Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy method

The mechanism of bound residue formation is better understood today due to the use of advanced extraction, analytic, and mainly spectroscopic techniques (e.g., electron spin resonance, ESR nuclear magnetic resonance, NMR Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy), methods that are applied without changing the chemical nature of the residues. 

FAST THERMOLYSIS-FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY METHODS TO STUDY ENERGETIC MATERIALS... 

Prasad, A. (1998) A quantitative analysis of low density polyethylene and linear low density polyethylene blends by differential scanning calorimetry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy methods. J. Polym. Eng. Sci., 38, 1716-1728. 

Transmission Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. The most straightforward method for the acquisition of in spectra of surface layers is standard transmission spectroscopy (35,36). This approach can only be used for samples which are partially in transparent or which can be diluted with an in transparent medium such as KBr and pressed into a transmissive pellet. The extent to which the in spectral region (typically ca 600 4000 cm ) is available for study depends on the in absorption characteristics of the soHd support material. Transmission ftir spectroscopy is most often used to study surface species on metal oxides. These soHds leave reasonably large spectral windows within which the spectral behavior of the surface species can be viewed. 

Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. Attenuated total redectance (atr) ftir spectroscopy is based on the principle of total internal redection (40). Methods based on internal redection in the uv and visible regions of the spectmm are also common in addition to those in the ir region. The implementation of internal redection in the ir region of the spectmm provides a means of obtaining ir spectra of surfaces or interfaces, thus providing moleculady-specific vibrational information. 

In this chapter, three methods for measuring the frequencies of the vibrations of chemical bonds between atoms in solids are discussed. Two of them, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, FTIR, and Raman Spectroscopy, use infrared (IR) radiation as the probe. The third, High-Resolution Electron Enetgy-Loss Spectroscopy, HREELS, uses electron impact. The fourth technique. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, NMR, is physically unrelated to the other three, involving transitions between different spin states of the atomic nucleus instead of bond vibrational states, but is included here because it provides somewhat similar information on the local bonding arrangement around an atom. 

Modern Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Chemical Test Methods of Analysis... 

In-situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The final technique in this section concerns the FTIR approach which is based quite simply on the far greater throughput and speed of an FTIR spectrometer compared to a dispersive instrument. In situ FTIR has several acronyms depending on the exact method used. In general, as in the EMIRS technique, the FTIR-... 

Subtractively normalized interfacial Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (SNIFTIRS), has been used extensively to examine interactions of species at the electrode/electrolyte interface. In the present work, the method has been extended to probe interactions at the mercury solution interface. The diminished potential dependent frequency shifts of species adsorbed at mercury electrodes are compared with shifts observed for similar species adsorbed at d-band metals. 

The SNIFTIRS approach. The acronym SNIFTIRS means Subtractively Normalized Interfacial Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. The basic concept of this method involves the fact that the raw data obtained directly from the Fourier Transform process contain components which are undesirable. Firstly, there is material in the solution which may have affected the spectrum. Secondly, unwanted information on certain material on the electrode (adsorbed water, for example) is best eliminated. 

Johnson CT, Aochi YO. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. In Bartels JM (ed.), Methods of Soil analysis Part 3 Chemical Methods. Madison, WI Soil Science Society of America and Agronomy Society of America 1996, pp. 269-321. 

The 11 nm-sized Ti02 were crystallized using either hydrothermal or thermal methods from 100 nm, amorphous gel spheres. The Ti02 crystal and agglomerate sizes were determined by X-ray diffraction (Philip 1080) and transmission electron microscopy (JEOL JEM 2010), respectively. The surface area and chemistry of the nanostructured Ti02 were analyzed by nitrogen physisorption (Coulter SA 3100) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR, Perkin-Elmer GX 2000). Metal catalyst was deposited by incipient... 

Spectroscopic techniques may provide the least ambiguous methods for verification of actual sorption mechanisms. Zeltner et al. (Chapter 8) have applied FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) spectroscopy and microcalorimetric titrations in a study of the adsorption of salicylic acid by goethite these techniques provide new information on the structure of organic acid complexes formed at the goethite-water interface. Ambe et al. (Chapter 19) present the results of an emission Mossbauer spectroscopic study of sorbed Co(II) and Sb(V). Although Mossbauer spectroscopy can only be used for a few chemical elements, the technique provides detailed information about the molecular bonding of sorbed species and may be used to differentiate between adsorption and surface precipitation. 

Most earlier papers dealt with the mercury electrode because of its unique and convenient features, such as surface cleanness, smoothness, isotropic surface properties, and wide range of ideal polarizability. These properties are gener y uncharacteristic of solid metal electrodes, so the results of the sohd met electrolyte interface studies are not as explicit as they are for mercury and are often more controversial. This has been shown by Bockris and Jeng, who studied adsorption of 19 different organic compounds on polycrystaUine platinum electrodes in 0.0 IM HCl solution using a radiotracer method, eUipsometry, and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. The authors have determined and discussed adsorption isotherms and the kinetics of adsorption of the studied compounds. Their results were later critically reviewed by Wieckowski. ... 

More sophisticated detection methods for gas chromatography are also employed in the analysis of hydrocarbons gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (EPA 8270C) and gas chromatography-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (EPA 8410). These procedures have a significant advantage in providing better characterization of the contaminants and thus are of particular use where some environmental modification of the hydrocarbons has taken place subsequent to soil deposition. 

Other methods for the determination of aromatics in naphtha include a method (ASTM D5580) using a flame ionization detector and methods that use combinations of gas chromatography and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (GC-FTIR) (ASTM D5986) and gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS) (ASTM D5769). 

One of the initial spectroscopic methods applied to stationary-phase characterization was Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). This originated from several important studies of phase conformational order in crystalline n-alkanes conducted in the late 1960s and early 1980s by Snyder, Maroncelli, and coworkers [111-114], In this work, assignments of C—H bond wagging modes were associated with chain... 

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