Small Magnets, Big Impact: How Time Domain NMR is Reshaping Modern Technology

In this plenary, Dr. Colnago will address Time Domain Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (TD-NMR) spectroscopy This analytical method, based on the intensity of the FID or spin echo signals, have been successful used in industrial quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA). They have been certified by international agencies such as ISO, IUPAC, ASTM, and AOCS. Currently, new applications are based on the measurements of longitudinal (T1) or transverse

(T2) relaxation times, diffusion measurements, spin-spin spectroscopy and the use of solid echoes and multidimensional pulse sequences. The presentation will cover applications of these sequences in agriculture, food science, petroleum and petrochemicals, biofuels, pharmaceuticals, polymers, and the monitoring of chemical and electrochemical reactions in operando.

Dr. Luiz Alberto Colnago is a Senior Researcher at Embrapa

Instrumentation (Brazil), specializing in Nuclear Magnetic

Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from

the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) and completed a

postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

With extensive expertise in biophysics and biochemistry, his

research spans metabolomic analysis, biofuels, and the

development of edible food coatings and controlled-release

systems.