1. Preface

   • W. Wegscheider
   • M. Grasserbauer
   • J. F. K. Huber

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. “Declarations of vienna”

   • L. Niinistö

   Announcement Pages: 2 - 2

3. A.E.I.O.U. and reflections on Analytical Chemistry

   • Hanns Malissa Sr.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 12

4. Vapor-particle partitioning of hydrocarbons in Western Mediterranean urban and marine atmospheres

   • Joan Albaigés
   • Josep M. Bayona
   • Rafel Simó

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 27

5. Analysis of trace elements and their physico-chemical forms in natural waters

   • Brit Salbu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 37

6. The development of an automated HPLC system for the determination of trace-metals in concentrated brines and its application to process monitoring

   • Les Ebdon
   • Howard W. Handley
   • Neil W. Barnett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 47

7. Trace element speciation in soils, soil extracts and solutions

   • Allan M. Ure

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 57

8. Yes, I'm still eating

   • Reto Battaglia

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 62

9. Analytical aspects of veterinary drug residues

   • Nel Haagsma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 70

10. Analysis of irradiated food

    • Werner Meier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 79

11. A site-specific and multi-element isotopic approach to origin inference of sugars in foods and beverages

    • Maryvonne L. Martin
    • Gérard J. Martin
    • Claude Guillou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 91

12. Chemometrical applications in an industrial food research laboratory

    • Sijmen de Jong

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 101

13. Trends in product analysis for research in the pharmaceutical industry

    • Sven -Olof Jansson
    • Jörgen Vessman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 112

14. Enantioselective chromatography: Selection of chiral recognition models

    • Wolfgang Lindner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 128

15. New trends in methodological developments in clinical chemistry

    • Josef Breuer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 133

16. HPLC in clinical chemistry: Selected topics and clinical applications

    • Helmut Greiling
    • Ruediger Kock

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 143

17. Quantitative mass spectrometry in clinical chemistry

    • Lothar Siekmann
    • Rolf Kruse
    • Gerhard Röhle

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 155

18. Chemiluminometric techniques in clinical chemistry

    • Mathias M. Müller
    • Andrea Griesmacher
    • Martin Grabenwöger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 166

19. Challenges in the relation between analysis and biotechnology

    • Bauke te Nijenhuis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 176

20. The characterization of high-tech materials: Perspectives, challenges, trends

    • Hugo M. Ortner
    • Peter Wilhartitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 214

21. The analysis of synthetic organic materials—A review

    • Gottfried Glöckner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 223

22. Polymer analysis: Molecular structure and properties of industrial polymers

    • Rainer Kuhn
    • Herbert Krömer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 235

23. Surface spectroscopic characterization of advanced polymer materials

    • Luigia Sabbatini
    • Cosimino Malitesta
    • Pier G. Zambonin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 243

24. Scientific methods applied to the study of art objects

    • Christian Lahanier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 254

25. Glass of the past: The degradation and deterioration of medieval glass artifacts

    • Manfred Schreiner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 264

26. Inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry: Analytical assessment of the technique at the beginning of the 90's

    • Alfredo Sanz-Medel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 275

27. Laser-induced fluorescence in a furnace: A viable approach to absolute analysis?

    • Nicolo Omenetto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 285

28. Fundamental and applied investigations in plasma-source mass spectrometry for elemental analysis

    • Barbara S. Ross
    • David M. Chambers
    • Gary M. Hieftje

    OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 297

29. Mechanism of the thermal decomposition of nitrates from graphite furnace mass spectrometry studies

    • Boris V. L'vov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 308

30. Analysis of thin solid films and surfaces by infrared spectroscopy

    • Peter Grosse

    OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 323

31. MS/MS in structural analysis of an oviposition-deterring pheromone

    • Dieter R. Müller
    • Bruno Domon
    • Wilhelm J. Richter

    OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 335

32. Mobile and stationary phases for SFC: Effects of using modifiers

    • Hans -Gerd Janssen
    • Peter J. Schoenmakers
    • Carel A. Cramers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 351

33. New possibilities in Analytical Chemistry connected with voltammetric applications of microelectrodes

    • Zbigniew Stojek

    OriginalPaper Pages: 353 - 361

34. Membrane-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) sensors

    • Yuri Vlasov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 377

35. Activation analysis: Present status in relation to other analytical techniques

    • Carlo Vandecasteele

    OriginalPaper Pages: 379 - 389

36. Advancing thermal analysis in response to the increasing demands

    • Patrick K. Gallagher

    OriginalPaper Pages: 391 - 399

37. The position-sensitive atom probe: Reconstruction of the atomic chemistry of solids in 3-dimensions (summary)

    • Alfred Cerezo
    • George D. W. Smith

    OriginalPaper Pages: 401 - 404

38. Local and surface analysis within an analytical electron microscope

    • Pierre Trebbia
    • Daniel Ugarte

    OriginalPaper Pages: 405 - 413

39. Image processing in secondary ion mass spectrometry

    • Wim K. Vanhoolst
    • Pierre J. Van Espen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 415 - 425

40. Scanning tunneling microscopy on clean and adsorbate covered metal surfaces

    • Rolf Jürgen Behm

    OriginalPaper Pages: 427 - 433

41. Synchrotron radiation for structure analysis—EXAFS and XANES

    • Takatoshi Murata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 444

42. Mechanized techniques for sample decomposition and element preconcentration

    • Günter Knapp

    OriginalPaper Pages: 445 - 455

43. Sampling: The foundation-block of analysis

    • Pierre M. Gy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 457 - 466

44. Multivariate exploratory data analysis in chemical industry

    • Claus Weihs
    • Heinz Schmidli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 467 - 482

45. SpecInfo—A multidimensional spectroscopic interpretation system

    • Wolfgang Bremser
    • Michael Grzonka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 483 - 491

46. Expert systems for method development and validation in HPLC

    • Mary Mulholland
    • N. Walker
    • Peter J. Schoenmakers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 503

47. Neural network models for infrared spectrum interpretation

    • Morton E. Munk
    • Mark S. Madison
    • Ernest W. Robb

    OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 514

48. Chemical imaging in biology and medicine using ion microscopy

    • David S. Mantus
    • George H. Morrison

    OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 522

49. A journey through quality control

    • Brian E. Broderick
    • Wim P. Cofino
    • Allan G. Kelly

    OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 542

50. Education and training in Analytical Chemistry

    • Lauri Niinistö
    • Robert Kellner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 544