NMR and cured plastics

[tsierakowski]

Please forgive me for my ignorance but my studies with regards to NMR was lifetimes ago! I work with Polyurethane systems and my question with regards to these is the following: If the polyurethane material is cured out (like a hard plastic like PE or ABS rigid) would there be any detectable signal in a NMR test and/or in a MRI instrument? My thought is that as long as the polyurethane is 100% reactive it is solid and kind of in a pseudo frozen state, a state in which the electrons are not readily manipulated by the magnetic field for alignment as well as less susceptible for RF deflection. I could imagine that if a unreactive material is used like a plasticizer it will be distributed as a liquid and make it available for alignment and flipping which would allow for detection. Thank you for your thoughts on this topics and please know your assistance is greatly appreciated.

 

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