Progress in nanotechnology is enabled by and dependent on the availability of
measurement methods with spatial resolution commensurate with nanomaterials' length …

This Perspective highlights recent advances in infrared vibrational chemical nano-imaging.
In its implementations of scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) and …

Advances in technology now enable infrared and Raman vibrational spectroscopic imaging
with resolution on the molecular scale. A number of techniques have emerged that provide …

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy has evolved into a powerful analytical technique to probe
molecular and lattice vibrations, low-energy electronic excitations and correlations, and …

This perspective highlights recent advances in super-resolution, mid-infrared imaging and
spectroscopy. It provides an overview of the different near field microscopy techniques …

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 …

Atomic force microscopy-based infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR) is a rapidly emerging
technique that provides chemical analysis and compositional mapping with spatial …

Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) and Fourier transform
infrared nanospectroscopy (nano-FTIR) are emerging tools for physical and chemical …

Characterizing and ultimately controlling the heterogeneity underlying biomolecular
functions, quantum behavior of complex matter, photonic materials, or catalysis requires …

We demonstrate that scattering near-field microscopy (s-SNOM) can determine infrared
“fingerprint” spectra of individual poly (methyl methacrylate) nanobeads and viruses as small …