Monday, August 20, 2012

"Canadian NMR Research" News Bulletin

Summer 2012 issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news bulletin is now available for download. In this issue: the opening of the Bruker Spectroscopy Facility at SFU, NSERC 2012 competition results, a special feature on NMR Software, and much more! You are welcome to share this bulletin with your colleagues and students. 

http://nmr900.ca/nmr_bulletin.html

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Cover article in Angewandte Chemie

Michal Leskes, Nicholas E. Drewett, Laurence J. Hardwick, Peter G. Bruce, Gillian R. Goward, and Clare P. Grey, "Direct Detection of Discharge Products in Lithium–Oxygen Batteries by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 51 (2012) 8560–8563. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201202183

This is a cover article #11 featuring results obtained using resources of the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids, and the third article in Angewandte Chemie. See the complete list of research publications enabled by the Facility http://nmr900.ca/publications_e.html

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

New book: NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solid Materials

edited by Roderick E. Wasylishen, Sharon E. Ashbrook, Stephen Wimperis 

Hardcover: 550 pages
Publisher: Wiley; August 2012
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0470973981
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470973986
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0470973986


Wiley: Many important materials do not contain spin-1/2 nuclei traditionally investigated by NMR spectroscopy and secondly, dissolving solid materials in a solvent may be impossible or may destroy the integrity of the material. All these obstacles can be overcome by NMR experiments at high-magnetic field strengths and investigating the properties of quadrupolar nuclei.

This Handbook gives an up-to-date account of NMR of quadrupoloar nuclei in the solid state. Each chapter of the Handbook has been prepared by an expert who has made significant contributions to our understanding and appreciation of the importance of NMR studies of quadrupolar nuclei in solids.

The text is divided into three Parts:

A) Basic Principles of Quadrupolar NMR
B) Advanced Solid-State NMR Techniques to Investigate Quadrupolar Nuclei
C) Applications Involving NMR Studies of Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solids.


The first section provides the reader with the background necessary to appreciate the challenges in acquiring and interpreting NMR spectra of quadrupolar nuclei in solids. The second section presents cutting-edge techniques and methodology for employing these spectroscopic techniques to investigate quadrupolar nuclei in solids. The final section explores applications of solid-state NMR studies of solids ranging from investigations of biological samples to porous materials, catalysts, geological samples and high-temperature superconductors.

All these articles will be published on EMR: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470034590