Vibrational nano-spectroscopic imaging correlating structure with intermolecular coupling and dynamics

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pollard, Benjamin ^a   Muller, Eric A ^a   Hinrichs, Karsten ^b   Raschke, Markus B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR ANALYTISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN ISAS E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER;

IMAGING METHOD; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPREHENSION; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE SEPARATION; REFRACTION INDEX; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIBRATIONAL SCATTERING-SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84898651704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4587     Document Type: Article

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