Volume: 9

Issue: 35

Contents:

This Issue brings an Editorial by Prof. Dr. Leandro W. Hantao (IQ-Unicamp); Interview with Prof. Dr. Gisele B. Tonietto (PUC-Rio); Point of View “Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry – It is time we innovate” by Prof. Dr. Emanuel Carrilho (IQSC-USP); Letter “Chemical imprinting technology applied to Analytical Chemistry – Current status and future outlook in Brazil” by Prof. Dr. César Tarley (UEL); Review on “RAMIPs for biological sample prep”; Articles on “Method for preconcentration and det. of silver in aqueous samples”; “Det. of the trace element contents of fruit juice samples”; “Extraction, characterization and rheological behavior of tamarind gum”; TechNote on “Develop. of paraquat pesticide det. method in urine samples”; and a Feature on “Sirius – The Brazilian Particle Accelerator”.

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Editorial

About this issue

Leandro Wang Hantao, PhD Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, SP, Brazil
“In this issue, applications of the most important steps of an analytical method, namely, sample prep and method devel. using separation and spectroscopy are presented.”

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Interview

Gisele Tonietto, a Coordinator of Development Projects and a Dynamic Researcher also Dedicated to the Dissemination of Science, kindly spoke to BrJAC

Gisele Birman Tonietto, PhD
Professor in the Dept of Chemistry and Coordinator of Development Projects at PUC-Rio, RJ, Brazil

“My advice to young scientists: Keep your curiosity, your critical spirit. Don't accept obvious answers, formulate your questions, and seek your own answers.”

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Point of View

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry – It is time we innovate

Emanuel Carrilho, FRSC
Full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil

“Startups, spin-offs, investors, and profit are words that should be in the minds of young analytical and bioanalytical chemists. Profit, contrary to what...”

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Letter

Chemical imprinting technology applied to Analytical Chemistry: Current status and future outlook in Brazil

César Ricardo Teixeira Tarley, PhD
Full Professor at the State University of Londrina, PR, Brazil

“Due to tremendous advances in imprinting technology, scientists and students now have a facile way to carry out rapid research on imprinted polymers on the free-to-use website MIPdatabase...”

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Review

Restricted Access Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Biological Sample Preparation
Tássia Venga Mendes, Mariana Azevedo Rosa, Eduardo Costa de Figueiredo

In this review, the design and application of RAMIPs in biological sample preparation are discussed, emphasizing the future trends and remaining challenges of this technology for bioanalyses.
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Articles

Methodology for Preconcentration and Determination of Silver in Aqueous Samples using Cloud Point Extraction
Ghusoon Jawad Shabaa, Emad Abbas Jaffar Al-Mulla, Ebaa Adnan Azooz

In this work, an environmentally friendly, low-cost, and selective procedure exploiting CPE was proposed for separating and determining silver ions in water and sand samples. All reagents and solvents were safe for the environment. Outstanding limits of detection and quantification, and analytical recovery were attained.

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Determination of the Trace Element Contents of Fruit Juice Samples by ICP OES and ICP-MS
Max José Belo de Souza, María Carmen Barciela-Alonso, Manuel Aboal-Somoza, Pilar Bermejo-Barrera

Fruit juices were analysed for their contents in a series of essential and toxic elements. Samples were prepared using a microwave-assisted acid digestion, followed by ICP-OES or ICP-MS determination. The methods were validated, showing good precision, linearity and mean analytical recovery values.

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Extraction, Characterization and Rheological Behavior of Tamarind Gum Under High Salinity
Raíssa Takenaka Rodrigues Carvalho, Carolina Duarte Pedrosa, Alyce Carolyne Porto Leal, Luiz Carlos Magalhães Palermo, Claudia Regina Elias Mansur

The objective of this work was to obtain tamarind gum from Tamarindus indica L. seeds, which are waste from the food industry. The applicability of the tamarind gum as a viscosifying agent for enhanced oil recovery was investigated. Additional applications of the tamarind gum can promote economic development of the production areas.

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Technical Note

Development of Paraquat Pesticide Determination Methodology in Urine Samples by UHPLC-MS/MS
Karolyne Gramlich de Melo, Gabriela Trindade de Souza e Silva, André Danioti dos Santos, Raul Cleverson Dolores, Francisca Oliveira, Ângelo Zanaga Trape, Paulo César Pires Rosa

This work aimed to develop a sensitive and selective analytical method using UPLC-MS/MS seeking a fast and simple sample preparation for the Paraquat quantification in urine samples. To achieve this, two sample preparations were compared in terms of speed and practicality. The method developed was simple, fast, which makes it useful and efficient for toxicology laboratories routine to monitor the exposure levels of farmers dealing with Paraquat daily.

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Feature

SIRIUS – The Brazilian Particle Accelerator

Sirius is the largest and most complex scientific infrastructure ever built in Brazil and one of the most advanced synchrotron light sources in the world. Sirius is a 68,000 m2 particle accelerator inaugurated in 2018 at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, in the city of Campinas, SP, Brazil. The name is a reference to Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

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Sponsor Reports

Total Elemental Analysis of Food Samples for Routine and Research Laboratories using the Thermo Scientific iCAP RQ ICP-MS
Tomoko Vincent, Simon Lofthouse, Daniel Kutscher and Shona McSheehy Ducos

The goal of this work is to demonstrate how simultaneous determination of all elements of interest in a wide range of food samples can be efficiently and rapidly performed using the Thermo Scientific™ iCAP™ RQ ICP-MS.

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Polar pesticides in honey – Optimized chromatographic workflow
Ralph Neufang, Olaf Scheibner, Detlef Jensen
Thermo Fisher Scientific GmbH, Dreieich, Germany

The goal of this work was to develop and validate an integrated sample-to-result analytical workflow with integrated sample prep and based on IC coupled with triple qMS/MS, for the multi-residue determination of polar anionic pesticides in representative honey samples.

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New Performance for High Volume Agriculture Laboratories – Enabling high throughput in elemental analysis of several agriculture matrices using Milestone’s ETHOS UP with MAXI 24 HP
Milestone

The closed vessel microwave digester Milestone’s ETHOS UP equipped with the MAXI 24 High Performance (HP) rotor enables high throughput in elemental analysis of several agriculture matrices.

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Thermo Scientific iCAP RQ ICP-MS – Simplicity, productivity and robustness for routine labs in agribusiness

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