title: Transversely illuminated liquid core waveguide based fluorescence detection Fluorometric flow injection determination of aqueous ammonium/ammonia.
abstract: The analytical performance of a new type of fluorescence detector, based on a transversely illuminated liquid core waveguide (LCW), has been investigated using the determination of NH(3)/NH(4)(+) as the 1-sulfonatoisoindole. With a very inexpensive combination of a miniature Hg blacklight as an excitation source, a colored plastic sheet as the emission filter, and an integrated blue sensitized photodiode-operational amplifier as the detector (totaling <$100 in hardware cost), we were able to achieve a limit of detection (LOD) of 35 nM (1.6 pmol) NH(3) with a linear dynamic range up to 60 muM NH(3). Details of detector construction and performance are given.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Dasgupta
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Genfa