Elinor Hughes | Authors

Elinor Hughes obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry and Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Bangor University, UK. After working for a chemical manufacturing company for three years, she moved to the Royal Society of Chemistry where she worked in journals publishing for six years and on Chemistry World magazine for four years. This was followed by five years as a freelance copyeditor and science writer. Her current role is technical copywriter at Markes International.

Articles

Comparing the Flavour Profiles of Soft Drink Brands Using Immersive Sorptive Extraction, GC×GC–TOF-MS, and Chemometrics

Immersive sorptive extraction coupled with comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography and time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC–TOF-MS) was used to compare flavour profiles from popular brand soft drinks with those of imitation products.

Analysis of Volatile Organic Pollutants in Water Using Headspace–Trap GC–MS: Maximizing Performance for ppt‑Level VOCs

A broad range of trace-level volatile organic compounds was detected in drinking water using headspace–trap sampling.

Improved Characterization of Malodours in Recycled Plastics

A TD–GC×GC–TOF-MS method for malodour detection

How Tube-Based Thermal Desorption Can be Used to Monitor Chemical Warfare Agents at Ultratrace Levels

This study demonstrates the analysis of live chemical warfare agents and simulants at trace and higher levels.

How Switching from Helium to Hydrogen Carrier Gas in Thermal Desorbers Enhances Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Systems

Analysis of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in air demonstrates that a TD–GC–MS system can operate with hydrogen carrier gas as well as it does with helium.

Tackling Food Fraud: Solid-Phase Microextraction Using Multi-Step Enrichment to Enhance Aroma Profiling in Olive Oil

The potential of SPME when combined with MSE for the characterization of olive oil aroma profiles is presented.