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129Xe Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Demystified: The Influence of the Glassing Matrix on the Radical Properties

Rolf Gruetter, Andrea Capozzi, Jean-Noël Hyacinthe, Thanh Phong Kevin Lê, Emma Linnea Wiström

129Xe dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is a controversial topic. The gold standard technique for hyperpolarized xenon magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is spin exchange optical pumping, which received FDA approval in 2022. Nevertheless, the ve ...

2024

Disorder and Halide Distributions in Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals as Seen by Colloidal 133Cs Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Laura Piveteau

Colloidal nuclear magnetic resonance (cNMR) spectroscopy on inorganic cesium lead halide nanocrystals (CsPbX3 NCs) is found to serve for noninvasive characterization and quantification of disorder within these structurally soft and labile particles. In par ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Magic Angle Spinning Solid-State 13C Photochemically Induced Dynamic Nuclear Polarization by a Synthetic Donor-Chromophore-Acceptor System at 9.4 T

David Lyndon Emsley, Michael Allan Hope, Federico De Biasi, Máté Visegrádi

Solid-state photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (photo-CIDNP) is a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy technique in which nuclear spin hyperpolarization is generated upon optical irradiation of an appropriate donor-acceptor system. Unt ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Deuterated TEKPol Biradicals and the Spin-Diffusion Barrier in MAS DNP

David Lyndon Emsley, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Yu Rao, Amrit Venkatesh, Federico De Biasi

The sensitivity of NMR spectroscopy is considerably enhanced by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP). In DNP polarization is transferred from unpaired electrons of a polarizing agent to nearby proton spins. In solids, this transfer is followed by the transpo ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Performance and reproducibility of C-13 and N-15 hyperpolarization using a cryogen-free DNP polarizer

Hikari Ananda Infinity Yoshihara

The setup, operational procedures and performance of a cryogen-free device for producing hyperpolarized contrast agents using dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (dDNP) in a preclinical imaging center is described. The polarization was optimized using ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Design and performance of a small bath cryostat with NMR capability for transport of hyperpolarized samples

Andrea Capozzi

As of today, dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (dDNP) is the only clinically available hyperpolarization technique for C-13-MRI. Despite the clear path towards personalized medicine that dDNP is paving as an alternative and/or complement to Positron ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Methods to Enhance Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Sensitivity at High Magnetic Field

Claudia Christina Zanella

MR is a well-established technique routinely used in preclinical and clinical studies. This thesis focussed on the improvement of sensitivity of different methods in MR. Hyperpolarized 129Xe gas is used for studying pulmonary disease or cerebral perfusion ...

EPFL2021

UV-Irradiated 2-Keto-(1-C-13)Isocaproic Acid for High-Performance C-13 Hyperpolarized MR

Andrea Capozzi, Arthur César Pinon

Enhancing the sensitivity of magnetic resonance spectroscopy/imaging (MRS/MRI) by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (dDNP) has expanded the scope of MRS applications to new fields of research. Most importantly, it has paved the way toward noninvasiv ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Alternating Delays Achieve Polarization Transfer (ADAPT) to heteronuclei in PHIP experiments

Gabriele Stevanato

A new methodology for producing hyperpolarized C-13 nuclei in small organic systems via parahydrogen induced polarization (PHIP) is proposed: ADAPT (Alternating Delays Achieve Polarization Transfer). The theoretical foundation of the process is investigate ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2017

Phenylazide Hybrid-Silica - Polarization Platform for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at Cryogenic Temperatures

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud

Hyperpolarization of NMR-active nuclei is key to gather high quality spectra of rare species and insensitive isotopes. We have recently established that silica-based materials containing regularly distributed nitroxyl radicals connected to the silica matri ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Study of fast exchanging processes by NMR Spectroscopy

Estel Canet Martinez

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most powerful and informative methods to probe molecular dynamics. Specifically, chemical exchange is an important phenomenon and one of the earliest and most vigorously investigated in NMR spectr ...

EPFL2017

The Atomic-Level Structure of Cementitious Calcium Silicate Hydrate

Karen Scrivener, David Lyndon Emsley, Paul Bowen, Aaron James Rossini, Albert Hofstetter, Brennan James Walder, Aslam Kunhi Mohamed, Abhishek Kumar

Efforts to tune the bulk physical properties of concrete are hindered by a lack of knowledge related to the atomic-level structure and growth of calcium silicate hydrate phases, which form about 50-60% by volume of cement paste. Here we describe the first ...

2017

Hyperpolarized 6Li as a probe for hemoglobin oxygenation level

Rolf Gruetter, Arnaud Comment, Mor-Miri Mishkovsky, Ruud van Heeswijk, Riccardo Balzan

Hyperpolarization by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is a versatile technique to dramatically enhance the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal intensity of insensitive long-T1 nuclear spins such as 6 Li. The 6 Li longitudinal relaxation o ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Methods to hyperpolarize nuclear spins via dissolution and sublimation DNP at high magnetic field

Andrea Capozzi

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) is, nowadays, the most well-established and widespread Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) hyperpolarization technique. With respect to other methods, the main advantage of DNP is, with no doubt, its versatility. In theory e ...

EPFL2016

Transient versus Static Electron Spin Relaxation in Mn2+ Complexes Relevant as MRI Contrast Agents

Lothar Helm

The zero,-field splitting (ZFS) parameters of the Mn(EDTA)(H2O).2H(2)O. and [Mn(MeNO(2)A)(H2O)].2H(2)O systems were estimated by using DFT and ab initio CASSCF/NEVPT2 calculations (EDTA = (ethane-1,2-41bis(azanetriy1))tetraatetate; MeNO2A = 2,2'-(7-m ...

American Chemical Society2016

Dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization of deuterated molecules enhanced by cross-polarization

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Jonas Milani, Estel Canet Martinez

We present novel means to hyperpolarize deuterium nuclei in (CD2)-C-13 groups at cryogenic temperatures. The method is based on cross-polarization from H-1 to C-13 and does not require any radio-frequency fields applied to the deuterium nuclei. After rapid ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Structured and porous materials particularly suitable as polarizing agents in dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization

David Lyndon Emsley, Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet

The present invention concerns materials consisting in a porous and structured network, this network being at least in part formed by Si atoms, or Si atoms and metal atoms, linked to each other by oxy bridges, comprising organic molecules which include at ...

2016

Investigations of the non-adiabatic photophysics of Cu(I)-phenanthroline complexes

Gloria Capano

Cu(I)-phenanthrolines are an important class of metal-organic molecules that exhibits much promise for solar energy harvesting and solar-driven catalysis applications. Although many experimental studies have been performed calling for high-level simulation ...

EPFL2016

Photoinduced Nonpersistent Radicals as Polarizing Agents for X-Nuclei Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Arnaud Comment, Giovanni Boero, Tian Cheng, Christophe Roussel, Andrea Capozzi, Jean-Noël Hyacinthe, Jacques Van Der Klink, Tim Rolf Eichhorn

Hyperpolarization via dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is a versatile method to dramatically enhance the liquid-state NMR signal of X-nuclei and can be used for performing metabolic and molecular imaging. It was recently demonstrated that ins ...

American Chemical Society2015

Optimal Glass-Forming Solvent Brings Sublimation Dynamic Nuclear Polarization to 129Xe Hyperpolarization Biomedical Imaging Standards

Arnaud Comment, Christophe Roussel, Andrea Capozzi, Jean-Noël Hyacinthe

In addition to the dedicated spin exchange optical pumping (SEOP) technique, an alternative method to produce hyperpolarized xenon gas using dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) followed by a sublimation procedure was proposed. The challenge associated with ...

American Chemical Society2015