Enhancing the sensitivity of extraction for the detection of nicotine in complex samples

Enhancing the sensitivity of extraction for the detection of nicotine in complex samples – Technical University of Crete

Nicotine is considered a so-called ‘emerging lifestyle contaminant’. Professor Elefteria Psillakis at the Technical University of Crete, Greece, used HiSorb™ sample probes to improve the sensitivity of her extraction technique to enable the detection of low levels of nicotine among 4000 compounds.

• Customer: Technical University of Crete, Greece
• Application: VOCs from the degradation
  of nicotine leachates from cigarettes
• Challenge: To improve the sensitivity of the extraction technique to enable identification of
  1 ppm of nicotine in complex matrices
• Solution: Enhancing the sensitivity of high-capacity sorptive extraction by immersing HiSorb probes in samples
• Results: Enhanced sensitivity to enable detection of up to 1 ppm of nicotine among 4000 compounds