Equipment
7 T wide bore NMR spectrometer
This NMR spectrometer is dedicated to microimaging studies of large objects, typically fitting within the size of a 25 mm NMR tube, under static or flow conditions. In static mode, a range of MRI techniques can be used to assess material microstructures and migration of liquids therein. The NMR spectrometer is also equipped with the Bruker rheo-MRI unit to spatially-resolve the flow properties of complex fluids. The instrument can be equipped with a 10 T/m gradient set for diffusion ordered spectroscopy (DOSY) and q-space imaging, e.g. to quantify structural descriptors of porous and/or soft (bio-)materials.