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Development of organic-diffusive gradients in thin films technique for measuring freely dissolved concentrations of tetracyclines using a commercial SPE packing

Journal

ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 234, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113359

Keywords

Freely dissolved concentration; Organic-diffusive gradients in thin films; Adsorption kinetics; Tetracyclines

Funding

  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China, China [2019YFC1803602]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, China [U1804110, 41807358]
  3. Science and Technology Development of Henan Prov-ince, China [212102310536]

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This study utilized DGT technology to detect the FDC of tetracyclines, showing that the FDC of tetracyclines in o-DGT devices can be accurately determined, and suggesting that adsorption kinetics should be corrected when calculating the FDCs of organic pollutants.
The freely dissolved concentrations (FDCs) of pollutants are related to their bioavailability in the environment, and the diffusive gradients in thin films technique (DGT) can obtain the FDC of an analyte. Aiming for the detection of the FDCs of tetracyclines (TCs), we used a polyacrylamide hydrogel comprising acrylamide and acrylaide agamse cross-linker as diffusive and binding gels, and a commercial solid-phase extraction (SPE) packing, namely polymer sorbent (PLS), as an adsorption material in the binding gel for the preparation of the organic-diffusive gradients in thin films (o-DGT) devices. The results showed that the diffusion coefficients of tetracycline (TC), oxytetracycline (OTC) and chlortetracycline (CTC) in the diffusive gels were 1.08 x 10(-6), 1.08 x 10(-6) and 1.03 x 10(-6) cm(2)/ s at 25 degrees C, respectively. The binding gel showed excellent performance with adsorption capacities of 534.88-569.42 mu g/disc for TC, 527.18-565.98 mu g/disc for OTC and 1320.12-1320.86 mu g/disc for CTC, respectively. The uptake efficiencies were 94.21-111.12, 71.25-88.44 and 76.10-86.62% for TC, OTC and CTC, respectively, with the TCs concentration of 0.05-10 mg/L. The adsorption kinetics of TCs could be described with a pseudo-second-order model (POSM, R-2 >0.97). According to the result of adsorption kinetics, the adsorption rate of TCs in the binding gel was not as fast as that of heavy metals, suggesting that the TCs concentrations at the boundary of binding gels in the o-DGT devices could not decrease to zero. After correction of the boundary concentration, the FDCs accounted for 30.30-56.90, 48.10-64.68 and 16.55-50.16% for TC, OTC and CTC, respectively, while their concentrations ranged from 0.2 to 10.0 mg/L. Our results suggested that SPE packing might be an ideal adsorption material for o-DGT binding gels, and that adsorption kinetics should be corrected when calculating the FDCs of organic pollutants.

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