Recent progress in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance of half-integer spin low-gamma quadrupolar nuclei applied to inorganic materials

Smith, Mark E. (2021) Recent progress in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance of half-integer spin low-gamma quadrupolar nuclei applied to inorganic materials. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 59 (9-10), 864-907. (doi:10.1002/mrc.5116).

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Abstract

An overview is presented of recent progress in the solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) observation of low-γ nuclei, with a focus on applications to inorganic materials. The technological and methodological advances in the last 20 years, which have underpinned the increased accessibility of low-γ nuclei for study by solid-state NMR techniques, are summarised, including improvements in hardware, pulse sequences and associated computational methods (e.g., first principles calculations and spectral simulation). Some of the key initial observations from inorganic materials of these nuclei are highlighted along with some recent (most within the last 10 years) illustrations of their application to such materials. A summary of other recent reviews of the study of low-γ nuclei by solid-state NMR is provided so that a comprehensive understanding of what has been achieved to date is available.

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Accepted/In Press date: 13 November 2020

Published date: 1 September 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: The author acknowledges the support of the Universities of Southampton, Lancaster and Warwick of his research over the last decade. He is also very grateful to many NMR researchers for their discussions on low-? nuclei, but especially the active collaborations with Profs J.V. Hanna, C. Bonhomme and Dr. D. Laurencin. Copyright holders who gave permission for the use of figures from their publications are thanked. Some of the work reported here made use of the NMR infrastructure at Warwick funded through a variety of sources including EPSRC, the HEFCE and the University of Warwick, as well as through the Science City Advanced Materials project supported by Advantage West Midlands (AWM) and part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for which the authors are grateful. Current support from EPSRC is acknowledged via EP/T014911/1. Funding Information: The author acknowledges the support of the Universities of Southampton, Lancaster and Warwick of his research over the last decade. He is also very grateful to many NMR researchers for their discussions on low‐ nuclei, but especially the active collaborations with Profs J.V. Hanna, C. Bonhomme and Dr. D. Laurencin. Copyright holders who gave permission for the use of figures from their publications are thanked. Some of the work reported here made use of the NMR infrastructure at Warwick funded through a variety of sources including EPSRC, the HEFCE and the University of Warwick, as well as through the Science City Advanced Materials project supported by Advantage West Midlands (AWM) and part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for which the authors are grateful. Current support from EPSRC is acknowledged via EP/T014911/1. γ Publisher Copyright: © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Keywords: half-integer, inorganic materials, low-γ nuclei, quadrupolar, solid-state NMR, structural characterisation

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