Open AccessNew biomimetic sensors for the determination of tetracycline in biological samples: Batch and flow mode operations
Author(s) -
Felismina T.C. Moreira,
J. Rafaela L. Guerreiro,
Vera Lúcia Azevedo,
Ayman H. Kamel,
M. Goreti F. Sales
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
analytical methods
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1759-9679
pISSN - 1759-9660
DOI - 10.1039/c0ay00511h
Subject(s) - detection limit , tetracycline , chemistry , membrane , potentiometric titration , polymer , monomer , molecularly imprinted polymer , chromatography , potentiometric sensor , analytical chemistry (journal) , ion , selectivity , organic chemistry , catalysis , biochemistry , antibiotics
New potentiometric membrane sensors with cylindrical configuration for tetracycline (TC) are
described based on the use of a newly designed molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) material
consisting of 2-vinylpyridine as a functional monomer in a plasticized PVC membrane. The sensor
exhibited significantly enhanced response towards TC over the concentration range 1.59 10 5–1.0
10 3 mol L 1 at pH 3–5 with a lower detection limit of 1.29 10 5 mol L 1. The response was
near-Nernstian, with average slopes of 63.9 mV decade 1. The effect of lipophilic salts and various
foreign common ions were tested and were found to be negligible. The possibility of applying the
proposed sensor to TC determination in spiked biological fluid samples was demonstrated
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