Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Pushing nuclear magnetic resonance sensitivity limits with microfluidics and photo-chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization

  • Miguel Mompeán,
  • Rosa M. Sánchez-Donoso,
  • Antonio de la Hoz,
  • Vittorio Saggiomo,
  • Aldrik H. Velders,
  • M. Victoria Gomez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02575-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique with an inherently low sensitivity. Here, the authors present a combination of microcoils with photo-chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization to boost NMR sensitivity down to sub-picomole detection limits.