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Liquid Phase Microextraction of Methadone from Beverages

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2023AFB1088), National Key RD Plan of China (Grant No. 2024YFC3306604), Scientific Research Special Project of Preventive Medicine in Wuhan (Grant No. WY22B01), Hubei Key Laboratory of the Forensic Science (Hubei University of Police) with Grant No. KFKT2023016.

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    Zhuangzhuang Dong, Jianhua Xiong & Chuixiu Huang

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    Huifang Yao

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Zhuangzhuang Dong: Writing – original draft, review & editing, Experiments performing, Conceptualization. Jianhua Xiong: Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Formal analysis. Huifang Yao: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Conceptualization. Chuixiu Huang: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization.

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Dong, Z., Xiong, J., Yao, H. et al. Liquid Phase Microextraction of Methadone from Beverages. J. Anal. Test. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41664-025-00389-4

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