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LACE 2011

30 Sep 2011

The 17th Latin-American Symposium on Biotechnology, Biomedical, Biopharmaceutical and Industrial Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis and Microchip Technology takes place 2-6 December in Hollywood, Florida.

This is the first time that LACE 2011, as it’s more conveniently known, is taking place in the USA. Analytical Methods is delighted to be able to support the meeting, and Professor Susan Lunte, Associate Editor for the Americas, will be attending.

If you are attending, please do pick up complimentary copies of Analytical Methods and Analyst and speak to Prof. Lunte with your comments and queries about publishing with us.

In the meantime, take a look at some of our popular content from authors in the American continent:

Ionic mobility of the solvated proton and acid–base titration in a four-compartment capillary electrophoresis system
Renata Mayumi Saito, José Geraldo Alves Brito-Neto, Fernando Silva Lopes, Lucas Blanes, Eric Tavares da Costa, Denis Tadeu Rajh Vidal, Guilherme Minoru Hotta and Claudimir Lucio do Lago
Anal. Methods, 2010, 2, 164-170
DOI: 10.1039/B9AY00192A

Technical Note: Cloud point extraction to avoid interferences by structured background on nickel determination in plant materials by FAAS
Sidnei G. Silva, Pedro V. Oliveira, Joaquim A. Nóbrega and Fábio R. P. Rocha
Anal. Methods, 2009, 1, 68-70
DOI: 10.1039/B9AY00010K

Authentication of the protected designation of origin horchata de Valencia through the chemometric treatment of mineral content
Katharina Boeting, Zully Aguilera de Benzo, M. Luisa Cervera and Miguel de la Guardia
Anal. Methods, 2010, 2, 1723-1728
DOI: 10.1039/C0AY00332H

Metals analysis of botanical products in various matrices using a single microwave digestion and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) method
Joaudimir Castro, Julia C. Spraul and R. Kenneth Marcus
Anal. Methods, 2009, 1, 188-194
DOI: 10.1039/B9AY00080

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220th ECS meeting and Electrochemical Energy Summit

28 Sep 2011

By Mary Badcock, Deputy Editor.

The 220th Electrochemical Society meeting is being held 9-14 October 2011 in Boston, USA, along with the first Electrochemical Energy Summit.

Sue Lunte, our Associate Editor to the Americas for Analytical Methods will also be attending, so you can speak to her with any queries about the journal.

For more information and to register, click here.

Look out also for our online collection of articles published in Analyst and Analytical Methods on Future Electroanalytical Developments, due to appear online later this year! More details to follow on our blog soon.

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CSI 2011, Brazil

13 Sep 2011

By Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor.

Niamh O'Connor joins the organisers of CSI 2011 for lunch

Analytical Methods Publisher, Dr Niamh O’Connor, attended the recent Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXXVII, which took place from 28 August to 2 September in Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. You can see her enjoying lunch with the conference organisers in the picture to the right!

Congratulations to our prize winners, Flavia Wandekoken, Roseli de Souza & Tatiana Saint’Pierre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) who were awarded for their poster “Development of a method for As, Sb and Se determination in biodiesel by HG-ICP OES”.

If you were at the conference and would like to share your experiences, please leave your comments below.

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Issue 9 online

07 Sep 2011

By Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor.

Issue 9 front cover: Gregson et al.

In the latest issue of Analytical Methods, three articles are highlighted on the covers.

On the front cover is work from Robin Taylor and colleagues of the National Nuclear Laboratory, at various sites across the UK.

There are a number of nuclear legacy fuel storage ponds and silos in the UK that contain substantial volumes of corroding spent Magnox fuel pieces. Understanding the nature and behaviour of the radionuclides in the ponds, including any potential for activity transfer from solid to solution phases, is critical in the environmental clean-up of these nuclear legacy facilities. The results presented in this paper indicate that Pu redox chemistry, and therefore solubility, varies across the pond, which has implications for Pu behaviour during waste processing.

Inside front cover: Tsukagoshi et al.

Characterisation of plutonium species in alkaline liquors sampled from a UK legacy nuclear fuel storage pond
Colin R. Gregson, Jeremy J. Hastings, Howard E. Sims, Helen M. Steele and Robin J. Taylor
Anal. Methods, 2011, 3, 1957-1968
DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05313B

Work from Toshihiro Fujii of Meisei University and colleagues is shown on the inside front cover.

They investigated the thermal decomposition of Japanese lacquer liquid and films by means of evolved gas analysis-ion attachment mass spectrometry. Their results indicated two stages of water release, vaporization and intramolecular H2O elimination, and the kinetics of these two processes were studied.

Characterization of Japanese lacquer liquid and films by means of evolved gas analysis-ion attachment mass spectrometry
Masamichi Tsukagoshi, Yuki Kitahara, Seiji Takahashi, Takahisa Tsugoshi and Toshihiro Fujii
Anal. Methods, 2011, 3, 1943-1947
DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05215B

Back cover: Hoa and El-Safty

On the back cover, Sherif A. El-Safty and Nguyen Duc Hoa of the National Institute for Materials Science introduce the use of highly ordered mesoporous silica/metal oxide nanocomposite monoliths for volatile organic compound gas sensor applications.

Highly sensitive and selective volatile organic compound gas sensors based on mesoporous nanocomposite monoliths
Nguyen Duc Hoa and Sherif A. El-Safty
Anal. Methods, 2011, 3, 1948-1956
DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05333G

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Recognition of counterfeit medicines by near-infrared spectroscopy

30 Aug 2011

By Jennifer Newton, Publishing Editor.

Principal component analysis and multivariate image analysis were used to analyse the data.

Sulaf Assi and colleagues have developed a non-destructive method combining chemometrics and near-infrared spectroscopy to identify potential counterfeit medicines.

Read the paper for free until 7th October.

Identification of counterfeit medicines from the Internet and the World market using near-infrared spectroscopy
Sulaf Assi, Robert A. Watt and Anthony C. Moffat
Anal. Methods
DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05227F

You might also find these near infrared spectroscopy papers interesting…

Classification of vinegar samples based on near infrared spectroscopy combined with wavelength selection
Wei Fan, Hongdong Li, Yang Shan, Huiying Lv, Huaxiu Zhang and Yizeng Liang
Anal. Methods, 2011, 3, 1872-1876
DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05101F

Simultaneous determination of phenol and p-nitrophenol in wastewater using near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy with adsorption preconcentration
Yan Zhang, Yong Hao, Wensheng Cai and Xueguang Shao
Anal. Methods, 2011, 3, 703-708
DOI: 10.1039/C0AY00775G

Remote identification of chemicals concealed behind clothing using near infrared spectroscopy
Céline M. Canal, Aamer Saleem, Roger J. Green and David A. Hutchins
Anal. Methods, 2011, 3, 84-91
DOI: 10.1039/C0AY00386G

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Issue 8 cover articles

24 Aug 2011

By Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor.

Analytical Methods, 2011, 3(8): 1695-1914

Did you catch the happy cover for Issue 8?

The rather smiley picture on the front cover highlights a review by Sangeeta Tanna and Graham Lawson of De Montfort University on the analytical methods used in conjunction with dried blood spots. Access this article for free using the link below:

Critical Review: Analytical methods used in conjunction with dried blood spots
Sangeeta Tanna and Graham Lawson
Anal. Methods, 2011, 3, 1709-1718
DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05160

The back cover features work from Amina Woods of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH on the use of MALDI-MS lipid imaging in rat brain tissue.

Communication: Highlighting anatomical sub-structures in rat brain tissue using lipid imaging
Alice M. Delvolve, Benoit Colsch and Amina S. Woods
Anal. Methods, 2011, 3, 1729-1736
DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05107E

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Technically speaking….

22 Jul 2011

By May Copsey, Editor.

We are delighted to announce that future AMC Technical Briefs will now be published in Analytical Methods!

AMC Technical Briefs are produced by the Analytical Methods Committee, the technical committee of the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. They provide informal but authoritative articles on topics of current interest to the wider analytical community.

Take at a look at previous Technical Briefs from the AMC!

AMC Reports and Technical Briefs will be free to download from the Analytical Methods website, and can be found through the new Publishing Platform. Just search for “Analytical Methods Committee” in the author term here.

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Lectin-gold nanoparticle conjugate could aid understanding of relationship between cellular glycosylation machinery and cell function

19 Jul 2011

By Jennifer Newton, Publishing Editor.

Covalent coupling of proteins with gold nanoparticles creates robust and stable probes.

Scientists from China have synthesised a lectin-gold nanoparticle conjugate which can be used as an optical probe for evaluating glycosyl complexes on living cell surfaces. Such information is invaluable for clinical biomarker research.

Read the paper for free until 30th August to learn more…

Synthesis and cell-surface binding of lectin-gold nanoparticle conjugates
Jine Wang, Dianjun Liu and Zhenxin Wang
Anal. Methods
DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05151B

You might also find this critical review interesting

Technologies and strategies for glycoproteomics and glycomics and their application to clinical biomarker research
Fateme Tousi, William S. Hancock and Marina Hincapie
Anal. Methods, 2011, 3, 20-32
DOI: 10.1039/C0AY00413H

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Recognition of counterfeit medicines by near-infrared spectroscopy

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Lectin-gold nanoparticle conjugate could aid understanding of relationship between cellular glycosylation machinery and cell function

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