Real‐life applications of the MULVADO software package for processing DOSY NMR data

MULVADO is a newly developed software package for DOSY NMR data processing, based on multivariate curve resolution (MCR), one of the principal multivariate methods for processing DOSY data. This paper will evaluate this software package by using real‐life data of materials used in the printing industry: two data sets from the same ink sample but of different quality. Also a sample of an organic photoconductor and a toner sample are analysed. Compared with the routine DOSY output from monoexponential fitting, one of the single channel algorithms in the commercial Bruker software, MULVADO provides several advantages. The key advantage of MCR is that it overcomes the fluctuation problem (non‐consistent diffusion coefficient of the same component). The combination of non‐linear regression (NLR) and MCR can yield more accurate resolution of a complex mixture. In addition, the data pre‐processing techniques in MULVADO minimise the negative effects of experimental artefacts on the results of the data. In this paper, the challenges for analysing polymer samples and other more complex samples will also be discussed. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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