Abstract
Restricted-access materials based on non-ionic surfactant-coated dodecyl-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles were prepared and applied to extract steroid hormones from environmental and biological samples. The magnetic nanoparticles were synthesized by co-precipitation, and were functionalized with dodecyltriethoxysilane, giving dodecyl-grafted magnetic nanoparticles (C12-Fe3O4). They were further modified with different non-ionic surfactants by self-assembly adsorption. Several types of non-ionic surfactants, Tween-20, 40, 60 and 85, and Span-40, 60 and 80, were investigated as the coatings. Tween surfactants coated C12-Fe3O4, named as TW-20 (40, 60, 85)-C12, exhibited good dispersibility in aqueous solution, which was a preferred character in extraction; besides, TW-20-C12 and TW-40-C12 showed good anti-interference ability and satisfactory reproducibility when they were used as magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE) sorbents. The factors that may influence the extraction, including the amount of magnetic nanoparticles, extraction and desorption time, the amount of salt addition, the type and volume of desorption solvent, the volume of methanol addition and pH of sample solution, were investigated in detail. High performance liquid chromatography–UV detection was employed for analysis of target analytes (steroid hormone compounds). The developed method was successfully used for the determination of the target analytes in environmental and urine samples. Both tested materials afforded good recovery, satisfactory reproducibility and low limits of detection for environmental samples, which indicates that the materials possessed anti-interference ability. However, compared to TW-40-C12, TW-20-C12 nanoparticles provided better recovery in relatively complex biological samples, which may indicate that the latter one is more appreciated in complex samples.
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