NMR for polymorphism

Congratulations Marie for this new pedagogical review presenting nuclear magnetic resonance strategies for time-resolved atomic-level investigation of crystallization from solution. There is an interesting section on perspectives and future directions in the field. Non specialists are welcome!

Another good news! Giulia has been appointed Distinguished Junior Member (Membre Distingué Junior) by the French Chemical Society.

Great news! Giulia has been nominated for the Grand Prix Départemental pour la Recherche en Provence. The ceremony for the prize attribution will take place on the 2nd of December.

We show that additives that serve crystallization can also enhance the sensitivity of DNP.

Congrats to Sam for successfully passing his CNRS audition. He is now permanent CNRS Researcher!
All the group wishes him lots of success!

Giulia, Sam and Romain were in Chamonix to attend the Alpine Conference on Magnetic Resonance. Giulia gave a talk on the use of MAS DNP to investigate cristallisation and achieving polymorph selection. Romain and Sam gave two round tables showing recent results on the study of crystallization in inorganic systems and spin diffusion. Awesome conference with very lively formal and informal discussions.

The overall aim of the project is to develop and apply an emerging NMR hyperpolarization technique, namely magic-angle spinning nuclear dynamic polarization (MAS-DNP), to characterize the process of formation of polymorphic organic solids. To apply: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7273-GIUMOL-019/Default.aspx

We showed how supercritical CO2 impregnation can be efficiently used to disperse radicals used as polarizing agents for DNP into polymeric materials, enhancing the sensitivity of NMR towards the structural analysis of challenging materials.

Giulia and Romain participated to the PANACEA workshop on ssNMR methods for pharmaceutical formulations hosted by the group of Prof. L. Emsley in EPFL Lausanne. We had a fantastic week of lively discussions between coaches and students in front of the spectrometer and off!

We welcomed the MISOTOP group from the Institut Charles Gerhardt of Montpellier for the third MoMa meeting, where Marie, Samuel and Nghia gave a talk. We had a lot of fun discussing NMR, DNP, isotopic enrichment through mechanochemistry, recoupling methods, spin diffusion and crystallization.

Giulia presented our recent results on the use of MAS DNP for the study of crystallization and selection of polymorph at the online conference HyMar, organized by the Italian discussion group on Magnetic Resonance, GIDRM.

Dr Arthur Pinon from University of Gothenburg will stay with us for two weeks to work on spin diffusion. Welcome Arthur!

Nghia is going to work on methodological development in ssNMR and DNP.

Marie successfully defended her PhD on the 4th of March.
Bravo Marie for your hard work, resilience and perseverance, and for a brilliant and living discussion with the jury. Thank you to Anne Lesage and Christian Bonhomme for accepting to review Marie's PhD manuscript and for sharing with us this very happy moment. And thank you to Kenneth Harris and Paul Hogkinson for accepting to be part of the committee.

We are always looking for motivated candidates to join our group. Please contact Giulia Mollica at giulia.mollica@univ-amu.fr for information about currently available positions and projects.