Nanoscale NMR spectroscopy and imaging of multiple nuclear species.
Nat Nanotechnol
; 10(2): 129-34, 2015 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provide non-invasive information about multiple nuclear species in bulk matter, with wide-ranging applications from basic physics and chemistry to biomedical imaging. However, the spatial resolution of conventional NMR and MRI is limited to several micrometres even at large magnetic fields (>1â
T), which is inadequate for many frontier scientific applications such as single-molecule NMR spectroscopy and in vivo MRI of individual biological cells. A promising approach for nanoscale NMR and MRI exploits optical measurements of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) colour centres in diamond, which provide a combination of magnetic field sensitivity and nanoscale spatial resolution unmatched by any existing technology, while operating under ambient conditions in a robust, solid-state system. Recently, single, shallow NV centres were used to demonstrate NMR of nanoscale ensembles of proton spins, consisting of a statistical polarization equivalent to â¼100-1,000 spins in uniform samples covering the surface of a bulk diamond chip. Here, we realize nanoscale NMR spectroscopy and MRI of multiple nuclear species ((1)H, (19)F, (31)P) in non-uniform (spatially structured) samples under ambient conditions and at moderate magnetic fields (â¼20â
mT) using two complementary sensor modalities.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Ressonância Magnética Nuclear Biomolecular
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Modelos Teóricos
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Nitrogênio
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Nat Nanotechnol
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos