Three-dimensional hierarchical frameworks based on molybdenum disulfide-graphene oxide-supported magnetic nanoparticles for enrichment fluoroquinolone antibiotics in water

Abstract Recently, water pollution caused by antibiotics is rapidly increasing. Thus, developing efficient, fast and sensitive detection methods for environmental antibiotics monitoring are still remaining elusive. Herein, a method for antibiotics analysis including lecofloxacin, pazcofloxacin and gatifloxacin in water by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using molybdenum disulfide-graphene oxide-supported magnetic nanoparticles (Fe 3 O 4 /GO/MoS 2 ) as the adsorbent of magnetic solid-phase extraction was developed. The as-prepared magnetic Fe 3 O 4 /GO/MoS 2 nanocomposite exhibited good enrichment capability toward fluoroquinolone antibiotics and the analytes were absorbed within a short time ca. 2 min. The main drive forces of Fe 3 O 4 /GO/MoS 2 nanocomposite and antibiotics were most likely attributed to hydrogen bonding and electrostatic attraction. A sensitive and effective MSPE-HPLC method was developed with low detection limits (LODs) ranging from 0.25 to 0.50 ng mL -1 . The recoveries obtained from the analysis of water sample were between 85.6% and 106.1% with relative standard deviations (RSDs, n = 5) lower than 9.5%. The developed method has a good potential for the analysis of organic contaminants in water with low cost and high sensitivity. Therefore, this finding is a promising strategy for designing high efficiency and fast antibiotics detection system.