Introductory Note to the Special Issue of Analytical Letters for the Third International Environmental Chemistry Congress (EnviroChem 2021)

Abstract

This special issue of Analytical Letters is devoted to selected articles based on contributions from the Third International Congress of Environmental Chemistry (EnviroChem 2021). The authors have expanded their conference papers and included their latest experimental results in this special edition of Analytical Letters. EnviroChem 2021 has aimed- to promote and disseminate knowledge on various topics and technologies related to Environmental Chemistry. All articles have gone through the standard review process. The EnviroChem 2021 Conference, where chemists, environmental engineers/scientists and researchers from many countries came together, was held in Antalya Kemer, hosted by Erciyes University (ERU), Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University (MSKU), and the Chemists Society (of Turkey). EnviroChem 2011 combined invited lectures, oral sessions, and poster presentations with a total of 9 invited lectures, 46 contributed oral presentations, and 41 posters. The Conference Organizers would like to thank all committee members, invited speakers, and presenters, authors and reviewers of EnviroChem 2021 who generously shared their expertise with us by presenting/reviewing their valuable contributions to this special issue. Finally, we extend our thanks to Professor David Butcher as the Editor-in-Chief of Analytical Letters and the staff of Taylor & Francis.

Keywords:

• Environmental analysis
• environmental chemistry
• soil
• Third International Environmental Chemistry Congress (EnviroChem 2021)
• water

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Mustafa Soylak

Professor Mustafa Soylak—Short Biography (April 2022)

Prof. Mustafa Soylak is working in the fields Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, Nanocomposites, and Separation/Preconcentration Techniques including Solid Phase Extraction, Coprecipitation, Cloud Point Extraction, Membrane Filtration, Speciation, and Microextraction of trace organic and inorganic species. He has over 670 papers and his H-index is 104 (web of science). He is now Professor at Erciyes University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Kayseri, Turkey. He has received the Ilim Yayma Award (2021), the TUBITAK Science Award (2020), and the TUBITAK Encouragement Award (2001) in Basic Sciences. He has obtained a TUBİTAK 2247—A National Outstanding Researchers Program Project (2021). He is a principal member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA, 2020).

Reşat Apak

Professor Reşat Apak—Short Biography (April 2022)

Professor Reşat Apak received B.S./M.Sc. degrees in chemical engineering (Istanbul University, 1976); obtained postgraduate diploma in marine pollution (Liverpool Univ., 1981); obtained Ph.D. (1982), and became full professor (1993) of analytical chemistry at İstanbul University. He worked at İstanbul University (now İstanbul University-Cerrahpaşa: IUC) as a full professor for the last 29 years. He served as the faculty dean in Istanbul University in the School of Engineering (1996–99) and director of the Institute of Marine Sciences (2007–2015). In the same university, he directed the Division of Analytical Chemistry between 1990 and 2020, and the Center of Food Antioxidants between 2010 and 2020. He is currently working on the basis of a research and teaching contract jointly supplied by the Board of Higher Education (YOK) and IUC Rectorate. He is the editorial board member of Talanta (2004-…), Russian J. Anal. Chem. (2018-…), Analytical Letters (2020- …) and Turkish J. Chem. (1999- …). He represents Turkey in the Analytical Chemistry Division (Division V) of IUPAC as a titular member. Dr. Apak is the author of 290 peer-reviewed research articles published in SCI journals, 17 book chapters and reviews, three textbooks (in Turkish), and one textbook on antioxidant analysis (Wiley, 2018). He has written eight articles in the highest impact journal of experimental analytical sciences (‘Analytical Chemistry’ of ACS). He has an h-index of 50 (i.e., 60 wrt. Google Academic). Dr. Apak has been a principal member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) since 2012. He is the recipient of the highest prestigious science award in Turkey, the TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technical Research Council) Science Award in 2017. He was elected as a Fellow Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in July 2018. Dr. Apak is the inventor of the CUPRAC method of antioxidant capacity determination (2004); the two leading articles of this work have retrieved more than 3400 citations. He has also manufactured the first Turkish test kit for multi-explosive detection in the field. During the pandemic years 2020–21, when most faculty staff could not attend their offices in person, Dr. Apak kept his laboratories open to many BS, graduate, and postgraduate students from all parts of Turkey and published 33 research papers (mostly in the Q1-quartile). He has obtained a TUBİTAK 2247-A National Outstanding Researchers Program Project (2020) and is still working on this project.