NMR Crystallography: Future Perspectives in Materials Characterization

Dear Colleagues,

Our world contains a wide variety of organic and inorganic solid materials. They are formed by molecules and/or ions that may interact with each other in periodic (crystalline) or non-periodic (amorphous) ways. Knowledge of how molecules interact with each other is fundamental to understand key properties and function of solid-state materials. Two fundamental questions have been frequently asked in research fields dedicated to the study of crystalline and amorphous solid-state materials:

What type of intermolecular interactions are present in the material? Can we draw a correlation between the intermolecular interactions and the materials’ function and properties?

NMR crystallography is a sophisticated solid-state characterization tool capable of addressing these questions. It provides detailed structural information about both intra- and intermolecular atomic interactions. The combination of solid-state NMR spectroscopy with X-ray diffraction and quantum mechanical calculations is a powerful approach for the determination, validation and refinement of crystalline materials. In recent years, NMR crystallography has massively progressed towards the development of multi-dimensional correlation techniques, focused on improving its sensitivity in the structure determination of crystalline as well as amorphous materials.

This Special Issue aims to share the latest progresses in NMR crystallography in the structural characterization of crystalline and amorphous materials. To this end, we invite the submission of papers covering broad topics in the field of NMR crystallography, from the development and improvement of the technique to its use in the characterization of materials with potential application in all research areas.

Dr. Inês C. B. Martins
Prof. Dr. Yaroslav Khimyak
Guest Editors

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