Chemical Imaging Analysis

Covers how different analytical imaging techniques link the composition and structure of materials at the nano/micro scale to the functional behavior at the macroscopic scale

Freddy Adams (Author), Carlo Barbante (Author)

9780444634399, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 8 June 2015

480 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.9 cm, 0.85 kg

"Standing ovations for this book!...a wellbalanced evaluation of the various methods applied in analytical imaging analysis and discuss novel trends fairly and critically if needed. The book is very well written and excellently illustrated......unique because it compiles and compares for the first time all the different methods applied in imaging analysis from an analytical point of view...Standing ovations for this book!...very well written and excellently illustrated..." --Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Chemical Imaging Analysis covers the advancements made over the last 50 years in chemical imaging analysis, including different analytical techniques and the ways they were developed and refined to link the composition and structure of manmade and natural materials at the nano/micro scale to the functional behavior at the macroscopic scale. In a development process that started in the early 1960s, a variety of specialized analytical techniques was developed – or adapted from existing techniques – and these techniques have matured into versatile and powerful tools for visualizing structural and compositional heterogeneity. This text explores that journey, providing a general overview of imaging techniques in diverse fields, including mass spectrometry, optical spectrometry including X-rays, electron microscopy, and beam techniques.

1. Introduction2. Spatially Confined Analysis3. History and Present Status of Micro- and Nano-Analysis4. Nanotechnology and Analytical Chemistry5. Micro- and Nano-Imaging Analysis in Mass Spectrometry6. X-Ray Imaging7. Electron-based Imaging Techniques8. Particle-based Imaging Techniques9. Optical Spectroscopic Imaging10. Conclusions and Further Prospects

Subject Areas: Analytical chemistry [PNF]