Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. In this study, an external cavity-quantum cascade laser-based mid-infrared (IR) ...

The Quick Quantum Mechanical Spectra (Quick-QM-Spectra or QQMS) website has been developed as an easily accessible way for students (and others) to obtain spectral images and comma-separated values ...

1 Chemistry Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China Sunflower meal, a by-product of the oil ...

There is considerable interest in uncovering the pathway of amyloid formation because the toxic properties of amyloid likely stems from prefibril intermediates and not the fully formed fibrils. Using ...

Submicron and nanoscale chemical identification of semiconductor materials, particularly organic ones, poses a considerable challenge in the analysis of devices and also in the process control and ...

Buckyballs’ large size and intricate structure have long captured scientists’ interest, even if practical applications for the 60-carbon molecules remain elusive. Now, more than 30 years after their ...

In government, academic, and industrial research and development laboratories, infrared (IR) spectroscopy is regarded as one of the most established analytical measurement methods for characterizing ...

A spectrum two Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer (PerkinElmer, United States) characterized the samples. A programmable temperature controller (FTIR Solution, Malaysia) was utilized for ...

Photothermal AFM-IR, commonly referred to as AFM-IR, is an analytical technique used to understand the chemistry of a material at the nanoscale. It combines the nanoscale spatial resolution of atomic ...