Impactful Sample Prep Series: Reexamining Our Driving Force
January 10, 2025
It is time to stop, think, and go back to chemistry to explore our methodologies at a deeper level
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February 2025
To kick off 2025, five leaders in the field of environmental analysis each showcase a different area in which analytical innovations are helping to protect our planet. In our second feature, Ron Heeren, Deirdre Cabooter and Koen Sandra reflect on the current achievements and future directions for the field of analytical science. In My View features Lorena Vidal and Sibel Ozkan discussing sample preparation methods and molecularly imprinted polymers respectively. For the Core Topic, Martin Jarrold shares his experiences with charge-detection mass spectrometry, Oliver Schmitz evaluates the prospect of a future without the need for chromatography, and Mickhail Mirov and Sergey Vasilyev discuss recent developments in infrared spectroscopy via the use of dual frequency combs. Finally, we sit down with Damià Barceló Cullerès: the number one-ranked “Planet Protector” in our 2024 Power List.
Chromatography Free: It’s Closer Than You Think
January 6, 2025
In an era of increasingly sophisticated ion mobility-mass spectrometers, isn’t it time we jettisoned chromatography altogether? Well, it isn’t quite that simple – yet.
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The Planet Protector
December 20, 2024
Sitting Down With… Damià Barceló Cullerès, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Chemistry and Physics Department, University of Almeria, Spain
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How Dinosaurs Ate Their Way to Dominance
December 10, 2024
Analyses of fossilized feces, intestinal contents, and vomit reveal how dinosaurs adapted to climate shifts
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New Frontiers in Environmental Analysis: Atmospheric Alarms
November 15, 2024
As part of a new series featuring leaders in the field of environmental analysis, atmospheric aerosol expert Markku Kulmala shares his mission to set up thousands of environmental monitoring stations around the globe
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Worse Than the Sum of their Parts?
November 14, 2024
Chemical-by-chemical regulation won’t cut it, Beate Escher argues, after her team discover that chemicals at thought-to-be-harmless concentrations can form neurotoxic mixtures in the body
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Plastics: Squaring the Circular Economy
November 5, 2024
Emerging analytical methods for more precise quantification of hydrocarbon composition and impurity detection may prove essential to realizing a circular plastic economy
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CD-MS: “A Whole New Ballpark for Mass Spectrometry”
October 25, 2024
Evan Williams is surprised that more companies aren’t interested in commercializing charge-detection technologies, given their potential to address challenges in viral particle analysis, synthetic nanoparticle characterization, and single-cell analysis – areas where traditional methods fall short
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CD-MS: To Megadalton and Beyond
October 1, 2024
Charge-detection mass spectrometry (CD-MS) has extended the range of MS to gigadalton-sized viruses and polymers; and with a commercial instrument in development and exciting new applications in complex protein mixtures, maturity beckons
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