Marine Science Faculty Publications
Construction of a Compact Spectrofluorometer/spectrophotometer System Using a Flexible Liquid Core Waveguide
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Keywords
Spectrofluorometer, Spectrophotometer, Flexible liquid core waveguide, CCD array detection system
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0039-9140(99)00239-8
Abstract
A liquid-core waveguide made of Teflon AF-2400 has been used to construct a simple, sensitive and robust instrument capable of performing fluorimetric and spectrophotometric analyses on aqueous solutions. The instrument, which uses a CCD array detection system, is unique in that high performance is achieved for both measurement techniques with minimal changes in instrument configuration. The fluorimetric detection limits for quinine sulfate and chlorophyll-a are 0.06 nanomolar and 0.03 nanomolar, respectively. Absorbance measurements using the same instrument demonstrate nanomolar detection capacities for hydrogen sulfide and subnanomolar detection limits for methylene blue.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Talanta, v. 50, issue 6, p. 1307-1312
Scholar Commons Citation
Byrne, Robert H.; Yao, Wensheng; Kaltenbacher, Eric; and Waterbury, Robert D., "Construction of a Compact Spectrofluorometer/spectrophotometer System Using a Flexible Liquid Core Waveguide" (2000). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 1722.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1722
