| Literature DB >> 16834401 |
Markus Brehm1, Thomas Taubner, Rainer Hillenbrand, Fritz Keilmann.
Abstract
We demonstrate that scattering near-field microscopy (s-SNOM) can determine infrared "fingerprint" spectra of individual poly(methyl methacrylate) nanobeads and viruses as small as 18 nm. Amplitude and phase spectra are found surprisingly strong, even at a probed volume of only 10(-20) l, and robust in regard to particle size and substrate. This makes infrared spectroscopic s-SNOM a versatile tool for chemical and-in the case of protein-secondary-structure identification.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16834401 DOI: 10.1021/nl0610836
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189