12/12/2014
Today, 12th of December, the CiQUS Ph.D. student Luiz Fernando Mesquita da Silva Pinto obtained the maximum qualification for the defense of his Doctoral Thesis entitled "NMR Relaxation Studies: Dynamics of dendrimers, Intermolecular Interactions, Selective Suppression of Signals and Sensitivity Enhancement". His work has been supervised by Prof. Eduardo Fernández Megía.
The basic goal of his work was the development of NMR tools for the characterization of synthetic polymers as well as on dendrimers with biomedical interest. The characterization of these systems by NMR relaxation gives information on their structure and dynamics.
In addition to the NMR tools for the characterization of polymers and polymeric nanostructures, within this work they have described the use of paramagnetic relaxation agents for the reduction of NMR acquisition times and the selective suppression of signals in the spectra of complex polymeric mixtures. Furthermore, relaxation times have been exploited to gain relevant information about the internal dynamics of dendrimers.
Fig.: The Dynamics of Dendrimers by NMR Relaxation: Interpretation Pitfalls (JACS, 2013,135, 11513)
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