JAAS News

Beibei Chen et. al.

Week 20 is china! This week’s paper is from 2013’s Top 25 most read JAAS articles collection.

A team from China has proposed an integrated microfluidic chip consisting of reaction, mixing, and extraction units, designed and fabricated for on-chip magnetic solid phase extraction. Combined with HPLC-ICP-MS it was used for selenium speciation in selenium-enriched yeast cells.

This paper will be free to read until Nov 15th.

Speciation of selenium in cells by HPLC-ICP-MS after (on-chip) magnetic solid phase extraction
Beibei Chen, Bin Hu, Man He, Qian Huang, Yuan Zhang and Xing Zhang
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2013, 28, 334-343
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30280B

Week 25 will be…silver

S.E. Gilbert et al

Week 15 is crystal! This week’s paper is from the Geological applications of laser ablation themed collection.

In this research pyrite crystals were examined, and the effect of laser type and their analytical paramenters on S isotope fractionation was investigated by a group from Australia and France.

This paper will be free to read until Sept 28th.

Optimisation of laser parameters for the analysis of sulphur isotopes in sulphide minerals by laser ablation ICP-MS
S. E. Gilbert, L. V. Danyushevsky, T. Rodemann, N. Shimizu, A. Gurenko, S. Meffre, H. Thomas, R. R. Large and D. Death
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2014, 29, 1042-1051
DOI: 10.1039/C4JA00011K

Week 20 will be…china

Hans-Eike Gabler et al.

This week is tin! This week’s paper is from a themed collection from the 2013 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Krakow, Poland.

The US Government has classiifed cassiterite (SnO₂) as a ‘conflict mineral’. This means that all companies that use tin in their products must verify that their tin does not originate from conflict regions such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo where there is an ongoing violent conflict. In this paper, Gabler et al. look at a geochemical fingerprinting method for cassiterite based on LA-ICP-MS.

Cassiterite fingerprinting by LA-ICP-MS
Hans-Eike Gäbler, Sönke Rehder, Andreas Bahr, Frank Melcher and Simon Goldmann
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2013, 28, 1247-1255
DOI: 10.1039/C3JA50106J

Week 15 will be…crystal

Van Lerberghe et al

This week is wood! This paper featured in a 2012 themed issue on Archaeometry. In it, Van Lerberghe
et al used strontium isotopes in an attempt to provenance archaeological cedar wood from the east Mediterranean region. One of the roles cedar had in ancient Egypt and the Near East was in shipbuilding. The provenance of recovered wood is only surmised in studies to date.

Strontium isotopic and tree-ring signatures of Cedrus brevifolia in Cyprus
Sara Rich, Sturt W. Manning, Patrick Degryse, Frank Vanhaecke and Karel Van Lerberghe
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 796-806
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA10345A

This paper will be free to read for 3 weeks!

Week 10 will be…. Tin!

This week is leather! We had to be a little creative with our choice this week. While we couldn’t find a paper that looked specifically at leather, we did find one investigating another product we get from cows, in this case milk.

Speciation of chromium in cow’s milk by solid-phase extraction/dynamic reaction cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (DRC-ICP-MS)
Abayneh A. Ambushe, Robert I. McCrindle and Cheryl M. E. McCrindle
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2009, 24, 502-507
DOI: 10.1039/B819962K

This paper will be free to read until 4^th July!

In 2 weeks… Wood!

Rapid analysis of volatile arsenic species released from lake sediment by a packed cotton column coupled with atomic fluorescence spectrometry

Continuing our lead up to the 30th anniversary of JAAS, this week we have a paper for cotton.

Rapid analysis of volatile arsenic species released from lake sediment by a packed cotton column coupled with atomic fluorescence spectrometry
Chun-Gang Yuan, Kegang Zhang, Zhenhua Wang and Guibin Jiang
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1605-1611
DOI: 10.1039/C0JA00005A

This paper will be free to read until 30^th June.

Next week… leather

Combining XANES, ICP-AES, and SEM/EDS for the study of phytate chelating treatments used on iron gall ink damaged manuscripts

Next year sees the 30th Anniversary for JAAS, and to celebrate we are marking out the 30 weeks leading up to this fantastic milestone! Each week we will be highlighting a JAAS paper that corresponds (albeit sometimes very loosely) with the traditional wedding anniversary presents.

To kick start us off, week 1 is Paper.

Combining XANES, ICP-AES, and SEM/EDS for the study of phytate chelating treatments used on iron gall ink damaged manuscripts
Véronique Rouchon, Eleonora Pellizzi, Maroussia Duranton, Frederik Vanmeert and Koen Janssens
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 2434-2441
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10185D

This paper will be free to read until June 27th.

Next week….Cotton!