The Application of Vibrational Spectroscopy Techniques Coupled with Chemometrics in Agro-Food-Pharmaceutical Products
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 2552
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Interests: near-infrared spectroscopy; mid-infrared spectroscopy; raman spectroscopy; chemometrics; analytical chemistry; multivariate data analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
The use of vibrational spectroscopic techniques in agro-food-pharmaceutical products has contributed to the improvement in the quality of these products due to their inherent advantages. These techniques offer reliable, rapid, cost-effective, non-destructive and environmentally friendly methods for the quality control of agro-food-pharmaceutical products. Moreover, these techniques can be applied in situ and can be used for different objectives, namely, for qualitative and quantitative analysis. Therefore, this means that these techniques can be applied in the control of raw materials, during a process or at the end of a process, covering the whole production cycle. When coupled with chemometric tools, several disadvantages connected with vibrational spectroscopic techniques such as the lack of selectivity and sensitivity can be removed. Moreover, the application of chemometric tools offers the ability to deal with complex matrices that contain uncalibrated species. In this sense, it is important to develop analytical techniques that are focused on societal needs and are capable of guaranteeing the best quality of agro-food-pharmaceutical products for consumers as well as producers. Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of original and review research focused on vibrational spectroscopic techniques coupled with chemometrics in the aforementioned products.
Dr. Ricardo N. M. J. Páscoa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vibrational spectroscopy
- chemometrics
- agro-food-pharmaceutical products
- quantitative analysis
- qualitative analysis
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