High-performance core-shell designed molecularly imprinted polymer solid-phase extraction for ultrasensitive spectrophotometric monitoring of bisphenol-A
Muhammad Saqaf Jagirani, Aamna Balouch, Ikramullah Jagirani, Aftab Hussain Khuhawar
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Abstract
This study reports a facile co-precipitation polymerization procedure for the design of a core-shell molecularly imprinted polymeric material for solid-phase extraction coupled with spectrophotometry for the detection of bisphenol-A (BPA) in real environmental samples. The prepared molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) were analyzed using modern analytical techniques, including FT-IR, FESEM, and UV/Vis spectroscopy. The resultant polymeric material was used as an adsorbent for solid-phase extraction (SPE) of BPA. Various factors have been studied to achieve the maximum adsorption capacity, including pH, adsorption time, adsorbent dose, and shaking speed. The optimized results show that the designed method best suits the Langmuir isotherm model and follows the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. Good linearity was achieved in the 2–10 µg/L range. The designed experiment’s detection and quantification limits were up to 0.98 and 329.5 ng/L, respectively. The maximum adsorption capacity was 112.35 mg/g at pH 6. The relative selectivity factor of BPA with other coexisting molecules is less than one. The selectivity results justify that the BPA-MIP polymeric material is highly selective toward the BPA molecule. The proposed technique was successfully used to analyze real environmental samples.
Graphical abstract
Preparation and leaching, and adsorption and desorption of BPA-MIP
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"Polymer Bulletin" is a comprehensive academic journal on polymer science founded in 1988. It was founded under the initiative of the late Mr. Wang Baoren, a famous Chinese chemist and educator. This journal is co-sponsored by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Institute of Chemistry, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is supervised by the China Association for Science and Technology. It is a core journal and is publicly distributed at home and abroad.
"Polymer Bulletin" is a monthly magazine with multiple columns, including a project application guide, outlook, review, research papers, highlight reviews, polymer education and teaching, information sharing, interviews, polymer science popularization, etc. The journal is included in the CSCD Chinese Science Citation Database. It serves as the source journal for Chinese scientific and technological paper statistics and the source journal of Peking University's "Overview of Chinese Core Journals."