Investigation of ternary complex formations of polyacrylic acid with bovine serum albumin in the presence of metal ions by fluorescence and dynamic light scattering measurements.

In this paper, the complex formation of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and polyacrylic acid (PAA) in the presence metal ions at pH = 7 has been examined by using fluorescence and dynamic light scattering measurements. It has been observed that the most stable complexes of polyacrylic acid and bovine serum albumin have occurred in the presence of copper(II) ions. The other ions have the ability to form weak complexes between polyions and bovine serum albumin.

Determination of lead, copper and manganese by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry after separation/concentration using a water-soluble polymer.

In this study, a water-soluble polymer, polyvinylpyrrolidinone (PVP) having chelating functionalities was used for the preconcentration and separation of traces of Pb, Cu, Ve and Mn prior to their determination by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry. For this purpose, the sample and the PVP solutions were mixed and the metal bound polymer was precipitated by adding the mixture onto acetone. The precipitate was separated by decantation and dissolved with water.

Slurry analysis after lead collection on a sorbent and its determination by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.

In this study, in order to eliminate the drawbacks of elution step and to reach higher enrichment factors, a novel preconcentration/separation technique for the slurry analysis of sorbent loaded with lead prior to its determination by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry was described. For this purpose, at first, lead was collected on ethylene glycol dimethacrylate methacrylic acid copolymer (EGDMA-MA) treated with ammonium pyrolidine dithiocarbamate (APDC) by conventional batch technique. After separation of liquid phase, slurry of the sorbent was prepared and directly pipetted into graphite furnace of atomic absorption spectrophotometer.