Document Type
Patent
Publication Date
January 2014
Patent Number
8623279
Abstract
Ionic liquid (IL)-mediated sol-gel hybrid organic-inorganic materials present enormous potential for effective use in analytical microextraction. One obstacle to materializing this prospect arises from high viscosity of ILs significantly slowing down sol-gel reactions. A method was developed which provides phosphonium-based, pyridinium-based, and imidazolium-based IL-mediated advanced sol-gel organic-inorganic hybrid materials for capillary microextraction. Scanning electron microscopy results demonstrate that ILs can serve as porogenic agents in sol-gel reactions. IL-mediated sol-gel coatings prepared with silanol-terminated polymers provided up to 28 times higher extractions compared to analogous sol-gel coatings prepared without any IL in the sol solution. This study shows that IL-generated porous morphology alone is not enough to provide effective extraction media: careful choice of the organic polymer and the precursor with close sol-gel reactivity must be made to ensure effective chemical bonding of the organic polymer to the created sol-gel material to be able to provide the desired sorbent characteristics.
Application Number
13/300,943
Recommended Citation
Malik, Abdul and Shearrow, Anne M., "Ionic liquid mediated sol-gel sorbents" (2014). USF Patents. 80.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_patents/80
Assignees
University of South Florida
Filing Date
11/21/2011
Primary/U.S. Class
422/70
