Electrochemical In Situ Fabrication of Titanium Dioxide Nanotubes on a Titanium Wire as a Fiber Coating for Solid-Phase Microextraction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental
2.1. Chemicals and Reagents
2.2. Instruments
2.3. Preparation of SPME Fiber
2.4. The Procedure of SPME-HPLC
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. The Effect of NH4F on TiO2NTs Coating
3.1.1. Aqueous Solution System
3.1.2. Organic Electrolyte Solution System
3.2. The Effect of Ethylene Glycol
3.3. The Effect of Voltages
3.4. The Characterization of the TiO2NTs
3.5. The Extraction Mechanism of TiO2NTs Fiber
3.6. The Optimization of SPME Conditions for PAHs
3.6.1. Extraction and Desorption Time
3.6.2. Extraction Temperature
3.6.3. Stirring Speed
3.6.4. Ionic Strength
3.7. Analytical Performance
3.8. Spiked Real Samples Analysis
3.9. The Stability of the TiO2NTs/Ti Fiber
3.10. A Comparison of the Developed Method with Other Methods
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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PAHs | Linearity (μg·L−1) | R2 | Recovery a % | RSD (%) a | LODs/(μg·L−1) | LOQs/(μg·L−1) | |
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Single Fiber (n = 5) | Fiber-to-Fiber (n = 3) | ||||||
Nap | 0.2–500 | 0.9989 | 90.4 | 4.7 | 7.6 | 0.04 | 0.15 |
Flu | 0.2–500 | 0.9985 | 107 | 3.8 | 6.8 | 0.05 | 0.17 |
Phe | 0.2–500 | 0.9992 | 118 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 0.04 | 0.13 |
Ant | 0.2–500 | 0.9980 | 92.4 | 4.0 | 7.4 | 0.03 | 0.12 |
Flt | 0.2–500 | 0.9987 | 87.4 | 4.3 | 7.9 | 0.04 | 0.14 |
Pyr | 0.2–500 | 0.9991 | 92.8 | 3.5 | 6.3 | 0.05 | 0.18 |
Water Samples | PAHs | Original/(μg·L−1) | Spiked with 5 μg·L−1 | Spiked with 10 μg·L−1 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Detected/(μg·L−1) | Recovery/% | RSD/% | Detected/(μg·L−1) | Recovery/% | RSD/% | |||
Tap water | Nap | ND a | 4.85 | 97.0 | 7.1 | 9.12 | 91.2 | 7.9 |
Flu | ND | 5.38 | 108 | 5.6 | 11.3 | 113 | 6.7 | |
Phe | ND | 4.22 | 84.4 | 6.3 | 11.72 | 117.2 | 7.1 | |
Ant | ND | 4.06 | 81.2 | 5.4 | 8.73 | 87.3 | 5.8 | |
Flt | ND | 5.95 | 119 | 6.8 | 11.68 | 116.8 | 7.3 | |
Pyr | ND | 4.41 | 88.2 | 4.3 | 9.05 | 90.5 | 5.5 | |
River water | Nap | 3.69 | 9.26 | 106.6 | 7.8 | 12.27 | 89.6 | 8.7 |
Flu | 2.57 | 6.83 | 90.2 | 4.9 | 11.85 | 94.3 | 5.8 | |
Phe | 3.43 | 7.85 | 93.1 | 6.2 | 15.21 | 113.3 | 6.9 | |
Ant | 1.12 | 4.81 | 78.6 | 5.9 | 10.16 | 91.4 | 6.1 | |
Flt | 1.34 | 7.02 | 110.7 | 6.5 | 12.05 | 106.3 | 7.3 | |
Pyr | 0.82 | 6.78 | 116.5 | 4.4 | 11.24 | 103.9 | 5.1 | |
Wastewater | Nap | 1.97 | 6.23 | 89.4 | 8.4 | 13.02 | 108.8 | 8.9 |
Flu | 3.12 | 8.65 | 106.5 | 6.2 | 12.36 | 94.2 | 7.6 | |
Phe | 2.62 | 6.87 | 90.2 | 7.9 | 11.24 | 89.1 | 8.3 | |
Ant | 2.34 | 6.63 | 90.3 | 7.3 | 11.14 | 90.3 | 8.5 | |
Flt | 0.36 | 6.34 | 118.3 | 8.1 | 11.76 | 113.5 | 8.7 | |
Pyr | 0.89 | 6.53 | 110.9 | 5.2 | 11.98 | 111.0 | 6.3 | |
Rain water | Nap | 1.82 | 7.17 | 105.1 | 7.9 | 11.37 | 96.2 | 8.6 |
Flu | ND | 4.89 | 97.8 | 5.3 | 8.52 | 85.2 | 6.1 | |
Phe | 0.88 | 5.07 | 86.2 | 7.3 | 11.76 | 108.1 | 8.2 | |
Ant | 3.75 | 8.28 | 94.6 | 5.8 | 15.22 | 110.7 | 6.7 | |
Flt | 1.54 | 6.94 | 106.1 | 6.9 | 10.99 | 95.23 | 7.6 | |
Pyr | ND | 5.07 | 101.4 | 4.6 | 10.78 | 107.8 | 5.1 |
Methods a | Analytes | Time (min) | Linear Ranges (μg⋅L−1) | LOD (μg⋅L−1) | RSD (%) | Recovery (%) | Refs |
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PDMS-SPME-GC-MS | Nap, Flu, Phe, Ant, Flt, Pyr | 90 | 0.1–100 | 0.03–0.24 | <19 | 69–105 | [41] |
AuNPs-SPME-GC-FID | Nap, Flu, Ant, Flt | 50 | 0.05–300 | 0.025–0.25 | 2.49–7.90 | 78.4–119.9 | [42] |
PDMS/DVB-SPME-HPLC-UV | Nap, Flu, Ant, Phe, Pyr | 60 | 0.04–15 | 0.005–0.027 | 0.97–2.21 | 81.23–89.11 | [43] |
AuMPs-SPME-HPLC-UV | Nap, Flu, Ant, Phe, Pyr | 50 | 0.20–500 | 0.016–0.22 | 2.03–11.7 | 86.0–112.9 | [44] |
ph-TiO2NS-SPME-HPLC-UV | Nap, Flu, Phe | 40 | 0.05–300 | 0.008–0.043 | 6.13–9.45 | 86.2–112 | [45] |
AuNPs-SPME-HPLC-UV | Nap, Phe | 20 | 0.1–300 | 0.008–0.037 | 3.49–9.26 | 82.74–110.0 | [46] |
TiO2NTs/Ti-SPME-HPLC-UV | Nap, Flu, Phe, Ant, Flt, Pyr | 50 | 0.20–500 | 0.03–0.05 | 3.5–7.9 | 87.4–118 | Present method |
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Ma, M.; Wei, Y.; Chen, J.; Shang, Q. Electrochemical In Situ Fabrication of Titanium Dioxide Nanotubes on a Titanium Wire as a Fiber Coating for Solid-Phase Microextraction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Crystals 2021, 11, 1384. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11111384
Ma M, Wei Y, Chen J, Shang Q. Electrochemical In Situ Fabrication of Titanium Dioxide Nanotubes on a Titanium Wire as a Fiber Coating for Solid-Phase Microextraction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Crystals. 2021; 11(11):1384. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11111384
Chicago/Turabian StyleMa, Mingguang, Yunxia Wei, Jie Chen, and Qiong Shang. 2021. "Electrochemical In Situ Fabrication of Titanium Dioxide Nanotubes on a Titanium Wire as a Fiber Coating for Solid-Phase Microextraction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons" Crystals 11, no. 11: 1384. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11111384