This review focuses on the combination of elemental detection techniques with liquidphase microextraction (LPME), namely, single drop microextraction, hollow fiber based liquid-phase microextraction, dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction, and related techniques. General features of different microextraction procedures, historical overview and automation of LPME are described and compared, along with examples of new developments and applications presented to demonstrate its potential for trace and ultra-trace metal analysis. Furthermore, potential applications and an outlook on the combination of LPME and elemental detection techniques for inorganic analysis are presented.

This review presents an overview of the current status of zeolites and zeolite-based materials used in extraction and microextraction techniques with reference to recent applications and highlight some of the novel advances.

This study is the first to use a new ZSM-5 zeolite-based composite decorated with iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles and modified with hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide surfactant (i.e., HDTMA-ZSM-5/Fe2O3) as an efficient sorbent for magnetic dispersive solid-phase extraction (MDSPE) of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in water and urine samples with subsequent measurement by liquid chromatography diode array detection. Experimental factors affecting MDSPE were optimized using a multivariate optimization strategy. The optimum experimental conditions were: amount of sorbent, 40 mg; sample pH, 2.2; NaCl concentration, 2.5%; extraction time, 2 min; eluent solvent, methanol; eluent solvent volume, 424 μL; and elution time, 2 min. The linearity of the method was studied from 3.3 to 400 µg L-1 (N=8) for ketoprofen, from 1.7 to 400 µg L-1 (N=8) for felbinac, from 6.6 to 400 µg L-1

A novel approach is presented to determine four bisphenols in water and urine samples, employing magnetic dispersive solid-phase extraction combined with liquid chromatography and diode array detection. A modified zeolite-based magnetic composite was used as an efficient sorbent, combining the advantages of magnetic materials with the remarkable properties of zeolites. A multivariate optimization design was employed to optimize some experimental factors affecting magnetic dispersive solid-phase extraction. The method was evaluated under optimized conditions (i.e., amount of sorbent, 50 mg; sample pH, unadjusted; NaCl concentration, 1.25%; extraction and elution time, 2 min; eluent solvent, ethanol; eluent solvent volume, 400 μL), obtaining good linearity with correlation coefficients ranging between 0.995 and 0.999 (N = 5) (from 2 to 250 μg/L for bisphenol A, bisphenol AP, and bisphenol P and from 5 to 250 μg/L for bisphenol AF). Method repeatability was assessed obtaining coefficients of variation between 3 and 11% (n = 6). Finally, the method was applied to spiked real samples, obtaining for water samples relative recoveries between 83 and 105%, and for urine samples between 81 and 108% for bisphenol A, bisphenol AP, and bisphenol AF, and between 47 and 59% for bisphenol P. K E Y W O R D Sbisphenols, magnetic dispersive solid-phase extraction, urine samples, water samples, zeolites 1808

An analytical method in which a zeolite decorated with Fe2O3 magnetic nanoparticles is employed to determine Cd, Hg and Pb in urine samples.