Issue 22, 2024

Fabrication and characterization of magnetic mesoporous nanoparticles for efficient determination and magnetic separation of sulfonamides in food samples

Abstract

A magnetic, mesoporous core/shell structured Fe3O4@SiO2@mSiO2 nanocomposite was synthesized and employed as a magnetic solid phase extraction (MSPE) sorbent for the determination of trace sulfonamides (SAs) in food samples. The synthesized nanocomposite was characterized by transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction, N2 sorption analysis and vibrating sample magnetometry. The results showed that Fe3O4@SiO2@mSiO2 possessed a mesoporous structure with a large surface area. Batch experiments were carried out to investigate the adsorption ability for SAs. Fe3O4@SiO2@mSiO2 showed fast kinetics and high adsorption capacity, and the pseudo-second-order model and Langmuir adsorption isotherm are well fitted with the experimental data, indicating that chemical adsorption might be the rate-limiting step. Moreover, the high adsorption capacity can be maintained for at least 8 runs, indicating excellent stability and reusability. The proposed method exhibited good linearity in the range of 0.2–500 μg L−1, the R2 values of all the analytes were greater than 0.99 and the LODs were all lower than 0.2 μg L−1. Furthermore, real food samples were successfully analyzed with Fe3O4@SiO2@mSiO2 and high recoveries varying from 89.7% and 110.6% were obtained with low relative standard deviations ranging from 1.78% to 6.91%. The Fe3O4@SiO2@mSiO2 magnetic nanocomposite is a promising sorbent for the efficient extraction of SAs from complex food samples.

Graphical abstract: Fabrication and characterization of magnetic mesoporous nanoparticles for efficient determination and magnetic separation of sulfonamides in food samples

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
01 Apr 2024
Accepted
13 May 2024
First published
14 May 2024

Anal. Methods, 2024,16, 3587-3596

Fabrication and characterization of magnetic mesoporous nanoparticles for efficient determination and magnetic separation of sulfonamides in food samples

M. Zhang, W. Wang, L. Wu, Z. Zhang, H. Wang, L. Guo and R. Cheng, Anal. Methods, 2024, 16, 3587 DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00590B

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