Publications by Basile Vuichoud

A cryogen-consumption-free system for dynamic nuclear polarization at 9.4 T

Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Basile Vuichoud, Mathieu Baudin

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2018

Hyperpolarized long-lived nuclear spin states in monodeuterated methyl groups

Sami Jannin, Basile Vuichoud, David Lyndon Emsley, Gabriele Stevanato

2018

Overhauser effects in non-conducting solids at 1.2 K

Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Basile Vuichoud, Marc Anthony Caporini, Xiaobin Ji

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2018

Tailored Microstructured Hyperpolarizing Matrices for Optimal Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Basile Vuichoud, Mathieu Baudin

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Long-Lived Nuclear Spin States in Methyl Groups

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Basile Vuichoud, Daniele Mammoli, Arthur César Pinon, Gabriele Stevanato

We have induced hyperpolarized long-lived states in compounds containing C-13-bearing methyl groups by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) at cryogenic temperatures, followed by dissolution with a warm solvent. The hyper polarized methyl long-lived states g ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Transportable hyperpolarized metabolites

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud, David Benjamin Roger Antoine Gajan, Xiao Ji, David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini

Nuclear spin hyperpolarization of C-13-labelled metabolites by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization can enhance the NMR signals of metabolites by several orders of magnitude, which has enabled in vivo metabolic imaging by MRI. However, because of the s ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Novel Sample Formulations for Pure and Persistent Hyperpolarized Solutions via Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Basile Vuichoud

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy allows one to study and analyze the structure, motions and interactions of a broad variety of molecules. However, this technique has a major inconvenience: its low sensitivity, which therefore often results in ...

EPFL2017

Phenylazide Hybrid-Silica - Polarization Platform for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at Cryogenic Temperatures

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud, David Benjamin Roger Antoine Gajan, David Baudouin

Hyperpolarization of NMR-active nuclei is key to gather high quality spectra of rare species and insensitive isotopes. We have recently established that silica-based materials containing regularly distributed nitroxyl radicals connected to the silica matri ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Hyperpolarization of nitrogen-15 nuclei by cross polarization and dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) is often achieved by the direct transfer of polarization from electrons to nuclei such as C-13, induced by microwave saturation of the wings of narrow EPR lines of radicals like trityl. In the indirect approach on the oth ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Highly Repeatable Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization for Heteronuclear NMR Metabolomics

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud, Xiao Ji

At natural C-13 abundance, metabolomics based on heteronuclear NMR is limited by sensitivity. We have recently demonstrated how hyperpolarization by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (D-DNP) assisted by cross-polarization (CP) provides a reliable wa ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Filterable Agents for Hyperpolarization of Water, Metabolites, and Proteins

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Robert Konrat, Jonas Milani, Pascal Miéville, Basile Vuichoud, Florian Patrick Marie Daniel De la Barre De Nanteuil, Xiao Ji, Estel Canet Martinez

Hyperpolarization is generated by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (d-DNP) using a polymer-based polarizing agent dubbed FLAP (filterable labeled agents for polarization). It consists of a thermo-responsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), also known a ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Hyperpolarized Water to Study Protein-Ligand Interactions

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud, Quentin Chappuis

The affinity between a chosen target protein and small molecules is a key aspect of drug discovery. Screening by popular NMR methods such as Water-LOGSY suffers from low sensitivity and from false positives caused by aggregated or denatured proteins. This ...

2015

Spin Noise Detection of Nuclear Hyperpolarization at 1.2K

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud

We report proton spin noise spectra of a hyperpolarized solid sample of commonly used DNP (dynamic nuclear polarization) juice containing TEMPOL (4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine N-oxide) and irradiated by a microwave field at a temperature of 1.2K ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

A magnetic tunnel to shelter hyperpolarized fluids

Roger Mottier, Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Pascal Miéville, Basile Vuichoud

To shield solutions carrying hyperpolarized nuclear magnetization from rapid relaxation during transfer through low fields, the transfer duct can be threaded through an array of permanent magnets. The advantages are illustrated for solutions containing hyp ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Hyperpolarized para-Ethanol

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud, Daniele Mammoli

We show that an imbalance between the populations of singlet (S) and triplet (T) states in pairs of magnetically equivalent spins can be generated by dissolution dynamic nudear polarization: In partly deuterated ethanol ((CD3CH2OD)-C-13), this T/S imbalanc ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Measuring absolute spin polarization in dissolution-DNP by Spin PolarimetrY Magnetic Resonance (SPY-MR)

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud, Quentin Chappuis

Dynamic nuclear polarization at 1.2 K and 6.7 T allows one to achieve spin temperatures on the order of a few millikelvin, so that the high-temperature approximation (Delta E < kT) is violated for the nuclear Zeeman interaction Delta E = gamma B(0)h/(2 pi) ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2015

Hyperpolarized NMR of plant and cancer cell extracts at natural abundance

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud

Natural abundance C-13 NMR spectra of biological extracts are recorded in a single scan provided that the samples are hyperpolarized by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization combined with cross polarization. Heteronuclear 2D correlation spectra of hyper ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Hyperpolarization of Deuterated Metabolites via Remote Cross-Polarization and Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud

In deuterated molecules such as [1-C-13]pyruvate-d(3), the nuclear spin polarization of C-13 nuclei can be enhanced by combining Hartmann-Hahn cross-polarization (CP) at low temperatures (1.2 K) with dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (D-DNP). The po ...

American Chemical Society2014

Drug Screening Boosted by Hyperpolarized Long-Lived States in NMR

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sandrine Gerber, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud, Nicola Salvi, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard, Roberto Buratto, Aurélien Laguerre, Daniele Mammoli, Maninder Singh

Transverse and longitudinal relaxation times (T11 and T1) have been widely exploited in NMR to probe the binding of ligands and putative drugs to target proteins. We have shown recently that long-lived states (LLS) can be more sensitive to ligand binding. ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Cross polarization from H-1 to quadrupolar Li-6 nuclei for dissolution DNP

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud, Angel Joaquin Perez Linde

Cross polarization from protons to quadrupolar Li-6 nuclei is combined with dynamic nuclear polarization of protons at 1.2 K and 6.7 T using TEMPOL as a polarizing agent followed by rapid dissolution. Compared to direct Li-6 DNP without cross-polarization, ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014