On the Measurement of the Effective Refractive Index of Biological Colloids

Abstract:

We address the problem of measuring the refractive index of biological materials. We limit our analysis to the case of colloids and consider the use of common automatic critical-angle refractometers to measure their effective refractive index. We provide rough guidelines to when these refractometers will incur in large errors and alternative techniques should be used.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 381-382)
• Pages: 345-348
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.381-382.345
• Online since: June 2008
• Authors: Augusto García-Valenzuela, Celia Sánchez Pérez, A. Reyes-Coronado, R.G. Barrera
• Keywords: Biomeasurement, Colloid, Refractive Index

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