An inorganic-organic hybrid material from the co-intercalation of a cationic surfactant and thiourea within montmorillonite layers: application to the sensitive stripping voltammetric detection of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ ions

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• 作者：Guy B. Ngassa Piegang^a ; Ignas Kenfack Tonle^a ; ^b ; ^{itonle@yahoo.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Alain Walcarius^c ; Emmanuel Ngameni^a
• 关键词：Cationic surfactant ; Thiourea ; Clay modified electrode ; Lead(II) ; Cadmium(II) ; Electroanalysis
• 刊名：Comptes Rendus Chimie
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：19
• 期：7
• 页码：789-797
• 全文大小：703 K

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A smectite-based inorganic-organic hybrid material was prepared by a one-step intercalation of cetyltrimethylammonium ions and thiourea within the interlayer space of montmorillonite (MT). The surface and textural properties of the resulting material were examined using several techniques (X-ray diffraction, elementary analysis and N₂ adsorption-desorption experiments (BET method)) that demonstrated the presence of both modifiers in the clay mineral structure. The presence of thiourea molecules in the modified MT greatly improved its ability towards the fixation of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ ions when the organoclay material was used for sensing purposes as a glassy carbon electrode modifier. The electro-analytical procedure was based on the chemical accumulation of both analytes under open-circuit conditions, followed by the detection of the preconcentrated species using square wave voltammetry. Upon optimization of different parameters likely to influence the electrode response, linear calibration graphs were obtained in the concentration ranges from 0.1 to 1 μM and 0.01 to 0.1 μM for Cd²⁺ and Pb²⁺, respectively, leading to low limits of detection (4.2 × 10⁻¹⁰ M for Pb²⁺and 1.2 × 10⁻⁹ M for Cd²⁺).