Quantum sensors for biomedical applications

N Aslam, H Zhou, EK Urbach, MJ Turner… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum sensors are finding their way from laboratories to the real world, as witnessed by
the increasing number of start-ups in this field. The atomic length scale of quantum sensors …

Spin hyperpolarization in modern magnetic resonance

J Eills, D Budker, S Cavagnero, EY Chekmenev… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Magnetic resonance techniques are successfully utilized in a broad range of scientific
disciplines and in various practical applications, with medical magnetic resonance imaging …

Ab initio theory of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond

Á Gali - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a solid-state defect qubit with favorable
coherence time up to room temperature, which could be harnessed in several quantum …

Synthesis, properties, and applications of fluorescent diamond particles

OA Shenderova, AI Shames, NA Nunn… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Diamond particles containing color centers—fluorescent crystallographic defects embedded
within the diamond lattice—outperform other classes of fluorophores by providing a …

Nanoscale dynamic readout of a chemical redox process using radicals coupled with nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds

J Barton, M Gulka, J Tarabek, Y Mindarava, Z Wang… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biocompatible nanoscale probes for sensitive detection of paramagnetic species and
molecules associated with their (bio) chemical transformations would provide a desirable …

Advances in nano-and microscale NMR spectroscopy using diamond quantum sensors

RD Allert, KD Briegel, DB Bucher - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Quantum technologies have seen a rapid developmental surge over the last couple of years.
Though often overshadowed by quantum computation, quantum sensors show tremendous …

Hyperpolarized water as universal sensitivity booster in biomolecular NMR

C Hilty, D Kurzbach, L Frydman - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
NMR spectroscopy is the only method to access the structural dynamics of biomolecules at
high (atomistic) resolution in their native solution state. However, this method's low …

Singlet fission as a polarized spin generator for dynamic nuclear polarization

Y Kawashima, T Hamachi, A Yamauchi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Singlet fission (SF), converting a singlet excited state into a spin-correlated triplet-pair state,
is an effective way to generate a spin quintet state in organic materials. Although its …

Chemical functionalization of nanodiamonds: opportunities and challenges ahead

G Reina, L Zhao, A Bianco… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Nanodiamond (ND)‐based technologies are flourishing in a wide variety of fields spanning
from electronics and optics to biomedicine. NDs are considered a family of nanomaterials …

P1 Center Electron Spin Clusters Are Prevalent in Type Ib Diamonds

S Bussandri, D Shimon, A Equbal, Y Ren… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the spatial distribution of the P1 centers is crucial for diamond-based sensors
and quantum devices. P1 centers serve as polarization sources for dynamic nuclear …