Issue 67, 2015

Fabrication of a three-dimensional graphene coating for solid-phase microextraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Abstract

A novel three-dimensional graphene (3D-G) coated fiber for solid-phase microextraction (SPME) was fabricated via a sol–gel coating method on stainless steel wires. The 3D-G was obtained by connecting graphene oxide (GO) sheets with Ca2+ and water molecules by hydrothermal treatment. Due to the π–π stacking and hydrophobic interactions between the 3D-G and the analytes, the 3D-G fibers showed high extraction efficiencies for the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The developed method, which combined the 3D-G coated fiber-based SPME with gas chromatography-flame ionization detection, had large enhancement factors (842–2458), low limits of detection (2.0–10.0 ng L−1) and good linear range (10.0–1000.0 ng L−1) for the PAHs in water samples. Single fiber repeatability and fiber-to-fiber reproducibility were in the range of 4.7–8.8% and 6.4–11.9%, respectively. The recoveries of the analytes for the method were in the range from 76.5% to 102.6%. The fiber exhibited an excellent durability and can be reused more than 150 times without a significant loss of the extraction performance. The method was successfully applied to the determination of PAHs in water and soil samples.

Graphical abstract: Fabrication of a three-dimensional graphene coating for solid-phase microextraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 Mar 2015
Accepted
05 Jun 2015
First published
05 Jun 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 54329-54337

Author version available

Fabrication of a three-dimensional graphene coating for solid-phase microextraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

S. Zhang, Z. Li, X. Yang, C. Wang and Z. Wang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 54329 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA05616K

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