H. P. Khanh Ngo, E. Planes, C. Iojoiu, P. Soudant, A.-L. Rollet, P. Judeinstein The increasing need of portable electrical resources requires to develop post-Li batteries, in which redox reactions are then based on the different alkali or earth alkaline ions.

In collaboration with chemists of ENS Lyon and biophysicists of  DSV (IBiTeC-S), a team of LSDRM (IRAMIS/SIS2M) designed a cellular probe taking advantage of the extreme sensitivity of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) of hyperpolarized xenon*. The experiment shows the excellent selectivity of the method to detect the chosen molecular target .

In nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) whose medical application is known as MRI, it is the voltage at the extremities of a coil that is usually monitored, since it reflects the variation of the induction created by the precession of the nuclear magnetization after a radiofrequency (RF) excitation pulse. The nuclear magnetization results from the difference in population between the spin states, induced by the strong static magnetic field.