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Synthesis and evaluation of hollow porous molecularly imprinted polymer for selective determination of tetracycline

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A novel hollow porous molecularly imprinted polymer (HMIP) was synthesized for tetracycline determination in different matrices and the adsorption efficiency of this material was compared with the widely applied traditional (unmodified) and core–shell MIP structures. For this purpose, three different tetracycline imprinted polymers were obtained: with the reagent conditions optimized from traditional MIP, a core–shell MIP was obtained by surface polymerization of SiO2 nanoparticles (SiO2MIP). Subsequently, the silica core was removed, obtaining the hollow porous MIP. All materials were characterized by different techniques and HMIP presented higher surface area (227 m2 g−1) and pore volume (0.2 cm3 g−1) when compared with MIP (82.3 m2 g−1 and 0.09 cm3 g−1) or SiO2@MIP (109 m2 g−1 and 0.1 cm3 g−1) and the respective Non-Imprinted Polymers (NIPs). After optimizing the analysis conditions each polymer structure exhibited different kinetics and equilibrium adsorption behavior, which was related to greater or lesser porosity. HMIP presented superior results for the identification of tetracycline in adsorption experiments (maximum binding capacity of 5.6 mg g−1 and 0.2 L mg−1 affinity constant) and in selectivity tests. Water, synthetic urine and milk samples fortified with tetracycline were evaluated and HMIP showed recovery in the range of 74–96%.

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The authors would like to thank the National Institute for Alternative Technologies of Detection, Toxicological Evaluation and Removal of Micropollutants and Radioactives (INCT-DATREM), National Council for Scientific and Technological Development—CNPq—(465571/2014-0) and São Paulo Research Foundation—FAPESP—(Grant Numbers #2014/50945-4, #2017/20789-9 and #2019/00677-7) for the financial support in the development of this work.

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    Rafael Rovatti Pupin & Maria Del Pilar Taboada Sotomayor

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Pupin, R.R., Sotomayor, M.D.P.T. Synthesis and evaluation of hollow porous molecularly imprinted polymer for selective determination of tetracycline. J Mater Sci 57, 17291–17303 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-022-07727-2

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