Sulfonamide drugs: Low-cost spectrofluorometric determination using a computer monitor calibrator for detection.

A possibility of the use of a common monitor calibrator as a portable and inexpensive tool for the fluorometric determination of sulfonamide drugs after their reaction with fluorescamine was examined. The luminescence measurements with a calibrator are based on irradiation of a test sample by the device lamp with a broadband spectrum in the visible and near UV regions and simultaneous registration of the secondary radiation by the device detector. Two types of cuvettes with black light absorbing sides eliminating the reflected self-radiation were tested.

Towards the development of solid-state platform optical sensors: aggregation of gold nanoparticles on polyurethane foam.

In this paper, we report on a novel type of nanocomposites based on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and polyurethane foam (PUF), which represents an ability of AuNP aggregation on solid polymer matrix with the strongly different selectivity in comparison with aggregation of the same AuNPs in solution. This may indicate that a new type of aggregation takes place, which can be called solid-phase aggregation. A systematic study using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy revealed features of the solid-phase aggregation.