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A fast, low-cost, sensitive, selective, and non-laborious method based on functionalized magnetic nanoparticles,
Matheus H Costa1, Danilo T S Ferreira1, Jonathan E S Pádua1
1Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Departamento de Química, P.O. Box 5093, Zip Code 58051-970, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.
Abstract:
A new fluorimetric method for copper(II) determination in wines was developed combining functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (FMNP) and fluorescent carbon dots (FCD). To produce FMNP, Fe3O4 was coated with Al2O3 forming Fe3O4@Al2O3 core-shell magnetic nanoparticles and functionalized with PAN and SDS. FCD was synthesized from pineapple juice through hydrothermal carbonization. For copper determination, aliquots of wine, the FMNP dispersion, and Britton-Robinson buffer (pH = 4.0) were mixed under stirring to allow the adsorption of copper by FMNP. Cu-FMNP complex was attracted by a niobium magnet and, after discarding the non-magnetic material, the copper(II) ions were eluted with an FCD dispersion before fluorescence quenching measurements. The proposed method presented a linear range from 0.020 to 0.100 mg L-1 (r2 = 0.9953), RSD (intraday) < 3.0%, and recovery rates from 96 to 105 %. FMNP and FCD properties permitted extraction/preconcentration/determination of copper within 1 min with an enrichment factor of nine and without prior sample treatment.
