Identification of polymers by infrared spectroscopy
Identificación de polímeros por espectroscopía infrarroja
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Abstract
Polymers are one of the most used materials nowadays. Given their properties, the human being has made of them part of most of the objects of daily life. However, the lifespan of these products is very short in most cases and this has turned them into a problem due to the pollution they generate.
One of the main difficulties is to separate these materials according to the type of polymer in order to facilitate their recycling. This is where the task of identifying and separating polymers becomes the critical stage of this process. (Ignatyev, Thielemans, & Vander Beke, 2014) . The aim of this article is to briefly introduce the infrared spectroscopy technique and the operation of an infrared spectrometer, and show some results of analyzes performed on some commercial polymers.