Iron detection and remediation with a functionalized porous polymer applied to environmental water samples.

ABSTRACT: Iron is one of the most abundant elements in the environment and in the human body. As an essential nutrient, iron homeostasis is tightly regulated, and iron dysregulation is implicated in numerous pathologies, including neuro-degenerative diseases, atherosclerosis, and diabetes. Endogenous iron pool concentrations are directly linked to iron ion uptake from environmental sources such as drinking water, providing motivation for developing new technologies for assessing iron(ii) and iron(iii) levels in water. However, conventional methods for measuring aqueous iron pools remain laborious and costly and often require sophisticated equipment and/or additional processing steps to remove the iron ions from the original environmental source. We now report a simplified and accurate chemical platf

SUBMITTER: Lee S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6624977 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature