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A study of molecular dynamics of the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoro-methylsulphonyl)imide ([Emim][Tf2N]) in solution with deuterated ethanol at different molar concentration and temperatures is presented. The study was performed using 1H and 2H nuclear magnetic relaxation and 2H 1D spectroscopy. The temperature dependence of the spin–lattice relaxation time T1 of the cations allows the evaluation of the activation energies of the rotational degree of freedom of these molecules. The viscosity in the binary system increases with the concentration of ionic liquid. However, the activation energy in the cation molecules decreases when the concentration of the ionic liquid increases, indicating that the rotational dynamics is facilitated. This behavior is explained from the fact that the presence of the ionic liquid in the system disrupts the degree of intermediate range order expected in the alcohol system. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Fil: Ordikhani Seyedlar, Amin. lmenau University of Technology; Alemania Fil: Martins, João Pedro de Almeida. Universidade de Lisboa; Portugal Fil: Sebastião, Pedro J.. Universidade de Lisboa; Portugal Fil: Jardim Beira, Maria José. Universidade de Lisboa; Portugal Fil: Stapf, Siegfried. lmenau University of Technology; Alemania Fil: Vaca Chávez Fornasero, Fabián. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física; Argentina Fil: Mattea, Carlos. lmenau University of Technology; Alemania

A set of crude oil samples with different composition and characteristics is studied by means of Fast Field Cycling (FFC) 1H relaxometry, which probes the distribution of longitudinal relaxation times T1 as a function of the Larmor frequency. Investigation of T1 profiles at different temperatures is able to provide an insight into the dynamics and structural changes of oil components, with our particular interest being the high temperature behaviour of asphaltene. It is well-known that asphaltenes tend to form porous clusters in crude oils, which can cause severe problems for the process of oil extraction. Therefore, FFC experiments are conducted on Stelar Spinmaster FFC2000 in the temperature range 203K < T

Field cycling NMR relaxometry was used to study dynamics of fluids under confinement in different scenarios: fluids flowing through porous media, fluids partially filling porous media and polymer melts in nanoscopic pores. Diffusion in partially filled porous media was also studied with the aid of an NMR diffusometry technique. It is shown that hydrodynamic flow influences the spin-lattice relaxation rate of water confined in mesoscopic porous media under certain conditions. The effect is predicted by an analytical theory and Monte Carlo simulations, and confirmed experimentally by field-cycling NMR relaxometry. Field-cycling NMR relaxometry has been applied to polar and non polar adsorbates in partially filled silica porous glasses. The dependence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate on the filling degree shows that limits for slow and fast exchange between different phases can be distinguished and identified depending on the pore size and polarity of the solvents. Diffusion in the same unsaturated systems was studied with the aid of NMR diffusometry technique. The effective diffusion coefficient of solvents with different polarities displays opposite tendencies as a function of the liquid content. A two-phase fast exchange model including Knudsen and ordinary diffusion and different effective tortuosities is presented accounting for these phenomena. In the case of polymer melts confined in narrow artificial tubes of a porous solid matrix with variable diameter (9 to 57 nm), the characteristics of reptation were experimentally verified using proton field cycling NMR relaxometry technique. This observation is independent of the molecular mass and pore size. In bulk, the same polymer melts show either Rouse or renormalized Rouse dynamics, depending on the molecular mass. The polymers under confinement show features specific for reptation even with a pore diameter 15 times larger than the Flory radius while bulk melts of the same polymers do not.