1st Edition
Raman Spectroscopy of Biomaterials Theory and Quantitative Algorithms
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Foundations and State of the Art in Raman Spectroscopy
3. Raman Probe, Spectroscopic Equipment and Software
4. Raman Selection Rules and their Experimental Verification
5. Secular Equations and their Experimental Verification
6. Orientation Distribution Functions for Statistical Analyses in the Probe Volume
7. Conclusions and Future Perspectives
Appendix: Short Tutorial on Group Theory and Space Groups in Real and Reciprocal Spaces
Biography
Giuseppe Pezzotti is distinguished professor and director of the Biomedical Engineering Center of Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan. Before this appointment, he was a full professor at the Ceramic Physics Laboratory of Kyoto Institute of Technology, where he was also vice president for International Affairs and Collaborative Research in Health Science for 7 years and is now an emeritus professor. Prof. Pezzotti holds 6 doctoral degrees in different scientific fields, has published more than 800 scientific papers, has authored 3 books, and holds patents in various disciplines, including a world patent on nanoscale stress microscopy, for which he was awarded the prestigious Prize for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education of Japan in 2017.
