Applications of Solid-Phase Microextraction and Related Techniques, the Second Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 64
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Interests: solid-phase microextraction; chromatography; advanced glycation end products; stress hormone; biomarker; heterocyclic amines; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; LC–MS/MS analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Although a variety of high-performance analytical instruments have been developed in recent years, most of these instruments have difficulty directly handling complex matrices, such as biological, environmental, and food samples, making sample preparation essential. Among various analytical processes, from sampling to data analysis, sample preparation is the most important step in the extraction, isolation, and concentration of desired analytes in these complex matrices and greatly influences the acquisition of reliable and accurate analysis. Thus, the development of efficient sample preparation techniques and their integration in different analytical instruments have become significant challenges.
Solid-phase microextraction (SPME) is a simple and convenient sample preparation technique that has enabled automation, miniaturization, high-throughput performance, and online coupling with analytical instruments. Moreover, SPME has reduced analysis times, as well as the costs of solvents and their disposal. Since SPME was first introduced in the early 1990s by Arthur and Pawliszyn, more robust fiber assemblies and coatings with higher extraction efficiencies, selectivity, and stability have been commercialized. Furthermore, new geometries have been designed that use capillary tubes, magnetic stir bars, or thin films for extraction devices rather than fibers, and novel intelligent polymer coatings with great sorption capacity or good selectivity have been developed as extraction phases.
This Special Issue will include a wide range of topics, covering not only the development of SPME and related techniques, such as in-tube SPME (IT-SPME), stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE), thin-film microextraction (TFME), solid-phase dynamic extraction (SPDE), microextraction in a packed syringe (MEPS), and in-tip SPME, and their applications for bioanalysis, environmental, and food analyses, but also the design of new microextraction devices and novel intelligent coating materials. The aim is to present a selection of cutting-edge research studies regarding sample preparation and its application in a variety of sample analyses, with the hope of fostering novel ideas and technologies.
Prof. Dr. Hiroyuki Kataoka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solid-phase microextraction
- micriextraction techniques
- extraction sorbents
- pharmaceutical analysis
- forensic analysis
- bioanalysis
- environmental analysis
- food analysis
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