Spectrometers

800 MHz Bruker Avance NEO liquid and solid NMR spectrometer and 18.8 T narrow bore magnet.

400 MHz Bruker Avance III HD solid state NMR spectrometer and 9.4 T wide bore magnet.

400 MHz Bruker DSX solid state NMR spectrometer and 9.4 T wide bore magnet.

Variable temperature capabilities from - 120 °C to 400 °C.

Access to various solid state Dynamic Nuclear Polarization NMR facilities around the world, and the high field UK solid state NMR facility at the University of Warwick (850 MHz Bruker Avance II solid state NMR spectrometer and 20 T wide bore magnet) and others high field NMR facility worldwide (NHMFL),

NMR probes 

@ 800 MHz

1.3 mm Bruker HX MAS probe (maximum MAS frequency 40 kHz, temperature range - 30 to 70 °C, tuning range 31P to 15N).

1.9 mm Bruker HXY MAS probe (maximum MAS frequency 67 kHz, temperature range - 50 to 80 °C, tuning range 31P to 15N).

3.2 mm Bruker HX MAS probe (maximum MAS frequency 24 kHz, temperature range - 30 to 70 °C, tuning range 31P to 13C).

3.2 mm Bruker HX MAS probe (maximum MAS frequency 24 kHz, temperature range - 30 to 70 °C, tuning range 13C to 109Ag).

4 mm Bruker HR-MAS probe (maximum MAS frequency 10 kHz, temperature range - 20 to 80 °C, tuned for 13C).

@ 400 MHz

1.3 mm Bruker HXY MAS probe (maximum MAS frequency 67 kHz, temperature range - 30 to 70 °C, tuning range 31P to 15N).

4 mm Bruker HXY MAS probe (x2) (maximum MAS frequency 15 kHz, temperature range - 120 to 150 °C, tuning range 31P to 15N).

4 mm Bruker HX MAS probe (maximum MAS frequency 15 kHz, temperature range - 120 to 150 °C, tuning range 31P to 15N).

4 mm Bruker HX MAS probe (maximum MAS frequency 10 kHz, temperature range - 120 to 400 °C, tuning range 31P to low gamma nuclei, including 109Ag).

10 mm Bruker HX static probe (tuning range 31P to 15N).

Laboratory

17O enrichment capabilities for 17O NMR.

Laboratory space in the Department of Chemistry.

Access to a very wide range of facilities for materials synthesis and characterization within the department and Materials Innovation Factory including high temperature furnaces, ovens and XRD.

Calculations

The group has access to the High Performance Computing (HPC) platform Barkla at the University of Liverpool and other UK national computing service.