The X-Pulse 90 is designed to deliver enhanced sensitivity and faster data collection.

Oxford Instruments launched X-Pulse 90, its new 90 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer available on the benchtop. The increased magnetic field strength delivers higher sensitivity, and when combined with X-Pulse’s broadband capability, provides flexibility by enabling the largest number of atomic nuclei to be investigated on the benchtop without compromising performance, according to a release from the company.

These capabilities are designed to accelerate and improve workflows across a variety of applications such as battery research and development, polymer chemistry, and pharmaceutical quality control.

The 90 MHz (2.1 T) magnetic field allows users to separate more challenging peak overlaps with increased spectral dispersion. With up to double the signal to noise ratio, and data collection up to four times faster than the previous X-Pulse, X-Pulse 90 also enables the detection and accurate measurement of lower concentrations of sample, as well as more rapid sample analysis.

X-Pulse 90 continues the X-Pulse ethos of modularity, versatility, and upgradeability, and as such can easily be combined with sample automation (X-Auto), optimised continuous flow monitoring (Application Note), and a wide range of variable temperature (0 – 60°C) available for benchtop NMR spectroscopy. Additionally, X-Pulse’s unique user-exchangeable probe brings flexibility and sensitivity to benchtop NMR by enabling users to switch between NMR probes optimized for a high signal-to-noise ratio and NMR probes optimized for analysing multiple nuclei.

“The broadband capability makes it simple to analyze all nuclei of interest within our samples,” says Dr David Ellis, assistant professor at Heriot-Watt University, in a release. “The new X-Pulse 90 will be transformative to our workflows and capacity, by providing faster results and extra sensitivity hitherto unseen in broadband benchtop NMR.”

Dr Christian Lang, managing director for Oxford Instruments Imaging and Analysis, adds in a release, “We are delighted to announce the new X-Pulse 90, which will provide our customers with a powerful leap in performance, as well as maintaining the modularity and flexibility provided by the existing X-Pulse line-up.”

Photo caption: X-Pulse 90

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