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Report No 1951/AP - Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej PAN

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NMR RELAXATION IN BIOPOLYMERS (CELLULOSE AND STARCH)<br />

Barbara Blicharska and Magdalena Hyjek<br />

Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Kraków, Poland<br />

The interpretation of the proton NMR relaxation data obtained for cellulose and starch<br />

samples are focused on dynamics of various states of “bound water molecules”, which are<br />

always absorbed on biopolymers. The water relaxation reflects the response of polymer<br />

structure to different treatments such as drying, freezing or chemical processing. Assuming<br />

that the dipole-dipole interaction causes mainly the relaxation process, the correlation times<br />

and activation energies of the system were calculated. These parameters can be correlated<br />

with physical and chemical properties of polymers and from this point of view the NMR<br />

relaxation investigation may have a practical aspects.<br />

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