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Structural-Properties Of Amorphous Hydrogenated Carbon .3. NMR Investigations

Jager, C., Gottwald, J., Spiess, H.W., Newport, Robert J. (1994) Structural-Properties Of Amorphous Hydrogenated Carbon .3. NMR Investigations. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 50 (2). pp. 846-852. ISSN 0163-1829. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.50.846) (KAR id:15914)

Abstract

Our NMR studies give experimental evidence of bonding heterogeneity in samples of a-C:H on the nanometer scale. Two classes of protons were identified with distinctly different spin-lattice-relaxation behavior. The difference in the spin-lattice relaxation provides a means of spectral editing of cross-polarization magic-angle spinning, combined rotation and multiple-pulse spectroscopy, dipolar dephasing spectra, and multiple quantum NMR experiments. This combination of the various NMR techniques allows for a detailed structural investigation of a-C:H, e.g., the sp2:sp3 ratio, the relative amount of hydrogenated and nonhydrogenated carbons, etc. A model incorporating the heterogeneity is established and discussed. The NMR results are compared with neutron spectroscopy and diffraction data.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.846
Subjects: Q Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: J.M. Smith
Date Deposited: 13 May 2009 14:33 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/15914 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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