Plenty of HOT articles to take a look at in the latest issue of Analyst. Amongst those highlighted below is a paper from Editorial Board member Professor Duncan Graham of Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK, co-authored by Professor Royston Goodacre of the University of Manchester, UK. They have developed a fast and cost-effective approach for the synthesis of substrates used in surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) using galvanic displacement.
Communication: Immobilization of trypsin on graphene oxide for microwave-assisted on-plate proteolysis combined with MALDI-MS analysis
Guobin Xu, Xiaoyi Chen, Jianhua Hu, Pengyuan Yang, Dong Yang and Liming Wei
Analyst, 2012, 137, 2757-2761
DOI: 10.1039/C2AN35093A
A fluorous synthetic receptor that recognizes perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) via fluorous interaction obtained by molecular imprinting
Megumi Takayose, Kenji Nishimoto and Jun Matsui
Analyst, 2012, 137, 2762-2765
DOI: 10.1039/C2AN15936H
Chemiluminescence from osmium(II) complexes with phenanthroline, diphosphine and diarsine ligands
Elizabeth M. Zammit, Gregory J. Barbante, Brenden Carlson, Egan H. Doeven, Neil W. Barnett, Conor F. Hogan, Mark M. Richter and Paul S. Francis
Analyst, 2012, 137, 2766-2769
DOI: 10.1039/C2AN35446B
The optimisation of facile substrates for surface enhanced Raman scattering through galvanic replacement of silver onto copper
Samuel Mabbott, Iain A. Larmour, Vladimir Vishnyakov, Yun Xu, Duncan Graham and Royston Goodacre
Analyst, 2012, 137, 2791-2798
DOI: 10.1039/C2AN35323G
Amplified fluorescence detection of mercury(II) ions (Hg2+) using target-induced DNAzyme cascade with catalytic and molecular beacons
Lin Qi, Yongxi Zhao, Hui Yuan, Kai Bai, Yue Zhao, Feng Chen, Yanhua Dong and Yayan Wu
Analyst, 2012, 137, 2799-2805
DOI: 10.1039/C2AN35437C
Colorimetric determination of hypochlorite with unmodified gold nanoparticles through the oxidation of a stabilizer thiol compound
Jia Zhang, Xiaolei Wang and Xiurong Yang
Analyst, 2012, 137, 2806-2812
DOI: 10.1039/C2AN35239G
Microelectrodes with gold nanoparticles and self-assembled monolayers for in vivo recording of striatal dopamine
Tien-Chun Tsai, Chun-Xian Guo, Huan-Zhang Han, Yu-Ting Li, Ying-Zu Huang, Chang-Ming Li and Jia-Jin Jason Chen
Analyst, 2012, 137, 2813-2820
DOI: 10.1039/C2AN16306C