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High-resolution Fourier-transform infrared chemical imaging with multiple synchrotron beams

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This advance allows truly diffraction-limited high-resolution imaging over the entire mid-infrared spectrum with high chemical sensitivity and fast acquisition speed while maintaining high-quality SNR.
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Conventional Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopic systems are limited by an inevitable trade-off between spatial resolution, acquisition time, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and sample coverage. We present an FTIR imaging approach that substantially extends current capabilities by combining multiple synchrotron beams with wide-field detection. This advance allows truly diffraction-limited high-resolution imaging over the entire mid-infrared spectrum with high chemical sensitivity and fast acquisition speed while maintaining high-quality SNR.

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Infrared spectroscopic imaging advances as an analytical technology for biomedical sciences

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Nanoscale infrared spectroscopy: improving the spectral range of the photothermal induced resonance technique.

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Biomolecular and bioanalytical applications of infrared spectroscopy - A review.

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Graphene Coupled with Nanocrystals: Opportunities and Challenges for Energy and Sensing Applications

TL;DR: Graphene coupled with nanocrystals (NCs) represents a new type of hybrid nanostructure that has attracted wide attention in energy and sensing applications as discussed by the authors, where the structural characteristics of graphene-NC hybrids and the advantages of coupling NCs with graphene are demonstrated and discussed.
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Exploring Adsorption and Reactivity of NH3 on Reduced Graphene Oxide

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Dirac charge dynamics in graphene by infrared spectroscopy

TL;DR: In this article, an infrared spectromicroscopy study of charge dynamics in graphene integrated in gated devices is presented, which reveals significant departures of the quasiparticle dynamics from predictions made for Dirac fermions in idealized, free-standing graphene.
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Near-field probing of vibrational absorption for chemical microscopy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the use of the apertureless approach to scan near field optical microscopy to obtain contrast in vibrational absorption on a scale of about 100 nanometres, about one-hundredth of a wavelength.
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Sea urchin spine calcite forms via a transient amorphous calcium carbonate phase.

TL;DR: It is shown that sea urchin spine regeneration proceeds via the initial deposition of amorphous calcium carbonate, which may have interesting implications for the development of sophisticated materials.
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