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INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY– MATERIALS SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Edited by Theophile Theophanides Infrared Spectroscopy – Materials Science, Engineering and Technology Edited by Theophile Theophanides Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Publishing Process Manager Dragana Manestar Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published April, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from [email protected] Infrared Spectroscopy – Materials Science, Engineering and Technology, Edited by Theophile Theophanides p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0537-4 Contents Preface XI Introductory Introduction to Infrared Spectroscopy 1 Chapter Theophile Theophanides Section 1 Minerals and Glasses 11 Chapter 1 Using Infrared Spectroscopy to Identify New Amorphous Phases – A Case Study of Carbonato Complex Formed by Mechanochemical Processing 13 Tadej Rojac, Primož Šegedin and Marija Kosec Chapter 2 Application of Infrared Spectroscopy to Analysis of Chitosan/Clay Nanocomposites 43 Suédina M.L. Silva, Carla R.C. Braga, Marcus V.L. Fook, Claudia M.O. Raposo, Laura H. Carvalho and Eduardo L. Canedo Chapter 3 Structural and Optical Behavior of Vanadate-Tellurate Glasses Containing PbO or Sm O 63 2 3 E. Culea, S. Rada, M. Culea and M. Rada Chapter 4 Water in Rocks and Minerals – Species, Distributions, and Temperature Dependences 77 Jun-ichi Fukuda Chapter 5 Attenuated Total Reflection – Infrared Spectroscopy Applied to the Study of Mineral – Aqueous Electrolyte Solution Interfaces: A General Overview and a Case Study 97 Grégory Lefèvre, Tajana Preočanin and Johannes Lützenkirchen Chapter 6 Research of Calcium Phosphates Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy 123 Liga Berzina-Cimdina and Natalija Borodajenko VI Contents Chapter 7 FTIR Spectroscopy of Adsorbed Probe Molecules for Analyzing the Surface Properties of Supported Pt (Pd) Catalysts 149 Olga B. Belskaya, Irina G. Danilova, Maxim O. Kazakov, Roman M. Mironenko, Alexander V. Lavrenov and Vladimir A. Likholobov Chapter 8 Hydrothermal Treatment of Hokkaido Peat – An Application of FTIR and 13C NMR Spectroscopy on Examining of Artificial Coalification Process and Development 179 Anggoro Tri Mursito and Tsuyoshi Hirajima Section 2 Polymers and Biopolymers 193 Chapter 9 FTIR – An Essential Characterization Technique for Polymeric Materials 195 Vladimir A. Escobar Barrios, José R. Rangel Méndez, Nancy V. Pérez Aguilar, Guillermo Andrade Espinosa and José L. Dávila Rodríguez Chapter 10 Preparation and Characterization of PVDF/PMMA/Graphene Polymer Blend Nanocomposites by Using ATR-FTIR Technique 213 Somayeh Mohamadi Chapter 11 Reflectance IR Spectroscopy 233 Zahra Monsef Khoshhesab Chapter 12 Evaluation of Graft Copolymerization of Acrylic Monomers Onto Natural Polymers by Means Infrared Spectroscopy 245 José Luis Rivera-Armenta, Cynthia Graciela Flores-Hernández, Ruth Zurisadai Del Angel-Aldana, Ana María Mendoza-Martínez, Carlos Velasco-Santos and Ana Laura Martínez-Hernández Chapter 13 Applications of FTIR on Epoxy Resins – Identification, Monitoring the Curing Process, Phase Separation and Water Uptake 261 María González González, Juan Carlos Cabanelas and Juan Baselga Chapter 14 Use of FTIR Analysis to Control the Self-Healing Functionality of Epoxy Resins 285 Liberata Guadagno and Marialuigia Raimondo Chapter 15 Infrared Analysis of Electrostatic Layer-By-Layer Polymer Membranes Having Characteristics of Heavy Metal Ion Desalination 301 Weimin Zhou, Huitan Fu and Takaomi Kobayashi Contents VII Chapter 16 Infrared Spectroscopy as a Tool to Monitor Radiation Curing 325 Marco Sangermano, Patrick Meier and Spiros Tzavalas Section 3 Materials Technology 337 Chapter 17 Characterization of Compositional Gradient Structure of Polymeric Materials by FTIR Technology 339 Alata Hexig and Bayar Hexig Chapter 18 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy – Useful Analytical Tool for Non-Destructive Analysis 353 Simona-Carmen Litescu, Eugenia D. Teodor, Georgiana-Ileana Truica, Andreia Tache and Gabriel-Lucian Radu Chapter 19 Infrared Spectroscopy in the Analysis of Building and Construction Materials 369 Lucia Fernández-Carrasco, D. Torrens-Martín, L.M. Morales and Sagrario Martínez-Ramírez Chapter 20 Infrared Spectroscopy Techniques in the Characterization of SOFC Functional Ceramics 383 Daniel A. Macedo, Moisés R. Cesário, Graziele L. Souza, Beatriz Cela, Carlos A. Paskocimas, Antonio E. Martinelli, Dulce M. A. Melo and Rubens M. Nascimento Chapter 21 Infrared Spectroscopy of Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles 405 Perla E. García Casillas, Claudia A. Rodriguez Gonzalez and Carlos A. Martínez Pérez Chapter 22 Determination of Adsorption Characteristics of Volatile Organic Compounds Using Gas Phase FTIR Spectroscopy Flow Analysis 421 Tarik Chafik Chapter 23 Identification of Rocket Motor Characteristics from Infrared Emission Spectra 433 N. Hamp, J.H. Knoetze, C. Aldrich and C. Marais Chapter 24 Optical Technologies for Determination of Pesticide Residue 453 Yankun Peng, Yongyu Li and Jingjing Chen Chapter 25 High Resolution Far Infrared Spectra of the Semiconductor Alloys Obtained Using the Synchrotron Radiation as Source 467 E.M. Sheregii VIII Contents Chapter 26 Effective Reaction Monitoring of Intermediates by ATR-IR Spectroscopy Utilizing Fibre Optic Probes 493 Daniel Lumpi and Christian Braunshier