The Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), or Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), is a central technique for characterizing paramagnetic species. In the field of Life Sciences, it is particularly well suited for molecular analysis of biological systems, their functions and interactions. The facility is mostly dedicated to applications and developments in Life Sciences at the Chemistry-Biology interface. It notably benefits from the scientific support of nine researchers and two engineers.
Also of particular significance, the facility is:-labelled 'Plateforme Technologique d’Aix-Marseille',
-one of the four french centres that make the French national EPR network RENARD (IR CNRS 3443), and the most important centre in terms of EPR equipments and human resources,
-the unique EPR centre in the european MOSBRI ('MOlecular Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure') consortium, along with the two other CIVIS partners : SUR and ULB, and in the frame of the european H2020 INFRAIA program that will start in July 2021 for four years.
The equipments precisely inlcude:-continuous wave spectrometers (S, X, Q, W bands),
-pulsed spectrometers (X, Q, W bands). EPR-MRS is one of the site belonging to the newly created MOSBRI (MOlecular Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure).
Description
The Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), or Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), is a central technique for characterizing paramagnetic species. In the field of Life Sciences, it is particularly well suited for molecular analysis of biological systems, their functions and interactions. The facility is mostly dedicated to applications and developments in Life Sciences at the Chemistry-Biology interface. It notably benefits from the scientific support of nine researchers and two engineers.
Also of particular significance, the facility is:-labelled 'Plateforme Technologique d’Aix-Marseille',
-one of the four french centres that make the French national EPR network RENARD (IR CNRS 3443), and the most important centre in terms of EPR equipments and human resources,
-the unique EPR centre in the european MOSBRI ('MOlecular Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure') consortium, along with the two other CIVIS partners : SUR and ULB, and in the frame of the european H2020 INFRAIA program that will start in July 2021 for four years.
The equipments precisely inlcude:-continuous wave spectrometers (S, X, Q, W bands),
-pulsed spectrometers (X, Q, W bands). EPR-MRS is one of the site belonging to the newly created MOSBRI (MOlecular Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure).
Partner institution
Aix-Marseille Université
Scientific domain
LS8_5 - Biological aspects of environmental change, including climate change - Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
PE5_1 - Structural properties of materials - Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
PE2_9 - Electromagnetism - Fundamental Constituents of Matter
PE9_10 - Relativistic astrophysics and compact objects - Universe Sciences
LS9_7 - Environmental biotechnology and bioengineering - Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering
PE11_12 - Semi-conducting and magnetic materials engineering - Materials Engineering
LS1_7 - Molecular biophysics, biomechanics, bioenergetics - Molecules of Life: Biological Mechanisms, Structures and Functions
PE3_8 - Magnetism and strongly correlated systems - Condensed Matter Physics
Keywords
magnetic resonance
EPR
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
ESR
Electron Spin Resonance
continuous wave
pulsed
multifrequency
paramagnetic labels
magnetic materials
transition metal complex
metalloenzymes
free radicals
catalysis
structural analysis