Drying process of aqueous sodium alginate solutions at 50 °C was investigated by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and two-dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopy. Two-dimensional asynchronous spectrum at 1800-1350 cm-1 wavenumber could be resolved into five separate bands, which were assigned to O-H bending vibrations in water (around 1645 cm-1), antisymmetric and symmetric stretching vibrations of free and hydrogen-bonded COO- groups of alginate (around 1595, 1412, 1572 and 1390 cm-1, respectively). As the drying process progressed, absorbance ban...