PolIRim

Daniela Täuber's scholarship project PolIRim was funded from 12/29 - 05/20 by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The funding enabled Daniela to continue working on Polarization-resolved IR spectroscopy and mid-IR photo-induced force microscopy (IR-PiFM / PiF-IR) for biomedical application.

Publications from the project:

  • Ali, M.; Schneider, R.; Strecker, A.; Krishnakumar, N.; Unger, S.; Soltaninezhad, M.; Kirchhoff, J.; Tannert, A.; Dragounova, K. A.; Heintzmann, R.; Müller, A.-D.; Krafft, C.; Neugebauer, U.; Täuber, D. Nanochemical Cell-Surface Evaluation in Photothermal Spectroscopic Imaging of Antimicrobial Interactions in the Model System Bacillus Subtilis and Vancomycin. Anal. Chem. 2025, 97 (43), 23914–23926.
  • James, A.; Ali, M.; Ye, Z.; Nhi, P. T. Y.; Xavi, S.; Huq, M. I.; Barua, S.; Luo, M.; Tsegazab, Y.; Elmanova, A.; Schneider, R.; Ustimenko, O.; Stanca, S.-E.; Diegel, M.; Dellith, A.; Hübner, U.; Krafft, C.; Finkelmeyer, S. J.; Hupfer, M. L.; Peneva, K.; Zeisberger, M.; David, C.; Presselt, M.; Täuber, D. Effect of Hybrid Field Coupling in Nanostructured Surfaces on Anisotropic Signal Detection in Nanoscale Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Methods. Faraday Discuss. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1039/D6FD00003G.
  • Täuber, D. Mid-Infrared Photo-Induced Force Microscopy (IR-PiFM/PiF-IR) -- Answers to Some Questions. arXiv May 3, 2026. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.01940. These answers were given during the Faraday Discussions of Vibrations at Interfaces in April 2026 in Manchester. They have been published as part of this discussions article: R. Arul, E. H. G. Backus, E. Borguet, C. L. Box, R. Chikkaraddy, A. Cuesta, P. R. Davies, P. M. Donaldson, S. N. Erkizan, A. P. Fellows, D. Ferri, R. R. Frontiera, M.-P. Gaigeot, L. J. Hardwick, Z. Heiner, N. Hertl, M. Hofmann, D. K. Hore, S. Kogikoski, M. Monai, J. K. Pattem, P. B. Petersen, S. Pezzotti, R. Raval, E. Ringe, N. Spiesshofer, A. Tamtögl, D. Täuber, C. Todd, B. M. Weckhuysen, W. Widdra: What is the question, What is the technique?: General Discussion. Faraday Discussions 2026. doi:10.1039/d6fd90015a