Current Analytical Chemistry - Volume 17, Issue 9, 2021

Nanomaterials, owing to their progressive development, could be widely used in electrochemical drug analysis due to their unique physical and chemical properties. Herein, we have presented a general perspective on electrochemical approaches based on different nanomaterials for drug analysis, that were performed in the last decade.

Background: Metabolomics has gained importance in clinical applications over the last decade. Metabolomics studies are significant because the systemic metabolome is directly affected by disease conditions. Metabolome-based biomarkers are actively being developed for early diagnosis and to indicate the stage of specific diseases. Additionally, understanding the effect of an intervention on a living organism at the molec Read More

Background: In this review, an outline of the development of omics studies in recent years was envisaged. The bottom-up and top-down approaches on system biology were discussed and some of the recent tools that integrate multiomics data on system biology studies were examined. The improvements in omics applications from genomics to metabolomics were inspected in the light of breast cancer biomar Read More

Background: Chromatographic techniques, such as TLC basically and HPLC, GC, HPTLC, equipped with various detectors are most frequently used for the qualitative and quantitative examination of herbals. Methods: An overview of the recent literature concerning the usage of HPTLC for the analysis of medicinal plants has been carried out. Results: During the last decade/s, HPTLC, a modern, sophisticated, and automatized T Read More

Background: Green Chemistry has emerged as a new field of study in chemistry in the past 15 years and is intended to be sustainable at the molecular level. Green Chemistry has focused on harmless chemical technologies to meet both environment and targets. The purpose of Green Chromatography is to protect the environment and the analyst like Green Chemistry. Objective: The main target is to reduce the consu Read More

Background: Quinolones are an important group of synthetic antibiotics with bactericidal action. The antibacterial activity of these compounds has been shown to result from selective inhibition of bacterial DNA synthesis. It is a preferable option in clinical use because of its efficacy, reliability and wide antibacterial spectrum. The identification and quantification of quinolones in various biological tissues and fluids are needed. M Read More

Background: Recently, liquid chromatography based on tandem mass spectrometry (LCMS/ MS) has become an efficient tool in analyzes of many compounds in various biological matrices. However, as known by researchers, these biological matrices cause various interferences by suppressing (ion suppression) or increasing ionization (ion enhancement). Since this challenge was recognized in the 1990s, many studies have been Read More

Background: Electrochemical methods in drug analysis have a lot of advantages, including simplicity, speed, low-cost instrumentation, informing about the drug mechanism, and nonaffection by excipients in dosage forms. Electrochemical techniques utilize the advantages of nanomaterials to increase sensitivity and, in some cases, selectivity. Among these nanomaterials, metal oxide nanoparticles are also preferred by researc Read More

Background: Ionic liquids (ILs) are a unique class of compounds consisting exclusively of cations and anions that possess distinctive properties such as low volatility, high thermal stability, miscibility with water and organic solvents, electrolytic conductivity and non-flammability. Ionic liquids have been defined as "design solvents", because it is possible to modify their physical and chemical properties by appropriately choosing cati Read More

Background: Cephalosporin antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections in humans and animals. Their excessive usage and massive production rates have led to their presence in the environment, causing serious threats, such as antibiotic resistance. Several methods have been used for the detection and quantification of these antibiotic traces in the environment; among them, sensors have been the most advanced tools tha Read More

Background: The combination of cloud point extraction (CPE) with inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP OES) is limited due to the effect of organic diluent and surfactant on the signal. Methods: A dual-CPE process (d-CPE) was presented for the enrichment of aluminum (Al3+), before determination by ICP OES, to exclude the effect of surfactant and organic solvent on the ICP OES signal. The a Read More

Background: Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a common reagent in the production and living, but excessive H2O2 may enhance the danger to the human body. Consequently, it is very important to develop economical, fast and accurate techniques for detecting H2O2. Methods: A simple two-step electrodeposition process was applied to synthesize Pd-Cu/Cu2O nanocomposite for non-enzymatic H2O2 sensor. Cu/Cu2O nanoma Read More

We apologize for the error that occurred in the online version of the article. Incorrect name of 5th author was published in the article entitled “Water Pollution Monitoring through Remote Sensing” in “Curr. Anal. Chem., 2021, 17(6), 802-814 [1]. The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.2174/1573411016666200206095055 Original: Gadug Sudhamsu Corrected: Gurijala Sudhamsu