**Meet the editor**

Dr Jamal Uddin is an Associate Professor of Coppin State University, Department of Natural Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland. He is the founder and director of the Coppin Nanotechnology Center. He has been teaching chemistry, physical science, environmental science and nanotechnology since 2005 in the Department of Natural Science. He is also working as a Visiting Scientist,

Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baltimore. Dr Uddin's research interest is in the areas of Solar energy, Laser Photochemistry, Nanotechnology, Quantum dots, Single molecule imaging spectroscopy, Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and Metal enhance fluorescence. Some of his significant publications focused on Electron Transfer Chemistry in Donor-Acceptor complexes. He is serving as an Editor-in-Chief of Emerging Scientific Resource (ESR) for the Research Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (RJEAS). He is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and corresponding secretary of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Coppin State University, Maryland chapter. Dr Uddin was the recipient of the 2012 Daily Record Innovator of the Year for Maryland individuals who have had a positive effect and tremendous impact in Maryland, USA.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy 1** 

Chapter 2 **Analysis of Environmental Pollutants** 

Cynthia Ibeto, Chukwuma Okoye, Akuzuo Ofoefule and Eunice Uzodinma

Chapter 3 **Estimation of the Velocity of the Salivary** 

Shigeru Watanabe

**Section 2 UV-VIS Spectroscopy 79** 

Chapter 5 **Synthesis and Characterization** 

Chapter 6 **The Use of Spectrophotometry** 

Rita Giovannetti

**Fundamentals and Applications in Medicine 3** 

Isabel Idoate-Cervantes and Jesús Fernando Escanero

**by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry 25** 

**Film at the Different Regions in the Mouth – Measurement of Potassium Chloride in the Agar Using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry 51** 

Chapter 4 **An Assay for Determination of Hepatic Zinc by AAS –** 

Raquel Borges Pinto, Pedro Eduardo Fröehlich,

**Comparison of Fresh and Deparaffinized Tissue 71** 

Ana Cláudia Reis Schneider, André Castagna Wortmann, Tiago Muller Weber and Themis Reverbel da Silveira

**of CdSe Quantum Dots by UV-Vis Spectroscopy 81** 

Petero Kwizera, Alleyne Angela, Moses Wekesa,

Md. Jamal Uddin and M. Mobin Shaikh

**UV-Vis for the Study of Porphyrins 87** 

José Manuel González-López, Elena María González-Romarís,

Chapter 1 **Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy:** 
