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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART B-ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 94-95, Issue -, Pages 7-13Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2014.02.003
Keywords
Preconcentrating; Trace analysis; Graphene; Microextraction; SPE
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- National Science Center (Poland) [DEC-2012/07/B/ST4/00568]
- UPGOW project
- European Union within the European Social Fund
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In this paper, the adsorptive properties of graphene nanosheets were used for simultaneous preconcentration of cobalt, nickel, copper and lead ions from water samples. The developed methodology is based on dispersive micro-solid phase extraction (DMSPE) which is miniaturized and a simplified version of classical solid phase extraction technique. In proposed procedure only 200 mu L of suspension containing graphene (0.2 mg), ammonium pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (APDC) (0.8 mg) and Triton-X-100 (0.1 mg) is rapidly injected to 50 mL of water sample. Then, graphene nanosheets with adsorbed metal-APDC chelates are collected on membrane filter and measured using energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometry. The various parameters including pH, amount of APDC, sample volume, amount of Triton-X-100 and sorption time were optimized in order to obtain the best recoveries. The experiment shows that Co, Ni, Cu and Pb can be simultaneously preconcentrated at pH of 5 with high recoveries (97%, 96%, 99% and 96% for Co, Ni, Cu and Pb, respectively) and very good precision (RSDs within 2.6-3.4%). Due to the excellent enrichment factors ranging from 400 to 2500 the proposed DMSPE-EDXRF procedure offers low detection limits. For optimized measurement conditions (voltage and current of X-ray tube, primary beam filter) the detection limits are even 0.08, 0.07, 0.08 and 0.20 ng mL(-1) for Co, Ni, Cu and Pb, respectively. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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