Caution: These may be out of date.  Contact Keri for most updated versions.  Articles in peer-reviewed journal articles that reported the method and would be appropriate for citation are listed below each SOP.

ASE Extraction and Cleanup of PCBs in Air Samples Collected With Polyurethane Foam (PUF), Amberlite® XAD-2 Resin, and Quartz Fiber Filters

• Occurrence and distribution of two hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls in Chicago air (Awad et al., ES&TLetters, 2016)
• Atmospheric PCB congeners across Chicago (Hu et al, Atmos. Environ., 2010)
• Inhalation and dietary exposure to PCBs in urban and rural cohorts via congener-specific measurements (Ampleman et al, ES&T, 2015)
• A model using local weather data to determine the effective sampling volume for PCB congeners collected on passive air samplers (Herkert et al., ES&T, 2016)
• Release of airborne polychlorinated biphenyls from New Bedford Harbor results in elevated concentrations in the surrounding air (Martinez et al., 2017)

Extraction and clean-up of total PCBs and OH-PCBs in human serum

• PCBs and OH-PCBs in serum from children and mothers in urban and rural U.S. communities (Marek et al., ES&T, 2013)
• Variability in PCB and OH-PCB serum levels in children and their mothers in urban and rural U.S. communities (Marek et al., ES&T, 2014)
• Human serum from urban and rural adolescents and their mothers shows exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls not found in commercial mixtures (Koh et al., 2015)
• Hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls in human sera from adolescents and their mothers living in two U.S. midwestern communities (Koh et al., Chemosphere, 2016)

ASE extraction and clean-up of PCBs in sediment and soil

• Polychlorinated biphenyls in the surficial sediment of Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, Lake Michigan (Martinez et al, Environ. Intl. 2010)
• Sedimentary records of non-Aroclor and Aroclor PCB mixtures in the Great Lakes (Hu et al, J. Great Lakes Res 2011)
• Record of PCB congeners, sorbents and potential toxicity in core samples in Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal (Martinez et al, Chemosphere, 2011)
• Spatial distribution of chlordanes and PCB congeners in soil in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA (Martinez et al, Environ. Poll. 2012)
• Chicago's sanitary and ship canal sediment: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, brominated flame retardants, and organophosphate esters (Peverly et al, Chemosphere, 2015)
• Polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in sediment cores from the Upper Mississippi River (Martinez et al, Chemosphere, 2016)

Extraction of PCBs in porewater

• Sediment pore water distribution coefficients of PCB congeners in enriched black carbon sediment (Martinez et al, Environ. Poll., 2013)
• Potential for polychlorinated biphenyl biodegradation in sediments from Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal (Liang et al, Int Biodeterior Biodegradation 2014)

Co-extraction and Clean-up of PCBs and OH-PCBs in Sediment using ASE

• Discovery of hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) in sediment from a Lake Michigan waterway and original commercial Aroclors (Marek et al., ES&T, 2013)

Co-extraction and Clean-up of PCBs and OH-PCBs in PUF

• Airborne PCBs and OH-PCBs Inside and Outside Urban and Rural U.S. Schools (Marek et al, ES&T, 2017)

Extraction and Instrument Analysis of Siloxanes from Cartridge

• Cyclic siloxanes in air, including identification of high levels in Chicago and distinct diurnal variation (Yucuis et al., Chemosphere, 2013)

Cleaning polyurethane foam (PUF) using the Dionex ASE 350 Accelerated Solvent Extraction System

Extraction and FMS automated clean-up of PCBs in human serum 

Extraction and cleanup of PCBs from water samples in Amberlite® XAD-2 Resin

• Fate of PCB congeners in an industrial harbor of Lake Michigan (Martinez et al., ES&T, 2010)