Thanks to the financial support of the Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión (VIE) at TEC, it has been possible to adquire the first low-field NMR in Costa Rica and the region. The new device is a Spinsolve 60 MHz benchtop NMR from Magritek^®, and it will be used in food science, polymer materials, and reaction monitoring of environmental processes. Moreover, this benchtop NMR will be used in academia, especially in the Organic Chemistry labs at TEC.

NMR has been extensively studied and used, but the access to the device is always limited in our countries. We hope this will change with the adquisition of the Spinsolve 60 MHz benchtop NMR at TEC, and that it will open new projects on the field. Our group main objective is to democratize and socialize this technique, so more students will have access to it.