Microplastics and nanoplastics have become emerging particulate anthropogenic pollutants
and rapidly turned into a field of growing scientific and public interest. These tiny plastic …

Microplastics are of major concerns for society and is currently in the focus of legislators and
administrations. A small number of measures to reduce or remove primary sources of …

The advent of nanotechnology, and the need to understand the chemical composition at the
nanoscale, has stimulated the convergence of IR and Raman spectroscopy with scanning …

This article focuses on the atomic force microscopy-infrared (AFM-IR) technique and its
recent technological developments. Based on the detection of the photothermal sample …

Nanomaterials exhibit structural and functional heterogeneity among individual
nanoparticles, thus requiring a capability to study single nanoparticles. While electron …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has become an essential ultrasensitive
analytical tool for biomolecular analysis of small molecules, macromolecular proteins, and …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been extensively used for the nanoscale
characterization of polymeric materials. The coupling of AFM with infrared spectroscope …

Viruses are infections species that infect a large spectrum of living systems. Although
displaying a wide variety of shapes and sizes, they are all composed of nucleic acid …

Vibrational spectroscopy has been widely used to investigate various structural aspects of
the glass network, and there are a plethora of papers reporting subtle but consistent …

The folding and acquisition of proteins native structure is central to all biological processes
of life. By contrast, protein misfolding can lead to toxic amyloid aggregates formation, linked …