New Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 642
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The awareness that respect and protection of the environment is not a philanthropic choice but essential for human survival is quite recent and probably not yet generalized. Science can support this process by improving the communication of the evidence achieved through research experiences.
Analytical chemistry has been applied to the study of the environment for a long time, providing precious chemical information on pollution of the different environmental compartments as well as on biochemical cycles. Nevertheless, more work is necessary to better understand the anthropic impact of chemicals and propose viable solutions. Moreover, chemical contamination studies have been mainly addressed to priority pollutants known to be persistent, toxic, or bioaccumulative. A current trend in environmental analysis is a shift toward newly identified or previously unrecognized contaminants, so-called “emerging pollutants”. These chemicals are less persistent but continuously discharged into the environment where they are present usually at trace or ultra-trace levels; very sensitive methodologies are therefore required for their measurement.
The broad variety of analytical techniques available today enables the scientist to face challenging qualitative and quantitative determinations; wider chemical information can be achieved by developing hyphenated methodologies through the combination of different instrumental techniques. In particular, the use of hyphenated techniques as liquid chromatography–high-resolution mass spectrometry has become a fascinating approach to enhance selectivity for known analytes and to identify unknowns. However, suitable sampling and preconcentration methods are crucial to obtain satisfactory results.
In this framework, the aim of this Special Issue is to collect contributions on all the topics mentioned above, presenting innovative analytical approaches and methodologies which may help to achieve a comprehensive evaluation of the environment health status and the occurring chemical processes.
Prof. Dr. Emanuele Magi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- trace contaminants
- emerging pollutants
- environmental matrices
- hyphenated techniques
- passive sampling
- micro-extraction techniques
- green analytical chemistry
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