https://commons.ufh.ac.za/vital/access/manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 An ion-imprinted polymer for the selective extraction of mercury(II) ions in aqueous media https://commons.ufh.ac.za/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:6566 Wed 05 Apr 2023 08:50:45 SAST ]]> Optimal template removal from molecularly imprinted polymers by pressurized hot water extraction https://commons.ufh.ac.za/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:51620 Tue 04 Apr 2023 05:07:20 SAST ]]> An ion imprinted polymer for the selective extraction of mercury (II) ions in aqueous media https://commons.ufh.ac.za/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:4294 Thu 13 May 2021 04:10:37 SAST ]]> Development of molecularly imprinted polymer based solid phase extraction sorbents for the selective cleanup of food and pharmaceutical residue samples https://commons.ufh.ac.za/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:4309 97 % in selectively extracting the aflatoxins (AFB1, AFB2, AFG1 and AFG2). High reproducibility marked by the low %RSDs of < 1% and low LODs of ≤ 0.02 ng/g were calculated in all cases. The LODs were within the monitoring requirements of the European Commission. The results were validated with a peanut butter certified reference material. The chlorophyll MIP on the other hand selectively removed chlorophyll that would otherwise interfere during pesticide residue analysis (PRA) from > 0.6 to <0.09 Au in green plants extracts. The extracted chlorophyll was removed to far below the level of ≥ 0.399 Au that is usually associated with interference during PRA. Furthermore, the MIP demonstrated better selectivity by removing only chlorophyll (> 99%) in the presence of planar pesticides than the currently employed graphitized carbon black (GCB) that removed both the chlorophyll (> 88%) and planar pesticides (> 89%). For the interfering cholic acid during drug residue analysis, cholic acid MIP electrospun nanofibers demonstrated to be more sensitive and possessing higher loading capacity than the MIP particles. 100% cholic acid was removed by the nanofibers from standard solutions relative to 80% by the particles. This showed that the nanofibers have better performance than the micro particles and as such have potential to replace the particle based SPE sorbents that are currently in use. All the templates were optimally removed from the prepared MIPs by employing a novel pressurized hot water extraction template removal method that was used for the first time in this thesis. The method employed only water, an environmentally friendly solvent to remove templates to ≥ 99.6% with template residual bleeding of ≤ 0.02%.]]> Thu 13 May 2021 01:07:56 SAST ]]>