PMID- 28477810 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170605 LR - 20170605 IS - 1001-0742 (Print) IS - 1001-0742 (Linking) VI - 55 DP - 2017 May TI - A nanocomposite consisting of silica-coated magnetite and phenyl-functionalized graphene oxide for extraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon from aqueous matrices. PG - 164-173 LID - S1001-0742(16)30292-3 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jes.2016.02.023 [doi] AB - In this study, graphene oxide was covalently immobilized on silica-coated magnetite and then modified with 2-phenylethylamine to give a nanocomposite of type Fe(3)O(4)@SiO(2)@GO-PEA that can be applied to the magnetic solid-phase extraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from water samples. The resulting microspheres (Fe(3)O(4)@SiO(2)@GO-PEA) were characterized by Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), CHNS elemental analysis, and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) techniques. The adsorbent possesses the magnetic properties of Fe(3)O(4) nanoparticles that allow them easily to be separated by an external magnetic field. They also have the high specific surface area of graphene oxide which improves adsorption capacity. Desorption conditions, extraction time, amount of adsorbent, salt concentration, and pH were investigated and optimized. Following desorption, the PAHs were quantified by gas chromatography with flame ionization detection (GC-FID). The limits of detection (at an S/N ratio of 3) were achieved from 0.005 to 0.1mug/L with regression coefficients (R(2)) higher than 0.9954. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) were below 5.8% (intraday) and 6.2% (inter-day), respectively. The method was successfully applied to the analysis of PAHs in environmental water samples where it showed recoveries in the range between 71.7% and 106.7% (with RSDs of 1.6% to 8.4%, for n=3). The results indicated that the Fe(3)O(4)@SiO(2)@GO-PEA microspheres had a great promise to extraction of PAHs from different water samples. CI - Copyright (c) 2016. Published by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Mahpishanian, Shokouh AU - Mahpishanian S AD - Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Sereshti, Hassan AU - Sereshti H AD - Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: sereshti@khayam.ut.ac.ir. FAU - Ahmadvand, Mohammad AU - Ahmadvand M AD - Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160830 PL - Netherlands TA - J Environ Sci (China) JT - Journal of environmental sciences (China) JID - 100967627 RN - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) RN - 7631-86-9 (Silicon Dioxide) RN - 7782-42-5 (Graphite) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Chemical Fractionation/*methods MH - Environmental Monitoring MH - Graphite/*chemistry MH - Nanocomposites/*chemistry MH - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis/*chemistry MH - Silicon Dioxide/chemistry MH - Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - Gas chromatography OT - Graphene oxide OT - Magnetic separation OT - Nanoadsorbent OT - Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons OT - Water samples analysis EDAT- 2017/05/10 06:00 MHDA- 2017/06/06 06:00 CRDT- 2017/05/08 06:00 PHST- 2015/12/18 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/02/14 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/02/25 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/05/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/05/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/06/06 06:00 [medline] AID - S1001-0742(16)30292-3 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jes.2016.02.023 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Environ Sci (China). 2017 May;55:164-173. doi: 10.1016/j.jes.2016.02.023. Epub 2016 Aug 30.