chapter 1 1 -- chapter 2 Stress/Strain Measurements in Fibers and Composites using Raman Spectroscopy -- chapter 3 FT-IR Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Materials -- chapter 4 Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy of Biological and Polymeric Materials -- chapter 5 Raman and Mid-Infrared Microspectroscopic Imaging -- chapter 6 Vibrational Circular Dichroism of Biopolymers: Summary of Methods and Applications -- chapter 7 Membrane Receptor–Ligand Interactions Probed by Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared Difference Spectroscopy -- chapter 8 Step-Scan Time-Resolved FT-IR Spectroscopy of Biopolymers.