Magnetic Resonance in Food Analysis, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 48
Special Issue Editors
Interests: NMR spectroscopy; NMR relaxometry; analytical chemistry; food NMR; pulse sequences
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Interests: NMR spectroscopy; intermolecular interactions; bioinorganic chemistry; analytical chemistry; biochemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is the ultimate technique used to evaluate highly complex chemical matrices, commonly found in food sciences. NMR spectroscopy and imaging (MRI) are ubiquitous in outstanding qualitative and quantitative techniques for the assessment of food physical and chemical properties, including chemical profiles, molecular dynamics, compartmentalization, water/lipid spatial distribution, and kinetic processes, among many others. Additionally, studies on the identification and quantification of adulterants in several edible matrices, such as vegetable and animal oils, meats, milk, cheeses, wheat, fruit juices, and coffee, are crucial to food authentication. Therefore, advances in NMR and MRI analytical methods, aiming to achieve straightforward outcomes in food matrices (encompassing 1H, 13C, 15N, and 31P high-resolution liquid-state NMR techniques, 1H-HR/MAS (high-resolution magic angle spinning) NMR approaches, comprehensive multiphase (CMP) methods, DOSY, relaxometry, and imaging techniques) are welcome. Thus, this Special Issue will bring together the latest NMR results in food sciences, which are vital to how we understand the connection between physical chemical properties and food quality at a molecular level.
Prof. Dr. Luiz Alberto Colnago
Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Flávio Vinícius Crizóstomo Kock
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- NMR spectroscopy
- relaxometry
- pulse sequences
- molecular interactions
- diffusion
- imaging
- foods
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