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Dr Marina Carravetta PhD, Fellow of the HEA

Royal Society University Research Fellow, Associate Professor

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Dr Marina Carravetta is Royal Society University Research Fellow within Chemistry at the University of Southampton.

Dr Marina Carravetta is an University Research Fellow in the Magnetic Resonance area in the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton, since 2007. Before that, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Southampton. She obtained her Ph.D. from University of Stockholm (Sweden) in 2003 and completed her undergraduate studies in University of Calabria (Italy) with honours.

Marina's area of speciality is NMR, where she has a long track record of contributions in the areas of methodology developments (including symmetry based R sequences, singlet state NMR, nitrogen-14 detection, spin counting methods to name a few) as well as in the applications of solid state NMR to Materials Science, with particular focus on NMR on high-temperature superconductors and catalytic studies.

Marina was awarded the BRSG-NMRDG Annual Prize for Excellent Contribution to Magnetic Resonance by an Early Career Researcher in 2011 and the Ernst Award in 2004.

Marina is Chair of the Chemistry Equality and Diversity Committee (previously known as Athena SWAN).

Marina is the Treasurer and Secretary of the Institute of Physics magnetic resonance division (known as BRSG) and she has recently joined the editorial team for eMagRes, the Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance.

MagRes@Soton: The Magnetic Resonance Section at the University of Southampton

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

Teaching

Contact

Research interests

The Carravetta research groups main field of research is magic angle spinning (MAS) solid state NMR, with applications to superconductors and materials, with special attention to catalysis.
Our group is involved in the development of new experimental and computational approaches for the use of nitrogen-14 NMR in model systems and biological samples.
Our research collaborates on multi-disciplinary reseach on endofullerene materials using NMR, IR and INS.

Research keywords
Solid state NMR; MAS NMR; Nitrogen-14 NMR; Cryogenic NMR; HTS superconductors; Endofullerenes; NMR and Catalysis

Currently funded projects

Cryogenic NMR on static and rotating superconductors (University Research Fellowship, Royal Society)

High Resolution Solid State Nitrogen-14 NMR (EPSRC)

MPhil/PhD Research

Mr James Jarvis, Dr Phil Williamson and M.C, UoS matching funding.

Mr Richard Bounds, M.C., UoS funding

Ms Emma Withers, M.C. UoS funding

Research group

Magnetic Resonance

Research project(s)

Carravetta: Solid state NMR under cryogenic conditions

Chair of Equality and Diversity Chemistry group, Southampton.

Member of Chemistry Policy and Resource Committee, as Equality and Diversity representative.

Member of WiSET group, Southampton.

Secretary and Treasurer of BRSG committee (Institute of Physics group related to magnetic resonance)

Key Publications

Haies, I. M., Jarvis, J. A., Bentley, H., Heinmaa, I., Kuprov, I., Williamson, P. T. F., & Carravetta, M. (2015). 14N overtone NMR under MAS: signal enhancement using symmetry-based sequences and novel simulation strategies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(9), 6577-6587. DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03994g

Mamone, S., Concistrè, M., Carignani, E., Meier, B., Krachmalnicoff, A., Johannessen, O. G., ... Levitt, M. H. (2014). Nuclear spin conversion of water inside fullerene cages detected by low-temperature nuclear magnetic resonance. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 140(19), 194306. DOI: 10.1063/1.4873343

Beckett, P., Denning, M. S., Heinmaa, I., Dimri, M. C., Young, E. A., Stern, R., & Carravetta, M. (2012). High resolution 11B NMR of magnesium diboride using cryogenic magic angle spinning. Journal of Chemical Physics, 137(11), 114201. DOI: 10.1063/1.4751476

Articles

Jarvis, J., Haies, I., Lelli, M., Rossini, A., Kuprov, I., Carravetta, M., & Williamson, P. (2017). Measurement of 14N Quadrupole Couplings in Biomolecular Solids Using Indirect-Detection 14N Solid-State NMR with DNP. Chemical Communications.

Potter, M., Chapman, S., O'Malley, A. J., Levy, A., Carravetta, M., Mezza, T. M., ... Raja, R. (2017). Understanding the role of designed solid acid sites in the low-temperature production of ϵ-Caprolactam. ChemCatChem. DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201700516

Potter, M., O'Malley, A. J., Chapman, S., Kezina, J., Newland, S., Silverwood, I. P., ... Raja, R. (2017). Understanding the role of molecular diffusion and catalytic selectivity in liquid-phase Beckmann rearrangement. ACS Catalysis, 7, 2926-2934. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b03641

Stulz, E., Zhang, X., Carravetta, M., & Carboni, M. (2016). Efficient NIR light blockage with matrix embedded silver nanoprism thin films for energy saving window coating. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1-5. DOI: 10.1039/C6TC00026F

Carravetta, M., Concistre, M., Levason, W., Reid, G., & Zhang, W. (2016). Rare neutral diphosphine complexes of scandium(III) and yttrium(III) halides. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(24), 12890-12896. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02268

Sardar, K., Bounds, R., Carravetta, M., Cutts, G., Hargreaves, J. S. J., Hector, A. L., ... Wilson, F. (2016). Sol–gel preparation of low oxygen content, high surface area silicon nitride and imidonitride materials. Dalton Transactions, 1-10. DOI: 10.1039/C5DT04961J

Robertson, C., Lodge, A. W., Basa, P., Carravetta, M., Hector, A. L., Kashtiban, R. J., ... Walcarius, A. (2016). Surface modification and porosimetry of vertically aligned hexagonal mesoporous silica films. RSC Advances, 6, 113432-113441. DOI: 10.1039/C6RA23059H

Krachmalnicoff, A., Bounds, R., Mamone, S., Alom, S., Concistre, M., Meier, B., ... Whitby, R. J. (2016). The dipolar endofullerene HF@C60. Nature Chemistry, 8, 953-957. [2563]. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2563

Haies, I. M., Jarvis, J. A., Bentley, H., Heinmaa, I., Kuprov, I., Williamson, P. T. F., & Carravetta, M. (2015). 14N overtone NMR under MAS: signal enhancement using symmetry-based sequences and novel simulation strategies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(9), 6577-6587. DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03994g

Haies, I. M., Jarvis, J. A., Brown, L. J., Kuprov, I., Williamson, P. T. F., & Carravetta, M. (2015). 14N overtone transition in double rotation solid-state NMR. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(37), 23748-23753. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP03266K

Newland, S. H., Sinkler, W., Mezza, T., Bare, S. R., Carravetta, M., Haies, I. M., ... Raja, R. (2015). Expanding beyond the micropore: active-site engineering in hierarchical architectures for Beckmann rearrangement. ACS Catalysis, 5(11), 6587-6593. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b01595

Dzielendziak, A. S., Blake, J., Bounds, R., Wilkinson, K. A., Carravetta, M., Chambers, A. R., ... Raja, R. (2015). Spectroscopic chemical insights leading to the design of versatile sustainable composites for enhanced marine application. RSC Advances, 5(122), 101221-101231. DOI: 10.1039/c5ra19197a

Krachmalnicoff, A., Bounds, R., Mamone, S., Levitt, M. H., Carravetta, M., & Whitby, R. (2015). Synthesis and characterisation of an open-cage fullerene encapsulating hydrogen fluoride. Chemical Communications, 1-4. DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00499C

Carravetta, M., Concistre, M., Levason, W., Reid, G., & Zhang, W. (2015). Unique Group 1 cations stabilised by homoleptic neutral phosphine coordination. Chemical Communications, 51(46), 9555-9558. DOI: 10.1039/C5CC03184B

Xu, M., Jiménez-Ruiz, M., Johnson, M. R., Rols, S., Ye, S., Carravetta, M., ... Horsewill, A. J. (2014). Confirming a predicted selection rule in inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy: the quantum translator-rotator H2 entrapped inside C60. Physical Review Letters, 113(12). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.123001

Mamone, S., Concistrè, M., Carignani, E., Meier, B., Krachmalnicoff, A., Johannessen, O. G., ... Levitt, M. H. (2014). Nuclear spin conversion of water inside fullerene cages detected by low-temperature nuclear magnetic resonance. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 140(19), 194306. DOI: 10.1063/1.4873343

Potter, M., Cholerton, M. E., Kezina, J., Bounds, R., Carravetta, M., Manzoli, M., ... Raja, R. (2014). Role of isolated acid sites and influence of pore diameter in the low-temperature dehydration of ethanol. ACS Catalysis, 4(11), 4161-4169. DOI: 10.1021/cs501092b

Jarvis, J., Haies, I., Williamson, P., & Carravetta, M. (2013). An efficient NMR method for the characterisation of 14N sites through indirect 13C detection. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(20), 7613-7620. DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50787D

Concistre, M., Mamone, S., Denning, M., Pileio, G., Lei, X., Li, Y., ... Levitt, M. H. (2013). Anisotropic nuclear spin interactions in H2O@C60 determined by solid-state NMR. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(1998), 20120102. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0102

Room, T., Peedu, L., Ge, M., Huvonen, D., Nagel, U., Ye, S., ... Komatsu, K. (2013). Infrared spectroscopy of small-molecule endofullerenes. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371, 20110631. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0631

Mamone, S., Concistrè, M., Heinmaa, I., Carravetta, M., Kuprov, I., Wall, G., ... Levitt, M. H. (2013). Nuclear magnetic resonance of hydrogen molecules trapped inside C70 fullerene cages. Chemphyschem, 14(13), 3121-3130. DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201300269

Horsewill, A. J., Goh, K., Rols, S., Ollivier, J., Johnson, M. R., Levitt, M. H., ... Turro, N. J. (2013). Quantum rotation and translation of hydrogen molecules encapsulated inside C60: temperature dependence of inelastic neutron scattering spectra. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(1998), 20110627. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0627

Beckett, P., Denning, M. S., Carravetta, M., Kalda, A., & Heinmaa, I. (2012). Field dependence of the relaxation of 79Br in KBr and its use as a temperature calibrant. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 223, 61-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2012.07.007

Beckett, P., Denning, M. S., Heinmaa, I., Dimri, M. C., Young, E. A., Stern, R., & Carravetta, M. (2012). High resolution 11B NMR of magnesium diboride using cryogenic magic angle spinning. Journal of Chemical Physics, 137(11), 114201. DOI: 10.1063/1.4751476

Horsewill, A., Panesar, K., Rols, S., Ollivier, J., Johnson, M., Carravetta, M., ... Turro, N. (2012). Inelastic neutron scattering investigations of the quantum molecular dynamics of a H2 molecule entrapped inside a fullerene cage. Physical Review B, 85(20), 1-12. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.205440

Beduz, C., Carravetta, M., Chen, J. Y. C., Concistre, M., Denning, M., Frunzi, M., ... Yang, Y. (2012). Quantum rotation of ortho and para-water encapsulated in a fullerene cage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(32), 12894-12898. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210790109

Sarkar, R., Concistre, M., Johannessen, O. G., Beckett, P., Denning, M., Carravetta, M., ... Levitt, M. H. (2011). An NMR thermometer for cryogenic magic-angle spinning NMR: the spin-lattice relaxation of 127I in cesium iodide. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 212(2), 460-463. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2011.08.021

Ge, M., Nagel, U., Hüvonen, D., Rõõm, T., Mamone, S., Levitt, M. H., ... Turro, N. J. (2011). Infrared spectroscopy of endohedral HD and D2 in C60. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 135(11), 114511-114521. DOI: 10.1063/1.3637948

Ge, M., Nagel, U., Hüvonen, D., Rõõm, T., Mamone, S., Levitt, M. H., ... Turro, N. J. (2011). Interaction potential and infrared absorption of endohedral H2 in C60. Journal of Chemical Physics, 134(5), 54507.

Bavykin, D. V., Carravetta, M., Kulak, A. N., & Walsh, F. C. (2010). Application of magic-angle spinning NMR to examine the nature of protons in titanate nanotubes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 22(8), 2458-2465. DOI: 10.1021/cm903100a

Horsewill, A. J., Rols, S., Johnson, M. R., Murata, Y., Murata, M., Komatsu, K., ... Turro, N. J. (2010). Inelastic neutron scattering of a quantum translator-rotator encapsulated in a closed fullerene cage: Isotope effects and translation-rotation coupling in H_{2}@C_{60} and HD@C_{60}. Physical Review B, 82(8), 81410. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.081410

Pileio, G., Carravetta, M., & Levitt, M. H. (2010). Storage of nuclear magnetization as long-lived singlet order in low magnetic field. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(40), 17135-17139. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010570107

Pileio, G., Carravetta, M., & Levitt, M. H. (2009). Extremely low-frequency spectroscopy in low-field nuclear magnetic resonance. Physical Review Letters, 103(8), 083002-[4pp]. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.083002

Hassan, S., Carravetta, M., Hector, A. L., & Stebbings, L. A. (2009). Nonoxide Sol-Gel Synthesis of Terbium-Doped Silicon Nitride Phosphors. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 93(4), 1069-1073. DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.03499.x

Horsewill, A. J., Panesar, K. S., Rols, S., Johnson, M. R., Murata, Y., Komatsu, K., ... Levitt, M. H. (2009). Quantum translator-rotator: Inelastic neutron scattering of dihydrogen molecules trapped inside anisotropic fullerene cages. Physical Review Letters, 102(1), 13001. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.013001

Mamone, S., Ge, M., Hüvonen, D., Nagel, U., Danquigny, A., Cuda, F., ... Carravetta, M. (2009). Rotor in a cage: infrared spectroscopy of an endohedral hydrogen-fullerene complex. Journal of Chemical Physics, 130(8), 081103-[4pp]. DOI: 10.1063/1.3080163

Pileio, G., Mamone, S., Mollica, G., Montesinos, I. M., Gansmüller, A., Carravetta, M., ... Levitt, M. H. (2008). Estimation of internuclear couplings in the solid-state NMR of multiple-spin systems: selective spin echoes and off-magic-angle sample spinning. Chemical Physics Letters, 456(1-3), 116-121. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.03.021

Pileio, G., Carravetta, M., Hughes, E., & Levitt, M. H. (2008). The long-lived nuclear singlet state of 15N-nitrous oxide in solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130(38), 12582-12583. DOI: 10.1021/ja803601d

Panesar, K. S., Horsewill, A. J., Cuda, F., Carravetta, M., Mamone, S., Danquigny, A., ... Levitt, M. H. (2008). Thermal history effects and methyl tunneling dynamics in a supramolecular complex of calixarene and para-xylene. Journal of Chemical Physics, 128(14), 144512-[8pp]. DOI: 10.1063/1.2889003

Carravetta, M., Danquigny, A., Mamone, S., Cuda, F., Johannessen, O. G., Heinmaa, I., ... Levitt, M. H. (2007). Solid-state NMR of endohedral hydrogen-fullerene complexes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 9(35), 4879-4894. DOI: 10.1039/b707075f

Lai, W. C., McLean, N., Gansmüller, A., Verhoeven, M. A., Antonioli, G. C., Carravetta, M., ... Levitt, M. H. (2006). Accurate measurements of 13C-13C J-couplings in the rhodopsin chromophore by double-quantum solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128(2), 3878-3879. DOI: 10.1021/ja0581604

Carravetta, M., Johannessen, O. G., Levitt, M. H., Heinmaa, I., Stern, R., Samoson, A., ... Komatsu, K. (2006). Cryogenic NMR spectroscopy of endohedral hydrogen-fullerene complexes. Journal of Chemical Physics, 124(10), 104507-104520. DOI: 10.1063/1.2174012

Pileio, G., Concistrè, M., Carravetta, M., & Levitt, M. H. (2006). Long-lived nuclear spin states in the solution NMR of four-spin systems. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 182(2), 353-357. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2006.06.034

Kristiansen, P. E., Carravetta, M., van Beek, J. D., Lai, W. C., & Levitt, M. H. (2006). Theory and applications of supercycled symmetry-based recoupling sequences in solid-state NMR. Journal of Chemical Physics, 124(234510), 1-19. DOI: 10.1063/1.2205857

Marin-Montesinos, I., Mollica, G., Carravetta, M., Gansmuller, A., Pileio, G., Bechmann, M., ... Levitt, M. H. (2006). Truncated dipolar recoupling in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. Chemical Physics Letters, 432(4-6), 572-578. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2006.10.101

Kristiansen, P. E., Carravetta, M., Lai, W. C., & Levitt, M. H. (2004). A robust pulse sequence for the determination of small homonuclear dipolar couplings in magic-angle spinning NMR. Chemical Physics Letters, 390(1-3), 1-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2004.03.075

Carravetta, M., Johannessen, O. G., & Levitt, M. H. (2004). Beyond the T-1 limit: Singlet nuclear spin states in low magnetic fields. Physical Review Letters, 92(15), 153003-[4pp]. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.153003

Carravetta, M., & Levitt, M. H. (2004). Long lived nuclear spin states in high-field solution NMR. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126(20), 6228-6229. DOI: 10.1021/ja0490931

Duma, L., Lai, W. C., Carravetta, M., Emsley, L., Brown, S. P., & Levitt, M. H. (2004). Principles of spin-echo modulation by J-couplings in magic-angle spinning solid state NMR. Chemphyschem, 5(6), 815-833. DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200301213

Carravetta, M., Zhao, X., Johannessen, O. G., Lai, W. C., Verhoeven, M. A., Bovee-Geurts, P. H. M., ... Levitt, M. H. (2004). Protein-induced bonding perturbation of the rhodopsin chromophore detected by double-quantum solid-state NMR. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126(12), 3948-3953. DOI: 10.1021/ja039390q

Carravetta, M., Murata, Y., Murata, M., Heinmaa, I., Stern, R., Tontcheva, A., ... Levitt, M. H. (2004). Solid-state NMR spectroscopy of molecular hydrogen trapped inside an open-cage fullerene. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126(13), 4092-4093. DOI: 10.1021/ja031536y

Hughes, C. E., Carravetta, M., & Levitt, M. H. (2004). Some conjectures for cogwheel phase cycling. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 167(2), 259-265. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2004.01.001

Carravetta, M., Zhao, X., Bockmann, A., & Levitt, M. H. (2003). Coherence transfer selectivity in two-dimensional solid-state NMR. Chemical Physics Letters, 376(3-4), 515-523. DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(03)00944-8

Carravetta, M., Schmedt auf der Günne, J., & Levitt, M. H. (2003). Enhanced triple-quantum excitation in 13C magic-angle spinning NMR. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 162(2), 443-453. DOI: 10.1016/S1090-7807(03)00059-4

Zhao, X., Carravetta, M., Madhu, P. K., & Levitt, M. H. (2003). Symmetry-based pulse sequences in solid-state NMR and applications to biological systems. Recent Research Developments in Biophysics, 2, 121-146.

Carravetta, M., Edén, M., Johannessen, O. G., Luthman, H., Verdegem, P. J. E., Lugtenburg, J., ... Levitt, M. H. (2001). Estimation of carbon-carbon bond lengths and medium-range internuclear distances by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123(43), 10628-10638. DOI: 10.1021/ja016027f

Carravetta, M., Castiglione, F., De Luca, G., Edgar, M., Emsley, J. W., Farrant, R. D., ... Turner, D. L. (1998). Symmetry and phase-selected NMR spectra of liquid crystalline samples. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 135(2), 298-309. DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1998.1574

Castiglione, F., Carravetta, M., Celebre, G., & Longeri, M. (1998). Toward a generalized algorithm for the automated analysis of complex anisotropic NMR spectra. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 132(1), 1. DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1997.1347

Book Chapters

Glaubitz, C., Carravetta, M., Edén, M., & Levitt, M. H. (2001). Towards dipolar recoupling in macroscopically ordered samples of membrane proteins rotating at the magic angle. In S. R. Kiihne, & H. J. M. de Groot (Eds.), Perspectives on Solid State NMR in Biology. (pp. 71-83). (Focus on Structural Biology; Vol. 1). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.

Brinkmann, A., Carravetta, M., Zhao, X., Edén, M., Schmedt auf der Günne, J., & Levitt, M. H. (2001). Using symmetry to design pulse sequences in solid-state NMR. In S. R. Kiihne, & H. J. M. de Groot (Eds.), Perspectives on Solid State NMR in Biology. (pp. 3-14). (Focus on Structural Biology; Vol. 1). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.

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