Rheinisch-Westphälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), DE 
About
With 260 institutes in nine faculties, RWTH Aachen University is
one of Europe’s leading technical institutions for science and
research. Currently around 31,400 students are enrolled in over 100
academic programmes. Over 5,000 of them are international students
hailing from 120 different countries.
Relevant experience and role
The work for CHARISMA is conducted within the Institute of
Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry which maintains the Center
of Magnetic Resonance MARC. The Institute for Technical and
Macromolecular Chemistry has advanced competences in NMR
spectroscopy and imaging. It is the leader in the field of mobile
NMR hardware and its applications.
The center operates a wide range of high-field NMR instruments for
chemical analysis, analysis of solid polymers and catalysts, and in
situ studies of molecular transport and reaction in chemical
engineering. The established NMR expertise covers NMR Spectroscopy,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Relaxometry. A unique feature
of the MARC are the low-field activities with small and portable
instrumentation for spectroscopy, imaging, and relaxometry with
closed and with open magnets. A well-known open magnet developed at
MARC is the NMR-MOUSE for nondestructive testing of large
objects.
RWTH is also involved in all outreach program activities:
establishment of best practices and protocols toward common
standards, organization of events aimed at promoting the scientific
excellence, and the coordination of dissemination and communication
effort.
It also participates in joint research activities, in particular
the development of mobile, single-sited NMR tomography. The work
concerns,
1) the development and comparative evaluation of a Fourier
depth profiling NMR-MOUSE to reduce the measurement time of the NMR
profiling technology
2) the development of an NMR-MOUSE for measurement of the
aluminum nucleus to extend the use of nondestructive NMR testing
from proton-containing organic materials and moisture in porous
materials to inorganic materials like glasses and ceramics
3) the dissemination of the NMR technology to professionals in
art conservation and restoration by training courses and the
production of dedicated learning materials.
Website address:
www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/hiwww.mc.rwth-aachen.de
Team Leader
Name: Prof Bernhard BlümichAddress: RWTH Division of Macromolecular Chemistry, Institute Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Worringer Weg 1, 52074 Aachen, DE
E-mail: [email protected]
