Themed collection Analytical Methods Review Articles 2021

The efficiency of electromembrane extraction can be improved by modification of supported liquid membrane with various nanomaterials.

Aflatoxin B1 pollution is one of the most critical issues of food safety and has been categorized as a group I carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

This review focuses on the modification of SPE with functional antibodies to improve the electrochemical detection performance in versatile sensing applications.

This minireview focusses on the comprehensive study of SARS-CoV-2 specific aptamers and aptamer-based biosensors (optical and electrochemical), and their role and future perspectives in COVID-19 diagnosis.

The emergence of a pandemic scale respiratory illness (COVID-19) and the lack of the world's readiness to prevent its spread resulted in an unprecedented rise of biomedical diagnostic industries, as they took lead to provide efficient diagnostic solutions for COVID-19.

In this mini review, small-molecule based enzymatic fluorescent probes for natural inhibitor screening has been discussed, which includes the construction and sensing mechanisms of developed probes and their applications in inhibitor screening.

The fast-advancing progress in the research of nanomedicine and microneedle applications in the past two decades has suggested that the combination of the two concepts could help to overcome some of the challenges we are facing in healthcare.

Observations of band broadening under well-controlled laminar flow enable absolute, calibration-free determinations of diffusion coefficient.

Three methods to construct protein phylogenies with mass spectrometry data are reviewed and compared together with the tools and algorithms required.

Water scarcity is increasingly a global cause of concern mainly due to widespread changes in climate conditions and increased consumptive water use driven by the exponential increase in population growth.

The exonuclease III (Exo III)-assisted target cycle amplification strategy could be combined with many different detection technologies and it provides a more versatile platform for the trace detection of DNA.

Critical review on the fundamentals, applications, challenges, and prospects of thread-based microfluidic analytical devices.

The evolution of different analytical methods that have been applied to the determination of antimalarial drugs in pharmaceutical formulations and human blood by liquid chromatography.

Molecular imprinting technology for the preparation of polymers with specific molecular recognition function had become one of the current research hotspots.

Real-world applications of single-particle ICP-MS are comprehensively and critically reviewed.

Rapid and sensitive detection of foodborne bacteria is a growing concern for ensuring safe food supply and preventing human foodborne infections.

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is a complementary analytical platform to LC-MS and NMR for capturing volatiles, non-polar and (derivatized) polar metabolites and exposures from a diverse array of matrixes.

This review evaluates the state of the art of suspect and non-target screening techniques including sampling, sample treatment, instrumental analysis, data processing and an examination of recent applications in xenobiotics' environmental occurrence.

Epitope molecularly imprinted polymers (EMIPs) are novel imprinted materials using short characteristic peptides as templates rather than entire proteins.

Recent development of sample preparation methods with nanoliter processing volumes, ultrasensitive LC-MS/MS and CZE-MS/MS systems for proteomics of mass-limited samples.