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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 116, Issue 3, Pages 753-758Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1816265116
Keywords
meteorites; IR spectroscopy; AFM-IR; organic matter
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Kakenhi [JP17H02991, JP17H06458, JP18K03722]
- Astrobiology Center of National Institutes of Natural Sciences [AB281004, AB291005, AB301020]
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Organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites is distributed in fine-grained matrix. To understand pre- and postaccretion history of organic matter and its association with surrounding minerals, microscopic techniques are mandatory. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is a useful technique, but the spatial resolution of IR is limited to a few micrometers, due to the diffraction limit. In this study, we applied the high spatial resolution IR imaging method to CM2 carbonaceous chondrites Murchison and Bells, which is based on an atomic force microscopy (AFM) with its tip detecting thermal expansion of a sample resulting from absorption of infrared radiation. We confirmed that this technique permits similar to 30 nm spatial resolution organic analysis for the meteorite samples. The IR imaging results are consistent with the previously reported association of organic matter and phyllosilicates, but our results are at much higher spatial resolution. This observation of heterogeneous distributions of the functional groups of organic matter revealed its association with minerals at similar to 30 nm spatial resolution in meteorite samples by IR spectroscopy.
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