Capabilities

The Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Laboratory is able to assist with:

  • Electronic structure of paramagnetic materials
  • Oxidation and spin states of transition metal ions
  • Determination of hyperfine coupling interaction parameters
  • Distance measurements by electron-electron double resonance
  • Spin-lattice (T1) and spin-spin (T2) relaxation times measurements
  • Kinetics of photochemical reactions


Popular applications

  • Electronic structure of paramagnetic materials:
    • Organic radicals in solution or proteins
    • Inorganic or organometallic molecules in solution
    • Transition metal ions in peptides, proteins or enzymes
    • Iron-sulfur clusters in proteins
    • Dinuclear Mn(II) systems
    • Doped materials (e.g. quantum rods and dielectrics)
    • Semiconductors
  • Paramagnetic properties of Cu(II), Ni(II), Co(II), Fe(III) and Mn(II)
  • Electron spin distribution via the isotropic hyperfine coupling
  • Distance measurements in proteins using nitroxide probes
  • Protein structure and dynamics via electron spin relaxation data
  • Recombination kinetics in photosynthetic reaction centers