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. 2020 Dec 1;28(4):654–676. doi: 10.38212/2224-6614.1137

Table 2.

Various magnetic nanomaterial-based adsorbents for analysis of illicit drugs.

Surface functionalized MNPs Sample volume Adsorbent amount Extraction time Desorption time Analytical Instrument Enrichment factor Sample Limit of detection Ref.
Small organic molecules
 Carbon 5 mL 40 mg 2 min 5 min HPLC-UV - Urine 20 ng/mL for methamphetamine [22]
 Carbon 6 mL 15-mm iron wire 10 min 5 min HPLC-UV - Urine 5 ng/mL for amphetamine

6 ng/mL for methamphetamine
[23]
 SMPS@PLS1 1 mL 10 mg 21 min 10 min HPLC-MS - Urine 0.09 ng/mL for benzoylecgonine
0.26 ng/mL for benzoylnorecgonine
1.15 ng/mL for cocaethylene
0.92 ng/mL for cocaine
1.1 ng/mL for ecgonine
0.13 ng/mL for m-hydroxybenzoylecgonine
0.65 ng/mL for norcocaethylene
0.20 ng/mL for norcocaine
[24]
 MPS2 50 mg 15 mg 20 min 10 min HPLC-UV 208.69 Hair 0.1 ng/mL for morphine [25]

Polymer
 polypyrrole 30 mg 2 min 1 min HPLC-UV 310 Urine 0.33 ng/mL for methamphetamine [26]
 o-MWNTs3 4 mL 15 mg 10 min 10 min GC-MS - Blood
Urine
44 pg/mL for methamphetamine
24 pg/mL for ketamine
[27]
 CNTs 500 μL 9 mg 2 min 2 min GC-MS - Breast milk 1.5 ng/mL for benzoylecgonine
1.6 ng/mL for cocaine
[28]
 rGO/AgNC4 2 mL 100 mg 15 min - HPLC-UV 1000 Blood 2.1 pg/mL for codeine [29]
Urine 1.8 pg/mL for morphine
 MNGO5 10 mL 40 mg 25 min 15 min HPLC-UV 168 Urine 30 ng/mL for methamphetamine [30]

Aptamer
 5′-HS(CH2)6-TTTTTGGGAGTCAAGAACGAA-3′ 25 μL 0.05 mg 40 min - UV - Plasma

Serum
Urine
15 ng/mL for cocaine [31]

Antibody
 amphetamine antibody methamphetamine antibody 20 μL 0.01 mg 10 min 10 min MALDI-TOF
MS
Urine 1.87 ng/mL for amphetamine
3.75 ng/mL for methamphetamine
[32]

Abbreviation:

1

SMPS@PLS: SiO2 and methacrylic acid-3-(trimethoxysilyl) propyl ester-divinyl benzene and vinyl pyrrolidone core-shell,

2

MPS: methacrylic acid-3-(trimethoxysilyl) propyl ester,

3

o-MWNTs: acid-oxidized multi-walled carbon-nanotubes,

4

rGO/AgNC: reduced graphene oxide/silver nanocomposite,

5

MNGO: magnetic nano graphene oxide.