Rongchun Zhang & Toshikazu Miyoshi 
NMR Methods for Characterization of Synthetic and Natural Polymers [PDF ebook] 

Since the introduction of FT-NMR spectroscopy around five decades ago, NMR has achieved significant advances in hardware and methodologies, accompanied with the enhancement of spectral resolution and signal sensitivity. Rapid developments in the polymers field mean that accurate and quantitative characterization of polymer structures and dynamics is the keystone for precisely regulating and controlling the physical and chemical properties of the polymer. This book specifically focuses on NMR investigation of complex polymers for the polymer community as well as NMR spectroscopists, and will push the development of both fields. It covers the latest advances, for example high field DNP and ultrafast MAS methodologies, and show how these novel NMR methods characterize various synthetic and natural polymers.

Table of Content

Applications of NMR in Polymer Characterization – An Introduction; Application of STD NMR in Organic/Inorganic Polymer Materials; Diffusion and Relaxometry to Study Carbohydrates Dissolved in Ionic Liquids; High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning (HRMAS) Pulse Field Gradient (PFG) NMR Diffusometry Studies of Swollen Polymers; Application of On-line SEC-NMR and DOSY for Practical Polymer Characterization; Dynamics of Polymer Systems Studied by NMR Field-cycling Relaxometry; HR-MAS NMR Characterization of Thermo-responsive Polymer Gels: Network Collapse Dynamics and Intermolecular Interactions; Rubber-state NMR Spectroscopy; Polymer Blends, Nanocomposites, Rubbers and p-Conjugated Polymers; NMR Investigations of Interfaces in Tapered and Inverse-tapered Copolymers in the Solid State; Nanostructures, Conformations, and Intermolecular Interactions in Natural Biopolymers Revealed by Solid-state NMR Spectroscopy; Chain Proximity of Polystyrene in Bulk Polymer, Polymer Blend and Nanocomposites; Dipolar Based NMR Methods for Probing Intermediate Regime Motions in Polymers; Structure and Molecular Dynamics of Semicrystalline Polymers as Studied by Solid-state NMR; Solid-state NMR of Organic Electronics; Molecular Chain Packing and Conformation in p-Conjugated Polymers from Solid-state NMR; Applications of Solid-state NMR in Crystalline Solid Polymer Electrolytes; NMR Characterization of Silk; Solid-state NMR and Membrane Proteins: Key Interactions in Biomacromolecules; Development of Sulfur-33 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Structural Study of Crosslinked Rubber; Very Fast MAS NMR >60 k Hz for Structural Elucidation; Structural Investigations of Polymer Materials by Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation Solid-state NMR