Future Prospects for NMR Spectroscopy: A Perspective
A special issue of Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481). This special issue belongs to the section "Magnetic Resonances".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 2964
Special Issue Editors
Interests: quantum sensing; magnetic resonance; NV color centre
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
NMR spectroscopy has become a key tool for unravelling the structures of complex molecules, spanning a wide area of applications from analytical chemistry and material science to bio-medical and neurosciences. The applications of conventional NMR techniques are limited by the low sensitivity of the conventional coil-based induction method of detection, which relies on a large ensemble of nuclear spins to accumulate a proper signal-to-noise ratio. Hence, some cutting-edge techniques for non-inductive detection, such as diamond-defect-based optical detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) and magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM), demonstrate routes to overcome this limit and reach the sensitivity of a single nuclear spin detection. Another approach to enhance sensitivity in NMR spectroscopy is to polarize nuclear spins with dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) techniques, which improves the sensitivity in NMR spectra by orders of magnitude. The recent development of the room-temperature solid-state maser technique can also be applied to enhance the sensitivity of NMR spectroscopy. This Special Issue reviews the current status and future perspectives of NMR spectroscopy.
Dr. Bo Zhang
Dr. Kai Cai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- quantum sensing
- nitrogen-vacancy color center
- magnetic resonance
- dynamics nuclear polarization
- maser
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