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Continuous flow micro-electroextraction for enrichment of low abundant compounds I It is well known by all the readers that achieving the highest enrichment is the key factor in any miniaturized extraction technique. In this sense, the use of highly efficient materials is a valuable alternative but not the only one. The use of auxiliary energies which force the analyte migration from the sample to the extractant phase is also a widespread alternative. Among them, electromigration-based microextraction is an elegant approach which allows the focusing and stacking of charged compounds within a short temporal window. (Read more) Switchable hydrophilicity solvents in the microextraction context The concept of switchable solvents (SS) was firstly introduced by Canter in 2006, in the framework of industrial processes. The initial idea was to introduce solvents which can switch between a polar and non-polar chemical form, aiming to reduce the number of organic solvent...