Electrospinning fabrication of covalent organic framework composite nanofibers for pipette tip solid phase extraction of tetracycline antibiotics in grass carp and duck

Abstract

In the current study, a novel covalent organic frameworks COF-SCU1 incorporated electrospun nanofibers (PAN@COF-SCU1 nanofibers) was fabricated via a facile electrospinning method and utilized as adsorbent in pipette tip solid-phase extraction (PT-SPE) of tetracycline antibiotics (TCs) from foods. The prepared PAN@COF-SCU1 nanofibers possessed both of the unique characteristics of electrospun nanofibers and COFS-CU1, and thus improving the adsorption capacity of the electrospun nanofibers and preventing the problems of leakage and high pressure caused by directly using the nanosize COFs as adsorbent in PT-SPE. The experiments affected the adsorption and desorption efficiencies, such as the loading ratios of COFS-CU1 in nanofibers, the amount of nanofibers, the matrix pH and desorption solvent, were studied in detail. Eventually, a new pipette tip solid-phase extraction-high performance liquid chromatography (PT-SPE/HPLC) method was proposed for the analysis of three TCs from food. Satisfied linearity for TCs was obtained in the range of 4–70 ng mL−1. The limits of detection and quantification were ranged from 0.6 to 3 ng mL−1 and from 2 to 10 ng mL−1, respectively. The interday and intraday precisions (RSD) were all lower than 9%. The proposed PT-SPE/HPLC method was used to determine TCs residues in grass carp and duck samples for the first time. The results could not only explore the availability of PT-SPE in the extraction of TCs in food samples, but also broadened the potential applications of COFs in sample preparation.