2 February / March 2017 Foreword
Welcome to a brand-new year at Chromatography Today and the first edition of 2017. Last year was a great year for Chromatography Today with a growing readership and an increase in submitted articles and advertising.
Trevor Hopkins - Editor
In an aim to keep the articles and features fresh and topical for 2017 we have changed the focus slightly in that we will be running two general themes throughout the year – Fundamental Aspects of Chromatography and Modern Chromatography Applications to provide you with both advances in the fundamental aspects, method development and new instrumentation in analytical separation science and modern cutting edge and practical applications of analytical separation. The focus areas within these two themes for this edition are ‘Monoliths and Novel Particle Technologies’ and ‘Forensics Analysis’ respectively.
The Monoliths and Novel Particle Technologies is a follow-on focus area from the two prior extremely well received themes ‘superficially porous particles’ run in June 2012 and ‘superficially porous particles – a market update’ which featured in March 2015. In the current issue, we present articles focusing on the use of new substrates in the growing area of bio molecules from Merck a market leader in monolith technology, AMT showing improved monoclonal antibody separations employing new 1000 Angstrom superficially porous particles and the University of Liverpool with a novel substrate based on sphere-on-sphere technology. Glantreo provides a fascinating article with an introduction to the concept of Monodensity in Silica Particles and its effect on chromatographic performance; which could answer some manufacturers questions regarding substrate batch to batch chromatographic reproducibility.
Forensics Analysis, a topic which appears to feature daily in the media is the basis of many crime scene investigations, bans for sports people using performance enhancing substances and the use and abuse of ‘legal high’ substances. Submissions from Waters who show how LC-MS/MS is used to replace existing immunoassay and GC-MS based screening methods to consolidate multiple single compound
analyses into the analysis of complex compound panels and Sciex show how the use of high resolution mass spectrometry can assist with the chromatographic analysis of ‘legal high or designer drugs’. The matrix effects in Forensic analysis remains a major challenge and two submissions show different approaches to managing this problem; MilliporeSigma using Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART®)- MS analysis employing biocompatible solid phase micro extraction and United Chemical Technologies using a QuEChERS approach.
Each edition of Chromatography Today is packed with valuable information, however it is impossible to include everything that is submitted. The new revised Chromatography Today website (www.
chromatographytoday.com) is the repository where you will find the other submissions, the latest news from the world of separation science and access to all the historical articles. Perusing the trending news and article sections, it is surprising how much separation science plays a part in daily life without us ever appreciating it, or even realising it. There is a diverse range of areas highlighting just how important separation science is to society with a calendar of events and articles on food, biofuels, medicine, forensics, brewing and environmental clean-up. Please take a look and if you are not a current recipient of the Chromatography Today e-bulletin – please sign up today.
As always we welcome article submissions, topic ideas for inclusion in future issues and feedback from our readership. If you have any feedback on this edition of Chromatography Today, please contact us as we are always looking to improve the publication.
Trevor. NEXT ISSUE
Fundamental Aspects - Pharma/Drug Discovery Method Development Modern Applications - Authenticity and Integrity of Food and Consumer Products
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