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Abstract

New composite adsorbents including silica supports (silica, aerosilogel, and diatomite) and carbon materials (multiwall carbon nanotubes and pyrolytic carbon) have been prepared and characterized. The analytical capabilities of the produced sorbents have been evaluated by their efficiency in the express pre-concentration of volatile organic compounds (butanol and phenols) from the air stream. The prepared surface-layered adsorbents containing multiwall carbon nanotubes placed onto the surface of aerosilogel by use of the carbon vapor deposition method with preloading cobalt nanostructures as a catalyst were found significantly more efficient than traditionally used graphitic carbon-based adsorbents Carbopacks B, C, and X. Additionally, a new adsorbent composed of diatomite Porochrome-3 support coated with a pyrocarbon layer was prepared. This low surface area composited adsorbent allowed both quantitative pre-concentration of phenol and isomeric cresols from the air and their thermal desorption. The developed adsorbents provided fast pre-concentration of selected phenols with a concentration factor of 2 × 103 in 5 min and were used for gas chromatographic determination of analytes in the air at low concentration levels starting from several μg/m3 with a flame ionization detector.

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Title
Comparison of Adsorbents Containing Carbon Nanotubes for Express Pre-Concentration of Volatile Organic Compounds from the Air Flow
Author
Rodinkov, Oleg 1 ; Postnov, Victor 1 ; Spivakovskyi, Valery 1 ; Vlasov, Andrey 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bugaichenko, Alexandra 1 ; Slastina, Svetlana 1 ; Znamenskaya, Ekaterina 1 ; Shilov, Roman 1 ; Lanin, Sergey 2 ; Nesterenko, Pavel 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Institute of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University, 198504 St. Petersburg, Russia; [email protected] (O.R.); [email protected] (V.P.); [email protected] (V.S.); [email protected] (A.B.); [email protected] (S.S.); [email protected] (E.Z.); [email protected] (R.S.) 
 Chemistry Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia; [email protected] (S.L.); [email protected] (P.N.) 
First page
50
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
22978739
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2530148594
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.