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Volume 75 Number 1
*1Dagmara M. Sabara, 2Julia S. Dunne,3Augusto Q.H. Pedro,4Jasenka Trifunović,5Idiatu I.O. Balogun,6Olja Kotlicic,7Adriana Serrano,8István Kertész
1Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Technical University of Lodz, 90-924, Lodz, Poland
2School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, KY16 9ST, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
3Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Beira Interior, 6200-506, Covilhã, Portugal
4Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, HR-10002, Zagreb, Croatia
5School of Biomedical Science, University of Greenwich, ME4 4TB, Kent, United Kingdom
6Department of Food Technology of Plant Products, University of Belgrade, 11-000, Belgrade, Serbia
7Durango Institute of Technology, 34-080, Durango, Mexico
8Corvinus University of Budapest, 1118, Budapest, Hungary
*dagmara.sabara@edu.p.lodz.pl
Pages: 39 - 49
Hydrogels are cross-linked hydrophilic polymer networks that find application in biomedical and pharmaceutical industries due to their unique properties. Polyvinyl alcohol is a synthetic polymer, potential biomaterial blended with various materials and compounds, that can provide new options for drug delivery systems. Determination of photochemical properties of naproxen and tryptophan immobilized in polyvinyl alcohol and two other media: water and cyclohexane was performed using UV-Vis absorption and fluorescence methods. The influences of the media used on the spectral properties of naproxen and tryptophan have been shown.