SwedNMR - a national NMR research infrastructure

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (NMR) is a principal/unique technology to obtain atomic-level information of chemical, spatial, structural, and dynamic properties of matter, in solids and in solution — at length- and time scales that span many orders of magnitude.

Importantly, NMR can uniquely enhance the average picture obtained from X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy by contributing precise information on local structural heterogeneity and dynamic details.

Such information is crucial to understand properly how complex materials work, be it materials for energy storage or carbon capture, designed biosensors, or critical protein complexes in medicine.

We now propose to expand the operations provided by the Swedish NMR Centre in Gothenburg and Umeå, by connecting methodologically and internationally leading NMR facilities in Stockholm, Uppsala, Linköping, Chalmers and Lund This new national NMR research infrastructure – SwedNMR - will provide open access to state-of-the-art instrumentation and groundbreaking support to Swedish researchers in the fast-developing NMR field.

Operations will be organized in three topical modules – BioNMR, Materials NMR and Translational NMR, collaboratively linking geographically separated access and expert nodes.

SwedNMR will be instrumental in supporting existing and new research areas addressing a variety of societal challenges, and will be part of the national and international research infrastructure landscape.

The large user base will benefit from comprehensive reach-out and disseminating activities, making NMR available to users from all fields and levels of expertise.

In this way, SwedNMR will form a key component in the Swedish infrastructure landscape, by providing Swedish research and innovation with cutting edge NMR, and will thereby propel the development of science in a cross-disciplinary manner across all fields.