Monitoring electron spin fluctuations with paramagnetic relaxation enhancement

Daniel Jardón-Álvarez, Tahel Malka, Johan van Tol, Yishay Feldman, Raanan Carmieli, Michal Leskes

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Abstract

The magnetic interactions between the spin of an unpaired electron and the surrounding nuclear spins can be exploited to gain structural information, to reduce nuclear relaxation times as well as to create nuclear hyperpolarization via dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP). A central aspect that determines how these interactions manifest from the point of view of NMR is the timescale of the fluctuations of the magnetic moment of the electron spins. These fluctuations, however, are elusive, particularly when electron relaxation times are short or interactions among electronic spins are strong. Here we map the fluctuations by analyzing the ratio between longitudinal and transverse nuclear relaxation times T1/T2, a quantity which depends uniquely on the rate of the electron fluctuations and the Larmor frequency of the involved nuclei. This analysis enables rationalizing the evolution of NMR lineshapes, signal quenching as well as DNP enhancements as a function of the concentration of the paramagnetic species and the temperature, demonstrated here for LiMg1−xMnxPO4 and Fe(III) doped Li4Ti5O12, respectively. For the latter, we observe a linear dependence of the DNP enhancement and the electron relaxation time within a temperature range between 100 and 300 K.
Original languageEnglish
Article number107143
JournalJournal of magnetic resonance (1997)
Volume336
Early online date15 Jan 2022
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2022

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