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Bruker 300MHz Super-wide-bore MRI Up and Running

October 2012
Bruker 300MHz Super-wide-bore MRI

The MRL has added another unique and powerful instrument to its Central Facilities, augmenting an already impressive lineup of materials characterization equipment openly available to researchers on campus and elsewhere. The Bruker 300 MHz (7 T) super-wide-bore (SWB) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) spectrometer allows non-invasive imaging of the interiors and exteriors of a wide range of materials.  MRI is a technique commonly used in medical fields, but making use of this technique at micron-level resolution for materials science and engineering is much rarer. Also of note, about half of the $1 million custom system was contributed by active users of the MRL Central Facilities from Chemical Engineering, Materials, Chemistry and other Departments, a community which sorely recognizes the value of having dedicated expert staff maintain specialized instrumentation in a shared facility, and of making their investments available to a wide range of campus researchers.  For more information please check out the Spectroscopy Facility.