Main description:

This volume represents the primary lectures of the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Modern Technology," which was held at Sarigerme Park (near the Dalaman Airport) on the southern Aegean shore of Turkey from August 23 to September 4, 1992. As indicated in the title, this ASI was aimed at examining, displaying, and perhaps influencing, the role of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in modern technological activity. The lectures summarized in this volume and the numerous short contributed talks and posters were primarily aimed at the question, "What is NMR doing in support of modern technology?" During the main discussion periods and the numerous small scheduled meetings of specific interest groups this same topic was also addressed, along with questions like, "What could or should NMR be doing in support of modern technology?" With this kind of subject orientation, the organizers attempted to include a large participation at the ASI from scientists and engineers from diverse private industries in which NMR does, or perhaps should, play a substantial role in supporting or optimizing technology. Perhaps because of a combination of worldwide industrial contractions and residual corporate nervousness regarding the then recent Gulf War (which caused a one-year postponement of this ASI), the participation from private industry was numerically disappointing. We hope that this book will serve to bring the role of NMR in modern industry to the attention of numerous industrial scientists and engineers who were unable to attend the AS!.

Contents:

Introduction; G.E. Maciel. 1. Introduction to NMR and Modern Technology; E.W. Randall. 2. Foundations and Strategies of Multidimensional NMR; R. Freeman. 3. Applications of High-Resolution NMR to Soluble Polymers; A. Zambelli, A. Proto, L. Oliva. 4. High Resolution NMR: Applications to Biological Systems; L.W. Jelinski. 5. Line Broadening in Solids; R. Dupree. 6. Basic Cross Polarization Magic Angle Spinning; C.S. Yannoni. 7. NMR Studies of Solid Polymers and Resins: an Introduction; G.R. Hatfield. 8. NMR Characterization of Solid Fossil Fuels. Coal and Oil Shale; G.E. Maciel, O. Erbatur. 9. NMR in Industrial Process Control and Quality Control; G.E. Maciel. 10. Solid State NMR Investigation of Zeolites and Related Materials; C.A. Fyfe, G.T. Kokotailo. 11. NMR Study of Glasses and Ceramics; R. Dupree. 12. Averaging Effects in NMR; J.S. Waugh. 13. NMR in the Study of Surfaces; 1H CRAMPS and 29Si CP-MAS Studies of Silica; G.E. Maciel. 14. Cross-Polarization Processes Involving less Common Pairs of Nuclei; C.A. Fyfe, K.T. Mueller, K.C. Wong-Moon. 15. NMR of Polymer Composites and Blends; W.S. Veeman. 16. Applications of NMR Spectroscopy to Surfaces and Catalysts: Acidic Sites and Adsorbed Species; H. Pfeifer. 17. Introduction to DOR NMR; A. Samoson. 18. NMR Imaging: Introduction and Survey; L.W. Jelinski. 19. High Resolution NMR Imaging of Solids; W.S. Veeman. Index.