Application and Advances of Microwave-assisted Extraction

Microwave-assisted extraction(MAE) has been widely used in different fields of analytical chemistry due to the characteristics of rapidness,high effectiveness,good selectivity and reduced organic solvents consumption.In recent years,the research on combination of MAE and many other sample pretreatment methods,as well as online coupling of MAE with a variety of detection techniques has been increasing dramatically.Moreover,other neotype green solvents employed in MAE,such as ionic liquids,have also been attracted extensive attention of the researchers.In this paper,the research during the last several years on the application of MAE in environment analysis,extraction of natural products,food analysis and medicine analysis,and the developmental trend of MAE in the future are reviewed.