On a nanocontainer having a magnetic core and a porous shell loaded with Erythrosin B for the optical sensing and adsorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate
Rou Cai , Yu Jiang , Qi Liu , Weidong Li , Jianping Qiu
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Abstract
The pollution of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has attracted increasing research attention due to their wide applications in daily life, which consequently demands reliable detection and treatment techniques for PFAS pollutants. In this work, we intend to construct an optical sensing and removal platform (denoted as EB@Fe3O4) for perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), using Erythrosin B (EB) as the probe and a core-shell structure of Fe3O4-silica as the carrier. The optical sensing performance of EB towards PFOS was first discussed through its photophysical responses to PFOS, including absorption spectra, emission spectra, and emission quantum yields. An emission turn-on effect was observed from EB after adding PFOS with the help of hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) due to the interaction between EB:CTAB micelles and PFOS. An optimal concentration ratio of EB:CTAB was determined as 0.5 μM:80 μM. Then, this core-shell structure was characterized and confirmed by SEM (scanning electron microscopy), XRD (X-ray diffraction), N2 adsorption/desorption, and TGA (thermal gravimetric analysis). The guest molecules of EB:CTAB were loaded into the porous tunnels of EB@Fe3O4 with a weight ratio of 34 %. EB@Fe3O4 showed a linear emission turn-on effect within the PFOS concentration region of 0 to 14 μM, with a LOD of 0.29 μM and good sensing selectivity (except for perfluorooctanoic acid). EB@Fe3O4 could remove PFOS effectively, with an adsorption capacity of 0.115 mg/g.
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