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Book’s topic The diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) technique is a passive sampling technique for the measurement of inorganic ion concentrations in water, sediment or soil. Since its initial development in the 1990s, the DGT technique has gained increasing interest from researchers and engineers dealing with environmental or agricultural topics. Because of the development of new binding layers or modifications in application approaches, the DGT tool has become increasingly popular in environmental and agricultural research, since it provides a better estimate of elemental speciation and bioavailability compared with other methods. Thus, the DGT technique is a powerful tool for assessing environmentally and biologically relevant concentrations and related potential effects on living organisms (e.g. toxicity or deficiency). William Davison (the editor of this book) emphasizes in the introduction that with this book for the first time a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of DGT principles and applications is available for potential users. Instead of information being compiled from various review articles, all relevant information on DGT is now available in a single information source.