Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue entitled "Featured Reviews in Separation Science" aims to publish high-quality review papers in Separations, an MDPI journal with an increasing impact in the field of Analytical Chemistry. This proposal will cover a wide range of topics dealing with fundamentals of separation science as well as relevant applications of this discipline to different scientific areas.

We want to encourage scholars to present papers addressing the new trends in liquid and gas chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and related techniques. Certainly, aspects such as advances in column technology and high-performance platforms will be of great interest to the readers of this journal. Reviews on complementary approaches such as ion mobility spectrometry and microchip-based devices will also be welcome.

Furthermore, in recent years, the marriage of separation methods with chemometrics has opened up awesome opportunities. This is another hot topic deserving review. In this regard, we want to remark on the role of experimental design in optimization as well as the use of chemometrics for the analysis of chromatographic or electrophoretic data.

Finally, experts in the application of separation methods to other scientific areas, such as environment, ecology, agricultural and food sciences, pharmaceutical research, medicine, bioanalysis, etc., are also called to present the state-of-the-art, with an overview of examples on the determination of significant families of compounds.

We hope that together we can make an excellent Issue on separation science that will be helpful for the entire scientific community.

Prof. Dr. Javier Saurina
Prof. Dr. Oscar Núñez
Dr. Sonia Sentellas
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Separations is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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