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Analytical Chemistry is a multidisciplinary scientific research area by nature.
Qualitative and quantitative information of chemical species present in a
given material are important for any field of scientific knowledge, such as
technological, commercial, industrial, etc. However, the modern life has
forced the development of analytical techniques and methods to solve new
challenges and for this the meanings of the qualitative and quantitative terms
suffered transformations that reflect the scientific knowledge and technological
progress. While techniques and classical methods require an approach more
based on fundamental chemistry, the current necessities to know the chemical
species in which analytes are present in a sample and the increasingly necessity
for determinations at low concentration in complex samples require a more
comprehensive advance, which extrapolates the lab environment. Over the
years, instrumentation, automation, electronics, computing, mathematics,
chemometrics and new materials have became important areas of development
in Analytical Chemistry. This wider vision encompasses the search for qualitative
and quantitative answers, however, incorporating and making use of inter
and multidisciplinary expertise, able to enhance its efficiency in the most
different aspects, such as accuracy, precision and speed. Within this new vision,
Analytical Chemistry and its technologies are addressing the challenges in the
various social and economic sectors in Brazil (e.g. environment, new materials
and nanotechnology, arrays of biological interest, foods, pharmaceuticals,
agrochemicals and quality control of products and industrial processes). In this
way, we would like to invite you to send your contributions to BrJAC, which
will improve the scientific relationship between academy and industrial sector
and will transform the dream of this periodic in a reality. In the issue number
3 we are presenting an Interview with Prof. Ramon Murray Barnes (University
Research Institute for Analytical Chemistry, USA), who believes in the Brazilian
Analytical Chemistry and re-edition of two paper published in the launching
issue.
Pedro Vitoriano de Oliveira
Editor
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