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Analytical Chemistry in Modern Society: What we can Expect

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Analytical chemistry today contributes many analytical techniques which are required in industry, environmental control, medical laboratories and other areas of society. However, increased portability and miniaturization has the potential to enable us to solve new problems such as the analysis of new matrices including the possibility to analyse even cellular compartments. In this development process it is also being attempted to produce instruments and techniques which can be used by non-specialists. The integration, in a recent future, of microanalytical systems into our water taps permitting to control the presence of contaminants or microanalytical systems to control our health profile are some examples of the future contribution of analytical chemistry to society which probably will change our life.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Campus de Montilivi, University of Girona, E-17071, Girona, Spain

    Bartolomé M. Simonet

  2. Department of Analytical Chemistry, Campus de Rabanales, University of Córdoba, E-14071, Córdoba, Spain

    Miguel Valcárcel

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Simonet, B., Valcárcel, M. Analytical Chemistry in Modern Society: What we can Expect. Microchim Acta 153, 1–5 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-005-0390-z

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