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  • Title: Probing the Surface of Oxide Nanoparticles Using DNP-Enhanced High-Resolution NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei.
    Author: Nagashima H, Maleki F, Trébosc J, Belgamwar R, Polshettiwar V, Kahn M, Kon Y, Pacchioni G, Lafon O, Amoureux JP.
    Journal: J Phys Chem Lett; 2024 May 09; 15(18):4858-4863. PubMed ID: 38668864.
    Abstract:
    The surfaces of nanomaterials with applications in optoelectronics and catalysis control their physicochemical properties. NMR spectroscopy, enhanced by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), is a powerful approach to probe the local environment of spin-1/2 nuclei near surfaces. However, this technique often lacks robustness and resolution for half-integer quadrupolar nuclei, which represent more than 66% of the NMR-active isotopes. A novel pulse sequence is introduced here to circumvent these issues. This method is applied to observe with high-resolution 27Al and 17O spin-5/2 nuclei on the surface of γ-alumina. Moreover, we report high-resolution 17O spectra of ZnO nanoparticles used in optoelectronics. Their assignment using DFT calculations allows the first NMR observation of vacancies near the surfaces. Finally, we employ the introduced NMR technique to observe 11B spin-3/2 nuclei on the surface of partially oxidized boron nitride supported on silica and to distinguish its different BO2OH active sites.
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