Applications of infrared spectroscopy in polysaccharide structural analysis: Progress, challenge and perspective

Polysaccharides are important biomacromolecules with numerous beneficial functions and a wide range of industrial applications. These emerging techniques can considerably expand application scope of IR, thus exert a more important effect on carbohydrate characterization.

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• 1 Functions and properties of polysaccharides are closely related to their structural features.
• 2 Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is a well-established technique which has been widely applied in polysaccharide structural analysis.
• 3 In this paper, the principle of IR and interpretation of polysaccharide IR spectrum are briefly introduced.

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