Highlights•NMR relaxometry mechanisms relevant to porous material characterization
include paramagnetic coupling, dipolar coupling and diffusion processes.•Determination of …

Low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation is a promising non-invasive
technique for characterizing solid–liquid interactions within functional porous materials …

Magnetic impurities are ubiquitous in natural porous media such as sand and soil. They
generate internal magnetic field gradients because of increased magnetic susceptibility …

Unconventional petroleum resources present in shales have recently seen increased
development due to growing demand for energy worldwide, declining conventional …

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxometry is an excellent tool for probing the
interactions between solid pore surface and pore fluids in porous media. Surface relaxation …

The reliable assessment of surface area is extremely important for many applications, eg,
catalysis, separation, and energy storage/conversion. Within this context, major progress …

NMR relaxation has recently emerged as a novel and non-invasive tool for probing the
surface dynamics of adsorbate molecules within liquid-saturated mesoporous catalysts. The …

NMR relaxation analysis provides a unique and non-invasive probe of fluid dynamics within
porous materials, and may be applied to the interpretation of a wide variety of material and …

We present nuclear spin-relaxation experiments, at various temperatures and Larmor
frequencies for water and oil confined in a series of calibrated porous media and various …

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation times are shown to provide a unique probe
of adsorbate–adsorbent interactions in liquid‐saturated porous materials. A short theoretical …