Closing the Fluorine Gap: From the Analytical Technologies to Fate Modeling
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 5306
Special Issue Editors
2. Queensland Alliance of Environmental Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, Queensland 4102, Australia
Interests: chemicals of emerging concern (CECs); non-target analysis (NTA); high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS); computational mass spectrometry; algorithm development; advanced statistics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a family of chemicals of emerging concern that consist of at least 5000 unique chemical structures. The US Environmental Protection Agency has listed around 8000 potential PFASs, from which a large number are structurally unknown. Due to their structural diversity, they cover a wide range of physiochemical properties, environmental fates, and toxicities. Consequently, they are considered an extremely challenging family of chemicals to measure and model. Additionally, recent studies have shown their potential negative impact on human and environmental health.
This Special Issue focuses on the latest analytical developments and the application of such tools for unravelling the complexity of PFASs and thus closing the fluorine knowledge gap. Manuscripts are expected to cover (but not limited to) topics related to the development of novel analytical approaches, sample collection, sample preparation, and data processing tools. Studies on the environmental occurrence, fate, and modeling of PFAS are also welcome. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of original research papers, review papers, and short communications.
Dr. Saer Samanipour
Dr. Sarit L. Kaserzon
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- PFAS
- analytical chemistry
- high-resolution mass spectrometry
- fate modeling
- non-targeted analysis
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