1. Introduction
Current trends in Green Analytical Chemistry are the development
of portable instrumentation as an alternative to move the
samples to the laboratory and thus, nowadays there are several
available instruments to do it as, infrared instruments, energy
dispersion X-ray fluorescence systems, portable gas chromatograph
[1] or capillary electrophoresis [2]. A portable instrument
can provide instant in-field results without the need to wait for
the transport of collected samples from the forest to the laboratory.
These past years, there is the development of portable sample
preparation apparatus, which can help to do the in-field extraction,
sample preparation, analysis and data evaluation. In parallel,
a portable instrument is defined as “easily” movable, convenient
for carrying, and capable of being transferred or adapted in altered
circumstances [3].
Miniaturization (down scaling) is an important factor of modern
society reflected strongly in science and technology [4] including
medicine, chemistry, environment, food safety, etc. [5]. Miniaturization
of a procedure can be achieved simply by reducing
dimensions of the systems used in earlier approaches or by developing
completely new set-ups or techniques. When compared
to conventional systems, miniature systems can perform similar
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methods with remarkably reduced consumption of plant matrix
and solvents, size and power requirement, system cost and meanwhile
faster analysis time and massively parallel analysis capability.
It is an attractive method for application requiring on-field rapid
assay [6,7].