Smartphone-based / Fluoro-SPE for selective detection of PFAS at ppb level
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Article Title | Smartphone-based / Fluoro-SPE for selective detection of PFAS at ppb level |
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ERA Journal ID | 210427 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Al Amin, Md. (Author), Sobhani, Zahra (Author), Chadalavada, Sreenivasulu (Author), Naidu, Ravi (Author) and Fang, Cheng (Author) |
Journal Title | Environmental Technology and Innovation |
Journal Citation | 18, pp. 1-8 |
Article Number | 100778 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2020 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Place of Publication | Netherlands |
ISSN | 2352-1864 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2020.100778 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352186420302054 |
Abstract | Fluoro-solid phase extraction (fluoro-SPE) has been well established to selectively extract targets after they have been fluoro-tagged. Here we report that this technique can also be used to selectively extract fluorosurfactants of PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroakyl substances), which have fluoro-carbon skeletons, from other anionic surfactants that have no fluoro-carbon skeletons. We advance the fluoro-SPE protocol to enable the extraction of fluorosurfactants using 4-5 times (in volume) more solvent for fluorophilic eluting in effort to overcome the strong interaction between the fluorosurfactants and the fluoro-Gel. Based on a smartphone-based app we developed recently to assess the colouration of fluorosurfactants with a dye (ethyl violet) that is similar to MBAS (methylene blue active substances), plus an SPE for pre-concentration and fluoro-SPE for pre-selection, we successfully achieve a detection limit of 1 ppb for the PFAS including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonate (6:2FTS), which is encouraging and can be conducted in a general laboratory. |
Keywords | App based reading; F-SPE; PFAS; Smartphone |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 401199. Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified |
Byline Affiliations | University of Newcastle |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q7200/smartphone-based-fluoro-spe-for-selective-detection-of-pfas-at-ppb-level
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