Quantification of the concentration of ionic impurities in polymeric sensing membranes with the segmented sandwich technique.
Quantification of the concentration of ionic impurities in polymeric sensing membranes with the segmented sandwich technique.
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使用分段夹心技术定量聚合物传感膜中离子杂质的浓度。
DOI:
10.1021/ac0104126
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发表时间:
2001
影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
Bakker,E
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文献类型:
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作者:
Qin,Y;Bakker,E
Ionic impurities in solvent polymeric membranes have been the main reason early ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) without added ion exchanger exhibited a functional potentiometric response. Today, knowledge of such impurities and their elimination becomes important in view of designing ISEs with low detection limits and voltammetric ion-selective electrodes, to increase operational lifetime, and to optimize sensing selectivity. Here, a potentiometric segmented sandwich membrane technique is used to study the amount and properties of impurities in situ directly in the membrane phase. This technique can be used with a number of ionophores and with different membrane matrixes and does not require specialized equipment. The concentration of anionic impurities in PVC−DOS (bis(2-ethylhexyl) sebacate) and PVC−NPOE (o-nitrophenyloctyl ether) was found to be on the order of 100 μmol/kg with membranes containing weakly binding potassium ionophores. The concentration of cation-exchanger sites of carboxylated PVC−NPOE was found to be higher (1.62 mmol/kg). Addition of the neutral lipophilic salt ETH 500 to both membrane segments had only a marginal effect on the results for PVC−NPOE membranes but had a large impact on the observed membrane potential for PVC−DOS membranes. Theory explains that the addition of such salt to membranes where ion pairing is predominant is essential for the accurate assessment of ionic impurities with this technique.