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Magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) has focused on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applied to objects of smaller scale and higher spatial resolution for more than three decades. After the pioneering work by Eccles, Callaghan, Aguayo, Blackband, Johnson et al. in 1986, MRM quickly spread to, among other fields, chemistry, histology, and materials research. Since 1992, the edited book series Magnetic Resonance Microscopy has provided an important voice describing the latest developments in spatially resolved magnetic resonance methods and their applications far beyond the scope of medical diagnostics. An excellent introduction to MRM, focusing on the practical aspects of high magnetic fields and on the study of biological systems, was authored in 2017 by Luisa Ciobanu: Microscopic Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Practical Perspective (Pan Stanford, Singapore, 2017). Our book complements this monograph by showing the use of MRM and related techniques in a much broader area and on a wider scale, which extends from chemical engineering to plant research and battery applications, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of MRM.

The book opens with a section on hardware and methodology, covering aspects of micro-engineering, magnet technology, coil performance, and hyperpolarization to improve signal-to-noise ratio, a major bottleneck of MRM. Specific pulse sequences and developments in the field of mobile nuclear magnetic resonance are further topics of this first chapter. The following parts, 2 and 3, review essential processes such as filtration, multi-phase flows and transport, and a wide range of systems from biomarkers via single cells to plants and biofilms. Part 4 focuses on energy research, which is becoming increasingly important due to the globally growing environmental problems. It reports on battery types and their developments and how battery states can be recorded and characterized with MRM. However, we would like to point out to the reader that only a small sample of applications could be addressed in Chapters 1 to 4. Finally, the last chapter advocates that theory and applications should not be treated separately, because much can be gained from their complementarity.

The main aim of this book is to convince aspiring and established scientists from all fields that MRM is a versatile nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method that is capable of answering many questions from both the laboratory and everyday life. The book seeks to inspire a new readership from industries and innovative research directions to create synergies by adding MRM to their expertise.

The editors thank all the authors for contributing their invaluable knowledge to this book during a time challenged by COVID-19. Our thanks also go to the kind staff of the Wiley books department, who helped us with advice and support throughout the whole editing process.

Sabina Haber-Pohlmeier

Luisa Ciobanu

Bernhard Blümich

Summer 2021