Talent Management - POB Anthropocene - Program Strategiczny Inicjatywa Doskonałości w Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim

Monitoring environmental pollution by toxic organophosphorus compounds using zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance

#Toxic organic compounds #organophosphorus compounds #zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance

The most important goal of this scientific Ph. D. student project is to perform preliminary research developing a new, optimal sensor for the detection of organic chemical contaminants e.g., pesticides in the environment.

Thanks to the Talent Management POB Anthropocene grant, the researchers are extending the previous research on zero-field NMR J-spectroscopy of toxic organophosphorus compounds. By employing novel hyperpolarization methods, they hope to significantly boost the detection sensitivity of zero-field NMR, and to develop a highly specific, compact, and cheap sensor for identifying toxic organophosphorus compounds.

The research will help monitoring of human-made pollutants which will speed up efforts aimed at eliminating them from the natural environment.

The broaden scope of the project is to develop means of zero and ultra-low NMR spectroscopy for environmental monitoring as an inexpensive, robust, chemically specific sensor.

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