Antimony Doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles Deposited onto Nb-TiO2 Nanotubes for Electrochemical Degradation of Bio-refractory Pollutions
ELECTROANALYSIS
Authors: Xu, Li; Yi, Yan; Liang, Gaorui; Zhang, Wen
Abstract
To improve the service life of SnO2-Sb electrodes in degradation of refractory wastewater, we report anodic information of tin oxide antimony on top of Nb-TiO2 nanotubes (Nb-Ti/Nb-TiO2-NTs/ATONPs) prepared through screen-printing. It was found that the Nb-Ti/Nb-TiO2-NTs/ATONPs anodes presented a significantly enhanced in electro-catalytic oxidation performance (in Acid Red 73) compared to titanium-based tin antimony electrodes (Ti/ATONPs). Additionally, the electrochemical properties and the stability were further studied by the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), cyclic voltammetry (CV), chronoamperometry (CA) measurements and accelerated life test, respectively. These results indicated that Nb-TiO2-NTs/ATONPs anode possessed Nb-TiO2 nanotubes which exhibited a higher oxygen evolution potential (2.24 V vs. Ag/AgCl), as well as a better wettability, a larger current at constant potential and 2.1 times longer lifetime than the conventional Ti/ATONPs anode.
Hydrophilic interaction chromatography combined with ultrasound-assisted ionic liquid dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction for determination of underivatized neurotransmitters in dementia patients' urine samples
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Authors: Zhou, Gui-Sheng; Yuan, Yi-Chu; Yin, You; Tang, Yu-Ping; Xu, Ren-Jie; Liu, Yan; Chen, Pei-Dong; Yin, Lian; Duan, Jin-Ao
Abstract
A sensitive, rapid, precise and specific analytical method of hydrophilic interaction ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple-quadrupole linear ion-trap tandem mass spectrometry (HILIC-UHPLC-QTRAP (R)/MS2) combined with a high-efficiency and easy sample preparation technology of ultrasound-assisted ionic liquid dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (UA-IL-DLLME) was developed to investigate neurotransmitters (NTs) in mild cognitive impairment, mild dementia and moderate dementia patients' urine samples. Firstly, the UA-IL-DLLME parameters were optimized using Plackett -Burman screening and rotatable central composite design, and the main optimal conditions were obtained: ultrasound power of 307 W, ultrasound time of 4.3 min and agitation time of 4.8 min. Secondly, HILIC-UHPLC-QTRAP (R)/NMS2 method was developed to simultaneously determine 15 underivatized NTs in urine samples. The analysis results of clinical samples showed that some NTs such as y-aminobutyric acid (GABA), acetylcholine (Ach) and glutamic acid (Glu) presented significant differences in different dementia stages. Finally, multivariate analysis based on the combination of principal component analysis and supervised counter propagation artificial neural network was developed for comprehensive analysis of the obtained clinical data sets. As a result, GABA and Glu were simultaneously presented meaningful contribution for classification of samples, and might be considered as potential differential compounds to the urine samples from cluster patients with different dementia stages. In summary, the presented strategy of preparation, analysis and statistics might be used to investigate NTs in different clinical biological fluids. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.