Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Porous functionalized polymers enable generating and transporting hyperpolarized mixtures of metabolites

  • Théo El Daraï,
  • Samuel F. Cousin,
  • Quentin Stern,
  • Morgan Ceillier,
  • James Kempf,
  • Dmitry Eshchenko,
  • Roberto Melzi,
  • Marc Schnell,
  • Laurent Gremillard,
  • Aurélien Bornet,
  • Jonas Milani,
  • Basile Vuichoud,
  • Olivier Cala,
  • Damien Montarnal,
  • Sami Jannin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24279-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

Read online

Hyperpolarization by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization has brought highly sensitive magnetic resonance to reality but there still remains severe limitations. Here the authors show an approach relying on the generation of hyperpolarizing polymers that bear a dual function.