Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is an established nanoscale imaging technique, offering a topographic map of a surface sample high spatial resolution. The main drawback, until recently, of using AFM has ...

IR spectroscopy is one of the most popular analytical measurement methods used for polymeric material characterization. However, this is mostly resticted to macroscopic analysis as Abbe diffraction ...

Polymers are materials composed of repeated chains of molecules. Both natural and synthetic polymers possess many important properties that are influenced by the conformation and composition of ...

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 ...

Researchers report that they have measured the chemical properties of polymer nanostructures as small as 15 nm, using a novel technique called atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy. For more ...

While there have been significant breakthroughs in nano-manufacturing, there has been much less progress on measurement technologies that can provide information about nanostructures made from ...

(Nanowerk News) A recent publication in Spectroscopy Europe by lead authors from Kimberly Clark Corporation showed the use of AFM based nanoscale IR Spectroscopy for reverse engineering of polymeric ...

Two new papers are going to press featuring the use of Anasys Instruments' nanoIR™ system by Professor Lynne S. Taylor's group in the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue ...

For more than 20 years, researchers have been using atomic force microscopy (AFM) to measure and characterize materials at the nanometer scale. However AFM-based measurements of chemistry and chemical ...

A recent publication in Spectroscopy Europe by lead authors from Kimberly Clark Corporation showed the use of AFM based nanoscale IR Spectroscopy for reverse engineering of polymeric multilayer films.

(Nanowerk News) One of the key achievements of the nanotechnology era is the development of manufacturing technologies that can fabricate nanostructures formed from multiple materials. Such ...