A smartphone-assisted determination of copper ions is introduced by using a down-scaled microfluidic mixer. The system was coupled with a micro-column packed with a periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) material for preconcentration of copper ions. Copper ions were reduced to Cu(I) on-chip to selectively form an orange-colored complex with neocuproine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, a customized microfluidic system was utilized for magnetic solid phase extraction of parabens. For this sake, magnetite nanoparticles were synthesized and coated with polyaniline to enable efficient extraction and magnetic separation of sorbents particles. The synthesized particles were extensively characterized in terms of morphology, composition, and magnetic properties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, an electromembrane extraction-dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (EME-DLLME) was performed using a lab-on-a-disc device. It was used for sample microextraction, preconcentration, and quantitative determination of tricyclic antidepressants as model analytes in biofluids. The disc consisted of six extraction units for six parallel extractions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the present work, an ion-pair based dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction was performed on a centrifugal chip for the first time. The entire DLLME procedure, including flow direction, desperation, and sedimentation of the extracting phase, can be fulfilled automatically on a solitary chip. The chip was made of Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and was of two units for two parallel extractions, each consisting of three chambers (for the sample solution, extracting solvents, and sedimentation).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci
November 2017
In this work, a microfluidic device was developed for on-chip electromembrane extraction of trace amounts of ephedrine (EPH) and clonidine (CLO) in human urine and plasma samples followed by HPLC-UV analysis. Two polymethylmethacrylate plates were used as substrates and a microchannel was carved in each plate. The microchannel channel on the underneath plate provided the flow pass of the sample solution and the one on the upper plate dedicated to a compartment for the stagnant acceptor phase.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the present work, an on-chip pulsed electromembrane extraction technique followed by HPLC-UV was developed for the analysis of codeine, naloxone and naltrexone as model analytes in biological fluids. The chip consisted of two channels for the introduction of the donor and acceptor phases. The channels were carved in two poly (methyl methacrylate) plates and a porous polypropylene membrane, which is impregnated by an organic solvent separating the two channels.
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