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Application of raman spectroscopy in determing the structure of a molecule with specific example​

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Raman spectroscopy is a technique, which is very sensitive to structural changes, used to understand molecular bonding in materials. It is another scattering technique, but this time, photons from a laser source are used, typically in the infrared to UV wavelengths. Of the incident photons, a few undergo Raman scattering, losing energy through exciting vibrational modes of the sample. These scattered photons are detected to make a spectrum. Raman spectroscopy typically has a much larger depth of analysis compared to the other techniques listed here. However, the complementary information obtained is especially useful for understanding both polymers, where the bulk information complements the surface information, and nanomaterials, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, where the depth scales correlate nicely.