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Speciation and Bioavailability Measurements of Environmental Plutonium Using Diffusion in Thin Films
Published on: November 9, 2015
A method for measurement of free cadmium species in waters using diffusive gradients in thin films technique with an
Hong-Tao Fan1, Yan Lu1, Ai-Juan Liu1
1Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Separation Technology, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, 100142, Liaoning, China.
Abstract:
A diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) device for the analysis of free Cd(II) species, based on Cd(II) ion-imprinted sorbent (IIS) as the binding agents and commercial polyethersulfone membrane (PES) as diffusion layer, was developed (PES/IIS-DGT). DGT time-series experiments showed that the mass of free Cd(II) species accumulated by PES/IIS-DGT was linear vs. time (R(2) = 0.9953) and the concentration of free Cd(II) species by PES/IIS-DGT was in good agreement with the total dissolved concentrations of free Cd(II) species in simple synthetic solutions where free ionic species dominated. PES/IIS-DGT performance was independent in the range of pH 4.5-7.5 and ionic strength range from 1.0 × 10(-3) to 0.7 mol L(-1). The measurement of free Cd(II) species in synthetic solution containing different concentrations of ligands by PES/IIS-DGT showed an excellent agreement with the value measured by Cd(II) ion selective electrodes (Cd-ISE), indicating that PES/IIS-DGT method is more suitable than Cd-ISE for the measurement of low concentration of free Cd(II) species due to the enrichment of IIS for the analytes.
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