Manchester NMR Methodology Group

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
robert.evans@manchester.ac.uk

Research
Prediction and Interpretation of Diffusion Coefficients (SEGWE)
NMR Analysis of Biofuels and BioOil
NMR in Heterogeneous Media

Biography
Rob returns to the group after thirteen years, having left in 2012 to work at École Polytechnique, Paris and then subsequently moving to Aston University where he rose to Deputy Head/Acting Head of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.

Selected Publications

A full list of papers can be found here

Please find the most relevant and/or most interesting below

SEGWE
Quantitative Interpretation of Diffusion‐Ordered NMR Spectra: Can We Rationalize Small Molecule Diffusion Coefficients?
R Evans, Z Deng, AK Rogerson, AS McLachlan, JJ Richards, M Nilsson, ...
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013, 52 (11), 3199-3202

followed by ...
Improving the Interpretation of Small Molecule Diffusion Coefficients.
R Evans, G Dal Poggetto, M Nilsson, GA Morris
Analytical chemistry, 2018, 90 (6), 3987–3994

Quantitative Interpretation of Protein Diffusion Coefficients in Mixed Protiated–Deuteriated Aqueous Solvents
B Tang, K Chong, W Massefski, R Evans
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022, 126 (31), 5887-5895

and

The interpretation of small molecule diffusion coefficients: Quantitative use of diffusion-ordered NMR spectroscopy
R Evans
Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 2020, 117, 33-69

NMR Analysis of Biofuels and BioOil

Introducing Bioderived Solvents for Safer and More Sustainable 19F Benchtop NMR Analysis of Pyrolysis Oils
B Tang, J Ré, H Partridge, K Chong, AJ Ragauskas, MJ Derry, R Evans
RSC Sustainability, 2025

Improving the analysis of phase-separated bio-fuel samples with slice-selective total correlation NMR spectroscopy
JS Khangura, B Tang, K Chong, R Evans
Analytical Methods, 2024, 16 (34), 5820-5825

Quantitative Low‐Field 19F Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis of Carbonyl Groups in Pyrolysis Oils
B Tang, K Chong, AJ Ragauskas, R Evans
ChemSusChem, 2023, 16 (17), e202300625