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In view of the rapid advancements witnessed in recent years on the application of NMR in industrial sectors, we felt that it was timely to bring out the current Volume 45 of the SPR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance series devoted to topics of relevance to industry. These advancements have been to a large measure fuelled by all round technological developments in NMR instrumentation such as ultra-highfield NMR magnet technology, wide range of cryo-probe configurations for various industrial applications, innovative solid and liquid state NMR methods and not least increased access to such instrumentation. Thus, areas such as minerals, nuclear, polymer, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, dyes and chemicals, food analysis, solar dye cells etc. have been witness to exciting new NMR investigations.

We are very grateful to the international group of expert authors who gave enthusiastic responses and readily agreed to contribute a review chapter each to this special volume. The nine chapters of the volume provide a good selection and critical review of both solid and liquid state NMR techniques for various practical applications in industry. The authors have tried to limit their review over the period of 2010–2015 but in some subject areas the review goes back to 2005. It is hoped this volume will serve NMR practitioners from academia and industry equally well.

Vasudevan Ramesh