Exploring Molecular Dynamics and Surface Interactions of Fluids in Porous Materials Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Dr Carmine D’Agostino School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, UK Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is a powerful spectroscopic tool and has extensively been exploited in many fields of science and technology, most notably chemistry, biology and for medical purposes. In the past decades the application of NMR to problems relevant to the chemical and process industry has been constantly growing. This approach is non-invasive, non-destructive and chemically selective and is able to probe several important aspects of many physical and chemical systems, including hydrodynamics, reactivity, mass transport and adsorption phenomena. In this work, some of the methodologies and their applications to problems relevant to chemical engineering and porous materials are introduced and discussed.

Carmine D'Agostino received his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Chemical Engineering at the Universita' di Napoli "Federico II", Italy. He then worked in industry, in the Oil and Gas sector in the companies ENI and Technip before undertaking a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2008 at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK under the supervision of Prof. Lynn Gladden. He is currently a Lecturer at the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at The University of Manchester, UK, working in the Catalysis & Porous Materials group. He is author of over 58 peer-reviewed publications, including invited contributions and toprated articles, with an h-index of 14 and over 980 citations. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. He has received several awards, including the Young Scientist Award at the International Conference on Catalysis and a prestigious Junior Research Fellowship from Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in ionic liquids, catalysis and porous materials with a particular focus on the investigation of molecular diffusion, dynamics and adsorption of fluids within porous structures using various spectroscopic techniques, including high-field and low-field NMR methods.