Journal: Current Analytical Chemistry
Guest editor(s):Dr. Wei Chen
Co-Guest Editor(s): Chunying Teng

Introduction

In recent decades, various kinds of pollutants (including traditional pollutants and emerging contaminants) are discharged or generated in the environment, posing great environmental risk due to their complicated environmental behaviors even if some of them are at the trace level. There has been a growing interest in analyzing the behaviors of contaminants in the environment using several advanced detection techniques. Molecular spectroscopic techniques can identify the environmental pollutants concentration, distribution, transformation, and environmental fate. With the continuous development of molecular spectroscopy, this technique has become one of the most extensively used, comprehensive and powerful analytical methods due to its high sensitivity, simple, fast analysis, and good selectivity. The aim of this special Issue is to collect original research papers and review articles on all aspects related to the development of molecular spectroscopic techniques for detecting the concentration, distribution, transformation, and fate of environmental pollutants, including but not limited to Infrared, UV-Visible, Raman, and fluorescence spectroscopy.

Keywords

Molecular spectroscopy, Environmental pollutants, Emerging contaminants, Environmental behavior, Environmental interactions, Chemometrics, Correlation analysis

Sub-topics

Pollutants detection
Environmental analyses
Development of spectroscopic techniques