title: Multiple peak reference method for polarized Fourier transform infrared-attenuated total reflection spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional orientation of a uniaxially drawn poly(trimethylene 2,6-naphthalate) film.
abstract: The polarized Fourier transform infrared-attenuated total reflection (FT-IR-ATR) technique is a very useful infrared spectroscopic method for characterizing the three-dimensional orientation of thick samples, to which the conventional transmission FT-IR method cannot easily be applied. To quantitatively analyze polarized FT-IR-ATR spectra, the dependence of the optical contact between the sample and the ATR crystal during the clamping and reclamping processes must be controlled. In this work, a new multiple peak reference (MPR) method is proposed and used to carry out a three-dimensional analysis of a poly(trimethylene 2,6-naphthalate) (PTN) polymer sample. The conventional single peak reference (SPR) analysis technique cannot be applied to such a sample due to the lack of an established reference peak. A new artificial reference band was generated by the MPR method using two different infrared bands, at 1602 cm(-1) and 917 cm(-1), in identical spectra with a combination constant of 0.95. The new artificial reference band was successfully used to calculate the three-dimensional orientation of various infrared bands of a uniaxially drawn PTN film, which has not previously been studied by three-dimensional orientation analyses using the polarized FT-IR-ATR method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Textile Engineering, INHA University, Incheon 402-751, Korea.
authors.forename: Yongri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Ki Woon
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Han Sup
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Lee