About this Research Topic
Plants are an extremely valuable source of bioactive compounds providing simple, eco-friendly, low-cost, fast, and less toxic remedies, also having great unexplored potential for discovering the presence of new bioactive molecules for the health industry.
The search for effective and safe solvents for the extraction of bioactive compounds from plant materials is a challenging task due to the increasingly strict control requirements for solvent residues in the final products and the need for environmental friendliness. In addition to the used solvent, the extraction efficiency can be significantly influenced by the used extraction technique.
The journal Frontiers in Analytical Sciences is developing themed multi-disciplinary article collections focusing on bio-active compounds from plants to publish significant findings and major advances related to the design of analytical procedures and separation systems for phytochemicals. This includes the development of analytical methods using new and environmentally friendly solvents, modification of extraction techniques to increase the yield of target compounds economically in the sense of energy and solvent, etc. The design of methods is expected to include sample treatment and the development of related instrumentation.
Articles may be entirely theoretical concerning the quality of analysis. They may report the application of new analytical methods to solve significant problems in biochemical, biomedical, environmental, forensic and clinical analysis related to phytochemicals and provide the parameters to assess the quality of a product.
The collection expects that the reported methods and technologies are innovative compared to other available methods and that quality improvement aspects are demonstrated with real samples.
Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles are welcome in this Research Topic covering areas, but not limited to:
• Developing analytical methods and procedures based on neoteric solvents and new extraction techniques, additional most commonly used ones, accompanied with optimizing the techniques and procedures of analysis;
• Development of analytical instrumentation or improvement to increase the sensitivity/selectivity together with environmental friendliness;
• Point-of-care diagnostics (including related miniaturization approaches - microfluidics, sensors, single-molecule and/or cellular analysis) especially considering green aspects of chemical analysis;
• Characterization of antimicrobial and antioxidant activity;
• Computational, statistical, and chemometric methods for analysis data treatment.
The search for effective and safe solvents for the extraction of bioactive compounds from plant materials is a challenging task due to the increasingly strict control requirements for solvent residues in the final products and the need for environmental friendliness. In addition to the used solvent, the extraction efficiency can be significantly influenced by the used extraction technique.
The journal Frontiers in Analytical Sciences is developing themed multi-disciplinary article collections focusing on bio-active compounds from plants to publish significant findings and major advances related to the design of analytical procedures and separation systems for phytochemicals. This includes the development of analytical methods using new and environmentally friendly solvents, modification of extraction techniques to increase the yield of target compounds economically in the sense of energy and solvent, etc. The design of methods is expected to include sample treatment and the development of related instrumentation.
Articles may be entirely theoretical concerning the quality of analysis. They may report the application of new analytical methods to solve significant problems in biochemical, biomedical, environmental, forensic and clinical analysis related to phytochemicals and provide the parameters to assess the quality of a product.
The collection expects that the reported methods and technologies are innovative compared to other available methods and that quality improvement aspects are demonstrated with real samples.
Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles are welcome in this Research Topic covering areas, but not limited to:
• Developing analytical methods and procedures based on neoteric solvents and new extraction techniques, additional most commonly used ones, accompanied with optimizing the techniques and procedures of analysis;
• Development of analytical instrumentation or improvement to increase the sensitivity/selectivity together with environmental friendliness;
• Point-of-care diagnostics (including related miniaturization approaches - microfluidics, sensors, single-molecule and/or cellular analysis) especially considering green aspects of chemical analysis;
• Characterization of antimicrobial and antioxidant activity;
• Computational, statistical, and chemometric methods for analysis data treatment.
Keywords: Extraction; Green separation methods; Environmentally friendly solvents; Phytochemicals; Antioxidants
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
