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