1. Thanks to reviewers in 2011

   Acknowledgement to Referees 25 October 2011 Pages: 3019 - 3032

2. Jürgen H. Gross: Mass spectrometry–A Textbook, 2nd ed.

   • Wolf Dieter Lehmann

   Books and Software in Review 18 October 2011 Pages: 3033 - 3034

   

3. Vladimir M. Mirsky and Anatoly Yatsimirsky (Eds.): Artificial receptors for chemical sensors

   • Ryan J. White

   Books and Software in Review 04 October 2011 Pages: 3035 - 3036

   

4. Eighth Advanced Study Course on Optical Chemical Sensors—ASCOS

   • A. Katrin Krieg
   • Sabrina Rau
   • Melanie Ewald

   Conference Highlights 29 September 2011 Pages: 3037 - 3038

5. 2012 Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for Analytical Spectroscopy

   • Detlef Günther

   Announcement 20 October 2011 Pages: 3039 - 3039

6. Ambient aerosols and human health: working towards a combined analytical and toxicological approach

   • Ralf Zimmermann

   Editorial 25 October 2011 Pages: 3041 - 3044

   

7. Understanding atmospheric organic aerosols via factor analysis of aerosol mass spectrometry: a review

   • Qi Zhang
   • Jose L. Jimenez
   • Yele Sun

   Review Open access 05 October 2011 Pages: 3045 - 3067

   

8. Baltimore PM2.5 Supersite: highly time-resolved organic compounds—sampling duration and phase distribution—implications for health effects studies

   • Wolfgang F. Rogge
   • John M. Ondov
   • Orhan Sevimoglu

   Original Paper 19 October 2011 Pages: 3069 - 3082

   

9. Application of direct thermal desorption gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry for determination of nonpolar organics in low-volume samples from ambient particulate matter and personal samplers

   • Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis
   • Jürgen Orasche
   • Ralf Zimmermann

   Original Paper 16 November 2011 Pages: 3083 - 3094

   

10. Characterisation of airborne particles and associated organic components produced from incense burning

    • Hsiao-Chi Chuang
    • Tim Jones
    • Kelly BéruBé

    Original Paper 17 July 2011 Pages: 3095 - 3102

    

11. An advanced LC-MS (Q-TOF) technique for the detection of amino acids in atmospheric aerosols

    • Shar Samy
    • James Robinson
    • Michael D. Hays

    Original Paper 16 July 2011 Pages: 3103 - 3113

    

12. Development and validation of a selective HPLC-ESI-MS/MS method for the quantification of glyoxal and methylglyoxal in atmospheric aerosols (PM_2.5)

    • Christopher J. Kampf
    • Boris Bonn
    • Thorsten Hoffmann

    Original Paper 03 July 2011 Pages: 3115 - 3124

    

13. Nonpolar organic compounds in fine particles: quantification by thermal desorption–GC/MS and evidence for their significant oxidation in ambient aerosols in Hong Kong

    • Jian Zhen Yu
    • X. H. Hilda Huang
    • Qijing Bian

    Original Paper 11 October 2011 Pages: 3125 - 3139

    

14. Quality assurance and quality control for thermal/optical analysis of aerosol samples for organic and elemental carbon

    • Judith C. Chow
    • John G. Watson
    • Kochy K. Fung

    Original Paper 28 May 2011 Pages: 3141 - 3152

    

15. Hyphenation of a carbon analyzer to photo-ionization mass spectrometry to unravel the organic composition of particulate matter on a molecular level

    • Jana Grabowsky
    • Thorsten Streibel
    • Ralf Zimmermann

    Original Paper 02 October 2011 Pages: 3153 - 3164

    

16. Characterization of surgical aerosols by the compact single-particle mass spectrometer LAMPAS 3

    • K.-P. Hinz
    • E. Gelhausen
    • B. Spengler

    Original Paper 15 October 2011 Pages: 3165 - 3172

    

17. First field application of a thermal desorption resonance-enhanced multiphoton-ionisation single particle time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the on-line detection of particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

    • Markus Oster
    • Michael Elsasser
    • Ralf Zimmermann

    Original Paper 09 October 2011 Pages: 3173 - 3182

    

18. A novel particle sampling system for physico-chemical and toxicological characterization of emissions

    • Jarno Ruusunen
    • Maija Tapanainen
    • Jorma Jokiniemi

    Original Paper 30 September 2011 Pages: 3183 - 3195

    

19. Anti-oxidative and inflammatory responses induced by fly ash particles and carbon black in lung epithelial cells

    • Silvia Diabaté
    • Britta Bergfeldt
    • Carsten Weiss

    Original Paper 28 May 2011 Pages: 3197 - 3212

    

20. Analytical in vitro approach for studying cyto- and genotoxic effects of particulate airborne material

    • Michaela Aufderheide
    • Stefanie Scheffler
    • Dieter Hochrainer

    Original Paper Open access 22 June 2011 Pages: 3213 - 3220

    

21. A standard additions method reduces inhibitor-induced bias in quantitative real-time PCR

    • Stephen L. R. Ellison
    • Kerry R. Emslie
    • Zena Kassir

    Paper in Forefront 15 October 2011 Pages: 3221 - 3227

    

22. Fluorescence polarization biosensor based on an aptamer enzymatic cleavage protection strategy

    • Anthony Kidd
    • Valérie Guieu
    • Eric Peyrin

    Short Communication 06 October 2011 Pages: 3229 - 3234

    

23. A simple method for quantifying the humic content of commercial products

    • François Quentel
    • Montserrat Filella

    Technical Note 22 September 2011 Pages: 3235 - 3238

    

24. Bubble cell for magnetic bead trapping in capillary electrophoresis

    • Anne-Laure Gassner
    • Gaëlle Proczek
    • Hubert H. Girault

    Original Paper 01 October 2011 Pages: 3239 - 3248

    

25. Quantitative profiling of tryptophan metabolites in serum, urine, and cell culture supernatants by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

    • Wentao Zhu
    • Axel P. Stevens
    • Peter J. Oefner

    Original Paper 08 October 2011 Pages: 3249 - 3261

    

26. Orientation of molecular groups of fibers in nonoriented samples determined by polarized ATR-FTIR spectroscopy

    • Karima Belbachir
    • Sophie Lecomte
    • Bernard Desbat

    Original Paper 04 October 2011 Pages: 3263 - 3268

    

27. Multianalyte immunoassay chip for detection of tumor markers by chemiluminescent and colorimetric methods

    • Wei Wei
    • Chunyan Zhang
    • Songqin Liu

    Original Paper 18 September 2011 Pages: 3269 - 3274

    

28. Optimization of dynamic pH junction for the sensitive determination of amino acids in urine by capillary electrophoresis

    • Y. H. Tak
    • G. W. Somsen
    • G. J. de Jong

    Original Paper 20 October 2011 Pages: 3275 - 3281

    

29. Fluoridized iron phosphate as a novel adsorbent for selective separation/isolation of cytochrome c

    • ShiSong Tang
    • WenJing Wang
    • JianHua Wang

    Original Paper 08 October 2011 Pages: 3283 - 3292

    

30. Analysis of multi-class preservatives in leave-on and rinse-off cosmetics by matrix solid-phase dispersion

    • Lucia Sanchez-Prado
    • Gerardo Alvarez-Rivera
    • Maria Llompart

    Original Paper 25 September 2011 Pages: 3293 - 3304

    

31. Improved efficiency of extraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Material Diesel Particulate Matter (SRM 2975) using accelerated solvent extraction

    • Silvia Masala
    • Trifa Ahmed
    • Roger Westerholm

    Original Paper 18 October 2011 Pages: 3305 - 3315

    

32. “Dilute-and-shoot” triple parallel mass spectrometry method for analysis of vitamin D and triacylglycerols in dietary supplements

    • William Craig Byrdwell

    Original Paper 02 October 2011 Pages: 3317 - 3334

    

33. Development and validation of an UPLC-MS/MS method for the determination of ionophoric and synthetic coccidiostats in vegetables

    • N. Broekaert
    • C. Van Peteghem
    • C. Van Poucke

    Original Paper 09 October 2011 Pages: 3335 - 3344

    

34. Multi-wall carbon nanotube aqueous dispersion monitoring by using A4F-UV-MALS

    • Julien Gigault
    • Bruno Grassl
    • Gaëtane Lespes

    Original Paper 27 September 2011 Pages: 3345 - 3353

    

35. Rapid automated method for on-site determination of sulfadiazine in fish farming: a stainless steel veterinary syringe coated with a selective membrane of PVC serving as a potentiometric detector in a flow-injection-analysis system

    • S. A. A. Almeida
    • L. R. Amorim
    • M. G. F. Sales

    Original Paper 13 October 2011 Pages: 3355 - 3365

    

36. Development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the determination of 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furfural in food

    • Guozhen Fang
    • Yanyan Lv
    • Shuo Wang

    Original Paper 11 October 2011 Pages: 3367 - 3373