The Analyst i-section 2006
The i-section collects together all of the general interest and topical elements of The Analyst. Included are the editorial, perspectives, forum articles, highlights, an education section, tutorial and critical reviews, people and laboratory profiles.
Articles featured in the January 2006 i-section
Editorial
Claire Darby and Mike Thompson reflect on the past year and look forward to 2006, and introduce the new Chair of The Analyst Editorial Board.
Highlight
Craig E. Banks and Richard G. Compton - New electrodes for old: from carbon nanotubes to edge plane pyrolytic graphite.
Profile
Jane Thomas-Oates, University of York, UK
Critical Review
Marco D'Alessandro and Ted C. J. Turlings - Advances and challenges in the identification of volatiles that mediate interactions among plants and arthropods.
Articles featured in the February 2006 i-section
Editorial
Dana Spence and Justin Gooding introduce the contributions to the Emerging Investigators Issue
Profile
Profiles of the contributors to the Emerging Investigators Issue.
Articles featured in the March 2006 i-section
Profile
Frank V. Bright, University at Buffalo, USA
Critical Review
Robin K. Harris - NMR studies of organic polymorphs & solvates
Articles featured in the April 2006 i-section
Tutorial Review
J. Kruusma et al. - An introduction to thiol redox proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum and a review of current electrochemical methods of detection of thiols
Articles featured in the May 2006 i-section
Highlight
Jae Ho Shin and Mark H. Schoenfisch - Improving the biocompatibility of in vivo sensors via nitric oxide release
Critical Review
Bree A. Gorman, Paul S. Francis and Neil W. Barnett - Tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence
Articles featured in the June 2006 i-section
Education
Enid N. Gatimu, Jonathan V. Sweedler and Paul W. Bohn - Nanofluidics and the role of nanocapillary array membranes in mass-limited chemical analysis
Articles featured in the July 2006 i-section
Highlight
Wei Li - Multidimensional HRMAS NMR: a platform for in vivo studies using intact bacterial cells
Profile
Richard Compton, University of Oxford, UK
Articles featured in the August 2006 i-section
Editorial
Elizabeth Hall, Mike Thompson and Claire Darby discuss The Analyst and the science of detection
Highlight
Yuji Kimura and Piero R. Bianco discuss single molecule studies of DNA binding proteins using optical tweezers
Critical Review
David I. Ellis and Royston Goodacre discuss metabolic fingerprinting in disease diagnosis: biomedical applications of infrared and Raman spectroscopy
Articles featured in the September 2006 i-section
Forum
James Watterson - Challenges in forensic toxicology of skeletonised human remains
Critical Review
Richard Knochenmuss - Ion formation mechanisms in UV-MALDI
Articles featured in the October 2006 i-section
Forum
Ian D. Wilson et al. - A pragmatic and readily implemented quality control strategy for HPLC-MS and GC-MS-based metabonomic analysis.
Critical Review
Bobby Pejcic, Roland De Marco and Gordon Parkinson - The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases
Articles featured in the November 2006 i-section
Forum
Peter Horvatovich, Natalia Govorukhina and Rainer Bischoff discuss 'Biomarker discovery by proteomics: challenges not only for the analytical chemist'
Tutorial Review
R. Scott Martin, Paul Root and Dana Spence examine 'Microfluidic technologies as platforms for performing quantitative cellular analyses in an in vitro environment'
Articles featured in the December 2006 i-section
Education
D. Brynn Hibbert discusses the uncertainty of a result from a linear calibration
