Sample Preparation for Hyphenated Analytical Techniques

Hyphenation - linking together of standard analytical techniques - generally leads to enhanced analytical performance, so hyphenated techniques are widely used in analytical chemistry, and particularly in areas where samples are presented in complex matrices, e.g. environmental, pharmaceutical and biochemical or biomedical analysis. Sample preparation is often the most time-consuming step in these analyses, exerting a huge influence on the speed, accuracy and precision of the analytical results. Sample Preparation for Hyphenated Analytical Techniques demonstrates the sample preparation chemistry that has enabled the present sensitivity, specificity and high throughput available across a range of hyphenated analytical techniques, and illustrates the successful utilization of existing sample preparation methodologies in various analytical applications.