7 - NMR, FT-IR and raman characterization of biomaterials

Abstract

Polymeric biomaterials are leading class of materials whose utilization has increased substantively in last few decades toward therapeutic applications. The characterizations of such biomaterials are of paramount importance to understand the structure and chemistry for exploiting the full biomimetic potential. There are several advanced characterization techniques available for the structural characterization of the biomaterials. In this chapter, we will elaborate an overview of the most commonly used spectroscopic characterization techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance, Fourier transform infrared, and Raman, along with a brief description of their importance, principles, and recent advances in various biomaterials characterization.