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