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Long-lived nuclear spin order helps extend the timescale of polarisation storage. This occurs as populations of nuclear spin singlet states feature slow decays compared to longitudinal magnetisation. The excitation of these symmetry-adapted states required spin choreographies that were often overshadowed in scholarly presentations by their applications. We recapitulate some of the milestones achieved in designing methods for long-lived spin order excitation and comment on future perspectives.

Diffusion-ordered spectroscopy (DOSY) seeks to distinguish between the NMR signals of chemical species of different sizes, using experimental measurements of spectra with different diffusion weighting. This paper examines how the signal-to-noise ratio of the experimental data influences the ability to distinguish small differences in diffusion coefficient between species.

There is growing interest in mapping exchange dynamics between Watson–Crick and Hoogsteen conformations across different DNA contexts. However, current methods are ill-suited for measurements at a large scale because they require isotopically enriched samples. We report that Hoogsteen dynamics can be measured on unlabeled samples using 1H CEST experiments, which have higher throughput and lower cost relative to conventional methods and also provide new insights into Hoogsteen dynamics.

Novel electron spin resonance (ESR) detectors based on voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) have been attracting attention, mainly due to the possibility of integrating the whole ESR spectrometer onto a single printed circuit board at relatively low cost while maintaining a performance comparable to commercial solutions. We present an experimental setup where the signal is detected as a change in VCO oscillation amplitude, along with in-depth theoretical analysis of the novel readout scheme.

The original theories of NMR relaxation by Felix Bloch are exposed and explicated, thereby connecting these marginalized but important scientific papers with the new modern approaches.

Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is the method of choice to investigate and quantify paramagnetic species. We present the application of an unconventional EPR detection method, rapid-scan EPR, to enhance the sensitivity on an improved design of a miniaturized EPR spectrometer implemented on a silicon microchip. Due to its size, it may be integrated into complex and harsh sample environments, enabling in situ or operando EPR measurements that have previously been inaccessible.

A straightforward line shape analysis of the ¹³C NMR spectra of [2-¹³C]sodium acetate can be used to indirectly evaluate the ¹³H polarization of the CH₃ group and likely entire samples in the case of rapid and homogeneous ¹³H–¹H spin diffusion. The results are potentially advantageous for polarizers that lack ¹H radiofrequency hardware, measurements that are influenced by radiation damping or large background signals, or where acquisition of thermal equilibrium spectra is not feasible.

Kidney stones (KSs) are a major health problem in industrialized countries. The study of KSs is presently at the heart of a concerted multidisciplinary axis of research involving physicians, physical chemists and spectroscopists. In this contribution, an in-depth structural description of KSs is proposed by implementing a combination of multinuclear and multidimensional solid-state NMR methodology.

The overall aim of the study is to provide a basis from which to improve the ability of tamoxifen family drugs to reduce the activity of a secondary target protein, calmodulin, during tumour development. The main conclusion is that the binding of a tamoxifen analogue is quite unlike that of other anti-calmodulin compounds in that two drug molecules bring the two domains of calmodulin into close proximity, but they are not fixed in orientation relative to the protein.

The HSQC experiment developed by Bodenhausen and Ruben is a cornerstone for modern NMR. When used in the field of metabolomics, the common practice of decoupling in the proton dimension limits the acquisition time and hence the resolution. Here, we present a virtual decoupling method to maintain both spectral simplicity and resolution, and demonstrate how it increases information content with the zebra mussel metabolome as an example.

We develop an exact analytical description of spinning sideband intensities in magic-angle spinning NMR, e.g., for 13C CSA. This can be used in spectral fitting to obtain tensor parameters and plays out its advantage in the analysis of orientation effects in non-isotropic samples. We present an improved approach to process data obtained with the simple syncMAS experiment, which is powerful but not very popular due to the as yet not very transparent and difficult data analysis.

We use the theory of magnetostatic reciprocity to compute manufacturable solutions of complex magnet geometries, establishing a quantitative metric for the placement and subsequent orientation of discrete pieces of permanent magnetic material. This leads to self-assembled micro-magnets, adjustable magnetic arrays, and an unbounded magnetic field intensity in a small volume, despite realistic modelling of complex material behaviours.

Multidimensional NMR relaxation experiments provide a powerful means of studying protein dynamics but typically require long acquisition times. Here, we combine two approaches that individually shorten the length of the experiment: accordion spectroscopy and non-uniform sampling (NUS). We extract relaxation rate constants by applying maximum likelihood estimation of sparse exponential modes modeled on the accordion–NUS interferograms, resulting in time savings by a factor of roughly 10.