4th Asia Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Chengdu, China

The 4th Asia-Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry started yesterday with an excellent program of speakers.

This featured a plenary presentation from JAAS Editorial Board member Gary Hiefjte, on novel mass spectrometers for plasma spectrochemistry.

JAAS are delighted to annouce that the journal will be publishing a themed issue from the conference, and warmly invite all delegates to submit their work as either a Paper or Technical Note.

The submission deadline is 5th January 2011, and articles can be uploaded for submission via the link on the journal homepage. All authors should indicate that their article is to be considered for the APWC 2010 themed issue.

Please contact us if you have any questions on the preparation or submission of your article.

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JAAS latest Hot Articles

Read the latest Hot Articles in JAAS!

Kay Niemax and colleagues from the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin and the University of Dortmund show that end-on ICP-OES can be used to examine the relative mass distribution in a sample of SiO2 particles.

Measurement of element mass distributions in particle ensembles applying ICP-OES
Ayrat Murtazin, Sebastian Groh and Kay Niemax
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1395-1401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C004946H

Jiubin Chen and colleagues from Trent University, Canada describe a new method which allows the measurement of Hg isotope composition in freshwater samples.

Chromatographic pre-concentration of Hg from dilute aqueous solutions for isotopic measurement by MC-ICP-MS 
Jiubin Chen, Holger Hintelmann and Brian Dimock
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1402-1409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0JA00014K

These articles will be free to access for 4 weeks.

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25 years of atomic spectrometry in Japan

Continuing the 25th anniversary celebrations for JAAS, Hiroki Haraguchi and JAAS Editorial Board member, Naoki Furuta provide a detailed account of how the field analytical atomic spectrometry has developed in Japan over the last 25 years. This includes key contributors and landmark events and they also consider the prospects for area in the future.

Read this Editorial in the latest issue of JAAS:

Analytical atomic spectrometry in Japan over the last 25 years
Hiroki Haraguchi and Naoki Furuta
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1371-1377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C005496H

Naoki Furuta

Hiroki Haraguchi
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2012 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry

Save the date!

2012 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry
Tucson, Arizona, January 9 – 14, 2012

The 2012 Winter Conference will again be held at the Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Resort in Tucson, Arizona, January 9-14. The planning for the 2012 Winter Conference is now underway and further details can be downloaded here.

Read the recently published JAAS themed issue from the 2010 Winter Conference, which was held in Fort Myers, Florida in January.

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Celebrating the 10th birthday of the European Laser Ablation Workshop

Jorge Pisonero, University of Oviedo, JAAS Advisory Board Member

The 10th European Workshop on Laser Ablation in Elemental and Isotopic Analysis was held in the popular city of Kiel, one of the main maritime centres of Germany and well-known for the annual Kiel Week, which is the biggest sailing event in the world. The local organizers of the workshop, headed by Jan Fietzke, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg and Thor Hansteen, did a wonderful job attracting more than 100 enthusiastic participants from 15 countries, in this way demonstrating the growing interest on the laser ablation analytical techniques.

The increasing number of papers reporting on laser ablation applications, in both elemental and isotopic chemistry, indicates that laser ablation has become a mature analytical tool that is widely used in many disciplines. In this sense, the bi-annual European Workshop is an adequate platform for a truly multidisciplinary arrangement. In the words of this year local organizers: “This workshop mirrors the present state-of-the-art in laser ablation and intends to bring together experienced and new users, theorists and practitioners, scientific users and manufacturers”. In fact, they managed it perfectly, and even the conference dinner (a wonderful cruise) kept the participants together for an intense exchange! 

The Workshop was divided into 8 different sessions, including: fundamentals of particle formation and transport; calibration, standardization, reference materials; femtosecond laser ablation; instrumentation; applications in geochemistry; imaging, applications in life science; forensics, materials science, and nuclear research;  and applications in biogeochemistry. Additionally, several invited lectures given on individual topics and lively discussions with the authors during poster sessions, contributed to the success of the workshop. The outstanding session chairmen, including: R. Hergenröder, B. Hattendorf, D. Günther, W. Müller, F. Vanhaecke, N. Jakubowski , D. Garbe-Schönberg and J. Fietzke, successfully organized exciting and thrilling debates at the end of the sessions, in the panel discussions. Moreover, the exhibition of instruments attracted all of the conference attendees, and new instrumentation as well as improvements in existing systems were presented.

Attendees to the 10th European Workshop on Laser Ablation, Kiel, Germany

Finally, I would like to point out that the next European Workshop on Laser Ablation (EWLA11) will be organized by the Research Groups of Laser and Plasma Spectroscopy and Analytical Spectrometry from the University of Oviedo, Spain. It will take place in June 2012 in Gijón, a lovely city on the north coast of Spain (by the Cantabric sea), which combines beautiful beaches, excellent gastronomy, and green mountains. We will try to organize an interesting, exciting and interactive workshop and we are looking forward to meeting you there!

Read recent articles in JAAS by Jorge Pisonero on the topic of laser ablation ICP-MS:

Numerical simulation analysis of flow patterns and particle transport in the HEAD laser ablation cell with respect to inductively coupled plasma spectrometry
Helmut Lindner, David Autrique, Jorge Pisonero, Detlef Günther and Annemie Bogaerts
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 295-304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/B920905K

Critical review of GD-MS, LA-ICP-MS and SIMS as inorganic mass spectrometric techniques for direct solid analysis
Jorge Pisonero, Beatriz Fernández and Detlef Günther
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2009, 24, 1145-1160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/B904698D

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2010 Winter Conference themed issue published in JAAS

The themed issue from the 2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry is now available online. The articles in the issue are from the conference, which was held earlier this year in Fort Myers, Florida, USA, on January 3-9.

Highlights from the issue include:

Read the other articles in the issue, and for the latest content published in JAAS, visit the website.

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JAAS Presentation Prize at Laser Ablation Workshop

Congratulations to Christoph Kurta from Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria, who was awarded the JAAS Presentation Prize at the recent 2010 European Workshop on Laser Ablation held at in Kiel, Germany from 29 June – 1 July, 2010. Well done Christoph!

Keep up to date with the latest research on laser ablation published in JAAS, www.rsc.org/jaas

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