Polymer chemistry Hermann study

Probably the first to take up this technique for purposes of scientific research was Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) who in 1922-1923, with the metallurgist Erich Schmid (1896-1983) and the polymer scientist-to-be Hermann Mark (1895-1992), studied the plastic deformation of metal crystals, at the Institute of Fibre Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem in those days, good scientists often earned striking freedom to follow their instincts where they led, irrespective of their nominal specialisms or the stated objective of their place of work. In a splendid autobiographical account of those... 

The fact that useful spectra can be obtained from polymers in various forms, from fibers which cannot be studied by transmission techniques, from other intractable materials, from aqueous solutions, etc., should make this technique useful in many disciplines. The use of ATR for the study of the chemistry of surfaces should be further explored in biochemical applications, for example, deposition of monolayers from solution (see, for example, Sharpe, 1961, 1965). The ATR technique has been used for analysis of bacterial cultures (Johnson, 1966) and in forensic science (Denton, 1965). It has also been applied to a great variety of substances molecular species present at electrode interfaces (Hansen et al., 1966 Mark and Pons, 1966) carbohydrates (Parker and Ans, 1966) a single crystal of pentaerythritol (Tsuji et al., 1970) cosmetics on the skin (Wilks Scientific Corp., 1966) pesticidal traces (Hermann, 1965a) water-alcohol mixtures (Malone and Flournoy, 1965) nitrate ion (Wilhite and Ellis, 1963) leather (Pettit and Carter, 1964) and blood spectra from within the human circulatory system (Kapany and Silbertrust, 1964)l The last-mentioned application requires special equipment. 

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