Impact of shared facilities in advancing solid-state NMR research: 2025 edition
Shared research facilities (SRFs) offer researchers cost-effective access to advanced analytical instrumentation that individual laboratories may find challenging to acquire or maintain. By centralizing resources, SRFs support a diverse user community including students, early-career scientists, senior principal investigators, and industrial collaborators, while providing expert technical support and ensuring efficient use of infrastructure and funding. These facilities not only drive research productivity and foster interdisciplinary collaboration, but also serve as centers for training the next generation of scientists. In this article, SRFs that offer solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) capabilities are discussed, highlighting representative examples, their accessibility, governance models, technical operations, application areas, and data-sharing practices. Usage data reveal that solid-state NMR-based SRFs strongly align with high-priority research goals, contributing to impactful projects across chemistry, life sciences, and materials science, as reflected in publication outcomes. The article also emphasizes that the collaborative networks among SRFs enhance knowledge exchange and resource coordination. Such coordinated inter-facility partnerships are expected to address emerging challenges, ultimately supporting sustainable infrastructure that meets the evolving needs of the solid-state NMR community.
Authors
- Christopher P. Jaroniec (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0364-2888)
- Carine van Heijenoort (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2839-1037)
- G. N. Manjunatha Reddy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8283-2462)
- Göran Karlsson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1821-4715)
- Guangjin Hou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8216-863X)
- Brijith Thomas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3590-0992)
- A. Lesage
- Vipin Agarwal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3531-3181)
- Gerhard Gröbner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7380-8797)
- Andreas Brinkmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6442-3780)
- Carlos Alfonso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7165-4800)
- Horacio M. Pastawski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9573-9865)
- Yu. G. Kolyagin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-6923)
- J. Schneider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5992-2788)
- Chad M. Rienstra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9912-5596)
- Miquel Pons (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0586-8322)
- David L. Bryce (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9989-796X)
- Luís Mafra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1028-8354)
- Robert W. Schurko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5093-400X)
- Dinu Iuga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-8250)
- Guido Pintacuda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7757-2144)
- Alexandar L. Hansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4474-7141)
- Kai Xue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7824-5516)
- Linda Cerofolini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0795-9594)
- Marco Fragai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8440-1690)
- Marek J. Potrzebowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5672-0638)
- Steven P. Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2069-8496)
- W. Trent Franks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4111-8868)
- Rodolfo Hector Acosta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3945-8273)
- Enrico Ravera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7708-9208)
- Gustavo A. Monti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6531-798X)
- Franck Fayon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5086-5625)
- Victor V. Terskikh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1514-2610)
- Moreno Lelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7042-2335)
- Sylvain Bertaina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6466-8830)
- Feng Deng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6461-7152)
- Takanori Kigawa
Institutions
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR)
- New York University Abu Dhabi (AE)
- Université d'Orléans (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (FR)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Université de Toulon (FR)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (AR)
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (CN)
- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (IN)
- Umeå Plant Science Centre (SE)
- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (US)
- Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux Haute Température et Irradiation (FR)
- Unité de catalyse et de chimie du solide de Lille (FR)
- Interuniversity Consortium for Magnetic Resonance (IT)
- Centrum Badań Molekularnych i Makromolekularnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk (PL)
- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (JP)
- Laboratoire COBRA (FR)
- National Research Council Canada (CA)
- Université d'Artois (FR)
- University of Florence (IT)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- University of Aveiro (PT)
- Université de Rouen Normandie (FR)
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- École Centrale de Lille (FR)
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
- Umeå University (SE)
- Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Published
- 2025-11-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2025.102053
- Primary Topic
- Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00