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- ItemForty years of temporal analysis of products(London : RSC Publ., 2017) Morgan, K.; Maguire, N.; Fushimi, R.; Gleaves, J. T.; Goguet, A.; Harold, M. P.; Kondratenko, E. V.; Menon, U.; Schuurman, Y.; Yablonsky, G. S.A detailed understanding of reaction mechanisms and kinetics is required in order to develop and optimize catalysts and catalytic processes. While steady-state investigations are known to give a global view of the catalytic system, transient studies are invaluable since they can provide more comprehensive insight into elementary steps. For almost forty years temporal analysis of products (TAP) has been successfully utilized for transient studies of gas phase heterogeneous reactions, and there have been a number of advances in instrumentation and numerical modeling methods in that time. Since TAP is a complex methodology it is often viewed as a niche specialty. With the purpose to make TAP more relevant and approachable to a wider segment of the catalytic research community, part of the intention of this work is to highlight the significant contributions TAP has made to elucidating mechanistic and kinetic aspects of complex, multi-step heterogeneous reactions. With this in mind, an outlook is also disclosed for the technique in terms of what is needed to revitalize the field and make it more applicable to the recent advances in catalyst characterization (e.g. operando modes).
- ItemFeasibility study on prepolarized surface nuclear magnetic resonance for soil moisture measurements(Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2021) Hiller, Thomas; Costabel, Stephan; Radić, Tino; Dlugosch, Raphael; Müller‐Petke, MikeIn the past few years, small-scale (2 m) prepolarized surface nuclear magnetic resonance (SNMR) has gained increasing interest in the research community. As recent studies demonstrated, the application of a strong prepolarization field enhances the SNMR signal of coils with a footprint <1 m2 up to a level that even enables investigations in urban areas. In particular, it is expected that this noninvasive method provides the soil moisture distribution in the upper 2 m of the subsurface in the near future. However, until now all field experiments have been carried out on water reservoirs only, in an approach to test and implement this rather new technique into the field of SNMR applications. We present the first prepolarized SNMR measurement on a real soil and demonstrate the general feasibility of this technique to qualitatively and quantitatively detect soil moisture in the upper first 0.5 m. Our soil moisture measurements are validated by independent time domain reflectometry data. To complement the field experiments with numerical simulations, we adapted the underlying SNMR spin dynamics simulations and account for prepolarization switch-off effects in the forward modeling of the SNMR excitation.