title: Effect of lipophylic salts on ise detection limit: application to calixarene-based highly efficient potassium-selective electrodes.
abstract: A new interpretative model for interpolation of potentiometric data from liquid membrane ion selective electrodes has been formulated; the model allows one to achieve information about partitioning equilibria establishing at the membrane-analysed solution interface of hydrophilic cations present in the membrane as counterions of exchanger lipophylic anions. The fundamental importance of such equilibria is related to their contribution to the detection limit of the electrodes. The soundness of the proposed model was positively verified by employing it in the characterization of new K(+)-selective electrodes based on a calixarenic ionophore. Although the validity of interpolation based on our model does not significantly differ from that obtained with the simpler model providing the inclusion of a constant parameter in the logarithmic argument of Nicolski-Eisenman's equation, the information obtained resulted to be analytically suitable for optimising the membrane composition and, as a consequence, the performance of the electrodes.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica Generale, Inorganica, Analitica e Chimica Fisica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, I-43100 Parma, Italy.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giannetto
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Sebastiano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pappalardo
authors.forename: Melchiorre F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Parisi
mesh_terms: D047250:Calixarenes; D002412:Cations / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D017736:Ion-Selective Electrodes / Q000592:standards*; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011188:Potassium / Q000032:analysis*; D012492:Salts / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D012492:Salts; D047250:Calixarenes; D011188:Potassium