News — Blanchard Science

2026

2026.01.20 U.S. patent granted: Systems and methods for magnetic susceptometry of devices with magnetometry (US 12,529,725 B2), with Jerschow, Budker, and co-workers.
2026.01.29 Nondestructive observation of electrolyte composition in batteries with ultralow-field NMR published in Chemical Science.

2025.12.18 All-optical photoluminescence spectra of NV ensembles at low magnetic fields published in Physical Review Applied.
2025.10.28 Invited lecture on quantum diamond microscopy for biochemical analysis at the 2nd Mechanick Quantum Biosensing Workshop, College Park, MD.
2025.09.22 Search for axionlike dark matter using liquid-state NMR published in Physical Review D.
2025.08.22 Invited lecture at the Q-FARM Biosensing Workshop, Stanford, CA.
2025.06.30 Invited lecture on NMR microscopy detected with solid-state qubits at the HyPERiON Microscale NMR and MRI Conference, Ettlingen, Germany.

2024.11.18 Quantum diamond microscope for narrowband magnetic imaging published in Physical Review Applied.
2024.05.27 Zero-field J-spectroscopy of quadrupolar nuclei published in Nature Communications.

2023.12.04 Metabolic ZULF NMR published in Analytical Chemistry as Editor’s Suggestion.
2023.11.17 Dynamic quantum diamond microscopy published in AVS Quantum Science.
2023.10.26 Parahydrogen-polarized [1-¹³C]pyruvate for preclinical applications featured on the cover of Advanced Science.

2022.09.21 Multidisciplinary team awarded the Stifterverband Science Award (formerly the Erwin Schrödinger Prize) for “Major advances in nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging.”
2022.08.01 JWB moves to the Quantum Technology Center at the University of Maryland.

2021.02.02 ZULF NMR Perspectives article in JMR: “Lower than Low” — a fun writing project with Dima Budker and Andreas Trabesinger, part of a Festschrift in honor of Bernhard Blümich.

2020.10.01 JWB starts a new job as Associate Director of NMR Applications at NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH.
2020.05.07 ZULF NMR with commercial magnetometers featured on the cover of JMR.

2019.10.25 ZULF sideband-based dark-matter search published in Science Advances. Congrats to Antoine and the CASPEr team!
2019.05.15 ZULF comagnetometer-based dark matter search published in PRL.
2019.04 Experimental NMR Conference in Asilomar, CA.
2019.02.04 ZULF gradiometer paper published in Phys. Rev. Applied.
2019.01 Cooling and commissioning the magnet.