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  1. Enzymatic hydrolysis of ionic liquid-extracted chitin

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  2. Singlet Oxygen Production and Tunable Optical Properties of Deacetylated Chitin-Porphyrin Crosslinked Films

    Article • Biomacromolecules, June 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paula Berton

  3. Ionic Liquid Platform for Spinning Composite Chitin–Poly(lactic acid) Fibers

    Article • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, June 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paula Berton

  4. Ionic liquids in cross-coupling reactions: “liquid” solutions to a “solid” precipitation problem

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paula Berton

  5. Ionic liquids for consumer products: Dissolution, characterization, and controlled release of fragrance compositions

    Article • Fluid Phase Equilibria, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  6. Group IIIA Halometallate Ionic Liquids: Speciation and Applications in Catalysis

    Article • ACS Catalysis, September 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paula Berton

  7. Efficient dehydration and recovery of ionic liquid after lignocellulosic processing using pervaporation

    Article • Biotechnology for Biofuels, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paula Berton

  8. Transdermal Bioavailability in Rats of Lidocaine in the Forms of Ionic Liquids, Salts, and Deep Eutectic

    Article • ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, April 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paula Berton

  9. A platform for more sustainable chitin films from an ionic liquid process

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paula Berton

  10. Double salt ionic liquids based on 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate and hydroxyl-functionalized ammonium acetates: strong effects of weak interactions

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paula Berton

  11. Separate mechanisms of ion oligomerization tune the physicochemical properties of n-butylammonium acetate: cation-base clusters vs. anion-acid dimers

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paula Berton

  12. Determination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in milk samples. Development of green extraction coupled techniques for sample preparation

    Article • Electrophoresis, December 2016, Wiley

    Dr Paula Berton

  13. Double Salt Ionic Liquids Containing the Trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphonium Cation: The Ability to Tune the Solubility of Aromatics, Ethers, and Lipophilic Compounds

    Article • ECS Transactions, September 2016, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr Paula Berton

  14. Ionic Liquids for Sustainable Production of Actinides and Lanthanides

    Article • August 2016, Wiley

    Dr Paula Berton

  15. Stripping Uranium from Seawater-Loaded Sorbents with the Ionic Liquid Hydroxylammonium Acetate in Acetic Acid for Efficient Reuse

    Article • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, April 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Robin D Rogers, Dr Paula Berton

  16. Comparison of Hydrogels Prepared with Ionic-Liquid-Isolated vs Commercial Chitin and Cellulose

    Article • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, February 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Robin D Rogers, Dr Paula Berton

  17. Hydrogels based on biopolymers - Up-to-date Review!

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Robin D Rogers, Dr Paula Berton

  18. State of the art of environmentally friendly sample preparation approaches for determination of PBDEs and metabolites in environmental and biological samples: A critical review

    Article • Analytica Chimica Acta, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  19. Preparation and comparison of bulk and membrane hydrogels based on Kraft- and ionic-liquid-isolated lignins

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paula Berton

  20. Use of wild trout for PBDE assessment in freshwater environments: Review and summary of critical factors

    Article • Emerging Contaminants, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  21. Fingerprint of persistent organic pollutants in tissues of Antarctic notothenioid fish

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  22. Ionic liquid-based microextraction techniques for trace-element analysis

    Article • TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  23. Surfactant-based ionic liquids for extraction of phenolic compounds combined with rapid quantification using capillary electrophoresis

    Article • Electrophoresis, July 2014, Wiley

    Dr Paula Berton

  24. Ionic liquid-based dispersive microextraction of nitrotoluenes in water samples

    Article • Microchimica Acta, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paula Berton

  25. Selenium Speciation in the Environment

    Article • September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paula Berton

  26. Ultrasound leaching–dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction based on solidification of floating organic droplet for determination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in sediment samples by gas chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

    Article • Journal of Chromatography A, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  27. An immobilized graphene oxide stationary phase for open-tubular capillary electrochromatography

    Article • Electrophoresis, March 2013, Wiley

    Dr Paula Berton

  28. Trace Element Speciation in Food

    Article • March 2013, Wiley

    Dr Paula Berton

  29. A microextraction procedure based on an ionic liquid as an ion-pairing agent optimized using a design of experiments for chromium species separation and determination in water samples

    Article • Analytical Methods, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paula Berton

  30. Combined data mining strategy for the systematic identification of sport drug metabolites in urine by liquid chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    Article • Analytica Chimica Acta, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  31. Selective extraction and determination of vitamin B12 in urine by ionic liquid-based aqueous two-phase system prior to high-performance liquid chromatography

    Article • Talanta, August 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  32. Determination of nitrotyrosine in Arabidopsis thaliana cell cultures with a mixed-mode solid-phase extraction cleanup followed by liquid chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    Article • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paula Berton

  33. Selective determination of inorganic cobalt in nutritional supplements by ultrasound-assisted temperature-controlled ionic liquid dispersive liquid phase microextraction and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

    Article • Analytica Chimica Acta, February 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  34. Dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction and preconcentration of thallium species in water samples by two ionic liquids applied as ion-pairing reagent and extractant phase

    Article • Talanta, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  35. Determination of inorganic selenium species in water and garlic samples with on-line ionic liquid dispersive microextraction and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

    Article • Talanta, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  36. An online ionic liquid-based microextraction system coupled to electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry for cobalt determination in environmental samples and pharmaceutical formulations

    Article • Analytical Methods, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paula Berton

  37. Emerging ionic liquid-based techniques for total-metal and metal-speciation analysis

    Article • TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  38. Development of an on-line temperature-assisted ionic liquid dispersive microextraction system for sensitive determination of vanadium in environmental and biological samples

    Article • Journal of Hazardous Materials, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  39. Tetradecyl(trihexyl)phosphonium chloride ionic liquid single-drop microextraction for electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometric determination of lead in water samples

    Article • Talanta, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  40. Highly selective ionic liquid-based microextraction method for sensitive trace cobalt determination in environmental and biological samples

    Article • Analytica Chimica Acta, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  41. Trace mercury determination in drinking and natural water samples by room temperature ionic liquid based-preconcentration and flow injection-cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry

    Article • Journal of Hazardous Materials, August 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton

  42. Room temperature ionic liquid-based microextraction for vanadium species separation and determination in water samples by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

    Article • Analytica Chimica Acta, April 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Paula Berton