Cover; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editors; Contributors; Table of Contents; 1; Studying the Viscoelastic Behavior of Liquid Crystalline Polyurethanes Using Static and Dynamic FT-IR Spectroscopy; 2; Stress/Strain Measurements in Fibers and Composites Using Raman Spectroscopy; 3; FT-IR Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Materials; 4; Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy of Biological and Polymeric Materials; 5; Raman and Mid-Infrared Microspectroscopic Imaging; 6; Vibrational Circular Dichroism of Biopolymers: Summary of Methods and Applications; 7
Membrane Receptor-Ligand Interactions Probed by Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared Difference Spectroscopy8; Step-Scan Time-Resolved FT-IR Spectroscopy of Biopolymers; Index
Summary
Used primarily for characterizing polymers and biological systems, vibrational spectroscopy continues to uncover structural information pertinent to a growing number of applications. Vibrational Spectroscopy of Biological and Polymeric Materials compiles the latest developments in advanced infrared and Raman spectroscopic techniques that are applicable to both polymeric materials and biological compounds. It also presents instrumentation and experimental details that can be used by polymer chemists and biochemists in the design of their own experiments. The text starts by describing
