2014 Atomic Spectrometry Update – a review of advances in X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

Potential of integrated field spectroscopy and spatial analysis for enhanced assessment of soil contamination: A prospective review

“…atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS) and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES)) and found good agreement for a range of metals (e.g. see reviews by Kalnicky and Singhvi, 2001;Ramsey, 2008;West et al, 2013). Conventional, exclusively laboratory-based methods involve time-consuming sample preparations which result in a soil digest suitable for analytical measurement.…”

“…Extensive reviews on the development of PXRF devices over the past decades can be found in Hou et al (2004), Potts and West (2008) and West et al (2013).…”

“…In the last twenty years or so, portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) analysers have been recognised as a possible way of measuring soil contaminants as they offer rapid, real-time, simultaneous multi-elemental analysis of soil samples in a solid condition with minimal or no sample treatments (West et al, 2013). The use of these devices has been well established in the laboratory but with recent advances in PXRF technology their potential use in the field has become very attractive for environmental surveying (Hou et al, 2004).…”

X-ray fluorescence and gamma-ray spectrometry combined with multivariate analysis for topographic studies in agricultural soil

“…It is very common to use non-destructive methodologies like gamma-ray spectrometry and X-ray spectrometry for soil characterization (West et al, 2013;Kuang et al, 2012). Furthermore, because of advances in analytical instrumentation, it is now possible to generate large data sets that are difficult to evaluate using simple univariate statistical methods, especially due to their complexity and to their multivariate nature (Luo, 2006).…”

Portable EDXRF for Quality Assurance of Cosmetics

“…Specifically, Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) is one of the atomic spectrometric techniques that allow portable use on field [1]. It is OPEN ACCESS remarkable how quickly hand-held and mobile EDXRF instrumentation has developed in the last 3 years in different areas and applications [2,3], providing a viable, cost and time effective approach for on-site analysis of a variety of samples. Also, an important industrial use of XRF is in the routine on-line analysis of raw materials and final products.…”