“…Notable approaches make use of solution-phase chelation followed by adsorption onto reversed-phase C 18 substrates [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], activated carbon [10,11] or PTFE knotted reactors [12,13,14,15], retention on chelating resins [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28], precipitation [29,30,31,32], and electrodeposition [33,34]. The on-line methods exhibit some favorable features over the manual batch-type procedures, such as fully automated sample treatment, lower risk of contamination, and direct coupling with the detection system.…”