In this study, a sensitive and simple flow-injection chemiluminescence (CL) method was developed for the quantitative analysis of haemoglobin. The method is based on the ability of haemoglobin to enhance the CL signal generated by a H(2)O(2) -K(4) Fe(CN)(6) -fluorescein alkaline system enhanced by CdTe quantum dots. Under the optimized conditions, haemoglobin can be detected in concentration range 7.35 × 10(-9) -2.5 × 10(-6) mol/L, with a detection limit (3σ) of 1.8 × 10(-9) mol/L and a relative standard deviation (RSD; for 5 × 10(-7) mol/L haemoglobin) of 2.06% (n = 11). The present CL method was successfully applied for the determination of haemoglobin in three kinds of blood samples taken from an infant, an adult man, an adult woman and two reference samples. Compared with previous reports, the CL method described in this work is simple and rapid, with high sensitivity.

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Pb (II)-imprinted superparamagnetic mesoporous silica (SPMS) adsorbent has been synthesized and characterized. The thiol functionalized SPMS offered a fast adsorption kinetics for Pb(II) and equilibrium was achieved in just 20 min at pH 8.0. The adsorption isotherm data fits well with Langmuir model with a maximum adsorption capacity of 377.36 mg g À 1 . The selectivity co-efficients of imprinted adsorbent for Pb(II)/Cu(II) and Pb(II)/ Bi(III) were 3.36 and 3.05 times higher than that of nonimprinted adsorbent. The imprinted adsorbent was employed for the solid phase extraction of Pb(II) and its detection by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS).The parameters affecting the determination of Pb(II) were also well investigated and optimized. A linear relationship between the Pb(II) concentration and the absorbance was found in the range of 0.8-500 ng mL À 1 with a detection limit of 0.25 ng mL À 1 . The imprinted adsorbent was applied to the determination of Pb(II) in two certified sediment samples with satisfactory results, which indicates that Pb(II)-imprinted superparamagnetic mesoporous silica adsorbent possess promising features of a viable adsorbent for the preconcentration of Pb(II) ions in complex matrices.[a] Dr.