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Silver nanoparticles supported onto a stainless steel wire for direct-immersion solid-phase microextraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons prior to their determination by GC-FID

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The authors describe a new coating for use in solid-phase microextraction (SPME). Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were prepared by using gallic acid or glucose as the reducing agents, and then supported onto a stainless steel wire that was previously coated with a silver mirror. Coating with AgNPs was performed by a layer-by-layer approach of up to eight cycles of consecutive deposition of AgNPs and the thiol linker 1,8-octanedithiol. This procedure allows proper control of the coating thickness. Thicknesses are 3.2 μm and 3.5 μm with AgNPs obtained with gallic acid and glucose, respectively. This is in agreement with theoretical estimations (3.8 μm). The fibers were used in the direct-immersion SPME-GC-FID determination of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from different waters. The performance of the method was compared to the one using polydimethylsiloxane fibers (100 μm), which is the most suitable commercial SPME fiber for PAHs. Despite the low thickness of the AgNP coatings (compared to PDMS), the analytical features of the method using the most adequate coating (AgNPs prepared with gallic acid) include: (a) limits of detection down to 0.6 ng·mL−1; (b) intra-day, inter-day, and inter-fiber precisions (expressed as RSDs) lower than 22, 26 and 25%, respectively; and (c) an operational lifetime of ~150 extractions/desorption cycles. The analysis of various spiked environmental waters using these fibers resulted in adequate analytical performance.

Silver nanoparticle based coatings for solid-phase microextraction fibers were prepared by a layer-by-layer approach. They were used for determination of 16 PAHs in waters by gas chromatography. Limits of detection are < 14 μg·L−1 and intra-day, inter-day, and inter-fiber precisions are <26%.

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V.P. thanks the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) for the projects ref. MAT2014-57465-R and ref. MAT2017-89207-R. A.G.-S. acknowledges his pre-doctoral contract to project ref. MAT2014-57465-R.

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    Adrián Gutiérrez-Serpa, Patricia I. Napolitano-Tabares, Verónica Pino, Francisco Jiménez-Moreno & Ana I. Jiménez-Abizanda

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Gutiérrez-Serpa, A., Napolitano-Tabares, P.I., Pino, V. et al. Silver nanoparticles supported onto a stainless steel wire for direct-immersion solid-phase microextraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons prior to their determination by GC-FID. Microchim Acta 185, 341 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-018-2880-9

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