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MacDiarmid Conference 22-23 Nov 2012

November 25, 2012 by

Excellent conference. Lots of cool science stuff happening. Lots of people caught up with.  New friends and contacts made.

Following the MacDiarmid conference, I caught up with another friend and his family, and spent several hours walking around the earthquake destruction in Christchurch.  I also went through the Scott’s Exhibition (Wikipedia: Robert Falcon Scott) at Canterbury Museum.

Some (emotionally sobering) photos from around the university are shown below, followed by some photos from the city and museum.

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Some comments from my examiners’ reports

November 21, 2011 by
  • “The topic of the thesis is of great interest to the NMR community.”
  • “The work presented is at the interface between physics, chemistry and electronics.”
  • “The work presented is original, highly interesting, well documented, and represents an important step for the low-field NMR community.”
  • “This thesis demonstrated wide ranging research capability covering electronics, physics, biophysics and chemistry.”
  • “The thesis is well written, well referenced and the standard of presentation is high.”
  • “It presents a very large volume of work spanning technical areas from RF design to NMR measurements and analysis on selected materials.”
  • “The work shows clear evidence of not only good electronic design, construction and testing skills, but also solid scientific experimental design, method and careful interpretation of results.”
  • “The candidate is clearly aware of previous work in the field and appropriate references to existing work in the field.”
  • “The thesis was well written and the absolute minimum number of typographic and related errors was encountered.”
  • “The end result of the work appears to be not only a portable NMR system that is a significant improvement on the system that the candidate started with, but also a huge amount of measurement data that produces some interesting results.”
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Paul Callaghan’s new NMR book

September 16, 2011 by

Principles of Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo NMR(Available from Amazon.)

Taking the reader through the underlying principles of molecular translational dynamics, this book outlines the ways in which magnetic resonance, through the use of magnetic field gradients, can reveal those dynamics.

The measurement of diffusion and flow, over different length and time scales, provides unique insight regarding fluid interactions with porous materials, as well as molecular organization in soft matter and complex fluids.

The book covers both time and frequency domain methodologies, as well as advances in scattering and diffraction methods, multidimensional exchange and correlation experiments and orientational correlation methods ideal for studying anisotropic environments.

At the heart of these new methods resides the ubiquitous spin echo, a phenomenon whose discovery underpins nearly every major development in magnetic resonance methodology.

Measuring molecular translational motion does not require high spectral resolution and so finds application in new NMR technologies concerned with ‘outside the laboratory’ applications, in geophysics and petroleum physics, in horticulture, in food technology, in security screening and in environmental monitoring.

  • Provides a comprehensive explanation of the principles of molecular translational motion measurement using NMR spin echo methods.
  • Incorporates a detailed introduction to the principles of NMR spectroscopy, as well as a primer on relevant thermal processes and fluid dynamics.
  • Written by one of the world’s leading experts in this field, a scientist responsible for many of the leading developments and discoveries associated with Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo NMR.
  • Clearly written in a pedagogical style with introductory essays at the start of each chapter, detailed mathematical derivations, and over 250 figures.
  • Targetted at a branch of magnetic resonance which is rapidly growing, and which is finding new applications in chemical engineering, medical MRI, petrophysics, environmental science, food technology.
  • Relevant to new technologies based on portable and low field NMR.

Available from Amazon: Translational Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance

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