AChem ULL Research Group

AChem is a research group of the University of La Laguna founded in 2018 by Dr. Javier Hernández Borges, Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry. 
Its main research lines are the following:
1.- Development and application of green analytical methodologies based on the use of nanomaterials and liquid and solid-phase microextraction techniques for the extraction of pesticides, antibiotics, estrogenic compounds and phthalates from environmental and food matrices.
2.- Study of the presence of microplastics in the environment, monitoring of environmental contaminants in microplastics, water and sea sand, determination of the microplastic content in living organisms and improving analytical methodologies for microplastics detection. 
3.- Studies of soil and water resources quality, determination of contaminants in soils, impact assessment of the use of non-conventional water resources in agriculture and development of regenerative agriculture processes.