Enabling solid sample analysis in liquid spectrophotometers with a 3D-printed cuvette
Abstract Most commercial systems for ultraviolet-visible (UV–VIS), Fourier-transform infrared, circular dichroism (CD), and fluorescence spectroscopies are designed for measurement of liquid samples. Moreover, adapters enabling the measurement of solid samples are expensive or unavailable for most c...
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| description | Abstract Most commercial systems for ultraviolet-visible (UV–VIS), Fourier-transform infrared, circular dichroism (CD), and fluorescence spectroscopies are designed for measurement of liquid samples. Moreover, adapters enabling the measurement of solid samples are expensive or unavailable for most commercial instruments. Consequently, there is a significant need for solid sample adapters that enable measurement of both liquid and solid samples with a single system. Here, we report two versions of a solid sample adapter cuvette that can be used in most commercial spectroscopy instruments designed for transmission measurement of liquid samples. One version is designed for techniques that do not require changing the sample orientation, and the other allows easy sample rotation. We successfully fabricated these cuvettes by 3D printing with both fused deposition modeling and stereolithography and demonstrated how they enable us to study the optical properties of macroscopic films of aligned carbon nanotubes by performing UV–VIS and CD spectroscopy measurements with the cuvettes. These 3D printed cuvettes and their implementation will help enable a wide range of experiments at a low cost. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3a6164cd00ef4f25be7aff3d85a5648b2025-08-20T02:15:08ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-02-011511710.1038/s41598-025-88611-2Enabling solid sample analysis in liquid spectrophotometers with a 3D-printed cuvetteJacques Doumani0Henry Mansfield1Andrey Baydin2Somesh Sasmal3Mario El Tahchi4Weilu Gao5Junichiro Kono6Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice UniversityDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice UniversityDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice UniversityDepartment of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice UniversityDepartment of Physics, Lebanese UniversityDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of UtahDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice UniversityAbstract Most commercial systems for ultraviolet-visible (UV–VIS), Fourier-transform infrared, circular dichroism (CD), and fluorescence spectroscopies are designed for measurement of liquid samples. Moreover, adapters enabling the measurement of solid samples are expensive or unavailable for most commercial instruments. Consequently, there is a significant need for solid sample adapters that enable measurement of both liquid and solid samples with a single system. Here, we report two versions of a solid sample adapter cuvette that can be used in most commercial spectroscopy instruments designed for transmission measurement of liquid samples. One version is designed for techniques that do not require changing the sample orientation, and the other allows easy sample rotation. We successfully fabricated these cuvettes by 3D printing with both fused deposition modeling and stereolithography and demonstrated how they enable us to study the optical properties of macroscopic films of aligned carbon nanotubes by performing UV–VIS and CD spectroscopy measurements with the cuvettes. These 3D printed cuvettes and their implementation will help enable a wide range of experiments at a low cost.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88611-2CuvetteSpectrophotometryCircular DichroismCarbon Nanotubes |
| spellingShingle | Jacques Doumani Henry Mansfield Andrey Baydin Somesh Sasmal Mario El Tahchi Weilu Gao Junichiro Kono Enabling solid sample analysis in liquid spectrophotometers with a 3D-printed cuvette Scientific Reports Cuvette Spectrophotometry Circular Dichroism Carbon Nanotubes |
| title | Enabling solid sample analysis in liquid spectrophotometers with a 3D-printed cuvette |
| title_full | Enabling solid sample analysis in liquid spectrophotometers with a 3D-printed cuvette |
| title_fullStr | Enabling solid sample analysis in liquid spectrophotometers with a 3D-printed cuvette |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enabling solid sample analysis in liquid spectrophotometers with a 3D-printed cuvette |
| title_short | Enabling solid sample analysis in liquid spectrophotometers with a 3D-printed cuvette |
| title_sort | enabling solid sample analysis in liquid spectrophotometers with a 3d printed cuvette |
| topic | Cuvette Spectrophotometry Circular Dichroism Carbon Nanotubes |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88611-2 |
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