Publications by Arthur César Pinon

Atomic-level structure determination of amorphous molecular solids by NMR

Manuel Cordova, Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Pinelopi Moutzouri

Structure determination of amorphous materials remains challenging, owing to the disorder inherent to these materials. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) powder crystallography is a powerful method to determine the structure of molecular solids, but disorder ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Imaging Radial Distribution Functions of Complex Particles by Relayed Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Pierrick Berruyer

The physical properties of many modern multi-component materials are determined by their internal microstructure. Tools capable of characterizing complex nanoscale architectures in composite materials are, therefore, essential to design materials with targ ...

2023

Imaging radial distribution functions of complex particles by relayed dynamic nuclear polarization

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Pierrick Berruyer

Raw data and Matlab scripts from the publication at https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c01279 All codes are provided free of charge and come with no warranty. Future use (original or modified) is required to cite: Zenedo data deposit at DOI 10.5281/zenodo. ...

Zenodo2023

Metabolic contrast agents produced from transported solid C-13-glucose hyperpolarized via dynamic nuclear polarization

Andrea Capozzi, Arthur César Pinon

Magnetic Resonance Imaging combined with hyperpolarized C-13-labelled metabolic contrast agents produced via dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization can, non-invasively and in real-time, report on tissue specific aberrant metabolism. However, hyperpolariz ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

High Sensitivity Detection of a Solubility Limiting Surface Transformation of Drug Particles by DNP SENS

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Jasmine Viger-Gravel

We investigate the presence of a surface species for the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) AZD9496 with dynamic nuclear polarization surface enhanced nuclear spectroscopy (DNP SENS). We show that using DNP we can elucidate the presence of an amorphous ...

2021

Scaling analyses for hyperpolarization transfer across a spin-diffusion barrier and into bulk solid media

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Bradley Floyd Chmelka

By analogy to heat and mass transfer film theory, a general approach is introduced for determining hyperpolarization transfer rates between dilute electron spins and a surrounding nuclear ensemble. These analyses provide new quantitative relationships for ...

2021

UV-Irradiated 2-Keto-(1-C-13)Isocaproic Acid for High-Performance C-13 Hyperpolarized MR

Andrea Capozzi, Arthur César Pinon

Enhancing the sensitivity of magnetic resonance spectroscopy/imaging (MRS/MRI) by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (dDNP) has expanded the scope of MRS applications to new fields of research. Most importantly, it has paved the way toward noninvasiv ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Hyperpolarization via dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization: new technological and methodological advances

Andrea Capozzi, Arthur César Pinon

Dissolution-DNP is a method to boost liquid-state NMR sensitivity by several orders of magnitude. The technique consists in hyperpolarizing samples by solid-state dynamic nuclear polarization at low temperature and moderate magnetic field, followed by an i ...

SPRINGER2021

Doping and phase segregation in Mn2+- and Co2+-doped lead halide perovskites from Cs-133 and H-1 NMR relaxation enhancement

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Albert Hofstetter, Gabriele Stevanato, Daniel Prochowicz

Lead halide perovskites belong to a broad class of compounds with appealing optoelectronic and photovoltaic properties. Doping with transition metal ions such as Mn2+ and Co2+ has recently been reported to substantially enhance luminescence and stability o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Rapid Structure Determination of Molecular Solids Using Chemical Shifts Directed by Unambiguous Prior Constraints

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Albert Hofstetter, Federico Maria Paruzzo, Martins Balodis

NMR-based crystallography approaches involving the combination of crystal structure prediction methods, ab initio calculated chemical shifts and solid-state NMR experiments are powerful methods for crystal structure determination of microcrystalline powder ...

2019

Topology of Pretreated Wood Fibers Using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Jeremy Luterbacher, Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Jasmine Viger-Gravel, Wu Lan, Michel Bardet, Pierrick Berruyer

In the continuously developing field of lignocellulosic biomass, high-yield lignin depolymerization processes are sought to optimize its productivity and profitability. Recently, formaldehyde stabilization during lignin extraction and biomass pretreatment ...

2019

Bulk Nuclear Hyperpolarization of Inorganic Solids by Relay from the Surface

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Snaedis Björgvinsdóttir

2018

DNP enhanced NMR with flip-back recovery

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Jayasubba Reddy Yarava, Snaedis Björgvinsdóttir

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2018

DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy of active pharmaceutical ingredients

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini

2018

Structure of Lipid Nanoparticles Containing siRNA or mRNA by Dynamic Nuclear Polarization-Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini, Jasmine Viger-Gravel

Here, we show how dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) NMR spectroscopy experiments permit the atomic level structural characterization of loaded and empty lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). The LNPs used here were synthesized by the microfluidic mixing technique a ...

2018

BDPA-Nitroxide Biradicals Tailored for Efficient Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced Solid-State NMR at Magnetic Fields up to 21.1 T

David Benjamin Roger Antoine Gajan, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini, Georges Guévork Jean-Jacques Menzildjian, Moreno Lelli

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has developed into an invaluable tool for the investigation of a wide range of materials. However, the sensitivity gain achieved with many polarizing agents suffers from an unf ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Spin Diffusion in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Arthur César Pinon

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) is currently one of the most efficient ways of enhancing sensitivity in solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) experiments. The DNP protocol consists in doping a sample with a small amount of paramagnetic species, t ...

EPFL2018

Core-Shell Structure of Organic Crystalline Nanoparticles Determined by Relayed Dynamic Nuclear Polarization NMR

Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Jasmine Viger-Gravel

The structure of crystalline nanoparticles (CNPs) is determined using dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhanced NMR spectroscopy experiments. The CNPs are composed of a crystalline core containing an active pharmaceutical ingredient (compound P), coated ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

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

Microwave-gated dynamic nuclear polarization

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet, Xiao Ji, Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Mathieu Baudin

Dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (D-DNP) has become a method of choice to enhance signals in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Recently, we have proposed to combine cross-polarization (CP) with D-DNP to provide high polarization P(C-13) in short bu ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016