{"id":115953,"date":"2020-11-17T00:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/novel-analytic-approach-enhances-nuclear-magnetic-resonance-signal-detection-in-previously-invisible-regions"},"modified":"2020-11-17T00:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T08:22:16","slug":"novel-analytic-approach-enhances-nuclear-magnetic-resonance-signal-detection-in-previously-invisible-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/novel-analytic-approach-enhances-nuclear-magnetic-resonance-signal-detection-in-previously-invisible-regions","title":{"rendered":"Novel analytic approach enhances nuclear magnetic resonance signal detection in previously \u2018invisible\u2019 regions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First introduced into wide use in the middle of the 20th century, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has since become an indispensable technique for examining materials down to their atoms, revealing molecular structure and other details without interfering with the material itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a broadly used technique in chemical analysis<\/a>, materials characterization, MRI\u2014situations in which you do a non-invasive analysis, but with atomic and molecular details,\u201d said UC Santa Barbara chemistry professor Songi Han. By placing a sample in a strong magnetic field and then probing it with radio waves scientists can determine from the response from the oscillating nuclei in the material\u2019s atoms the molecular structure<\/a> of the material.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, the problem with NMR has been that because it\u2019s such a low-energy technique, it\u2019s not very sensitive,\u201d Han said. \u201cIt\u2019s very detailed, but you don\u2019t get much signal.\u201d As a result, large amounts of sample material may be needed relative to other techniques, and the signals\u2019 general weakness makes NMR less than ideal for studying complex chemical processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First introduced into wide use in the middle of the 20th century, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has since become an indispensable technique for examining materials down to their atoms, revealing molecular structure and other details without interfering with the material itself. \u201cIt\u2019s a broadly used technique in chemical analysis, materials characterization, MRI\u2014situations in which you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}