Research Article

Time-Dependent Variations in Structure of Sheep Wool Irradiated by Electron Beam

Table 1

Characteristic wavenumbers of functional groups for native wool used in FTIR and Raman spectroscopy [25, 26].

Characteristic groupStructure (cmāˆ’1)

FTIR spectrometry

S-sulfonate (Bunte salt)-S--1022
Cysteic acid--1044
Cystine monoxide-SO-S-1075
Cystine dioxide--S-1128
Carboxylate-1389
Ethyl group, internal reference band--2849

Raman spectrometry

Disulfide bond-S-S-500ā€“550
Amide I, internal reference band-N-H1653