Are there any applications of UV spectroscopy in biology/biophysics/etc? I can't for the life of me think of any - my experience is all in the visible, NIR and mid-IR.
I'm asking because my company is developing a spectrometer and we're eyeing various applications for it in order to chase fed funding. Our university collaborators are in the biology/medicine/biophysics field. I will ask them when they're back from winter break :-)
UV being used to identify conjugation in compounds (alternating single and double bonds). So I guess you could use it for compound identification, but I haven't a clue beyond that. :shrug:
I use it all the time. Proteins and nucleic acids have large extinction coeffs at 280nm and 260nm. I use it to measure concentrations. I'm sure there are many other applications.
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