PREPARATION OF POLYMER-BASED ION-EXCHANGE CAPABLE MODIFIED ELECTRODES: MONOMER SYNTHESIS, ELECTRODE CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

摘要

Environmental water quality analysis is an important area of study within analytical chemistry. Specifically, the detection of trace amounts of metal cations continues to be a challenge due to detection limits and cost of analysis. Because of this, we have examined the ability of specifically designed polymers to preconcentrate metal cations from aqueous solution. The synthesis of the monomers involved amide formation using dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) as seen in the reaction mechanism in Scheme 1.