The Bruker 400 MHz Avance III solid-state NMR is a wide-bore Bruker superconducting magnet, manually operated to facilitate solid-state NMR experiments, with two radiofrequency channels (¹H and X) and is capable of broadband detection. It is used primarily for detection of nuclei such as ¹¹B, ¹³C, ¹⁵N (only enriched samples), and ²⁹Si. A User Manual is available here. An overview of the Solid State NMR community is available online here.  A recent Nature Review on Solid State NMR is available (PDF).

Currently solid-state NMR has two probes: one 7 mm magic angle probe for ZG, CP-MAS and CP-TOSS experiments at a maximum spin rate of 5 kHz and one 4 mm magic angle probe for ZG, CP-MAS and CP-TOSS experiments at a maximum spin rate of 12 kHz.

Please contact Dr. Lingyu Chi (lcwqc@mst.edu) for more information regarding the solid-state NMR. All solid-state NMR sample acquisitions will be done by Lingyu Chi.

[Note: CP = Cross Polarization, ZG = direct polarization, MAS = Magic Angle Spinning, TOSS = Total Suppression Spinning sidebands]