title: Combining PGSE NMR with homonuclear dipolar decoupling.
abstract: A new robust approach for combining multiple-pulse homonuclear decoupling and PGSE NMR is introduced for accurately measuring molecular diffusion coefficients in systems with nonvanishing static homonuclear dipolar couplings. Homonuclear decoupling suppresses dipolar dephasing during the gradient pulses but its efficiency and scaling factor for the effective gradient vary across the sample because of the large variation of the frequency offset caused by the gradient. The resulting artifacts are reduced by introducing a slice selection scheme. The method is demonstrated by (19)F PGSE NMR experiments in a lyotropic liquid crystal.
authors.affiliation: Division of Physical Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-10044, Sweden.
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Dvinskikh
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Furó
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D002586:Cesium / Q000737:chemistry; D003460:Crystallization; D004058:Diffusion; D005462:Fluorine Radioisotopes; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D005462:Fluorine Radioisotopes; D014867:Water; D002586:Cesium