1. A light upon the horizon: young analytical chemists forging new scientific pathways during an economic downturn

   • Marc R. Knecht
   • Sylvia Daunert

   Editorial 15 March 2009 Pages: 1 - 3

2. Meet the Guest Editors

   Editorial 27 March 2009 Pages: 5 - 6

3. The ultimate “analytical challenge”: what is analytical chemistry?

   • Juris Meija

   Editorial 22 March 2009 Pages: 7 - 8

4. Mendeleyev vodka challenge

   • Juris Meija

   Analytical Challenge 14 March 2009 Pages: 9 - 10

   

5. Solution to precision weighing challenge

   • Juris Meija

   Analytical Challenge 12 March 2009 Pages: 11 - 12

6. Gene transfer and protein release of fission yeast by application of a high voltage electric pulse

   • Minoru Suga
   • Toyomasa Hatakeyama

   Trends 26 February 2009 Pages: 13 - 16

7. Monitoring of vesicular exocytosis from single cells using micrometer and nanometer-sized electrochemical sensors

   • Wei Wang
   • Shu-Hui Zhang
   • Wei-Hua Huang

   Review 10 March 2009 Pages: 17 - 32

   

8. Bio-inspired colorimetric detection of Hg²⁺ and Pb²⁺ heavy metal ions using Au nanoparticles

   • Marc R. Knecht
   • Manish Sethi

   Review 03 February 2009 Pages: 33 - 46

   

9. Nanomaterials in fluorescence-based biosensing

   • Wenwan Zhong

   Review Open access 17 February 2009 Pages: 47 - 59

   

10. Magnetic microbead-based electrochemical immunoassays

    • Hideki Kuramitz

    Review 20 February 2009 Pages: 61 - 69

    

11. Recent advances in polymer monoliths for ion-exchange chromatography

    • Anna Nordborg
    • Emily F. Hilder

    Review 11 February 2009 Pages: 71 - 84

    

12. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for probing internal cellular structure and dynamics

    • Katherine A. Willets

    Review 07 March 2009 Pages: 85 - 94

    

13. Electrochemical quantification of reactive oxygen and nitrogen: challenges and opportunities

    • Sabine Borgmann

    Review 12 March 2009 Pages: 95 - 105

    

14. Principles of responsive lanthanide-based luminescent probes for cellular imaging

    • Aurore Thibon
    • Valérie C. Pierre

    Review 13 March 2009 Pages: 107 - 120

    

15. Label-free technologies for quantitative multiparameter biological analysis

    • Abraham J. Qavi
    • Adam L. Washburn
    • Ryan C. Bailey

    Review 17 February 2009 Pages: 121 - 135

    

16. Environmental metabolomics: new insights into earthworm ecotoxicity and contaminant bioavailability in soil

    • Myrna J. Simpson
    • Jennifer R. McKelvie

    Review 05 February 2009 Pages: 137 - 149

    

17. The correspondence problem for metabonomics datasets

    • K. Magnus Åberg
    • Erik Alm
    • Ralf J. O. Torgrip

    Review 07 February 2009 Pages: 151 - 162

    

18. Oligosaccharide analysis by graphitized carbon liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry

    • L. Renee Ruhaak
    • André M. Deelder
    • Manfred Wuhrer

    Review Open access 27 February 2009 Pages: 163 - 174

    

19. Sweeping and new on-line sample preconcentration techniques in capillary electrophoresis

    • Agnes T. Aranas
    • Armando M. Guidote Jr.
    • Joselito P. Quirino

    Review 03 March 2009 Pages: 175 - 185

    

20. Micro free-flow electrophoresis: theory and applications

    • Ryan T. Turgeon
    • Michael T. Bowser

    Review 17 March 2009 Pages: 187 - 198

    

21. Isotope scrambling and error magnification in multiple-spiking isotope dilution

    • Juris Meija
    • Laurent Ouerdane
    • Zoltán Mester

    Short Communication 10 February 2009 Pages: 199 - 205

    

22. Label-free detection of the aptamer binding on protein patterns using Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM)

    • Pei Gao
    • Yuguang Cai

    Original Paper 16 January 2009 Pages: 207 - 214

    

23. Investigation of the magnetic properties of ferritin by AFM imaging with magnetic sample modulation

    • Stephanie L. Daniels
    • Johnpeter N. Ngunjiri
    • Jayne C. Garno

    Original Paper 11 February 2009 Pages: 215 - 223

    

24. Measurement of longitudinal sulfur isotopic variations by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS in single human hair strands

    • Rebeca Santamaria-Fernandez
    • Justo Giner Martínez-Sierra
    • Ruth Hearn

    Original Paper 06 February 2009 Pages: 225 - 233

    

25. Characterizing ion mobility-mass spectrometry conformation space for the analysis of complex biological samples

    • Larissa S. Fenn
    • Michal Kliman
    • John A. McLean

    Original Paper 27 February 2009 Pages: 235 - 244

    

26. Reactive desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) of natural products of a marine alga

    • Leonard Nyadong
    • Edward G. Hohenstein
    • Facundo M. Fernández

    Original Paper 07 March 2009 Pages: 245 - 254

    

27. Evaluation of polyurethane foam, polypropylene, quartz fiber, and cellulose substrates for multi-element analysis of atmospheric particulate matter by ICP-MS

    • Nabin Upadhyay
    • Brian J. Majestic
    • Pierre Herckes

    Original Paper 26 February 2009 Pages: 255 - 266

    

28. Complementary precursor ion and neutral loss scan mode tandem mass spectrometry for the analysis of glycerophosphatidylethanolamine lipids from whole rat retina

    • Todd A. Lydic
    • Julia V. Busik
    • Gavin E. Reid

    Original Paper 11 March 2009 Pages: 267 - 275

    

29. Cell separation by the combination of microfluidics and optical trapping force on a microchip

    • Masaya Murata
    • Yukihiro Okamoto
    • Yoshinobu Baba

    Original Paper 19 February 2009 Pages: 277 - 283

    

30. Shape selectivity in embedded polar group stationary phases for liquid chromatography

    • Catherine A. Rimmer
    • Lane C. Sander

    Original Paper 17 February 2009 Pages: 285 - 291

    

31. Characterization of electrokinetic mobility of microparticles in order to improve dielectrophoretic concentration

    • José I. Martínez-López
    • Héctor Moncada-Hernández
    • Blanca H. Lapizco-Encinas

    Original Paper 04 February 2009 Pages: 293 - 302

    

32. Partition layer-modified substrates for reversible surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

    • Courtney L. Jones
    • Kyle C. Bantz
    • Christy L. Haynes

    Original Paper 05 March 2009 Pages: 303 - 311

    

33. Optimization of capillary electrophoresis conditions for a glucagon competitive immunoassay using response surface methodology

    • Anna R. Lomasney
    • Christelle Guillo
    • Michael G. Roper

    Original Paper 03 February 2009 Pages: 313 - 319

    

34. A fluorous tag-bound fluorescence derivatization reagent, F-trap pyrene, for reagent peak-free HPLC analysis of aliphatic amines

    • Kenichiro Todoroki
    • Hidemichi Etoh
    • Masatoshi Yamaguchi

    Original Paper 26 February 2009 Pages: 321 - 327

    

35. Fast-scan cyclic voltammetry for the detection of tyramine and octopamine

    • Stephanie E. Cooper
    • B. Jill Venton

    Original Paper 03 February 2009 Pages: 329 - 336

    

36. Critical evaluation of novel dynamic flow-through methods for automatic sequential BCR extraction of trace metals in fly ash

    • Warunya Boonjob
    • María Rosende
    • Víctor Cerdà

    Original Paper 04 February 2009 Pages: 337 - 349

    

37. Internal correction of hafnium oxide spectral interferences and mass bias in the determination of platinum in environmental samples using isotope dilution analysis

    • José Ángel Rodríguez-Castrillón
    • Mariella Moldovan
    • J. Ignacio García Alonso

    Original Paper 14 March 2009 Pages: 351 - 362

    

38. The effects of microbial degradation on ignitable liquids

    • Dee A. Turner
    • John V. Goodpaster

    Original Paper 11 February 2009 Pages: 363 - 371

    

39. Spectroscopic evaluation of a compact magnetically boosted radiofrequency glow discharge for time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    • P. Vega
    • J. Pisonero
    • A. Sanz-Medel

    Technical Note 04 March 2009 Pages: 373 - 382