PMID- 32202410 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20200615 LR - 20200625 IS - 1520-6882 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2700 (Print) IS - 0003-2700 (Linking) VI - 92 IP - 7 DP - 2020 Apr 7 TI - Electromembrane Extraction Using Sacrificial Electrodes. PG - 5595-5603 LID - 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00626 [doi] AB - In this paper, we report the first example of employing a sacrificial electrode in the acceptor solution during electromembrane extraction (EME). The electrode was based on a silver wire with a layer of silver chloride electroplated onto the surface. During EME, the electrode effectively inhibited electrolysis of water in the acceptor compartment, by accepting the charge transfer across the SLM, which enabled the application of 500 muA current without suffering gas formation or pH changes from electrolysis of water. The electroplating strategy was optimized with a design-of-experiments (DOE) methodology that provided optimal conditions of electroplating. With an optimized electrode, 1 cm of the electrode in contact with the acceptor solution inhibited electrolysis of water for approximately 30 min at 500 muA current (redox capacity). Further, the redox capacity of the electrode was found to increase through multiple uses. The advantage of the electrode was demonstrated by extracting polar analytes at high-current conditions in a standard EME system comprising 2-nitrophenyl octyl ether (NPOE) as SLM and 10 mM HCl as sample/acceptor solutions. Application of high current enabled significantly higher recoveries than could otherwise be obtained at 100 muA. Sacrificial electrodes were also tested in mu-EME and were found beneficial by eliminating detrimental bubble formation. Thus, the sacrificial electrodes improved the stability of mu-EME systems. The findings of this paper are important for development of stable and robust systems for EME operated at high voltage/current and for EME performed in narrow channels/tubing where bubble formation is critical. FAU - Hansen, Frederik A AU - Hansen FA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1666-0447 AD - Department of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1068 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway. FAU - Jensen, Henrik AU - Jensen H AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6750-2716 AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Pedersen-Bjergaard, Stig AU - Pedersen-Bjergaard S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1666-8043 AD - Department of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1068 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway. AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200330 PL - United States TA - Anal Chem JT - Analytical chemistry JID - 0370536 SB - IM PMC - PMC7310954 COIS- The authors declare no competing financial interest. EDAT- 2020/03/24 06:00 MHDA- 2020/03/24 06:01 PMCR- 2020/06/23 CRDT- 2020/03/24 06:00 PHST- 2020/03/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/03/24 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2020/03/24 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/06/23 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00626 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Chem. 2020 Apr 7;92(7):5595-5603. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00626. Epub 2020 Mar 30.