Citizen Science/Open Spectrophotometer Project/Resources

Spectrophotometer Designs

 * Commercial products:
 * NanoDrop 1000
 * Ocean Optics USB2000
 * Ocean Optics Palm add-on
 * Miniature spectrometers (HORIBA Jobin Yvon)
 * Hamamatsu designs
 * Open Source Designs:
 * Arduino-based spectrophotometer (LED/Photodiode)


 * Commercial sensors:
 * linear CCD:
 * [ Toshiba TCD1304 CCD]
 * Photodiode array
 * Hamamatsu


 * Publications:
 * 1) 1 pmid=12530815
 * 2) 2 pmid=18965768
 * 3) 3 pmid=18969275
 * A low power ultra violet spectrophotometer for measurement of nitrate in seawater: introduction, calibration and initial sea trials (Finch, 1998)
 * Multivariate calibration techniques applied to the spectrophotometric analysis of one-to-four component systems (Ragno, 2004)
 * Simultaneous Spectrophotometric Determination of Paracetamol and Salicylamide in Human Serum and Pharmaceutical Formulations by a Differential Kinetic Method
 * [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2007.07.033 Simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of paracetamol, ibuprofen and caffeine in pharmaceuticals by chemometric methods (Khoshayanda, 2008)


 * Linear CCD Reader Project

Spectrophotometer Calibration

 * Diode Array UV Visible Spectrophotometer
 * The amateur's scientist spectrophotometer

Spectrometric Data Visualisation

 * Processing

Spectrometric screening of biological samples
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 * [http://las.perkinelmer.com/content/RelatedMaterials/Articles/ATL_UVVisInClinicalChemistry.pdf UV/Vis Light Absorption in Clinical Chemistry