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Comment on “Boosted molecular mobility during common chemical reactions”

2021

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The apparent “boosted mobility” observed by Wang et al. (Reports, 31 July 2020, p. 537) is the result of a known artifact. When signal intensities are changing during a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) diffusion measurement for reasons other than diffusion, the use of monotonically increasing gradient amplitudes produces erroneous diffusion coefficients. We show that no boosted molecular mobility is observed when shuffled gradient amplitudes are applied.

Author(s): Günther, Jan-Philipp and Fillbrook, Lucy L. and MacDonald, Thomas S.C. and Majer, Günter and Price, William S. and Fischer, Peer and Beves, Jonathan, E.
Journal: Science
Volume: 371
Number (issue): 6526
Pages: eabe8322
Year: 2021
Month: January
Day: 15

Department(s): Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Research Project(s): A wireless robot arm and the smallest micro- and nano-swimmers
Bibtex Type: Article (article)

DOI: 10.1126/science.abe8322
URL: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/eabe8322

BibTex

@article{2021Guenther01,
  title = {Comment on “Boosted molecular mobility during common  chemical reactions”},
  author = {G{\"u}nther, Jan-Philipp and Fillbrook, Lucy L. and MacDonald, Thomas S.C. and Majer, G{\"u}nter and Price, William S. and Fischer, Peer and Beves, Jonathan, E.},
  journal = {Science},
  volume = {371},
  number = {6526},
  pages = {eabe8322},
  month = jan,
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.1126/science.abe8322 },
  url = {https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/eabe8322},
  month_numeric = {1}
}