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Graphene oxide nanosheets modified with trithiocyanuric acid for extraction and enrichment of Pb (II) and Cu (II) ions in seawater
Author(s) -
Mosavi Seyedeh Sara,
Ghanemi Kamal,
Nickpour Yadollah
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/wej.12339
Subject(s) - seawater , extraction (chemistry) , adsorption , chemistry , chelation , detection limit , oxide , atomic absorption spectroscopy , nuclear chemistry , analyte , metal ions in aqueous solution , ion , inorganic chemistry , chromatography , organic chemistry , oceanography , geology , physics , quantum mechanics
Trithiocyanuric acid (TTC) is a robust chelating ligand for extracting divalent and univalent heavy metals from water samples. In this method, graphene oxide nanosheets (GO) was modified with TTC, to produce a new nano‐adsorbent (GO‐TTC), for extraction and preconcentration of Pb (II) and Cu (II) ions from seawater samples. The concentrated analytes were measured by a flame atomic absorption spectrometry. The detection limits of the method for Pb (II) and Cu (II) ions were 0.32 ng/mL and 0.13 ng/mL, respectively. The relative standard deviations of analytes for six successive extractions were below 1.64%. The maximum adsorption capacity of GO‐TTC for Pb (II) and Cu (II) ions was 750 µg/g and 460 µg/g, respectively. The recoveries of the spiked analytes in artificial and natural seawater samples were above 90%, pointing out that the method is not affected by the major coexisting ions in seawater matrices.

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