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Application of Solid Phase Microextraction in Aqueous Sampling

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Various pollutants have been emitted due to the development of industry, which can cause serious problems for the production of drinking water and threaten the health of human. Aquatic monitoring has attracted more and more attention and needs to be developed urgently for the analysis of trace pollutants from complex matrix. Solid-phase microextraction (SPME), as a solventless extraction technique, is applicable for both off-site and on-site sampling. Here, two general strategies for on-site SPME sampling, including active and passive sampling, are introduced in detail. The main formats for active sampling include fiber, thin film, and stir bar, while the reported formats for passive sampling are fiber, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) rod, PDMS membrane, and PDMS tubing. To obtain better determination effects of emerging contaminants, new adsorptive materials have been employed gradually instead of commercial adsorbents to achieve the targets of high enrichment efficiencies and short analysis time. All in all, the SPME samplers have been diversified and developed over the past decade to obtain more information about the pollution status of water environment all over the world.

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We acknowledge financial support from the projects of NNSFC (Grants 21225731, 21377172, and 21477166) and the NSF of Guangdong Province (Grant S2013030013474).

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Huang, S., Zheng, J., Ouyang, G. (2017). Application of Solid Phase Microextraction in Aqueous Sampling. In: Ouyang, G., Jiang, R. (eds) Solid Phase Microextraction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53598-1_5

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