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Open Access papers in Analytical Methods

21 Apr 2016

We are very pleased to share with you below some of the latest Open Access papers published in Analytical Methods that may be of interest to you. These research papers are free to access for all – we hope you enjoy reading them.

Application of dynamic headspace and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (DHS-GC-MS) for the determination of oxygenated volatile organic compounds in refinery effluents

Grzegorz Boczkaj, Patrycja Makoś and Andrzej Przyjazny

Anal. Methods, 2016, Advance Article

DOI: 10.1039/C5AY03043A, Paper

Method development and validation for the determination of selected endocrine disrupting compounds by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry and isotope pattern deconvolution in water samples. Comparison of two extraction techniques

Neus Fabregat-Cabello, Jorge Pitarch-Motellón, Juan V. Sancho, María Ibáñez and Antoni Francesc Roig-Navarro

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 2895-2903

DOI: 10.1039/C6AY00221H, Paper

The potential for complementary targeted/non-targeted screening of novel psychoactive substances in equine urine using liquid chromatography-high resolution accurate mass spectrometry

Adam Cawley, Daniel Pasin, Namuun Ganbat, Laura Ennis, Corrine Smart, Candace Greer, John Keledjian, Shanlin Fu and Alex Chen

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 1789-1797

DOI: 10.1039/C6AY00156D, Paper

Aluminium foil as a potential substrate for ATR-FTIR, transflection FTIR or Raman spectrochemical analysis of biological specimens

Li Cui, Holly J. Butler, Pierre L. Martin-Hirsch and Francis L. Martin

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 481-487

DOI: 10.1039/C5AY02638E, Communication

Simultaneous quantification of ion pairs in water via infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy

F. Rauh and B. Mizaikoff

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 2164-2169

DOI: 10.1039/C5AY02874D, Paper

Optimization of the procedure for efficient dispersion of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in aqueous samples

Janja Vidmar, Radmila Milačič, Viviana Golja, Saša Novak and Janez Ščančar

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 1194-1201

DOI: 10.1039/C5AY03305E, Technical Note

Digital droplet LAMP as a microfluidic app on standard laboratory devices

Friedrich Schuler, Clara Siber, Sebastian Hin, Simon Wadle, Nils Paust, Roland Zengerle and Felix von Stetten

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 2750-2755

DOI: 10.1039/C6AY00600K, Paper

A disposable chemical heater and dry enzyme preparation for lysis and extraction of DNA and RNA from microorganisms

J. R. Buser, X. Zhang, S. A. Byrnes, P. D. Ladd, E. K. Heiniger, M. D. Wheeler, J. D. Bishop, J. A. Englund, B. Lutz, B. H. Weigl and P. Yager

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 2880-2886

DOI: 10.1039/C6AY00107F, Paper

Validating heteronuclear 2D quantitative NMR

Fahmina Fardus-Reid, John Warren and Adam Le Gresley

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 2013-2019

DOI: 10.1039/C6AY00111D, Paper

Metrics for green analytical chemistry

Marek Tobiszewski

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 2993-2999

DOI: 10.1039/C6AY00478D, Critical Review

Simplifying microfluidic separation devices towards field-detection of blood parasites

S. H. Holm, J. P. Beech, M. P. Barrett and J. O. Tegenfeldt

Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 3291-3300

DOI: 10.1039/C6AY00443A, Paper

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Racing tyre analysis shows ‘undetectable’ treatments the chequered flag

30 Nov 2015

Researchers in the US have punctured the appeal of prohibited tyre softening agents, marketed to racing teams as ‘undetectable’, by releasing a method for identifying them. The technique has already detected banned substances in 10 of 71 real tyre samples from competitors in United States Auto Club (USAC) races.

Softened tyres offer drivers improved grip and handling, shaving valuable seconds from lap times. However, racing associations have long recognised the dangers of hydrocarbon- and plasticiser-based softening agents. These chemicals act by penetrating and degrading the rubber in tyres, which can create unpredictable weak spots, and many are potent carcinogens that are easily inhaled or absorbed through the skin.

Read the full article in Chemistry World >>>

Detection of prohibited treatment products on racing tires using headspace solid phase microextraction (SPME) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS)
William Kranz, Clinton Carroll and John Vincent Goodpaster
Anal. Methods, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5AY02657A, Paper

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5th Workshop on Microfluidics

02 Sep 2015

The 5th Workshop on Microfluidics was held on the National Center for Research on Energy and Materials (CNPEM) in Campinas, Sao Paulo (Brazil), from July 23-24, 2015. Since 2011, the workshop has brought together young students, researchers, and companies from different states of Brazil to discuss topics related to fundamentals, fabrication technologies, innovations, and applications in microfluidic science. This field has been spread out around different regions of Brazil presenting outstanding contributions for microfabrication and microfluidic technologies.

The event was supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for the third time. Representing the scientific board of the V Workshop on Microfluidics, Prof. Charles Henry from Colorado State University, USA, presented the awards to the three best works which were awarded by the RSC .

Analyst Award was awarded to Eduardo L. Rossini, from Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara (Brazil), for the work “Simultaneous determination of uric acid and creatinine using μPAD”. Furthermore, Roger Cardoso Moreira, from Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia (Brazil), received the Analytical Methods Award for the work “Adaptation of a commercial electrophoresis system for quaternary amines separation in microchips”. Lastly, the Lab on a Chip Award was given to Houari Cobas Gomez, from Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas, Sao Paulo (Brazil), for the work “3D focalization LTCC microfluidic device for nanoparticle synthesis by nanoprecipitation”.

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to thank the support received from the RSC.

Sincerely yours,

Angelo Luiz Gobbi

Microfabrication Laboratory – LNNano

Opening of the V Workshop on Microfluidics, Prof. Carlos Alberto Pacheco (general director of CNPEM) and Prof. Osvaldo de Oliveira (IFSC-USP) on microphone.

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Analyst Award was granted to Eduardo L. Rossini, from Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara (Brazil), for the work “Simultaneous determination of uric acid and creatinine using μPAD”. Others are: Prof. Charles Henry (Colorado State), Prof. Alberto Fracassi (UNICAMP) and Angelo Gobbi

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Roger Cardoso Moreira, from Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia (Brazil), received the Analytical Methods Award for the work “Adaptation of a commercial electrophoresis system for quaternary amines separation in microchips”. Others: Prof. Charles Henry (Colorado State), Prof. Alberto Fracassi (UNICAMP) and Angelo Gobbi (LMF/LNNano)

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Lab on a Chip Award was given to Houari Cobas Gomez, from Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas, Sao Paulo (Brazil), for the work “3D focalization LTCC microfluidic device for nanoparticle synthesis by nanoprecipitation”. Others: Prof. Charles Henry (Colorado State), Prof. Alberto Fracassi (UNICAMP) and Angelo Gobbi (LMF/LNNano)

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Royal Society of Chemistry NMR Discussion Group – 8th Annual Postgraduate Meeting, University of Manchester

18 Aug 2015

The annual NMR Discussion Group Postgraduate Meeting is now an established event and the 8th meeting was hosted by the School of Chemistry, University of Manchester. As always, the meeting provided an ideal forum for early career research workers to present their work in an informal environment, either orally or as a poster. Established researchers, from both academia and industry, also attended the meeting as delegates. A diverse range of topics was presented, covering all magnetic resonance related disciplines, including small molecule characterisation, solid-state NMR, imaging and molecular biology.

To complement presentations given by early career research workers, overview lectures were delivered by Professor David Middleton (University of Lancaster) and Dr Mathias Nilsson (University of Manchester) on ‘Adventures in Biomolecular Design and Solid-State NMR’ and ‘Pure Shift NMR’ respectively. The meeting was sponsored by Thermo Scientific and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and prizes were awarded for the best oral and poster presentations. Judging was carried out by three independent members of the NMR Discussion Group Committee.

The prize for the best oral presentation was awarded to Davy Sinnaeve (Ghent University/University of Manchester), for his work on Ultrahigh resolution 1H – 1H coupling measurements, by Professor Gareth Morris (NMR DG Chairperson) and Dr Andrew McLachlan (Thermo Scientific).

<<< (Left to right: Professor Gareth Morris, Dr Andrew McLachlan and Dr Davy Sinnaeve)

The prize for the best poster presentation was awarded to Giulia Bignami (University of St Andrews) for Solid-state NMR Characterisation of 17O- and 29Si- enriched Zeolites by Professor Gareth Morris and Dr Matt Cude (Analytical Methods, Royal Society of Chemistry).

(Left to right: Professor Gareth Morris, Dr Matt Cude and Giulia Bignami) >>>

Both prize winners have been invited to make oral presentations at a joint Anglo- German NMR Discussion Group meeting which will be held at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in September 2015.

The 9th NMR Discussion Group Postgraduate Meeting will be held at the University of Oxford in June 2016, and details of all NMR DG events are made available on our website http://www.nmrdg.org.uk/

Stephen Byard – NMR DG Secretary.

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HOT articles in Analytical Methods

20 Apr 2015

Take a look at our recent HOT Analytical Methods articles, these are now free to access for the next few weeks!

A novel exonuclease III-aided amplification assay based on graphene platform for sensitive detection of adenosine triphosphate
Changchun Wen, Yong Huang, Jianniao Tian, Kun Hu, Li Pan and Shulin Zhao
Anal. Methods, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5AY00354G

Monitoring the Clandestine Synthesis of Methamphetamine in Real-Time with Ambient Sampling, Portable Mass Spectrometry
Adam E. O’Leary, Seth E. Hall, Kyle E. Vircks and Christopher C. Mulligan
Anal. Methods, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5AY00511F
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Analytical Chemistry Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: Training Tomorrow’s Investigators
Michelle L. Kovarik
Anal. Methods, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5AY00510H

Identification of metabolites of AHTN in rat urine and feces by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry
Yi Yang, Yin Zhang, Jing Zhang and Bing Shao
Anal. Methods, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY03063J

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Hot articles in Analytical Methods

27 Mar 2015

Take a look at our recent HOT Analytical Methods articles, these are now free to access for the next few weeks!

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A fast and highly sensitive method for the detection of canine distemper virus by naked eye
Caroline R. Basso, Claudia C. Tozato, João Pessoa A. Junior and Valber A. Pedrosa
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 2264-2267
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02644F

Simple one-step preconcentration and cleanup with micellar system for high performance liquid chromatography determination of pyrethroids in traditional Chinese medicine
Ligang Chen and Wenjuan Xing
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 1691-1700
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02553A

Ammonium salting out extraction with analyte preconcentration for sub-part per billion quantitative analysis in surface, ground and drinking water by flow injection tandem mass spectrometry
Sergio C. Nanita, Laura G. Kaldon and David L. Bailey
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 2300-2312
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02620A

A chronopotentiometric flow injection system for aptasensing of E. coli O157
Jiahong Lei, Jiawang Ding and Wei Qin
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 825-829
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02662D

Combining a Portable, Tandem Mass Spectrometer with Automated Library Searching – An Important Step Towards Streamlined, On-Site Identification of Forensic Evidence
Adam E. O’Leary, Herbert Oberacher, Seth E. Hall and Christopher C. Mulligan
Anal. Methods, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02778G

Portable Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform (DRIFT) Technique for the Non-invasive Identification of Canvas Ground: IR Spectra Reference Collection
M. Manfredi, E. Barberis, A. Rava, E. Robotti, F. Gosetti and E. Marengo
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 2313-2322
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02006E

Graphical Abstract The application of high resolution diffusion NMR for the characterisation and quantification of small molecules in saliva/dentifrice slurries.
Adam Le Gresley, Emma Simpson, Alex J. Sinclair, Neil Williams, Gary R. Burnett, Dave J. Bradshaw and Robert A. Lucas
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 2323-2332
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02681K

Amino Acid Composition of Human Scalp Hair as a Biometric Classifier and Investigative Lead
Ayat H. B. Rashaid, Peter B. Harrington and Glen P. Jackson
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 1707-1718
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02588A

Rapid and sensitive detection of Salmonella typhimurium using aptamer conjugated carbon dots as fluorescence probe
Renjie Wang, Yi Xu, Tao Zhang and Yan Jiang
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 1701-1706
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02880E

Rapid assay of neopterin and biopterin in urine by wooden-tip electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 2913-2916
DOI: 10.1039/C5AY00004A
Bi-cheng Yang, Fa-ying Liu, Jiu-bai Guo, Lei Wan, Juan Wu, Feng Wang, Huai Liu and Ou-ping Huang

Improved Monitoring of P. aeruginosa on Agar Plates
T. A. Webster, H. J. Sismaet, A. F. Sattler and E. D. Goluch
Anal. Methods, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02794A

Binding interaction between prazosin and a1A-adrenoceptor: Investigation on the thermodynamic behaviours and the binding mechanism by high performance affinity chromatography
Jing Wang, Qian Li, Lingjian Yang, Yajun Zhang, Jie Yu, Xinfeng Zhao, Jianbin Zheng, Youyi Zhang and Xiaohui Zheng
Anal. Methods, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY03046J

Characteristics Region Extraction of Time Series Three-dimensional Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Shaohui Yu, Xue Xiao, Nanjing Zhao and Jisheng Yang
Anal. Methods, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AY02984D

Analysis of fatty acids and triacylglycerides by Pd nanoparticle-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry
Yuliya E. Silina, Claudia Fink-Straube, Heiko Hayen and Dietrich A. Volmer
Anal. Methods, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5AY00705D

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