Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry is an international journal dealing with all aspects of the analytical and bioanalytical sciences. The journal covers all fields of pure and applied analytical chemistry and bioanalysis, including topics at their interfaces with the life and health sciences, the engineering and materials sciences, environmental science, the earth sciences, and others. Fields covered include chemical, biochemical, biological, and physical methods of analysis (e.g. sensors, bioassays, spectroscopic techniques, chromatography, electrochemistry), instrumentation, sampling and sample preparation, separations, miniaturized systems, chemometrics, quality assurance, method validation and process control. The increasing need to develop fast, reliable and environmentally friendly analytical procedures or even complete analytical strategies within a very narrow time frame is a task which needs - more than ever before - the extended interdisciplinary cooperation between the experts in the fields. Therefore, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry has a pronounced interdisciplinary and practice-oriented character and is also devoted to the development of strategies for problem solving in analytical and bioanalytical chemistry and aims at fostering the cooperation between all relevant disciplines.