Solid state NMR as a tool of structure and dynamics in solid state chemistry and materials science: recent progress and challenges

While solid state NMR spectroscopy has by now become a method of routine characterization in solid state chemistry, the technique itself is constantly undergoing renewal. Besides important advances in detection sensitivity and spectroscopic resolution, new sophisticated multi-pulse and sample reorientation experiments offer quantitative structural information not thought attainable only ten years ago. The entire inventory of complementary experiments that has become available by now has produced new insights into the structure and dynamics of many technologically important materials, such as nanocrystallites, catalyst surfaces, semiconductors, and amorphous systems.