PMID- 23618150 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20131112 LR - 20130426 IS - 1873-3573 (Electronic) IS - 0039-9140 (Linking) VI - 109 DP - 2013 May 15 TI - Fabrication of magnetic microsphere-confined graphene for the preconcentration of some phthalate esters from environmental water and soybean milk samples followed by their determination by HPLC. PG - 133-40 LID - S0039-9140(13)00081-7 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2013.02.008 [doi] AB - In this study, a magnetic microsphere-confined graphene (Fe3O4@SiO2-G) was prepared as a novel adsorbent for the preconcentration of some phthalate esters in environmental water and soybean milk samples prior to high performance liquid chromatography analysis. The properties and morphology of the Fe3O4@SiO2-G were characterized by transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. This novel graphene-based magnetic nanocomposite showed great adsorptive ability toward the analytes. The method, which takes the advantages of both the high adsorption capacity of G and easy phase separation of the magnetic adsorbent from the sample solution, could avoid the time-consuming experimental procedures related to the traditional solid phase extraction. Various experimental parameters that could affect the extraction efficiencies, such as the amount of Fe3O4@SiO2-G, the extraction time, the pH of sample solution and the desorption conditions, were investigated. Under the optimum conditions, the limits of detection (S/N=3) of the method for the compounds were between 0.07 and 0.10 ng mL(-1) in water samples, and between 0.15 and 0.30 ng mL(-1) in soybean milk samples. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) varied from 2.7% to 6.1% (n=5). The recoveries of the method were in the range between 87.2% and 109.0% for environmental water and soybean milk samples. The method is suitable to determine the five phthalate esters (diallyl phthalate, di-n-propyl-phthalate, benzyl butyl phthalate, dicyclohexyl-phthalate and diethyl-hexyl-phthalate) in environmental water and soybean milk samples. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Wang, Weina AU - Wang W AD - Department of Chemistry, College of Basic Sciences, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding, Hebei, China. FAU - Ma, Ruiyang AU - Ma R FAU - Wu, Qiuhua AU - Wu Q FAU - Wang, Chun AU - Wang C FAU - Wang, Zhi AU - Wang Z LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130208 PL - Netherlands TA - Talanta JT - Talanta JID - 2984816R RN - 0 (Esters) RN - 0 (Magnetite Nanoparticles) RN - 0 (Phthalic Acids) RN - 7631-86-9 (Silicon Dioxide) RN - 7782-42-5 (Graphite) SB - IM MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/instrumentation/*methods MH - Esters/analysis MH - Fresh Water/*analysis MH - Graphite/*chemistry MH - Limit of Detection MH - Magnetite Nanoparticles/*chemistry MH - Microscopy, Electron, Transmission MH - Microspheres MH - Phthalic Acids/*analysis MH - Silicon Dioxide/chemistry MH - Soy Milk/*chemistry MH - Surface Properties MH - X-Ray Diffraction EDAT- 2013/04/27 06:00 MHDA- 2013/11/13 06:00 CRDT- 2013/04/27 06:00 PHST- 2012/10/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/01/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/02/01 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/04/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/04/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/11/13 06:00 [medline] AID - S0039-9140(13)00081-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2013.02.008 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Talanta. 2013 May 15;109:133-40. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2013.02.008. Epub 2013 Feb 8.