Biointerface characterization by advanced IR spectroscopy

"There is an increasing interest in research and applications of biosensors and bio-compatability in relation to environmental protection, food and medical safety, implants, early detection of diseases and pollutant detection. This book describes how to characterise amino acids, protein or bacterial strain adsorption on metal and oxide surfaces by using infrared spectroscopy, in a vacuum, in the air or in an aqueous medium. Features description of the principles, experimental setups and parameter interpretation, and the theory for several advanced IR-based techniques for interface characterisation Contains examples which demonstrate the capacity, potential and limits of the IR techniques Helps finding the most adequate mode of analysis."--Publisher.

1. RAIRS and under ultra-vacuum conditions on metal surfaces/ Humblot and Pradier -- 2. PM-IRRAS at liquid interfaces/ Blaudez, Castano and Desbat -- 3. Infrared spectroscopy for characteriazation of biomolecular interfaces/ Hamers, Wang, Franking, Ruther and Stavis -- 4. Infrared analysis of biomolecule attachment of functionalized silicon surfaces/ Lapin, Seitz and Chabal -- 5. Attentuated total reflection infrared (ATR-IR) spectroscopy, modulation excitation spectroscopy (MES) and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD)/ Burgi -- 6. Synchroton infrared interface science/ Dumas and Humblot -- 7. IR spectroscopy for biorecognition and molecular sensing/ Pradier, Salmain and Boujday -- 8. Advanced infrared glasses for biochemical sensing/ Lucas and Bureau -- 9. AFM-IR: photothermal infrared nanospectroscopy/ Dazzi and Policar -- 10. Sum frequency generation spectroscopy of biointerfaces/ Humbert and Busson.