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Understanding surfaces and buried interfaces of polymer materials at the molecular level using sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy
Author(s) -
Chen Zhan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
polymer international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-0126
pISSN - 0959-8103
DOI - 10.1002/pi.2201
Subject(s) - polymer , sum frequency generation , sum frequency generation spectroscopy , materials science , molecule , spectroscopy , infrared spectroscopy , nanotechnology , adhesion , chemical physics , chemistry , optics , nonlinear optics , composite material , organic chemistry , physics , laser , quantum mechanics
This paper reviews recent progress in the studies on polymer surfaces/interfaces using sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy. SFG theory, technique, and some experimental details have been presented. The review is focused on the SFG studies on buried interfaces involving polymer materials, such as polymer–water interfaces and polymer–polymer interfaces. Molecular interactions between polymer surfaces and adhesion promoters as well as biological molecules such as proteins and peptides have also been elucidated using SFG. This review demonstrates that SFG is a powerful technique to characterize molecular level structural information of complicated polymer surfaces and interfaces in situ . Copyright © 2006 Society of Chemical Industry