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Melisa Rodas Ceballos1, José Manuel Estela2, Víctor Cerdà2
1Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory (LaboRA), University of the Balearic Islands, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Sciware Systems, Spin-Off UIB-004, 07193, Bunyola, Spain.
Abstract:
A 3D printed solid-phase extraction (SPE) device for uranium(VI) extraction has been fabricated using stereolithographic 3D printing. The 3D printed device is shaped as a stirred reactor chamber containing a network of small cubes, which were impregnated with TEVA resin for the extraction of U(VI) from water matrices without doing any previous pretreatment. A flow-through system was combined with off-line ICP-MS detection for the accurate and rapid determination of U(VI) at trace levels. The automatic system was satisfactorily optimized using experimental design, obtaining 0.03 and 0.09 ng U(VI) of detection and quantification limits, respectively, and a durability of 11 consecutive extractions. The reliability of the proposed system was confirmed through the analysis of a reference water material (CSN/CIEMAT 2011), and to water samples (tap, mineral and groundwater) by addition/recovery assays obtaining recoveries between 95 and 106%. This study present for the first time the design of a 3D printing SPE device impregnated with TEVA resin for the on-line extraction of U(VI), showing that 3D printing is a powerful tool for simplifying the construction of complex experimental devices and its operation in analytical procedures for pretreatment applications in water matrices.
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