Name of institution: Poznan University of Technology

Department: Department of Analytical Chemistry

Address: Piotrowo 3, 60-965 Poznan, Poland

Web site: www.fct.put.poznan.pl

Contact person:

Henryk MATUSIEWICZ

Professor

phone: 48-61-665 23 12

fax: 48-61-665 25 71

e-mail: Henryk.Matusiewicz@put.poznan.pl

Keywords: microwave-assisted sample preparation; solid/slurry sampling; hydride generation/trapping; thermal vaporization; atomic absorption spectrometry; inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES); microwave induced plasma-optical emission spectrometry (MIP-OES); trace analysis; speciation analysis; trace element

Research profile:

Research is mainly focused on the development of spectroanalytical methodologies for the determination of trace elements in small and valuable samples. Of the analytical techniques proposed for use in the determination of mineral, trace and ultratrace elements content in materials are:

· laser technology development; the combination of laser ablation (LA) with ICP-OES and/or MIP-OES,

· the combination of thermal vaporization (TV) and/or electrothermal vaporization (ETV) with ICP-OES, MIP-OES,

· solid sampling (SS)-graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GF-AAS),

· slurry sampling (SLS)-hydride generation (HG)-in situ preconcentration-GF-AAS technique,

· micro sampling (discrete sample introduction system) for ICP/MIP-OES.

Research is also focused on sample preparation methods including microwave-assisted digestion and direct analysis of solids prepared as slurries.

In general, the field of research is concerned with application of analytical methods to problems of environmental, biological and clinical chemistry and inorganic trace analysis, including speciation analysis; new developments in analytical instrumentation and techniques such as laser ablation, thermal vaporization, solid, slurry and discrete sampling, hydride generation combined with atomic spectrometric techniques (AAS, ICP, MIP).

Domains of applications:

Development of sample preparation techniques for inorganic trace analysis; development of derivatization techniques; determination of inorganic compounds at trace element level in biological, clinical, environmental samples by analytical atomic spectrometric techniques; determination of platinum group elements.