Determination of Trace Elements by Optical Emission Spectrometry
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 3550
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cold atmospheric pressure plasmas (CAPPs); analytical chemistry; nanotechnology; plasma medicine; plasma spectroscopy; analytical atomic spectrometry; microplasmas; materials engineering
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Interests: microplasmas; glow discharges; miniaturized excitation sources; determination of heavy metals; trace analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
No one needs to be convinced of the necessity of monitoring for environmental contamination with heavy metals, food/drug quality control, and trace analysis of many other types of samples. One of the most commonly used methods for these purposes is optical emission spectrometry (OES), and it is hard to overestimate its role in the determination of trace elements. An excitation source that holds a dominant position in OES is inductively coupled plasma (ICP); however, many alternative emission sources have been developed over the last two decades. This Special Issue aims to present the latest developments in the field of trace analysis by optical emission spectrometry. I would like to invite researchers dealing with uncommercial excitation sources as well as with the innovative application of commercially available instruments.
Dr. Piotr Jamroz
Dr. Krzysztof Gręda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- innovative excitation sources
- microplasma emission sources
- liquid electrode plasmas
- inductively coupled plasma
- sample analysis
- environment monitoring
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