Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at Room Temperature Using Photoexcited Triplet Electrons

Dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) has recently gained attention as a method to enhance the sensitivity of liquid NMR spectroscopy and MRI. We demonstrate dissolution of the sample hyperpolarized by DNP using photoexcited triplet electrons in 0.38 T at room temperature. The achieved polarization of 0.8% is 6100 times as high as that at thermal equilibrium under the condition. The result is an important step for DNP using photoexcited triplet electrons to become widely used in chemical and biomedical research.