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The Centre was established in 1977 by the Department of Science and Technology initially under the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) programme, with Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute, National Aeronautical Laboratory all in Bangalore and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay as the participating institutions and was called "Bangalore NMR Facility". It came under the purview of Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre (RSIC) programme in April 1982 and was called the "Sophisticated Instruments Facility". In March 2005, it was renamed as "NMR Research Centre", which reflected the ongoing activities. In 2021, the Centre was converted to Institute NMR Facility.
The broad objectives of the Centre are :
- To carry out analysis of samples received from various academic, R&D institutions and Industry.
- To provide facilities to scientists to carry out NMR experiments for the purpose of their research.
- To organise short-term courses/workshops on the use and application of various instruments and techniques for research students, teachers and personnel from other laboratories and industries.
- To train technicians in maintenance and operation of Sophisticated Instruments.
The Institute NMR facility houses eight NMR spectrometers, ranging from 400 to 800 MHz. In accordance with the objective of the Centre, the facilities are made available to scientists from across the country. Schools/workshops were organised at the national level to make the users aware of the latest developments in the area of NMR spectroscopy and also to help them in making the best use of the available facilities.
Research Areas :
- Theoretical and experimental aspects of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Development of techniques and applications to liquids, solids and mesophases
- Relaxation phenomena, development of two and multi-dimensional NMR
- Multiple quantum spectroscopy
- NMR imaging, theory and applications
- Gradient spectroscopy
- High-resolution solid-state NMR technique development and applications
- Development of pulsed nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy in one and two dimensions.
- Systems studied include oriented samples and mesophases; Nematic,smectic induced smectic, cholesteric, discotic and lyotropic liquid crystalline phases studied by solution and solid state NMR techniques
- Quantum computing by NMR
- Development of software and hardware for new techniques and special experiments
- Systems of biological interest including peptides, proteins, nucleotides, model membranes, perfused cells and tissues, intact biological systems and in-vivo living systems studied by NMR
