title: Ultrafast coating procedure for graphene on solid-phase microextraction fibers.
abstract: Graphene's unsurpassed specific surface area (up to 2630 m(2)/g) makes it be an ideal absorbent. To promote its use as a sorption coating in solid phase microextraction, an ultrafast method was established, able to coat a stable layer of graphene on a metal fiber in only 23s, with adjustable coating thickness between 10 and 40 µm by using sleeve barrels. The core idea includes: (1) use of semi-polymerized dimethylsiloxane as a sticky pre-liner to glue graphene and (2) rapid conversion from pre-liner to elastic polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to fix the glued graphene. Ultrafast conversion of the pre-liner to PDMS was achieved by direct heating of the metallic fibers. The method produced very stable and durable fibers, capable of being used for at least 120 extractions-desorption cycles and stored at room temperature for at least 20 months. Interestingly, the new method could always coat a layer of mossy graphene on the fibers to largely increase their extraction capacity. Their limit of detection reached 2 pg/L PAHs, being about 3 orders of magnitude better than that of the reported graphene-based fibers. They were applicable to the direct extraction of trace PAHs in beverages, with a linear regression range from 10 to 1000 pg/L, and recoveries of 88.9-105.3%. The relative standard deviations of peak area were 2.9-8.9% for the same fiber and 3.0-10.0% for different fibers. The method is also suitable for re-coating a used fiber and extendable to fast coating other solid sorbents on heat-resistant supports.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of China National Tobacco Corporation, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
authors.forename: Zhenpeng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Beijing 100190, China. Electronic address: chenyi@iccas.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D004129:Dimethylpolysiloxanes / Q000737:chemistry; D006108:Graphite / Q000737:chemistry*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D052617:Solid Phase Microextraction / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D004129:Dimethylpolysiloxanes; C013830:baysilon; D006108:Graphite
keywords: Fast coating; GC–MS; Graphene; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; SPME