Everything about Refractometry

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: RefractometryA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Investigation of brix refractometry for estimating bovine colostrum immunoglobulin G concentrationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Optics, retinoscopy, and refractometryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Tilted short-period fibre-Bragg-grating-induced coupling to cladding modes for accurate refractometryCited 314 times
5. Go sideways: RefractometerA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: BrixA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Tilted short-period fibre-Bragg-grating-induced coupling to cladding modes for accurate refractometry

  G Laffont, P Ferdinand · 2001 · Measurement Science and Technology · 314 citations

• An evaluation of Brix refractometry instruments for measurement of colostrum quality in dairy cattle

  V. Bielmann, J. Gillan, N.R. Perkins · 2010 · Journal of Dairy Science · 255 citations

• Refractometry and Interferometry of Living Cells*†

  Robert Barer · 1957 · Journal of the Optical Society of America · 238 citations

• Refractometry based on a photonic crystal fiber interferometer

  Rajan Jha, Joel Villatoro, Gonçal Badenes · 2009 · Optics Letters · 210 citations

• Refractometry of Living Cells

  R. BARER, K. F. A. ROSS, S. TKACZYK · 1953 · Nature · 184 citations

• Metamaterial near-field sensor for deep-subwavelength thickness measurements and sensitive refractometry in the terahertz frequency range

  Benjamin Reinhard, Klemens M. Schmitt, Viktoria Wollrab · 2012 · Applied Physics Letters · 138 citations

• Live cell refractometry using microfluidic devices

  Niyom Lue, Gabriel Popescu, Takahiro Ikeda · 2006 · Optics Letters · 130 citations

• Online Size-Exclusion High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Light Scattering and Differential Refractometry Methods to Determine Degree of Polymer Conjugation to Proteins and Protein–Protein or Protein–Ligand Association States

  Brent S. Kendrick, Bruce A. Kerwin, Byeong S. Chang · 2001 · Analytical Biochemistry · 118 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Investigation of brix refractometry for estimating bovine colostrum immunoglobulin G concentration

  Donald Sockett, Ryan M. Breuer, Lindsey W. Smith · 2023 · Frontiers in Veterinary Science · 22 citations

• Defining optimal thresholds for digital Brix refractometry to determine IgG concentration in ewe colostrum and lamb serum in Scottish lowland sheep flocks

  Kim Hamer, Michelle Bellingham, Neil P. Evans · 2023 · Preventive Veterinary Medicine · 20 citations

• Study of vegetable oils and their blends using infrared reflectance spectroscopy and refractometry

  Almas Mukhametov, Laura Mamayeva, Assemay Kazhymurat · 2023 · Food Chemistry: X · 19 citations

• Prediction of Ethanol Content and Total Extract Using Densimetry and Refractometry

  Yurij Plugatar, Joel B. Johnson, Ruslan Timofeev · 2023 · Beverages · 19 citations

• Unraveling Plasmonic Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings (TFBG): A Journey From “Anomalous Resonances” to Refined Refractometry

  Hadrien Fasseaux, Christophe Caucheteur, Médéric Loyez · 2024 · Laser & Photonics Reviews · 15 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Optics, retinoscopy, and refractometryAl Lens · 1999
• The perfected prismometerCharles Frederick Prentice · 1891
• The prismometric scalePrentice, Charles F. · 1891
• 📕Advances in diagnostic visual optics · 1983
• Coherent X-Ray Optics (Oxford Series on Synchrotron Radiation)David Paganin · 2006
• Advances in diagnostic visual opticsSiegel, Irwin M. · 1983
• Single Crystal Diffractomety (Cambridge Monographs on Physics)Nicholas Arndt · 1966
• 📕Advances in diagnostic visual optics

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