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FTIR Imaging of Multiphase Polymer Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

B.G. Wall ,
J.L. Koenig ,
R. Bhargava  and
C.M. Snively
B.G. Wall
Affiliation:
Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, ClevelandOH44106.
J.L. Koenig
Affiliation:
Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, ClevelandOH44106.
R. Bhargava
Affiliation:
Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, ClevelandOH44106.
C.M. Snively
Affiliation:
Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, ClevelandOH44106.
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Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Microspectroscopy is a powerful method to examine and characterize domains down to areas of 10х10 μm2. Spatial concentration maps of chemical species were obtained using apertures to sequentially examine areas on a grid and obtain a map by plotting average spectral absorbance data obtained from each of the areas. New Focal Plane Array (FPA) detectors, composed of a large number (in our case, 64х64) of small detectors arranged in a grid pattern, allow simultaneous collection of infrared radiation at many points from a large spatial region (500х500 μm2 in our case). This allows for a rapid acquisition of chemically specific images from a given area and the examination of several real-time processes. This technique has found a wide variety of applications in multi-phase polymers including polymer laminates, phase separated polymer composites, semi-crystalline polymers and blends, and solvent diffusion into polymers have been the main areas of interest in non-biological IR studies using FPA detection. We present some of the recent work in our group on various multi-phase polymer systems using FPA based infrared spectroscopy.

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Developments In Scanned Probe Microscopy of Polymers
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 5 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '99, Microscopy Society of America 57th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 33rd Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon August 1-5, 1999 , August 1999 , pp. 992 - 993
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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