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An amino-functionalized grooved nanofiber mat for solid-phase extraction of phenolic pollutants

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An amino-functionalized grooved polyacrylonitrile nanofiber mat was modified by both functional groups and in terms of surface morphology. The mat is shown to represent a viable adsorbent for solid-phase extraction of six priority phenolic pollutants and three phenolic xenoestrogens (phenol, 3-methoxyphenol, 4-nitrophenol, 2,4-dichlorophenol, 2,4,6-trichlorophenol, pentachlorophenol, 4-tert-octylphenol, 4-nonylphenol and bisphenol A) from environmental water samples. Under optimized conditions, the analytes were completely extracted from 90 mL of water sample by using only 9 mg of the mat material. Following elution with an ammoniacal methanol-acetone mixture, the eluent was directly submitted to UPLC-MS/MS or HPLC with DAD detection. Satisfied linearity in range of 50 pg·mL−1 to 100 ng·mL−1 was achieved. The detection limits ranged from 4 to 60 pg·mL−1 which revealed the excellent sensitivity of the method in comparison to standardized and other techniques. The recoveries ranged from 82.4% to 111.4%, with the relative standard deviations of 4.0% to 11.4% (for n = 6). The method was applied to the determination of nine phenolic pollutants in water samples collected from sixteen inflow rivers and six Taihu Lake regions.

Amino-functionalized grooved nanofibers mat-based solid-phase extraction for simultaneous determination of nine phenolic pollutants in environmental water

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 81172721, 81473019), and Suzhou Nano research Special Plan (Project No. ZXG2013026).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, China

    Liangliang Qian, Xiaoqing Li, Feifei Qi & Qian Xu

  2. Su Zhou Municipal Center For Disease Prevention and Control, Suzhou, 215004, China

    Jian Li

  3. Department of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520-8034, USA

    Lingeng Lu

  4. Suzhou Key Laboratory of Environment and Biosafety, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Qian Xu

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Qian, L., Li, X., Qi, F. et al. An amino-functionalized grooved nanofiber mat for solid-phase extraction of phenolic pollutants. Microchim Acta 184, 2861–2870 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-017-2313-1

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