Raman Spectroscopy for Advanced Polymeric Biomaterials

Abstract

In recent years, polymeric biomaterials have emerged as a potential candidate for therapeutic applications owing to their salient features. The characterization of these drugs and bioactive molecules loaded polymer based biomaterials is an important prerequisite for obtaining a deep understanding of their physicochemical behavior in order to ensure their successful clinical use. There are a variety of complementary characterization techniques available for the characterization of the biomaterials. This review highlights the potential of Raman spectroscopy including its importance for investigating the molecular structure of polymeric materials along with a brief description of its principles, instrumentation, and recent advances.

Keywords: Raman; biomaterial; characterization; polymer; therapeutic.