TRENDS IN KINETIC METHODS OF ANALYSIS

Seven trends in kinetic methods of analysis are indentified and described. These trends include the increasing use of automation and multidimensional instrumentation, the continuing development of sophisticated data processing approaches and error compensation methods, the improvements in multicomponent and single component determinations and the exploitation of the kinetic approach for transient responses that are not the result of chemical reactions. The trends described should continue throughout the 1990s and lead the way into the next century. These trends are helping to make kinetic methods competitive with those methods based on processes at equililbrium or at steady state.