The general purpose of these designs are described in “3D Printed UV-vis Cuvette Adapter for Low Cost and Versatile Spectroscopic Experiments”, which is published in the open access journal ACS Omega. Link to publication:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsomega.7b01310
This particular part is meant to allow reproducible analysis of samples held in a standard NMR tube (Norell NMR Tube, Cat No. S-5-400-7). This adapter can be used in most standard UV-Vis spectrometers. We recommend printing this design with a black filament to reduce the amount of light scattering.