The Analytical Methods editorial team at our Christmas meal
We’d just like to wish all our readers, authors and referees a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We look forward to your continued support in 2011 – have a wonderful festive season!
– The Analytical Methods Editorial Team.
A recent Analytical Methods paper by Ashutosh Tiwari and colleagues has gained attention in prolific newspaper The Times of India. They describe a novel saccharide detection assay based on covalent immobilization of amino phenyl boronic acid (APBA) in thin films of carboxyl functionalized chitosan.
Read the news article here and access the paper for FREE below.
An ultra sensitive saccharides detection assay using carboxyl functionalized chitosan containing Gd2O3 : Eu3+ nanoparticles probe
Ashutosh Tiwari, Dohiko Terada, Prashant K. Sharma, Vyom Parashar, Chiaki Yoshikawa, Avinash C. Pandey and Hisatoshi Kobayashi
Anal. Methods, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0AY00574F
Specimens were placed on a board and a probe moved over the wings
A way to identify individual butterflies from the same species has been designed by scientists in Hungary, who say that the technique could be used to analyse delicate museum samples without destroying them.
László Biró at the Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science and colleagues have developed an instrument that allows reflectance spectroscopy to be carried out on specimens without physically damaging them.
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Color based discrimination of chitin–air nanocomposites in butterfly scales and their role in conspecific recognition
Gábor Piszter, Krisztián Kertész, Zofia Vértesy, Zsolt Bálint and László Péter Biró
Anal. Methods, 2011
DOI: 10.1039/c0ay00410c
Issue 12: a great end to the year for the journal!
Analytical Methods Issue 12 for 2010 has now been published – read for FREE online.
On the cover, a Minireview by Tseng et al. on the extraction of environmental pollutants using magnetic nanomaterials:
Extraction of environmental pollutants using magnetic nanomaterials
Jia-Hui Lin, Zong-Han Wu and Wei-Lung Tseng
Anal. Methods, 2010, 2, 1874-1879
DOI: 10.1039/C0AY00575D
The most popular Analytical Methods articles in October
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Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy could be used to detect hazardous chemicals hidden behind clothing, and could improve security screening technology in places such as airports.
Celine Canal, David Hutchins and colleagues from the University of Warwick detected the explosive ammonium nitrate hidden behind a layer of various clothing materials, from light acrylic to thick denim. ‘Light in the NIR wavelength range is invisible to the naked eye, allowing unnoticeable remote detection,’ explains Hutchins.
Read Fay Nolan-Neylan’s news story at Highlights in Chemical Technology or read the full article using the link below.
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
DOI: 10.1039/c0ay00386g
The most popular Analytical Methods articles in September
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In this Minireview, Ana Gonzalvez and colleagues highlight the brilliant research and advances achieved in the area of trace level analysis by IR spectroscopy during the past two decades.
Minireview: The ways to the trace level analysis in infrared spectroscopy
Ana Gonzalvez, Salvador Garrigues, Miguel de la Guardia and Sergio Armenta
Anal. Methods, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0AY00437E
Brett Paull, Editor-in-Chief of Analytical Methods will be one of the speakers at the 15th Desty Memorial Lecture for Innovation in Separation Science, to be held in the Royal Institution of Great Britain on Wednesday 6th October 2010
I’ll also be attending , so if you’d like to meet either of us to discuss the journal or just to say hello, please do contact us.
Denis Desty was a great innovator and this event is to celebrate his life and innovations. Key speakers have been invited who are recognised for they innovative work in separation science. Each year the Desty Award is presented to a young scientist who will have been judged to have shown great innovation in separation science.
Find out more and see the full programme online.
The latest top ten most downloaded Analytical Methods articles
Read the most-read papers of August 2010 here:
