TOPICS

Current trends on:

• Spectrochemical, Electrochemical, Chromatographic, and Microscopic methods
• Hyphenated techniques
• Speciation analysis
• Bioanalytics
• Trends on sample handling and preparation
• Chemical and bio-sensors
• Field analysis – Mobile analytical instruments
• Laboratory information management systems (LIMS)
• Miniaturized analytical systems (chips)
• Robotics and Automation
• Quality control – quality assurance on analysis
• Commercial developments and markets
• Flow and micro-flow methodologies
• Immunoassays
• Electrophoretic separation techniques
• Sampling techniques and strategies

Applications:

• Environmental analysis
• Biomedical (Clinical, Ecotoxicological) analysis
• Pharmaceutical analysis
• Material science (Nanomaterials)
• Archaeometry analysis
• Industrial analysis

New instrumentation

Specific applications

Assessment of future commercial trends and opportunities

Spectroscopy:

• Atomic spectroscopy
• Molecular spectroscopy
• NMR spectroscopy