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Viscosity and Volume Effects on Convective Flows in PGSE-NMR Self-Diffusion Measurements at High Temperature

  • Seo, Ji Hye;Chung, Kee-Choo
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.122-132
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    • 2012
  • The effects of the sample viscosity and volume on the convective flows induced by temperature gradient in PGSE-NMR self-diffusion measurements at high temperature have been investigated. The experimental results showed that the viscosity of the liquid sample strongly affects the magnitude of the convective flows as well as the diffusion coefficient itself. It was also found that the convective flows increase as the sample volume increase.

Convection Effects on PGSE-NMR Self-Diffusion Measurements at Low Temperature: Investigation into Sources of Induced Convective Flows

  • Chung, Kee-Choo;Yu, Hyo-Yeon;Ahn, Sang-Doo
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.1970-1974
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    • 2011
  • The effects of convection on the measurement of the diffusion coefficients of liquids by the pulsed gradient spin echo (PGSE) NMR method at low temperature are discussed. To examine the generation of convective flows, we used four different types of sample tubes in the diffusion measurements with temperature variation; a normal 5 mm NMR tube, a Shigemi tube, an ELISE type tube, and a capillary tube. Below room temperature, the calculated diffusion coefficients of chloroform in 5 mm o.d. type tubes increased with decreasing temperature, while those in the capillary tube decreased linearly. The convective flow was found to be significant even at low temperature and it seemed to be mainly induced by the transverse temperature gradient. It was also found that the capillary tube was most appropriate to measure the diffusion coefficients, since its small diameter is effective in suppressing the convective flows at both high and low temperatures.

Power Absorption Measurements during NMR Experiments

  • Felix-Gonzalez, N.;Urbano-Bojorge, A.L.;de Pablo, C. Sanchez-L;Ferro-Llanos, V.;del Pozo-Guerrero, F.;Serrano-Olmedo, J.J.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.155-160
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    • 2014
  • The heating produced by the absorption of radiofrequency (RF) has been considered a secondary undesirable effect during MRI procedures. In this work, we have measured the power absorbed by distilled water, glycerol and egg-albumin during NMR and non-NMR experiments. The samples are dielectric and examples of different biological materials. The samples were irradiated using the same RF pulse sequence, whilst the magnetic field strength was the variable to be changed in the experiments. The measurements show a smooth increase of the thermal power as the magnetic field grows due to the magnetoresistive effect in the copper antenna, a coil around the probe, which is directly heating the sample. However, in the cases when the magnetic field was the adequate for the NMR to take place, some anomalies in the expected thermal powers were observed: the thermal power was higher in the cases of water and glycerol, and lower in the case of albumin. An ANOVA test demonstrated that the observed differences between the measured power and the expected power are significant.

Discrimination of JNK3 bound small molecules by saturation transfer difference NMR experiments

  • Lim, Jong-Soo;Ahn, Hee-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.67-77
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    • 2012
  • The small molecule binding to the c-Jun N-terminal kinase 3 (JNK3) was examined by the measurements of saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR experiments. The STD NMR experiment of ATP added to JNK3 clearly showed the binding of the nucleotide to the kinase. The STD NMR spectrum of dNTPs added to JNK3 discriminated the kinase-bound nucleotide from the unbound ones. After the five-fold addition of ATP to the dNTPs and JNK3 mixture, only signals of the cognate substrate of JNK3, ATP, were observed from the STD NMR experiment. These results signify that by the STD NMR the small molecules bound to JNK3 can be discriminated from the pool of the unbound molecules. Furthermore the binding mode of the small molecule to JNK3 can be determined by the competition experiments with ATP.

Fluorine-19 NMR Spectroscopic Studies of Phenyl-fluorinated Iron Tetraarylporphyrin Complexes

  • Song, Byung-Ho;Yu, Byung-soo
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.7
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    • pp.981-985
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    • 2003
  • Fluorine-19 NMR solution measurements have been made for various phenyl-fluorinated iron porphyrin complexes. Large chemical shifts for phenyl fluorine signals of iron(III) and iron(II) are observed, and these signals are sensitive to electronic structure. The chemical shift differences in ortho-phenyl fluorine signals between high-spin ferric and low-spin ferric tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrins are approximately 40 ppm, whereas the differences are approximately 7 ppm between high- and low-spin states of ferrous tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin complexes. Analysis of fluorine-19 isotropic shifts for the iron(III) tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl) porphyrin using fluorine-19 NMR indicates there is a sizable contact contribution at the ortho-phenyl fluorine ring position. Large phenyl fluorine-19 NMR chemical shift values, which are sensitive to the oxidation and spin states, can be utilized for identification of the solution electronic structures of iron(III) and iron(II) porphyrin complexes.

The Relationship between $^{129}Xe$ NMR Chemical Shifts and Nanostructure of Polymers

  • Yoshimizu, Hiroaki;Suzuki, Tomoyuki;Asano, Tomoko;Tsujita, Yoshiharu
    • Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.339-339
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    • 2006
  • In this study, the microvoids in glassy polymers were investigated by Xe sorption and $^{129}Xe$ NMR measurements. Xe sorption isotherms of glassy polymers have been successfully interpreted by the dual-mode sorption model. $^{129}Xe$ NMR chemical shift of the $^{129}Xe$ in the samples show nonlinear low-field shift with increasing sorption amount of Xe because of a fast exchange of Xe atoms between Henry and Langmuir sites, whereas it has showed linear shift against sorption amount of Xe into the Langmuir site. From this Xe-density dependence of the $^{129}Xe$ NMR chemical shift, it has been able to estimate mean size of the microvoids in glassy polymer. It is confirmed that there is correlation between ${C_H}'$ and volume or number of microvoids. From these findings, it is demonstrated that $^{129}Xe$ NMR spectroscopy is a powerful technique to determine the mean size and number of microvoids in glassy polymers.

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