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Research on the Application of Mass Spectrometry in Environmental Analysis Integrated with Contributions from Italian 5th MS-Enviday

A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Chromatographic Separations".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2024 | Viewed by 1065

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Fulvio Magni

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Department of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Proteomics and Metabolomics Unit, University of Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro, Italy
Interests: LC-MS; MALDI-imaging; biomarker discovery; phospho- and N-glycoproteome; cancer; glomerulonephrity
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Prof. Dr. Donatella Caruso

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Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Interests: mass spectrometry; pollution; environmental analysis; detection; sample extraction; separation technology
Dr. Salvatore Barreca

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Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95100 Catania, Italy
Interests: analytical chemistry; water contamination; perfluorinated compounds (PFAS); mass spectrometry; environmental chemistry
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Dr. Giuliana Bianco

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Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: the development of new analytical protocols for the study of biomolecules; modern mass spectrometric (HRMS) techniques; coupled techniques (LC-MS, GC-MS, CE-MS); metabolomics; environmental contaminants; food science; clinical; functional; nutraceutical substances; cultural heritage safeguard
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The periodic updating of the list of substances that require monitoring is made necessary by the continuous introduction of new synthetic molecules on the market, a process which requires the actors responsible for environmental control to respond promptly and flexibly to the challenges posed by emerging pollutants. For good health and a high quality of life, it is important to monitor the source and extent of pollution and contamination, especially for compounds affecting human health.

Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in environmental analysis because of its ability to carry out robust, sensitive and quantitative analysis. It is coupled with separation techniques and rapid sampling and extraction methods which can efficiently and precisely detect and quantify micro-pollutants, such as PAH, PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, PFOA, PFOS, endocrine disruptors and inorganic compounds.

This Special Issue will present the state of the art, outlining applications of mass spectrometry in environmental analyses. These are then combined with the latest technological developments, methodologies and applications in the environmental field.

We invite you and your colleagues to submit a contribution in the form of an original scientific research article for this Special Issue. We encourage the submission to the thank presenters and speakers in advance for your attendance at this conference and look forward to a stimulating exchange.

The conference The 5th MS EnviDay will be held in Rome, Italy between 28th-29th November 2022.

Prof. Dr. Fulvio Magni
Prof. Dr. Donatella Caruso
Dr. Salvatore Barreca
Dr. Giuliana Bianco
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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Separations is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • mass spectrometry
  • pollution
  • environmental analysis
  • detection
  • sample extraction
  • separation technology

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Advances in Hydrocarbon Speciation for Soil Gas Analysis
by Maria Antonietta De Gregorio, Laura Clerici, Emma Marinone, Valeria Frattini and Pierluisa Dellavedova
Separations 2023, 10(9), 489; https://doi.org/10.3390/separations10090489 - 07 Sep 2023
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In the field of contaminated site remediation, risk analyses can be carried out by the use of appropriate mathematical models, based on simplified hypotheses of real sites. The possibility to have shared and accurate analytical methods is an important challenge for both routine [...] Read more.
In the field of contaminated site remediation, risk analyses can be carried out by the use of appropriate mathematical models, based on simplified hypotheses of real sites. The possibility to have shared and accurate analytical methods is an important challenge for both routine laboratories and supervisory institutions. Although official methods (e.g., APH2009) are already available, they are lacking in some aspects, such as applicability to all the different sampling and analysis media and ease of use in routine analysis. Here, we report our recent advances in the implementation of an empirical method for hydrocarbon speciation in an air matrix, previously developed by the authors and published in 2015. The validation results led to a coefficient of variation (CV%) between 10–15% for the hydrocarbon fractions investigated (C5-C8 aliphatic, C9-C12 aliphatic, C9-C10 aromatic and C11-C12 aromatic) and recovery of ≤20%, in agreement with the required characteristics for the analytical methods. Several real samples were analyzed by the proposed method and the results were compared to those obtained by the official approach. The comparison led to an average bias (that is, the difference between the results from the developed method and those from the conventional one) of about 10%, confirming that the innovative approach is robust, accurate and can be applied to all the analytical media used for air sampling, such as soil gas. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Application of Mass Spectrometry in Environmental Analysis Integrated with Contributions from Italian 5th MS-Enviday)
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