Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy has contributed significantly to the identification and characterization pf paramagnetic impurities associated with clays, Following a brief discussion of the general principles of the technique, a review is given of the application of ESR to the study of those paramagnetic species (chiefly iron and radiation-induced lattice defects) located either wit...

Metalloproteins often contain metal centers that are paramagnetic in some functional state of the protein; hence electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy can be a powerful tool for studying protein structure and function. Dipolar spectroscopy allows the determination of the dipole-dipole interactions between metal centers in protein complexes, revealing the structural arrangement of d...

Flavoproteins often employ radical mechanisms in their enzymatic reactions. This involves paramagnetic species, which can ideally be investigated with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. In this chapter we focus on the example of flavin-based photoreceptors and discuss, how different EPR methods have been used to extract information about the flavin radical's electronic state, i...

The temperature and field dependencies of magnetization of NdFeAsO0.94F0.06 bulk sample are shown to exhibit the Curie-Weiss behaviour, both in the superconducting and normal states. To address the origin of the strong paramagnetic signal, particularly to reveal contributions from antiferromagnetic second phases in sintered NdFeAsO0.94F0.06, the magnetic response of Nd2O3 was measured and compa...

Electron spin resonance studies on healthy and tumorous human lung samples have been conducted in order to determine possible differences in free radical concentration and shaped of the spectra between the different sections of the lung. It could be shown that in healthy lung tissue the signal caused by the semidehydroascorbate (SDA) radical is not prominent because of the prevailing high parti...

In the present paper pressure-temperature phase diagram of a generalized Hub-bard model with correlated hopping in a paramagnetic state at half-filling is determined by means of the generalized mean-field approximation in the Green function technique. The constructed phase diagram describes metal-to-insulator transition with increasing temperature, and insulator-to-metal transition under the ac...

A study of the magnetocaloric properties of manganites with ferromagnetic and chargeordering states is presented. Under the application of a magnetic field in the vicinity of the paramagnetic-ferromagnetic and paramagnetic-charge order transitions large changes of the magnetic entropy are found, negative or positive, respectively. The physical mechanisms that contribute to the magnetic entropy ...

The solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) spectra of protons, deuterons, and carbons in the ligands of paramagnetic coordination complexes including acetylacetonate complexes, amino acid complexes, hydrates of the first row transition metals, and lanthanide acetates have been obtained. It has been known for some time that, for small paramagnetic species in solution, deuterium NMR can g...

Ferromagnetism with T(c)>350 K is observed in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Ni(2+):ZnO synthesized from solution. Whereas colloidal Ni(2+):ZnO nanocrystals are paramagnetic, their aggregation gives rise to robust ferromagnetism. The appearance of ferromagnetism is attributed to the increase in domain volumes and the generation of lattice defects upon aggregation. The unusual temperature de...