title: Supercritical fluid extraction: Recent advances and applications.
abstract: Among the different extraction techniques used at analytical and preparative scale, supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) is one of the most used. This review covers the most recent developments of SFE in different fields, such as food science, natural products, by-product recovery, pharmaceutical and environmental sciences, during the period 2007-2009. The revision is focused on the most recent advances and applications in the different areas; among them, it is remarkable the strong impact of SFE to extract high value compounds from food and natural products but also its increasing importance in areas such as heavy metals recovery, enantiomeric resolution or drug delivery systems.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Fermentaciones Industriales (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Herrero
authors.forename: Jose A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Mendiola
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cifuentes
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ibáñez
mesh_terms: D001688:Biological Products / Q000737:chemistry; D005591:Chemical Fractionation / Q000379:methods*; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000737:chemistry; D005504:Food Analysis; D019216:Metals, Heavy / Q000737:chemistry; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products; D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D019216:Metals, Heavy; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations