Multinuclear Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Inorganic Materials

Chapter headings. Preface. Introduction. Methodology of materials characterisation by NMR. Historical aspects of NMR spectroscopy. Brief description of the NMR experiment. Further reading. Physical Background. Fundamental interaction with external magnetic fields. Internal interactions. One dimensional methods for improving resolution. Dipolar decoupling. Spin-locking. Cross-polarisation. Two-dimensional methods. NMR relaxation. Experimental Approaches. Basic experimental principles of FT NMR. Instrumentation. Practical acquisition of NMR spectra. Static broad line experiments. One-dimensional high resolution techniques. Two-dimensional experiments. Summary of approaches for examining quadrupole nuclei. Multiple resonance. Techniques for determining relaxation times and motional parameters. NMR under varying physical conditions. NMR under varying physical conditions. ²⁹Si NMR. General considerations. Si-O compounds. Order-disorder effects in minerals. Identification of silicate minerals. Thermal decomposition of silicate minerals. Relationships between ²⁹Si chemical shift (&dgr;) and structure. Five and six-coordinated Si-O compounds. Cross-polarisation (CPMAS) experiments. Glasses, gels and other amorphous materials. Si-N and Si-O-N compounds. Si-Al-O-N compounds. Other metal silicon nitrides and oxynitrides. Si-C, Si-C-O and Si-C-N compounds. Other materials. ²⁷Al NMR. General considerations. Chemical shifts in ²⁷Al spectra. Five-coordinated Al-O. Aluminium oxides. Amorphous aluminium compounds. Aluminophosphates. Aluminium borate and molybdate. Aluminium fluorides. Thermal decomposition reactions. Cements. Nitride and oxynitride compounds. Sialon compounds. ¹⁷O NMR. Introduction. Background. Binary oxides. Crystalline ternary ionic systems. Aluminium and gallium-containing systems. Silicates and germanates. Aluminium and gallium-containing systems. Boron-containing systems. Other systems. Hydrogen-containing samples. High temperature ceramic superconductors. NMR of Other Commonly Studied Nuclei. ²³Na NMR. ¹¹B NMR. ³¹P NMR. NMR of Low-Gamma Nuclides. General considerations. NMR of spin-1/2 nuclei. Quadrupolar nuclei. NMR of Other Spin-1/2 Nuclei. Introduction. Abundant high-&ggr; nuclei. Dilute or medium-&ggr; nuclei. NMR of Other Quadrupolar Nuclei. ⁶Li and ⁷Li NMR. ⁹Be NMR. ⁵¹V NMR. ⁶³Cu and ⁶⁵Cu NMR. ⁶⁹Ga and ⁷¹Ga NMR. ⁸⁷Rb NMR. ⁹³Nb NMR. ¹³³Cs NMR. ¹³⁹La NMR. Solid State NMR of Metals and Alloys. Introduction. Experimental approaches. Metallic elements. Intermetallic alloys. Phase transformations, ordering and defect sites. Phase composition and precipitation. Atomic motion.