Doc. dr. Tomaž Apih: Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance - Modern Applications of Old Spectroscopy

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Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance - Modern Applications of Old Spectroscopy

Asst. Prof. Dr. Tomaž Apih

                                           Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana

 

Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy was developed almost immediately after the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). While NMR is being used in many different fields, most notably as the dominant method for chemical analysis, as well as the method for clinical imaging, NQR has never reached a comparable level of popularity and use. In the last decade we have demonstrated the strong potential of 14N NQR spectroscopy, especially in the fields of chemical and pharmaceutical analysis as well as for the detection of illicit compounds such as explosives and forbidden drugs. In some fields, such as the detection of polymorphic crystalline structures, the technique could rival even the vastly more popular NMR.