DAVID CORY
Professor of Nuclear Engineering
| Research focus at the spatial Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) lab focuses on advancing the state of the art in magnetic resonance methods. We approach this in a manner that might be termed Magnetic Resonance Engineering. The individual projects are problem focused, but with a significant engineering component up front, and hopefully a large payoff when they succeed. The engineering developments permit us to maintain close ties to industry, and many of our advances have been commercialized. Engineering developments are naturally instrumentation and resource intensive, so we have established a state-of- the-art magnetic resonance laboratory within the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory. The laboratory contains ten NMR spectrometers, with fields ranging from 0.23 - 14.1 T and with bores up to 40 cm. The laboratory is well equipped to design, build and maintain the systems. Most importantly, it is unique in many of its capabilities, including radio frequency gradients, 2-D diffusive scattering, high resolution NMR microscopy, atomic resolution scattering, gradient-based MAS probes, and ensemble quantum computing.
NMR methods are some of the most promising nondestructive approaches to the simultaneous study of the spatial distribution and the chemical composition of small features in amorphous materials. The tremendous success of medical imaging speaks for itself, and points to a rich field of imaging and of other spatial NMR techniques applicable to biomedical and other materials. Indeed, the range of possibilities for non in-vivo spatial NMR go far beyond their medical counterparts, since in these studies researchers are unencumbered by restrictions on sample treatment, experiment length, field strength, RF power, and gradient switching times. Within the Spatial Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory the full gamut of spatial NMR techniques can be undertaken in one setting. A part of the culture of the laboratory is the development of new instrumentation, methods, and applications. |
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