Nuclear magnetic resonance cross-relaxation rates

The addition of a chemical species with a large dielectric constant to induce desired microwave effects in matrices devoid of such substances, or lacking substances with significantly different dielectric constants, can be compared, on a conceptual basis, to cross-polarisation experiments carried out in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (see Chapter 6). In that case, a nucleus that relaxes relatively rapidly is excited selectively and allowed to transfer that excitation energy to neighbouring nuclei with low or relatively lower relaxation rate (e.g., nuclei being cross-polarised to nuclei). 

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