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Research areas

• Flame
  atomic absorption spectrometry; flow injection analysis;
• Electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry for analysis of liquids, slurries and solid samples;
• Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry for analysis of liquid and solid samples;
• Total reflection X-ray fluorescence analysis;
• Development of “green” analytical chemistry by means of environmental-friendly methods;
• Adsorption
  processes and water purification;
• Metrology
  in chemistry and chemometrics.

Selected papers

1. Albena Detcheva, Vasil Simeonov, Lidia Ivanova, Paunka Vassileva ,
   “Biosorption of Cu (II) ions on a waste material of plant origin using factorial design approach”,
   Bulgarian Chemical Communications, 56, Special Issue C (2024) 72-77;
2. Lidia Ivanova, Paunka Vassileva, Albena Detcheva,
   “Studies on copper (II) biosorption using a material based on Thymus vulgaris L.”,
   SizeMat3 2021 Issue of Materials Today: Proceedings, 61 (2022) 1237–1242 ;
3. Albena Detcheva, Vasil Simeonov, Lidia Ivanova, Caroline Hommel, Paunka Vassileva,
   “Chemometric approach to the elemental composition of ethereal oil plant materials”,
   Comptes Rendus de L’Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 75(7) (2022) 966-973;
4. Caroline Hommel, Jürgen Hassler, Ralf Matschat, Thomas Vogt, Albena Detcheva, Sebastian Recknagel,
   “A fast and robust direct solid sampling method for the determination of 27 trace, main and minor elements in soda lime glass based on ETV-ICP OES and using a gaseous halogenating modifier”,
   Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 36(8) (2021) 1683-1693;
5. Albena Detcheva, Vasil Simeonov
   “Multivariate statistical interpretation of a data set of medieval glass fragments”,
   Comptes Rendus de L’Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 73(1) (2020) 40-47;  
6. A. Detcheva, J. Hassler, L. Ivanova, C. Hommel, T. Vogt,
   “ETV-ICP-OES determination of essential, non-essential and toxic elements in seven Bulgarian herbs”,
   Comptes Rendus de L’Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 72(4) (2019) 464-471;