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It is our pleasure to present you with this special issue on Electrochemistry in Microfluidics and Capillary Electrophoresis. We are pleased to continue the tradition of special issues on electrochemistry in Microsystems and CE, started in 2002 with the special issue of Professors Lunte and Martin [1], and continued by us in 2009 [2]. We have received an overwhelmingly positive response as we extend the scope from electrophoresis to also include non-electrophoretic microsystems.
The present special issue consists of 22 fine contributions, which have a very broad range of origin, from the USA through Europe to Korea, and come from a broad spectrum of articles from fundamental studies to biomedical/relevant applications and fuel cells. In order to give a unitary and complete vision of the subject to the readers, we have divided the special issue simply into two broad categories: (i) Fundamentals and (ii) Applications. Indeed, the issue starts with two interesting reviews. The first review article critically evaluates selected combinations of electrochemical detection (ED) techniques among themselves and with others in order to give the readers an update on how to solve the analysis of complex samples. The second review describes electrokinetic techniques applied to electrochemical DNA biosensors. Then, the issue offers an important group of fundamental papers focusing on novel electrochemical detection modes/approaches, and studies on the fundamental principles of electrochemical detection in microfluidics and CE. In the second part, a significant group of application papers are presented exploiting electrochemical detection on CE and microfluidic platforms. In these papers the readers will find the use of nanomaterials as well as the well-established conductivity and amperometry detection principles involving different applications, focusing mostly on bioanalysis (DNA, proteins, plasma analysis). The special issue closes with essential contributions dealing with automation of electrophoresis systems and fuel cells. In addition, we are very pleased to present you with very fine articles on electrochemical detection in microfluidics in bioanalysis. This clearly indicates the trend and focus of current research, producing proof-of-concept Lab-on-a-chip devices for biomedical studies. This is also in line with the expansion in focus of the Electrophoresis journal, i.e. including nanoanalysis with a focus on biological systems. Both sections tell us about the unquestionable role and potency of ED in the field.
We have recently learned that Prof. Dus หan Kaniansky (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic) passed away. One of us (M. P.) was one of Prof. Kaninsky's countrymen, both originally from former Czechoslovakia. Prof. Kaniansky research focused on electrochemical research methods, both conductivity and amperometric, in isotachophoresis and electrophoresis, in both a conventional and microchip set-up. He published many articles in this field (several in the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry and many in Electrophoresis), which was not an easy thing to do, especially as the financial support in Czechoslovakia (and Slovakia) was not as high as in the USA or Western Europe. From many of his contributions we wish to highlight his pioneering work in the development of amperometric detectors in capillary isotachophoresis [3]. With this, we wish to pay respect to Prof. Kaniansky and his work.
We believe that this special issue will speak for itself. We wish to thank all the authors for their excellent contributions and Professor El Rassi for his continuous
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