Local NMR Relaxation of Dendrimers in the Presence of Hydrodynamic Interactions

Abstract

We study the role of hydrodynamic interactions for the relaxation of segments' orientations in dendrimers. The dynamics is considered in the Zimm framework. It is shown that inclusion of correlations between segments' orientations plays a major role for the segments' mobility, that reveals itself in the NMR relaxation functions. The enhancement of the reorientation dynamics of segments due to the hydrodynamic interactions is more significant for the inner segments. This effect is clearly pronounced in the reduced spectral density $\omega J(\omega)$, whose maximum shifts to higher frequencies when the hydrodynamic interactions are taken into account.