The latest issue of Analyst is now available online!
In this issue, the front cover features work by Aaron Timperman and colleagues from West Virginia University, USA, who report the fabrication and performance of a microfluidic traveling-wave electrophoresis system, a promising new separation technique. It uses a locally defined traveling electric field wave within a microfluidic channel in order to achieve band transport and separation. The authors anticipate that this technique will open up many future lab-on-a-chip applications, processes and systems.
Fabrication and performance of a microfluidic traveling-wave electrophoresis system, Kyoo D. Jo, Jarrod E. Schiffbauer, Boyd E. Edwards, R. Lloyd Carroll and Aaron T. Timperman, Analyst, 2012, 137, 875-883
The inside front cover of this issue highlights work by Hui-Fen Wu and Kamlesh Shrivas from the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, who report the rapid and sensitive protein extraction by cobalt oxide nanoparticle-based liquid-liquid microextraction coupled with MALDI-MS. The show for the first time that the metal oxide nanoparticles prepared in the organic phase can be successfully applied to the extraction and preconcentration of proteins, and their approach offers distinct advantages including high sensitivity for washing and separation-free MALDI-MS analysis of proteins.
Rapid and highly sensitive protein extraction viacobalt oxide nanoparticle-based liquid–liquid microextraction coupled with MALDI mass spectrometry, Kamlesh Shrivas and Hui-Fen Wu, Analyst, 2012, 137, 890-895
These articles have been made free to access until the 8th March 2012, so why not take a look…
See also the list of Hot articles appearing in this issue which will be free to access for 2 weeks!
