Vibrational Spectroscopy for Biomedical Materials Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

Vibrational spectroscopy is a non-destructive identification method that measures the vibrational energy in a compound. As each chemical bond has a unique vibrational energy, depending on which other compounds the chemical bond of interest is bound to, and because of this unique vibrational energy, each compound will have a unique fingerprint or the output identifying the peak strengths at specific vibrations. This fingerprint can be used to determine the compound structures, identify and characterize compounds, and identify impurities.

Because of such features, vibrational spectroscopy is a rapidly growing field and it has found applications in industries including material science, pharmaceutical manufacture, food and drug safety, and process monitoring on production lines. Based on the non-invasive features, interest in clinical spectroscopy is analogously rising rapidly, as researchers recognize the potential of the vibrational spectroscopic techniques―infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopy―as non-invasive tissue diagnosis tools and biomedical materials.

In clinical pathology, vibrational spectroscopy is widely employed in cancer detection and diagnosis, the pathology of microorganisms, in vivo spectroscopy, and imaging. Analogously, the materials to be used in biomedical applications can be satisfactorily analysed by making use of vibrational spectroscopy.

However, many questions remain open. For example, the details of the characteristic peak frequencies and their relationship to the specific functional groups present in the biological tissues have not been fully understood, requiring theoretical and modelling efforts.

The Special Issue is open to new advances in the application of vibrational spectroscopies (IR and Raman) to medical materials analysis, involving the following:

• IR and Raman spectroscopy;
• FTIR—Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy;
• Synchrotron infrared spectroscopy
• Medical materials;
• Tissue engineering;
• Clinical analysis and data processing;
• Chemical fingerprints and clinical diagnostics;
• Clinical applications and noninvasive spectroscopy;
• Plasmonics and nanomedicine;
• Theory and modeling

Dr. Mario D’Acunto
Guest Editor

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