Flower-like architecture magnesia-carbon composite material for highly sensitive solid-phase microextraction

Talanta. 2020 Sep 1:217:121088. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121088. Epub 2020 Apr 30.

Abstract

The development of carbon sorbents with high specific surface areas remains a hot research field in analytical community. In the current study, a novel three-dimensional hierarchical flower-like magnesium glycollate sphere was synthesized. Then, the obtained magnesium glycollate sphere was carbonized to obtain magnesia-carbon composite material with enhanced performance. The flower-like carbon material exhibited good adsorption capacity towards polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons due to the large surface area, the strong π-π interaction force and hydrophobic forces. The flower-like MgO&C material was used as a solid-phase microextraction fiber coating for the analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in real river water samples. Good linearity (5-1000 ng L-1), satisfactory relatively recoveries (86.2-113.5%) and low limits of detections (0.01-0.20 ng L-1) were obtained under the optimized conditions.

Keywords: Adsorption capacity; Morphology architecture; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Porous carbon material.