Nuclear magnetic resonance glasses

The crystalline mineral silicates have been well characterized and their diversity of stmcture thoroughly presented (2). The stmctures of siHcate glasses and solutions can be investigated through potentiometric and dye adsorption studies, chemical derivatization and gas chromatography, and laser Raman, infrared (ftir), and Si Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance ( Si ft-nmr) spectroscopy. References 3—6 contain reviews of the general chemical and physical properties of siHcate materials. 

The glass-tiansition tempeiatuiesfoi solution-polymeiized SBR as well as ESBR aie loutinely determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr), differential thermal analysis (dta), or differential scanning calorimetry (dsc). 

S. D. Beyea, A. Caprihan, S. J. Glass, A. DiGiovanni 2003, (Non-destructive characterization of nanopore microstructure spatially resolved BET isotherms using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging),/. Appl. Phys. 94 (2), 935—41. 

Because of the conformational restraints imposed on the cycloamyloses by their looped arrangement, it is reasonable to assume that the structural features derived for the crystalline state will be retained in solution. This has been confirmed in recent years by means of a variety of spectroscopic techniques. Nuclear magnetic resonance (Rao and Foster, 1963 Glass,... 

Crosslinked polymer networks formed from multifunctional acrylates are completely insoluble. Consequently, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy becomes an attractive method to determine the degree of crosslinking of such polymers (1-4). Solid-state NMR spectroscopy has been used to study the homopolymerization kinetics of various diacrylates and to distinguish between constrained and unconstrained, or unreacted double bonds in polymers (5,6). Solid-state NMR techniques can also be used to determine the domain sizes of different polymer phases and to determine the presence of microgels within a poly multiacrylate sample (7). The results of solid-state NMR experiments have also been correlated to dynamic mechanical analysis measurements of the glass transition (1,8,9) of various polydiacrylates. 

The objectives of this review are to discuss the fundamental and more recently discovered properties of water alone and to critically examine the system properties and measurement methods used to measure the mobility of water and solids in foods—specifically water activity, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and the glass transition. 

Throughout this review, the concept of mobility has been highlighted as a key parameter for understanding and predicting the processability and stability of food systems. Mobility is the common denominator of the three methods examined in this review—water activity, nuclear magnetic resonance, and glass transition. An emerging aspect of the picture for food... 

Bell, L.N., Bell, H.M., and Glass, T.E. 2002. Water mobility in glassy and rubbery solids as determined by oxygen-17 nuclear magnetic resonance Impact on chemical stability. Lebensm. 

Richardson, S.J. 1989. Contribution of proton exchange to the oxygen-17 nuclear magnetic resonance transverse relaxation rate in water and starch-water systems. Cereal Chem. 66, 244-246. Richardson, M.J. and Saville, N.G. 1975. Derivation of accurate glass transition temperatures by differential scanning calorimetry. Polymer 16, 753-757. 

Vittadini, E., Dickinson, L.C., and Chinachoti, P. 2002. NMR water mobility in xanthan and locust bean gum mixtures Possible explanation of microbial response. Carbohydr. Polym. 49, 261-269. Wachner, A.M. and Jeffrey, K.R. 1999. A two-dimensional deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance study of molecular reorientation in sugar/water glasses. J. Chem. Phys. Ill, 10611-10616. Wagner, W. and Pruss, A. 1993. International equations for the saturation properties of ordinary water substance Revised according to the international temperature scale of 1990. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 22, 783-787. 

Lett., 81, 2727 (1998). Length Scale of Dynamic Heterogeneities at the Glass Transition Determined by Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. 

Kirkpatrick, R.. and Brow, R.K. (1995) Nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of the structures of phosphate and phosphate-containing glasses a review. Solid State Nucl. Magn. Reson., 5, 9-21. 

All the experiments were carried out at 18 C under high vacuum (10 mm of mercury) in sealed glass vessel supplied with an ultra-violet cell. Before polymerization the apparatus is care -fully and successively washed with a cyclohexane solution of butyllithium and cyclohexane. The stability of complexed poly-isoprenyllithium has been verified by protonic nuclear magnetic resonance and ultra violet spectroscopy (18)... 

The models in Figures 2 and 3 show that a part of the low molecular weight liquid obviously separates the polymer chains from each other, thus facilitating segment mobility. Another part of it fills the cavities and displays almost liquid state behavior in them. This rather simplified model of the glass structure has been verified in some by nuclear magnetic resonance experiments. 

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