Library based identification and characterisation of polymers with nano-FTIR and IR-sSNOM imaging

Near-field spectroscopy techniques push resolution to the nanoscale: IR-sSNOM characterises domain distributions in mixed polymers and nano-FTIR combined with appropriate library search tools correctly identifies polymer samples.

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