Recent applications of FT-IR spectroscopy to polymer systems

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy has recently become an important analytical method for investigation of many polymer systems. Several new methods, concerned primarily with digital subtraction of absorbance spectra, are presented. Applications of the method to synthetic polymer research include conformational and configurational analyses, elucidation of degradation mechanisms, and interactions with filler surfaces. Many researchers in the biopolymer and medical fields have utilized the sensitivity and digital data processing capabilities of FT-IR to obtain information inaccessible by other methods.