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The effects of polyethersulfone and Nylon 6 micromembrane filters on the pyraclostrobin detection: adsorption performance and mechanism

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Adsorption of test substances on micromembrane filters during sample pretreatment before qualitative and quantitative analysis has greatly affected the accuracy of the measurement. In the present study, it was found that the adsorption rate of pyraclostrobin reached 77.7–100% when water samples of pyraclostrobin (1 mL) were filtered with polyethersulfone (PES) and Nylon 6 filters. Therefore, the adsorption mechanisms were investigated from the kinetics, isotherms, and thermodynamics of the pyraclostrobin adsorption process, combined with attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. The results showed that PES accorded with second-order adsorption kinetics and Nylon 6 with first-order adsorption kinetics, and the correlation coefficient R2 was 0.98. The adsorption behavior of the two micromembranes followed the linear isothermal model, indicating that the adsorption process was through monolayer adsorption. Thermodynamic study showed that the adsorption of pyracoethyl on PES membrane was spontaneous endothermic, while that on Nylon 6 was spontaneous exothermic. The π-π electron-donor-acceptor (EDA) between pyraclostrobin and PES may promote the adsorption of PES to pyraclostrobin, and hydrogen bonding between pyraclostrobin and Nylon 6 micromembrane may be involved in the adsorption. Our study also proved that the adding 60% methanol and iodine solution (2 mmol/L) was an effective strategy to reduce the adsorption effects and to increase the accuracy of the detection.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (2021JJ30334, 2020JJ5237), the Key project supported by scientific research fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (20A253), and the Science and Technology Plan Projects of Hunan Province (2020SK2033).

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  1. College of Plant Protection, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, 410128, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaolan Shao, Lejun Liu, Yue Luo, Jingyu Zhao, Shuai Liu, Bei Yan, Dan Wang, Kun Luo, Min Liu, Lianyang Bai & Kailin Liu

  2. Hunan Weed Science Key Laboratory, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 410125, Changsha, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaolan Shao, Lianyang Bai & Kailin Liu

  3. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

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  4. Department of Evironmental Science, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, 710119, People’s Republic of China

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Shao, X., Liu, L., Li, H. et al. The effects of polyethersulfone and Nylon 6 micromembrane filters on the pyraclostrobin detection: adsorption performance and mechanism. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 74051–74061 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21021-3

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