This study compares between unmodified carbon paste (CPE; the paste has no ion pair) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) membrane selective electrodes that were used in potentiometric determination of ketotifen fumarate (KTF), where sodium tetraphenylborate (NaTPB) was used as titrant. The performance characteristics of these sensors were evaluated according to IUPAC recommendations which reveal a fas...

A novel imidazole membrane sensor based on 2,4,6-triphenyl thiopyrilium perchlorate (TTP) as an excellent charged carrier, poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), the plasticizer dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and oleic acid as an additive is described. The sensor responds to imidazole over a wide concentration range from 1.0 x 10(-5) to 1.0 x 10(-1) M with a slope of +33.5 +/- 0.5 mV per decade. The detection li...

A comparative study was made between developed chemically modified carbon paste electrodes and PVC membrane electrodes for the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). The carbon paste electrode modified with cetyltrimethylammonium-tetrachloropalladate(II) (CTA-TClP) provides a more sensitive and stable device than that shown by electrodes with an inner reference solution. The...

In this work, polyvinylchloride (PVC) membrane prepared via casting solution technique and phase inversion method. N, N dimethylacetamide (DMAC) was used as primary solvent and Tetrahydrofuran (THF) was used as a co-solvent. The effects of parameters such as membrane thickness, evaporation time of casting film before immersion precipitation and addition of polyethylenglchol (PEG) on PVC membran...

we found that dibenzo-18-crown-6 (db18c6) can be used as an ionophore to make a tin (ii)-ionselectivemembrane electrode. the electrode exhibits a near nernstian response for sn2+ ions over aconcentration range from 1.0× 10-6 – 1.0× 10-2 m with a slope of 27.5 ± 0.6 mv per concentration decadein an acidic solution (ph=1). the limit of detection was 8.0× 10-7 m. it has a response time of < 20s an...

Combination of the exceptional properties of graphene oxide with the selectivity of lead porphyrin leads to fabricate a novel cysteine-selective sensor. The electrode made of 30% PVC, 53% NPOE, 2% NaTPB and 15% GO-PP was found to show the most favorable behavior. The sensor shows a Nernstian response (58.8 mV decade) in the concentration window of 5.0×10-5.0×10 M with detection limit of 8.0×10 ...

Membranes of 4-tert-butylcalix(8)arene-octaacetic acid octaethyl ester (I) as an electroactive material, sodium tetraphenyl borate (NaTPB) as an anion excluder, and tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) as a solvent mediator in poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) matrix have been tried for a strontium-selective sensor. The best performance was exhibited by the membrane having a composition 5:100:150:2 (I: PVC: TB...