The use of infrared spectroscopic techniques to characterize nanomaterials and nanostructures: A review

Marcela Dendisová; Adéla Jeništová; Alžběta Parchaňská-Kokaislová; Pavel Matějka; Vadym Prokopec; Marie Švecová

doi:10.1016/j.aca.2018.05.046

The use of infrared spectroscopic techniques to characterize nanomaterials and nanostructures: A review

Anal Chim Acta. 2018 Nov 15:1031:1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2018.05.046. Epub 2018 May 18.

Authors

Marcela Dendisová¹, Adéla Jeništová², Alžběta Parchaňská-Kokaislová², Pavel Matějka², Vadym Prokopec³, Marie Švecová⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic. Electronic address: marcela.dendisova@vscht.cz.
² Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic.
³ Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic.
⁴ Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic; Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic.

PMID: 30119727
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2018.05.046

Abstract

Recent advances in nanotechnology have opened a lot of new possibilities for nanomaterials application in wide variety of industrial, pharmaceutical, medicinal and environmental applications. This review aims to description of various Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR)-based spectroscopic techniques suitable to characterize (i) different types of nanomaterials and (ii) various macroscopic samples at their nanoscale. In the introductory section, nanomaterials are classified according to their crucial properties, i.e. chemical composition, size and surface morphology. Application of traditional FTIR techniques, such as Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR), Diffuse Reflection (DRIFT) and infrared micro (spectro)scopy, for characterization of nanomaterials and nanostructures is compared with novel optical nanoscopic techniques derived from scanning probe microscopy which enable to overcome the diffraction limit and to characterize nanomaterials at molecular scale.

Keywords: AFM-IR; Infrared spectroscopy; Nano-FTIR; Nanomaterials; Nanostructure; SNOM.

Publication types

Review