Main description:

Taking the reader through the underlying principles of molecular translational dynamics, this book outlines the ways in which magnetic resonance, through the use of magnetic field gradients, can reveal those dynamics. The measurement of diffusion and flow, over different length and time scales, provides unique insight regarding fluid interactions with porous materials, as well as molecular organization in soft matter and complex fluids. The book covers both time and
frequency domain methodologies, as well as advances in scattering and diffraction methods, multidimensional exchange and correlation experiments and orientational correlation methods ideal for studying anisotropic environments. At the heart of these new methods resides the ubiquitous spin echo, a
phenomenon whose discovery underpins nearly every major development in magnetic resonance methodology. Measuring molecular translational motion does not require high spectral resolution and so finds application in new NMR technologies concerned with 'outside the laboratory' applications, in geophysics and petroleum physics, in horticulture, in food technology, in security screening and in environmental monitoring.

Contents:

1. Thermal Processes and Diffusion ; 2. Flow and dispersion ; 3. Quantum description of nuclear ensembles ; 4. Introductory Magnetic Resonance ; 5. Magnetic field gradients and spin echos ; 6. Restricted diffusion ; 7. Diffraction phenomena ; 8. Double wavevector encoding ; 9. Multidimensional PGSE NMR ; 10. Velocimetry ; 11. Translational Dynamics and Quantum Coherence ; 12. Tricks of the Trade