Prof Sir Paul Callaghan

Research Interests

NMR methodologies for Molecular Dynamics
My interests are in developing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) methodologies for the study of molecular dynamics and molecular organization in complex fluids, soft matter and porous materials. Basically I try to find out how molecules move about and organise at the nanoscale when the fluids containing them are subjected to flow, or are dispersed within a porous material. The fluids we look at are generally "gooey" and have intriguing elastic and viscous properties, just like many real fluids in biology, and advanced materials processing. With NMR we can use radio waves to track the molecules. In technical terms we employ multi-dimensional Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo NMR, NMR microscopy and Rheo-NMR spectroscopy.
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