Communications Materials (Jun 2021)

In situ plant materials hyperspectral imaging by multimodal scattering near-field optical microscopy

  • Anne M. Charrier,
  • Aubin C. Normand,
  • Ali Passian,
  • Philip Schaefer,
  • Aude L. Lereu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00166-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Plant cells are elaborate three-dimensional polymer nano-constructs with complex chemistry. Here, multimodal scattering nearfield optical microscopy of poplar trees is used to establish in situ high-resolution mappings of the local dielectric functions and compositional distribution of lignin and cellulose in plant cell walls.