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Despite their widespread use, conventional membranes used in electromembrane extraction (EME) have limitations such as solvent evaporation, reduced capillary force, environmental pollution, an‎d complexity an‎d time-consuming fabrication processes that affect the processʹs overall performance. To address these challenges, a novel electromembrane extraction (EME) method utilizing polymer inclusion membranes (PIM) has been developed for the extraction, concentration, an‎d measurement of nicotine in agricultural products. This method is combined with high-performance liquid chromatography equipped with a diode array detector (HPLC-DAD) an‎d applied to the analysis of nicotine in plant samples. The PIM membrane used consisted of 58% cellulose triacetate (CTA) as the base polymer, 3% APTES-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (FMWCNT) as the carrier, an‎d 39% dioctyl phthalate (DOP) as the plasticizer. Under optimal conditions, this method covered the linear range of 0.01 to 20 μg/mL an‎d achieved a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.003 μg/mL an‎d a limit of quantification (LOQ) of 0.01 μg/mL. The repeatability study showed that the relative stan‎dard deviation (RSD) for a membrane within a day was 4.7%, an‎d for different membranes was 7.1%. Also, the absolute extraction recovery was reported to be 74% an‎d the relative recovery for mushroom, eggplant, an‎d tomato samples was 104, 97, an‎d 107%, respectively. This method has shown high efficiency in determining nicotine in eggplant, tomato, an‎d mushroom samples, an‎d by providing optimal selec‎tivity an‎d effective sample cleanup, it is considered a suitable option for analyzing alkaloid compounds in complex plant tissues.

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Nicotine

Elnaz Mousavi

Afsaneh Mollahosseini