JAAS News

Günther et al., J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1863

This month’s issue of JAAS is now online and ready for you to read. On the outside front cover comes an image from a research paper by former Chair of the Editorial Board Detlef Günther, J. M. Koornneef and colleagues in Switzerland and Germany, who have been studying the the potential of femtosecond laser ablation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (fs-LA-MC-ICPMS) for in situ analysis of U–Th disequilibria in titanite.

In situ analysis of ²³⁰Th–²³²Th–²³⁸U ratios in titanite by fs-LA-MC-ICPMS
J. M. Koornneef, L. Dorta, B. Hattendorf, G. H. Fontaine, B. Bourdon, A. Stracke, P. Ulmer and D. Günther
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1863-1874
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30162H

Butorin et al., J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1882

On the inside front cover we have an image from Sergei Butorin, Uppsala University, who with colleagues from France and Sweden have been studying the valence bands of copper to enable distinguishing between different monovalent copper compounds. An important factor in the debate concerning copper corrosion in oxygen-free water.

Cu Kβ_2,5 X-ray emission spectroscopy as a tool for characterization of monovalent copper compounds
J. R. Vegelius, K. O. Kvashnina, M. Klintenberg, I. L. Soroka and S. M. Butorin
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1882-1888
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30095H

These cover papers will be free to read for 6 weeks.

We also have two very interesting Tutorial Reviews this month. The first is a beginner’s guide to nuclear forensics by F. E. Stanley, and the second is a review of green chemistry in AAS by C. Bendicho and colleagues. These reviews will be free to read until Oct 26th.

A beginner’s guide to uranium chronometry in nuclear forensics and safeguards
F. E. Stanley
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1821-1830
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30182B

Green chemistry in analytical atomic spectrometry: a review
C. Bendicho, I. Lavilla, F. Pena-Pereira and V. Romero
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1831-1857
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30214D

The JAAS Board has been extremely busy this month, we have papers from our new Chair of the Editorial Board, Frank Vanhaecke and Advisory Board members Enrico M. M. Flores and Maria Montes-Bayon. These papers will be free to read until Oct 26th.

Optimization of sample preparation and a quadrupole ICP-MS measurement protocol for the determination of elemental impurities in pharmaceutical substances in compliance with USP guidelines
K. Van Hoecke, C. Catry and F. Vanhaecke
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1909-1919
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30128H

Bromine and iodine determination in active pharmaceutical ingredients by ICP-MS
Aline L. H. Muller, Paola A. Mello, Marcia F. Mesko, Fabio A. Duarte, Valderi L. Dressler, Edson I. Muller and Erico M. M. Flores
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1889-1894
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30212H

Elemental mass spectrometry for Se-dependent glutathione peroxidase determination in red blood cells as oxidative stress biomarker
Juan Gómez-Espina, Elisa Blanco-González, Maria Montes-Bayón and Alfredo Sanz-Medel
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1949-1954
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30115F

Front cover: Bordel et al., J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1658

This month’s issue of JAAS is now online and ready for you to read. On the front cover is a very striking and colourful image from the group led by Nerea Bordel and JAAS Advisory Board member Jorge Pisonero at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Together with their team, they have developed a new experimental setup that can apply an intense and transverse magnetic field of up to 70 mT to radiofrequency glow discharge plasma for optical emission spectroscopy. This produces a magnetic field independent of the sample thickness. Read more about their work by clicking below.

An improved analytical performance of magnetically boosted radiofrequency glow discharge
P. Vega, R. Valledor, J. Pisonero and N. Bordel
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1658-1666
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30106G

Huang et al., J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1667

There are also a couple of HOT articles in this issue this month. Yuying Huang from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, and colleagues, have been looking at zinc-containing steelmaking waste, and ways at better dealing with it.

Quantitative Zn speciation in zinc-containing steelmaking wastes by X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Lihua Wang, Xiaoming Lu, Xiangjun Wei, Zheng Jiang, Songqi Gu, Qian Gao and Yuying Huang
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1667-1673
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30094J

Dedina et al., J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1734

In a step towards determining impurities in pharmaceutical compounds, Jiří Dědina from the Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the ASCR, Czech Republic, and colleagues from the Czech Republic and Brazil have used hydride generation-cryotrapping-gas chromatography-atomic absorption spectrometry for arsenic speciation analysis in an injectable drug. In this case they have tested N-methylglucamine antimonate, a drug used in the treatment of Leishmaniasis, a disease caused by protozoan parasites transmitted through the bite of sandflies.

Selective generation of substituted arsines-cryotrapping-atomic absorption spectrometry for arsenic speciation analysis in N-methylglucamine antimonate
Diogo P. Moraes, Milan Svoboda, Tomáš Matoušek, Erico M. M. Flores and Jiří Dědina
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1734-1742
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30164D

Tsalev & Ivanova, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1645

We also have a Critical Review this month. Dimiter L. Tsalev and Elisaveta Ivanova have reviewed Bulgarian analytical atomic spectroscopists in the new millenium, with an emphasis on direct methods of sampling and pretreatment. Read all about it by clicking below.

Bulgarian analytical atomic spectroscopists in the new millennium—integrated in the European research area
Dimiter L. Tsalev and Elisaveta Ivanova
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1645-1657
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30165B

The cover article will be free to read for 6 weeks, while the rest of the papers will be free to access for 2 weeks.

Musil et al., J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1382

This month’s issue of JAAS is now online for you to read. We have two interesting covers this month. On the outside front cover is an image from the Czech republic. Stanislav Musil and colleagues from The Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the ASCR, Brno, have successfully formed a collection of volatile silver species for the first time. This substantially improves the analytical performance of a previously reported on-line atomization procedure.

In situ collection of volatile silver species in a new modular quartz tube atomizer for atomic absorption spectrometry
Stanislav Musil, Jan Kratzer, Miloslav Vobecký and Tomáš Matoušek
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1382-1390
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30112A

Huyskens et al., J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1439

On the inside we have an image from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. The analysis of Pb isotopes is used in several fields, including ore formation studies, environmental studies and U–Pb geochronology. But sample sizes can also be very small, making precise measurements difficult. One method to compensate for this, is adding silicagel as an ionisation activator for Pb isotopic analysis. Magdalena H. Huyskens, Tsuyoshi Iizuka and Yuri Amelin have run a series of tests, comparing three commercially available colloidal silicagels

Evaluation of colloidal silicagels for lead isotopic measurements using thermal ionisation mass spectrometry
Magdalena H. Huyskens, Tsuyoshi Iizuka and Yuri Amelin
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1439-1446
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30083D

These two cover articles will be free to read for 6 weeks, so click through and take a look.

We have a tutorial review from Douglas C. Baxter, Ilia Rodushkin and Emma Engström from ALS Scandinavia in Sweden who looked at the fundamental aspects of isotope abundance ratio measurements by ICP-SFMS.

Isotope abundance ratio measurements by inductively coupled plasma-sector field mass spectrometry
Douglas C. Baxter, Ilia Rodushkin and Emma Engström
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1355-1381
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30153A

We also have a number of HOT articles in this month’s issue on topics as varied as crude oil analysis, neodymium isotopes, and environmental sample analysis. These papers will be free to read for 2 weeks.

Improving the analytical performances of ICP-AES by using a high-temperature single-pass spray chamber and segmented-injections micro-sample introduction for the analysis of environmental samples
Francisco Ardini, Marco Grotti, Raquel Sánchez and José Luis Todolí
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1400-1404
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30152K

A fit-for purpose procedure for lead isotopic ratio determination in crude oil, asphaltene and kerogen samples by MC-ICPMS
Georgia Sanabria Ortega, Christophe Pécheyran, Sylvain Bérail and Olivier F. X. Donard
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1447-1456
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30143A

High-precision and accurate determinations of neodymium isotopic compositions at nanogram levels in natural materials by MC-ICP-MS
Kuo-Fang Huang, Jerzy Blusztajn, Delia W. Oppo, William B. Curry and Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 1560-1567
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30123G