Recent Advances in Environmental Analysis

摘要

This Review focuses on the most salient developments and advances in environmental analysis reported over the period 2009-2010. References were found by computer-assisted searching the Web of Knowledge. Around twenty journals that regularly publish papers on environmental analysis or related topics were directly searched. Because Analytical Chemistry's current policy limits the retrieval of references to a maximum of 250, only a small fraction of the literature published on the topic during the reviewed period is discussed here. For this reason, we have chosen to deal only with those techniques and strategies best illustrating the recent evolution of environmental analysis with regards to the sampling, extraction, separation/detection, and quantitation of pollutants in the environment. Also, we have placed special emphasis on field methods, the use of integrated approaches based on chemical and biomonitoring strategies, and recent advances in environmetrics.