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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 96, Issue 11, Pages 1048-1058Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03067319.2016.1232720
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Activated carbon cloths; extraction; lead; restricted-access; serum
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In this study, a new microextraction technique has been proposed which has the capability to extract lead (Pb) from human blood serum. Pb was directly extracted without any pretreatment step, whereas all the serum proteins were excluded. Initially, the surface of activated carbon cloths was decorated with bovine serum albumin using glutaraldehyde as cross-linker to prepare restricted-access-activated carbon cloths (RACCs). RACCs were then fixed in a filter holder to form a sorbent cartridge fixed at the tip of a syringe system coupled with electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry. Experimental parameters that could possibly influence the extraction procedure were optimised. The limits of detection and quantification obtained were 1.9 and 6.3 mu g L-1, respectively. Pb recoveries in fortified human serum samples were found in the range of 92.2-103.9%. The procedure was effectively used for Pb extraction in real samples devoid of any pretreatment step.
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