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Zoltán Mester

Zoltán Mester

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Chemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
11944
World Ranking
9336
National Ranking
242

Overview

Zoltán Mester is a researcher affiliated with Queen's University in Canada. Their work spans Environmental Science and Chemistry, with a particular focus on analytical chemistry methodologies and their applications.

The researcher has contributed significantly to various subfields such as:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Ecology
  • Pollution
  • Spectroscopy

Mester's main research topics include:

  • Analytical chemistry methods development
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Selenium in Biological Systems
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies

The researcher has published in several key scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
  • Metrologia
  • Chemistry International
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Pure and Applied Chemistry

Among notable recent papers are:

  • "Copper Isotopic Analysis in Geological and Biological Reference Materials by MC-ICP-MS" (2020, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research)
  • "Determination of 27 metals in HISS-1, MESS-4 and PACS-3 marine sediment certified reference materials by the BCR sequential extraction" (2020, Talanta)
  • "Analytical chemistry of engineered nanomaterials: Part 1. Scope, regulation, legislation, and metrology (IUPAC Technical Report)" (2023, Pure and Applied Chemistry)
  • "Arsenic speciation in sea cucumbers: Identification and quantitation of water-extractable species" (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • "Discontinuity in the Realization of the Vienna Peedee Belemnite Carbon Isotope Ratio Scale" (2021, Analytical Chemistry)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Juris Meija
  • Zuzana Gajdosechova
  • Lu Yang
  • Kelly L. LeBlanc
  • Patrícia Grinberg

Best Publications

  • Cellular consequences of copper complexes used to catalyze bioorthogonal click reactions.

    David C. Kennedy;Craig S. McKay;Craig S. McKay;Marc C. B. Legault;Marc C. B. Legault;Dana C. Danielson;Dana C. Danielson

  • Review of applications of high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) and differential mobility spectrometry (DMS).

    Beata M. Kolakowski;Zoltán Mester

  • Solid phase microextraction as a tool for trace element speciation

    Zoltan Mester;Ralph Sturgeon;Janusz Pawliszyn

  • UV vapor generation for determination of selenium by heated quartz tube atomic absorption spectrometry.

    Xuming Guo;Ralph E Sturgeon;Zoltán Mester;Graeme J Gardner

  • Sample Preparation for Trace Element Analysis

    Zoltán Mester;Ralph E. Sturgeon

  • Comparison of two sequential extraction procedures for metal fractionation in sediment samples

    Z Mester;C Cremisini;E Ghiara;R Morabito

  • Vapor generation by UV irradiation for sample introduction with atomic spectrometry.

    Xuming Guo;Ralph E. Sturgeon;and Zoltán Mester;Graeme J. Gardner

  • Analytical Applications of Volatile Metal Derivatives

    Ralph E. Sturgeon;Zoltán Mester

  • Glossary of terms used in extraction (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)

    Colin Poole;Zoltan Mester;Manuel Miró;Stig Pedersen-Bjergaard

  • Speciation of organoarsenic compounds by polypyrrole-coated capillary in-tube solid phase microextraction coupled with liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

    Jingcun Wu;Zoltán Mester;Janusz Pawliszyn

  • Mean ionic activity coefficients in aqueous NaCl solutions from molecular dynamics simulations.

    Zoltan Mester;Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

  • A critical review on isotopic fractionation correction methods for accurate isotope amount ratio measurements by MC-ICP-MS

    Lu Yang;Shuoyun Tong;Shuoyun Tong;Lian Zhou;Zhaochu Hu

  • Headspace single-drop microextration for the detection of organotin compounds.

    Vanessa Colombini;Chrystelle Bancon-Montigny;Lu Yang;Paulette Maxwell

  • Metal ion-assisted photochemical vapor generation for the determination of lead in environmental samples by multicollector-ICPMS.

    Ying Gao;Ying Gao;Mo Xu;Ralph E. Sturgeon;Zoltán Mester

  • Mechanisms of chemical generation of volatile hydrides for trace element determination (IUPAC Technical Report)

    Alessandro D’Ulivo;Jiří Dědina;Zoltan Mester;Ralph E. Sturgeon

  • Certification of a new selenized yeast reference material (SELM-1) for methionine, selenomethinone and total selenium content and its use in an intercomparison exercise for quantifying these analytes.

    Zoltán Mester;Scott Willie;Lu Yang;Ralph Sturgeon

  • Determination of methylmercury by solid-phase microextraction inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: a new sample introduction method for volatile metal species

    Zoltán Mester;Joseph Lam;Ralph Sturgeon;Janusz Pawliszyn

  • Trace element speciation using solid phase microextraction

    Zoltán Mester;Ralph Sturgeon

  • Quantitation of amphetamine, methamphetamine, and their methylenedioxy derivatives in urine by solid-phase microextraction coupled with electrospray ionization-high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry.

    Margaret A. McCooeye;Zoltán Mester;Barbara Ells;David A. Barnett

  • Transmission X-ray microscopy for full-field nano imaging of biomaterials.

    Joy C. Andrews;Florian Meirer;Yijin Liu;Zoltan Mester

  • Separation and quantitation of the stereoisomers of ephedra alkaloids in natural health products using flow injection-electrospray ionization-high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry

    Margaret McCooeye;Luyi Ding;Graeme J Gardner;Catharine A Fraser

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph E. Sturgeon
Ralph E. Sturgeon National Research Council Canada
Lu Yang
Lu Yang Sichuan University
Janusz Pawliszyn
Janusz Pawliszyn University of Waterloo
Xiandeng Hou
Xiandeng Hou Sichuan University
Jianfu Ding
Jianfu Ding National Research Council Canada
Lian Zhou
Lian Zhou China University of Geosciences
Chengbin Zheng
Chengbin Zheng Sichuan University
John Katsaras
John Katsaras Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Yijin Liu
Yijin Liu The University of Texas at Austin
Ursula I. Tuor
Ursula I. Tuor University of Calgary

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