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JAAS Issue 10 online now

26 Sep 2011

JAAS, 2011, 26(10):1909-2096

In the latest issue of JAAS, the cover highlights work on determining uranium isotopic ratios.

Huanwen Chen of the East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang, and colleagues used extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (EESI-MS) for the quantitative detection of uranium isotopic ratios in samples from natural water, uranium ore and soil. Their results indicate that this method enables fast detection of uranium isotopes with potential applications in nuclear research laboratories and the nuclear energy industry.

Technical Note: Determination of uranium isotopic ratio (²³⁵U/²³⁸U) using extractive electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
Chunxiao Liu, Bin Hu, Jianbo Shi, Jianqiang Li, Xinglei Zhang and Huanwen Chen
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 2045-2051
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10054H

This article is free to access for the next six weeks.

Why not browse some of our latest high-quality technical notes? Amongst those featured in this issue are:

Technical Note: Plasma quenching during hydrocarbon sample introduction via gas chromatography into a pulsed ms dc-glow discharge
Daniel Fliegel and Detlef Günther
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 2052-2057
DOI: 10.1039/C0JA00274G

Technical Note: Batch is bad? Leaching of Opalinus clay samples and ICP-MS determination of extracted elements
Ralf Kautenburger
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 2089-2092
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10142K

And don’t forget to take a look at the latest Atomic Spectrometry Update, also in this issue:

Atomic spectrometry update: X-ray fluorescence spectrometry
Margaret West, Andrew T. Ellis, Philip J. Potts, Christina Streli, Christine Vanhoof, Dariusz Wegrzynek and Peter Wobrauschek
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1919-1963
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA90038B

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2012 Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for Analytical Spectroscopy – nominations are now welcome

23 Sep 2011

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

The DASp – German Working group for Applied Spectroscopy – regularly awards the “Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Preis für analytische Spektroskopie” to honour preferably the work of young scientists from universities, research institutes or industry who made excellent contributions to analytical spectroscopy. Especially preferred is an oeuvre in new areas like spectroscopy in nano compartments, and spectroscopy of biomolecules. The Award consists of an award-document and an amount of € 2.500,00 sponsored by Perkin Elmer GmbH and the DASp seeks nominations for the 2012 Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for Analytical Spectroscopy. The Award will be presented at the Analytica Conference in April 2012 in Munich (Germany).

A nomination should include:

1. letter with the candidate´s accomplishments
2. list of publications or recent work,
3. scientific curriculum vitae stating the age of the candidate; the candidate´s address, phone fax and e-mail.

Nominations can be made by members of DASp but eligibility is open for any scientist meeting the requirements. Self-nomination is excluded. The decision as to whom the prize is to be awarded shall be made by a jury consisting of the current members of the board of DASp.

Further information is available here.

All documents should be sent no later than 31 December 2011 to:
Prof. Dr. Detlef Günther, President of the Jury for the Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award 2012, Laboratorium für Anorganische Chemie, ETH Hönggerberg, HCI, CH-8093 Zürich (Schweiz)

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5th Asia-Pacific Winter Conference (26-29 August 2012)

19 Sep 2011

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

2012 APWC

The 5th Asia-Pacific Winter Conference will be held 26 – 29 August 2012 in Jeju Island, South Korea.

APWC will be held in Jeju Island, South Korea, at Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel. Jeju is the largest island in South Korea with the fantastically shaped rocks decorating the seashores, the hundreds of secondary volcanos, and Mt. Halla. The pleasant surroundings offer plenty of scope for geologicaland geographical excursions.The conference will begin the afternoon of Sunday, August 26 and will end during the afternoon of Wednesday, August 29.

The conference will bring together international participants experienced in fundamental aspects, instrumentation and applications. The conference is organised by 2012 APWC Organizing Committee and chaired by Lim, H. B. of Dankook University, South Korea.

Call for Papers:
Submit Titles, Abstracts Deadline – April 1, 2012

Contact information:

H. B. Lim, Dankook University, 126 Jukjeon-dong, Suji-gu, Yongin, Gyunggi 448- 701, South Korea, +82-31-8005-3151
Sang-Ho Nam, Mokpo National University, 1666 Youngsan-ro, Cheonggye-myeon, Muan-gun, Jeonanm 534-729, South Korea, +82-61-450-2333
Jae-Min Lim, Changwon National University, 9-sarim, Changwon 641-773, South Korea, +82-55-213-3431

Or contact Conference HQ for Abstract, Registration, Scientific Programs, and Exhibitions.

To find out more, visit the conference website and keep an eye on JAAS News – we’ll give you more updates as we have them.

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CSI 2011 – Brazil

13 Sep 2011

By Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor.

Niamh O'Connor and Board members Gary Hieftje, Martín Resano, Joanna Szpunar and Frank Vanhaecke join the organisers of CSI 2011 for lunch

JAAS Publisher, Dr Niamh O’Connor, and a number of our Board members 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 them enjoying lunch with the conference organisers in the picture to the left!

Congratulations to our prize winner Nicholas Darangwa of Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa, who was awarded for his poster “Making ETAAS determination less dependent on the vaporization kinetics of the analytes”. Take a look at Nicholas’ paper (in two parts), published in JAAS from last year:

Application of Langmuir theory of evaporation to the simulation of sample vapor composition and release rate in graphite tube atomizers. Part 1. The model and calculation algorithm
Dmitri A. Katskov and Nicholas Darangwa
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1079-1090
DOI: 10.1039/C002017F

Application of Langmuir theory of evaporation to the simulation of sample vapor composition and release rate in graphite tube atomizers. Part 2. Verification of the methodology and investigation of atomization of Ag and Cu
Dmitri Katskov, Nicholas Darangwa and Uwe Heitmann
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1091-1101
DOI: 10.1039/C002024A

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

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Issue 9 now online

19 Aug 2011

By Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor.

JAAS, 2011, 26(9): 1689-1908

Issue 9 of JAAS is now online and includes a Critical Review from Petra Krystek and colleagues on the application of plasma spectrometry for the analysis of engineered nanoparticles.

Critical Review: Application of plasma spectrometry for the analysis of engineered nanoparticles in suspensions and products
Petra Krystek, Andrea Ulrich, Carmen Cecilia Garcia, Srirang Manohar and Rob Ritsema
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1701-1721
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10071H

The front cover highlights work by Sohail Mushtaq from the group of Juliet Pickering at Imperial College and collaborators from London Metropolitan University and EMPA looking at the role of oxygen in analytical glow discharges.

Read this article for free for 6 weeks:

The role of oxygen in analytical glow discharges: GD-OES and GD-ToF-MS studies
Sohail Mushtaq, Juliet C. Pickering, Edward B. M. Steers, Peter Horvath, James A. Whitby and Johann Michler
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1746-1755
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10087D

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Themed issue: 2011 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry

08 Aug 2011

By Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor.

JAAS, 2011, 26(8): 1549-1688

Issue 8 is our themed issue highlighting work presented at the 14th European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, which took place in Zaragoza, Spain, 30 January – 4 February 2011.

This Editorial by Juan Castillo and Martin Resano gives us an overview of the meeting:

Editorial: The 14th European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry
Juan R. Castillo and Martín Resano
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1559-1560
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA90031E

The front cover shows work by Jorge Pisonero and colleagues, using pulsed-RF-GD-TOFMS to look at ultra-thin layers.

Minor elements determination and evaluation of diffusion/segregation effects on ultra-thin layers using pulsed-RF-GD-TOFMS
J. Pisonero, A. Licciardello, A. Hierro-Rodríguez, C. Quirós, A. Sanz-Medel and N. Bordel
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1604-1609
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10075K

The inside front cover features the work of Heidi Goenaga-Infante and co-workers on determining levels of arsenic in tobacco.

Determination of total arsenic and arsenic speciation in tobacco products: from tobacco leaf and cigarette smoke
Sutthinun Taebunpakul, Chuan Liu, Christopher Wright, Kevin McAdam, Julien Heroult, Julian Braybrook and Heidi Goenaga-Infante
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1633-1640
DOI: 10.1039/C0JA00268B

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Going to Goldschmidt 2011?

19 Jul 2011

By Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor.

We’re heading to the city of a hundred spires…

Goldschmidt 2011: Earth, Life and Fire

JAAS will be enjoying all things geochemical at Goldschmidt 2011, and we’d love to see you there!

Deputy Editor, Vibhuti Patel, will be at the conference from Sunday to Wednesday so please do stop by Booth 37 to say hello and pick up a copy of the journal.

The conference will be held in Prague, a beautiful city whose skyline is dominated by the towering Prague Castle.

With over 3700 submitted abstracts, this meeting will be the largest ever Goldschmidt conference. There are exciting socials and field trips to complement the packed science programme so it looks set to be a great week.

I look forward to meeting you in Prague!

Goldschmidt 2011
14-19 August
Prague Convention Centre
Prague, Czech Republic

Why not take a look at some recent geochemistry papers in JAAS?

The effect of quadrupole ICPMS interface and ion lens design on argide formation. Implications for LA-ICPMS analysis of PGE’s in geological samples
M. Guillong, L. Danyushevsky, M. Walle and M. Raveggi
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1401-1407
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10035A

Technical Note: Precise and accurate determination of Sm, Nd concentrations and Nd isotopic compositions in geological samples by MC-ICP-MS
Yue-Heng Yang, Zhu-Yin Chu, Fu-Yuan Wu, Lie-Wen Xie and Jin-Hui Yang
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1237-1244
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA00001B

Technical Note: NH₄F assisted high pressure digestion of geological samples for multi-element analysis by ICP-MS
Zhaochu Hu, Shan Gao, Yongsheng Liu, Shenghong Hu, Laishi Zhao, Yanxiang Li and Qi Wang
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 408-413
DOI: 10.1039/B921006G

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JAAS leads the way with latest Impact Factor

30 Jun 2011

By Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor.

JAAS stays at the top!

The 2010 Journal Citation Reports^® from Thomson Reuters have been released and JAAS has an Impact Factor of 4.372!

That means that JAAS not only remains the leading journal in the field of atomic spectrometry but ranks 5th in all analytical chemistry journals (3rd in those publishing primary research).

A big thank you to our Editorial and Advisory Boards, all our authors, referees and readers for your contribution to the journal’s success. We look forward to continuing our support of the community by publishing the most innovative research on the fundamental theory and application of spectrometric techniques.

More information on the success of journals across RSC Publishing, take a look at our Publishing Blog.

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Take a look at Issue 7

27 Jun 2011

By Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor.

JAAS, 26(7):1305-1548

Issue 7 is now online, with a big collection of articles: one Critical Review, 23 papers and 7 Technical Notes.

The striking front cover highlights work from François Doucet from the Industrial Materials Institute, Canada, on a compact pulsed fiber laser source.

Evaluation of a compact high power pulsed fiber laser source for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Jean-François Y. Gravel, François R. Doucet, Paul Bouchard and Mohamad Sabsabi
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1354-1361
DOI: 10.1039/C0JA00228C

The inside front cover highlights work by Yu-Te Hsieh and Gideon Henderson from the University of Oxford on the study of radium isotope ratios in seawater.

Precise measurement of ²²⁸Ra/²²⁶Ra ratios and Ra concentrations in seawater samples by multi-collector ICP mass spectrometry
Yu-Te Hsieh and Gideon M. Henderson
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1338-1346
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10013K

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JAAS Issue 10 online now

2012 Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for Analytical Spectroscopy – nominations are now welcome

5th Asia-Pacific Winter Conference (26-29 August 2012)

CSI 2011 – Brazil

Top Ten most-read JAAS articles in July

Issue 9 now online

Themed issue: 2011 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry

Going to Goldschmidt 2011?

JAAS leads the way with latest Impact Factor

Take a look at Issue 7

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