STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that its journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) has chosen chemist Wei Sun as the recipient of its Best Paper Award 2008. Sun is the lead author of a paper in ABC on developing advanced tools for in vivo biological imaging. The award, including the 1,000 euro prize, was created by Springer to help exceptional young scientists establish their research careers.
Wei Sun is a Ph.D. candidate in analytical chemistry at Iowa State University, USA. His paper demonstrates the excellent resolving power of differential interference contrast (DIC) in providing depth-resolved information in a living system in real time. The article is freely available online on SpringerLink at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/?k=10.1007%2fs00216-008-2162-1 or can be requested as a pdf.
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry is an international journal dealing with all aspects of analytical and bioanalytical sciences. The journal covers all fields of pure and applied analytical chemistry and bioanalysis, including topics at their interfaces with life and health sciences, engineering and materials sciences, environmental science, earth sciences and others. With a rating of 2.867, ABC has seen the highest growth of the Impact Factor over the last five years among related journals of analytical chemistry.
