The concept of flow injection analysis (FIA) was first proposed in 1975 by Ruzicka and Hansen, and this initiated a field of research that would, over more than three decades, involve thousands of researchers, and which has to date resulted in close to 20,000 publications in the international scientific literature.
Since its introduction, a number of books, including some specialized monographs, have been published on this subject with the latest in 2000.
However, in this decade there has been a number of significant advances in the flow analysis area, and in particular in sequential...