Ftir Microspectroscopy: Selected Emerging Applications

Part 1: Overview.- Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR).- Universal Attenuated Total Reflectance (UATR).- Focal Plane Array Detection (FPA).- Part 2: Polymers and Materials.- Diffusion of solvent across polymer membrane.- Polymer blends/composition.- Additives and contaminants.- Laminated/layered polymers.- Surface functionalization.- Part 3: Plant and Biopolymers.- Cellulose development in cotton fibers.- Structure and orientation of biopolymers in plant cell walls.- Plant cell wall biopolymers.- Biopolymers transformation.- Screening of cell wall mutants.- Part 4: Medicine and Biology.- Application to biological samples.- IR imaging in biomedicine.- IR application in cancer research.- IR imaging of protein aggregation in living cells.- Study of protein crystallization.- Wound healing.- Pharmaceutical drug formulations/release/dissolution.- Part 5: New applications of FTIR imaging.