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Analyst welcomes Associate Editor Hideaki Hisamoto to the Editorial Board.

This year, Analyst was excited to welcome its newest Associate Editor to the Editorial Board.

Hideaki Hisamoto is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan. He studied at Keio University and received his PhD in 1996 on the development of novel optical chemical sensors based on ionophores and functional dyes.

He worked as an assistant professor at Keio University in 1996 before moving to The University of Tokyo as a lecturer in 1999, where he started working on the development of microanalytical and synthesis systems based on glass microfluidic devices. In 2003, he moved to the University of Hyogo (Formerly “Himeji Institute of Technology”) as an associate professor. He adopted capillary electrophoresis technique into his research and at the same time started to develop a square capillary array device aimed at simultaneous sensing of various analytes. In 2007 He moved to Osaka Prefecture University as an associate professor, then promoted to full professor in 2010. In 2022, Osaka Prefecture University was merged with Osaka City University to become Osaka Metropolitan University.

Professor Hisamoto’s research interests include optical chemical sensing, micro total analysis systems, functional dyes, molecular recognition molecules, microreactors, capillary electrophoresis, and capillary array-based analytical devices. He received the Young Investigator Award from Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry in 2004, CHEMINAS Young Investigator Award from Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems (CHEMINAS) in 2008, Yagami Award from Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University in 2019, and The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award from Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry in 2022.

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We are pleased to welcome Dr Claudia Conti (National Research Council, Italy) to the Analyst Advisory Board.

Claudia Conti is a senior researcher at the Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC) of the National Research Council (Italy). She completed her MSc degree in Geological Science at the University of Perugia (Italy) in 2002. In 2010, she completed her PhD in Materials Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), on the topic of “Calcium oxalate: chemical stability, conservation treatment based on ammonium oxalate, historical films”.

Dr Conti’s work is characterised by a highly multidisciplinary approach, which covers the areas of physical and chemical sciences applied to the conservation of Cultural Heritage. Her main research interests include Raman spectroscopy, notably the development of a new Raman method (micro-SORS) for the non-invasive subsurface investigation of Cultural Heritage materials. This work led Dr Conti to win the 2020 Craver Award presented by the Coblentz Society, which highlights the efforts of young spectroscopists that have made significant contributions in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy.

Dr Conti’s other research interests include inorganic mineral products for conservation and the use of non-invasive instruments and methods for conservation science. She has over 75 peer-reviewed publications.

We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Susan Lunte to the Analyst Editorial Board!

Susan Lunte is the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Director of the Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry and Director of the NIH COBRE Centre for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways at the University of Kansas. Professor Lunte’s research interests lie in the development of new methodologies for separation and detection of peptides, amino acids, neurotransmitters and pharmaceuticals in biological fluids. This includes separation-based sensors for the continuous monitoring of drugs and neurotransmitters in freely roaming animals and new methodologies for the determination of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in cells. Of Analyst, Sue says “Analyst has been publishing papers on analytical chemistry and new technologies for over 140 years. Every new paper published in the journal continues the legacy that started in 1876. I am excited to be part of this tradition as an Editorial Board member.”

We welcome Professor Susan Lunte and her expertise to the Analyst Editorial Board.

Sue has chosen to highlight some excellent articles recently published in Analyst, and included some of her thoughts on them. We hope you enjoy reading these articles – we’ve made them free to access for a limited time with an RSC publishing account.

Critical review

Microfluidic methods for aptamer selection and characterization

Sean K. Dembowski and Michael T. Bowser

“Detailed review of recent progress using microfluidics for aptamer selection”

Paper

Detection of sepsis in patient blood samples using CD64 expression in a microfluidic cell separation device

Ye Zhang, Dimitri Pappas, et al.

“Sepsis is an important medical problem with no good methods of early detection. The paper by Dimitri Pappas describes an interesting possible clinical assay using on chip capture of CD64+ cells that is evaluated using clinical samples.”

Paper

Trapping of Au nanoparticles in a microfluidic device using dielectrophoresis for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Gabriela B. Almeida, Ronei J. Poppi and José A. Fracassi da Silva

“Elegant demonstration of using insulating dielectrophoresis for enhancing detection of analytes using SERS”

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We are delighted to welcome our new Associate Editors Professor Junjie Zhu and Professor Baohong Liu to the Analyst Editorial Board!

Professor Zhu is a professor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University. He is looking forward to receiving your submissions on electroanalytical chemistry, in vivo analysis, analytical nanoscience and bioanalytical sensors.

Professor Liu is a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biomedical Sciences at Fudan University. She is looking forward to receiving your submissions on analytical nanoscience, bioanalytical sensors, electroanalytical chemistry, microfluidics and miniaturized devices, mass spectrometry and surface chemistry.

“Both are very happy to join the editorial team of Analyst, they are looking forward to read your excellent work in the journal.”

Please join us in welcoming Professor Zhu and Professor Liu and do submit your best work to their editorial office.

Submit your article today!

Professor Liu and Professor Zhu have highlighted these exceptional articles recently published in Analyst. We hope you enjoy reading all these articles listed here!

Minireviews
Single plasmonic nanoparticles as ultrasensitive sensors
Tao Xie, Chao Jing and Yi-Tao Long

Gas-generating reactions for point-of-care testing
Liu Yang, Chaoyong Yang et al.

Critical Reviews
Recent advances in microRNA detection
Yongqiang Cheng, Zhengping Li et al.

DNA tetrahedron nanostructures for biological applications: biosensors and drug delivery
Jin Huang, Kemin Wang et al.

Graphene-based aptasensors: from molecule-interface interactions to sensor design and biomedical diagnostics
Li Wang, Aiguo Wu and Gang Wei

Paper
A two-photon fluorescent probe for nitroreductase imaging in living  cells, tissues and zebrafish under hypoxia conditions
Baoping Zhai, Zhihong Liu et al.

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We are delighted to announce the appointment of Nicole Pamme as Associate Editor to the Analyst Editorial Board.

Nicole Pamme is a Professor in Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Hull. Her research activities focus on lab-on-a-chip devices for pharmaceutical, clinical and environmental analysis, biomedical research with tissue-on-a-chip devices as well as process integration and material synthesis in collaboration with Chemistry, Engineering and Biomedical Sciences. She has authored >100 peer reviewed publications, patents and book chapters in this area. Nicole studied Chemisty at University of Marburg (Germany), graduating with the title of Diplom-Chemiker, with a thesis on analytical chemistry for explosives residues in water and soil. For her PhD studies, she moved to Imperial College London (UK) where she worked under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Manz in ‘Single Particle Analysis in Microfluidic Chips’. This was followed by a 2 year stay as Independent Research Fellow in the International Centre of Young Scientists (ICYS) at the National Institute for Materials (NIMS) Sciences in Tsukuba (Japan). In December 2005, she was appointed as Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Hull in the UK and has been promoted to Senior Lecturer (2011) and Reader (2013) and finally full professor in 2014. Nicole chaired the microTAS 2016 conference in Dublin (Ireland) and serves on the Board of Directors of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS), currently as Vice President. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

We welcome Professor Nicole Pamme and her expertise to the Analyst Editorial Board as an Associate Editor.

Submit your article to Professor Nicole Pamme today!

Nicole has highlighted these exceptional articles recently published in Analyst, including her thoughts on the impact they are having on the community. We hope you enjoy reading all these articles listed here! 

Ambient-air ozonolysis of triglycerides in aged fingerprint residues
Stephanie Pleik, Dieter Kirsch et al.

“Dual purpose fibre – SERS pH sensing and bacterial analysis: Paper microfluidics for in vivo analysis and sample taking – a research team from Edinburgh used wax patterning of filter paper to control nanoparticle deposition required for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. The small filter patches are attached to an optical fibre, that is ‘bronchoscope-deployable’, and can carry out not only in vivo sensing, but also capture a sample at a desire location for downstream bacterial analysis.”

Electrochemical Hg²⁺ detection at tannic acid-gold nanoparticle modified electrodes by square wave voltammetry
Alex L. Suherman, Richard G. Compton et al.

“Environmental analysis of heavy metal pollution at fM levels – The Compton Group in Oxford have developed an electrochemical method that allows sensitive and specific analysis of mercury pollution in drinking water, at levels well below the WHO limits.” 

SABRE hyperpolarization enables high-sensitivity ¹H and ¹³C benchtop NMR spectroscopy
Peter M. Richardson, Simon B. Duckett, Meghan E. Halse et al.

“Benchtop NMR with high sensitivity – A team from the Universities of York and Strathclyde demonstrated how para-hydrogen (p-H2) based signal amplification by reversible exchange (SABRE) can be used to enhance the sensitivity of benchtop NMR measurements by factors of tens of thousands, enabling 2D NMR measurements.”

Tandem fluorescence and Raman (fluoRaman) characterisation of a novel photosensitiser in colorectal cancer cell line SW480
Julia Gala de Pablo, Andrew Whiting, Stephen D. Evans et al.

“Cell imaging with multi-purpose markers – A team from the University of Leeds has synthesised a photosensitizer that is fluorescent and exhibits a strong Raman signal. This allows for imaging of cancer cells with two spectroscopic techniques and may also enable external stimulation via light to alter cell activity.”

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We are delighted to announce the appointment of Laura Lechuga as Associate Editor to the Analyst Editorial Board. Laura will start as an Analyst Associate Editor on the 1st July 2018.

Laura Lechuga is the CSIC Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain. She is the leader of the ICN2 Nanobiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group, which focusses on the technological development of nanophotonic biosensors, their integration into portable lab-on-a-chip platforms and their application in clinical and environmental diagnostics.

Professor Lechuga gained her PhD in chemistry in 1992 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Between 2012 and 2015 she was an adjunct professor at the University of Norway within their department of Physics and Technology at the Artic. She has also been a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Sciences of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) since 2013.

We welcome Professor Lechuga and her expertise to the Analyst Editorial Board as an Associate Editor. Submit your articles to Professor Lechuga from the 1st of July 2018!

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We are delighted to announce the appointment of Jaebum Choo as Associate Editor to the Analyst Editorial Board.

Jaebum Choo is a Professor in the Department of Bionano Technology at Hanyang University. He obtained his PhD in Molecular Spectroscopy at Texas A&M University in 1994 and then, in 1995,  joined as a faculty member of Hanyang University. Jaebum has been the Director of “Center for Integrated Human Sensing System” (ERC supported by National Research Foundation of Korea, 2009-2013)and a President of Korean Biochip Society in 2015.

He is currently a BK21+ Director of Bionano Fusion Technology Program supported by National Research Foundation of Korea. His main research areas are SERS, biosensors, micro-devices and molecular spectroscopy. His current research programs are centered on the development of highly sensitive optical nano-sensor systems for rapid and sensitive in vitro diagnostics. He has given more than 130 invited lectures in the USA, Europe and Asia, and has published over 240 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and 5 book chapters. Professor Choo was appointed as a Baik Nam Distinguished Professor in 2015 due to his excellent academic achievements.

We welcome Professor Jaebum Choo and his expertise to the Analyst Editorial Board as an Associate Editor. Submit your article to Professor Jaebum Choo today!

Read some of Professor Choo’s latest research published in Analyst:

Analysis of ribonuclease activity in sub-nanoliter droplets by label-free fluorescence measurements

Choi, J.-W., Vasamsetti, B.M.K., Kim, K.-W., Seo, S.H., Lee, D.-H., Chang, S.-I., Choo, J., Kim, H.Y.

Raman spectrum identification based on the correlation score using the weighted segmental hit quality index

Park, J.-K., Park, A., Yang, S.K., Baek, S.-J., Hwang, J., Choo, J.

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We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Damien Arrigan as Associate Editor to the Analyst Editorial Board.

Damien Arrigan is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He studied as an undergraduate at Dublin City University and, after a two-year career in industrial biotechnology, undertook his PhD (1992) at the National University of Ireland, Cork, on electroanalysis with chemically modified electrodes.

Following postdoctoral positions at the National Microelectronics Research Centre (Cork) and the University of Southampton, he was a lecturer in analytical chemistry at University of Salford. In 2001 he relocated to Tyndall National Institute, Cork, where he started to combine miniaturisation tools with electrochemistry for detection purposes and in 2009 he moved to Curtin University.

Damien’s research interests encompass analytical chemistry and its boundaries with electrochemistry, especially the development of new sensing and detection methods and devices. Recent emphasis has been on exploration of the analytical opportunities afforded by electrochemistry at liquid-liquid (oil-water) interfaces, especially by miniaturisation of these interfaces for chemical and biochemical sensing. Current interests include nanopores and nanoscale electrochemistry, behaviour and detection of biological macromolecules and disease biomarkers, and the development of sensors to enhance water re-use technologies. You can find out more about Damien’s research on his homepage.

We welcome Professor Damien Arrigan and his expertise to the Analyst Editorial Board as an Associate Editor. Submit your article to Professor Damien Arrigan today!

Read some of Professor Arrigan’s latest research published in Analyst:

Electrochemical behaviour at a liquid-organogel microinterface array of fucoidan extracted from algae

Felisilda, B.M.B, Alvarez De Eulate, E., Stringer, D.N., Fitton, J.H. and Arrigan, D.W.M.

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