Applications of DOSY of Intrinsically Viscous Macromolecules – Soft Materials where Diffusion may or may not relate to either size or mass

Thomas Swift – @Swifthom

In recent years Pulsed Field Gradient NMR techniques to get Diffusion decays of materials have been successfully adopted in the polymer chemistry community as a sizing technique. It has many advantages over the previous gold standard in the field (size exclusion chromatography) although it has its own drawbacks and difficulties. Here we will focus on applications of NMR for Polymer material characterisation and the limitations thereof.