Description
Book SynopsisField-cycling NMR relaxometry is evolving into a methodology of widespread interest with recent technological developments resulting in powerful and versatile commercial instruments. Polymers, liquid crystals, biomaterials, porous media, tissue, cement and many other materials of practical importance can be studied using this technique. This book summarises the expertise of leading scientists in the area and the editor is well placed, after four decades of working in this field, to ensure a broad ranging and high quality title. Starting with an overview of the basic principles of the technique and the scope of its use, the content then develops to look at theory, instrumentation, practical limitations and applications in different systems. Newcomers to the field will find this book invaluable for successful use of the technique. Researchers already in academic and industrial settings, interested in molecular dynamics and magnetic resonance, will discover an important addition to the literature.
Table of ContentsPrinciple, Purpose and Pitfalls of Field-cycling NMR Relaxometry; Essentials of the Theory of Spin Relaxation as Needed for Field-cycling NMR; New Trends in Field-cycling NMR Technology; Broadband Fast Field-cycling Relaxometer: Requirements, Instrumentation and Verification; Specific Aspects of the Design of Field-cycling Devices; Signal Enhancement for Fast Field-cycling Relaxometry by Dynamic Nuclear Polarization: Basic Principles, Hardware and Methods; Relaxometry at Very Low Frequencies by Rotating-frame Techniques for Complementing the Frequency Domain Explored by Field Cycling; Application of Field-cycling 1H NMR Relaxometry to the Study of Translational and Rotational Dynamics in Liquids and Polymers; Nuclear Magnetic Relaxtion Dispersion of Water-Protein Systems; Environmental Applications of Fast Field-cycling NMR Relaxometry; NMR Relaxometry in Liquid Crystals: Molecular Organization and Molecular Dynamics Interrelation; Interfacial and Intermittent Dynamics of Water in Colloidal Systems as Probed by Fast Field-cycling Relaxometry; Field-cycling Relaxometry of Polymers; Techniques and Applications of Field-cycling Magnetic Resonance in Medicine; High-resolution Applications of Shuttle Field-cycling NMR; Quantum Molecular Tunnelling Studied by Field-cycling NMR; Paramagnetic Complexes and Superparamagnetic Systems; Probing the Dynamics of Petroleum Fluids in Bulk and Confinement by Fast Field-cycling Relaxometry; Applications of Field-cycling NMR Relaxometry to Cement Materials; Application of Fast Field-cycling NMR Relaxometry to Soil Material; Fast Field-cycling NMR Experiments with Hyperpolarized Spins; Subject Index
