Comparative study of extraction methods of silver species from faeces of animals fed with silver-based nanomaterials

Jiménez, María S. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Bakir, Mariam ; Ben-Jeddou, Khaoula (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Bolea, Eduardo (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Pérez-Arantegui, Josefina (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Laborda, Francisco (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Extractions methods based on ultrapure water, tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH), and tetrasodium pyrophosphate (TSPP) were applied to faeces collected from two in vivo experiments of pigs and chickens fed with a silver-based nanomaterial to study the fate and speciation of silver. For TMAH extraction, cysteine and CaCl2 were used to evaluate their stabilization effect on the silver forms. The analytical techniques single-particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (SP-ICP-MS), hydrodynamic chromatography hyphenated to ICP-MS (HDC-ICP-MS) and asymmetric flow field flow fractionation coupled to ICP-MS (AF4-ICP-MS) were applied to the simultaneous detection of particulate and dissolved silver. Results have shown that water extraction was a suitable option to assess the environmental release of silver, with percentages of 3 and 9% for faeces of pigs and chickens, respectively. The use of TMAH extraction combined with SP-ICP-MS analysis was useful to characterize Ag-containing particles (less than 1%). Both stabilizers, cysteine and CaCl2, have a similar effect on silver nanoparticle preservation for chicken faeces, whereas cysteine-Triton was better for pig samples. In any case, silver extraction efficiency with TMAH was low (39–42%) for both types of faeces due to a matrix effect. TSPP followed by ICP-MS enabled the fractionation of the silver in the faeces, with silver sulphide (41%) and ionic silver (62%) being the most abundant fractions.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1007/s00604-023-05777-0

Año: 2023

Publicado en: Microchimica Acta 190, 6 (2023), 204 [12 pp.]
ISSN: 0026-3672

Factor impacto JCR: 5.4 (2023)

Categ. JCR: CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL rank: 15 / 106 = 0.142 (2023) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 9.8 - Analytical Chemistry (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.848 - Analytical Chemistry (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FEDER/E29-17R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/801586/EU/International Doctoral Programme for Talent Attraction to the Campus of International Excellence of the Ebro Valley/IberusTalent
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-123203OB-I00

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Química Analítica (Dpto. Química Analítica)