Application of a solid-phase microextraction fiber coated with a graphene oxide-poly(dimethylsiloxane) composite for...

A solid-phase microextraction fiber was prepared by mixing graphene oxide and hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane together and then coating the mixture on the surface of etched stainless-steel wire by sol-gel technology. After aging by heating, the graphene oxide-polydimethylsiloxane composite coated fiber was used for the direct solid phase microextraction of triazole fungicides from water samples. The properties of the graphene oxide-polydimethylsiloxane coating were characterized by transmission electron microscopy and thermogravimetric analysis. And the chemical stability of the coating was tested as well. Several important experimental parameters that could influence the extraction efficiency such as desorption temperature and time, extraction temperature and time, sample pH and stirring rate, were investigated and optimized. Under the optimized conditions, the limits of detection were in the range from 0.01 to 0.03 μg/L. The results indicated that the homemade fiber had the advantages of good thermal and chemical stability and high extraction efficiency, which was successfully applied to the analysis of triazoles in water samples.