Molecular Engineering by Solid-State NMR - Structural Analysis and Functional Design of Zeolites, Solid Catalysts and Inorganic Materials -

The interface between material science and high resolution solid-state NMR is recently an area of much activity. A wide variety of novel techniques in multi-nuclear solid-state NMR have provided attractive possibilities to study the microenvironments, for example, in the mechanistic studies in catalysis as well as the design of functional materials. In this review, current state-of-the-art topics by means of solid-state NMR techniques are selected to illustrate the scope of applications to the porous catalytic materials, namely, aluminosilicate and metallosilicate zeolites, layered silicates, mesoporous silicas, for obtaining site and mechanistic information on short range ordering. In addition, MASNMR applications to aluminas, the ceramic materials and the inorganic supramolecules are introduced