Novel Optical Probes for Advanced Chemical Imaging

摘要

In 2006, the National Research Council (NRC) published an extensive report titled Visualizing Chemistry: The Progress and Promise of Advanced Chemical Imaging. Its primary objectives were to (i) provide a summary of the state-of-the-art in chemical imaging technology, (ii) identify existing challenges in chemical imaging, and (iii) outline promising routes to possible break-throughs in meeting these challenges. The variety of topics covered reflects the broad range of methods that fall within the realm of chemical imaging. Included are optical and spectroscopic imaging; optical, electron, electrochemical, and topographic proximal probe methods; magnetic resonance imaging; and X-ray, ion, electron, and neutron microscopies. The variety of experiments in which these methods are applied is equally diverse, spanning compositional, structural and dynamics studies of systems ranging from relatively simple few-component self-assembled materials to complex biological organisms.