Ryan Nieuwendaal, Ph. D.

Research Interests
Development of solid-state NMR techniques for materials science; elucidating morphology and structure via solid-state NMR methods; solid-state NMR characterization of heterogeneous polymer blend systems; organic semiconducting materials and devices, characterization of polymer dynamics via solid-state NMR methods

Professional Affiliations
American Chemical Society

Awards and Honors

• Award for Teaching Excellence, Chemistry Department, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2008)
• The August and Ruth Homeyer Scholarship (2006)
• Graduate Student Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University, St. Louis (2006)
• US Student Representative, Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany (2005)
• Travel Fellowship, NSF “Multidimensional High Field Solid-State NMR,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2005)
• Travel Fellowship, ACS-PRF “Physical Chemistry on the Nanometer Scale” Washington State University, Pullman (2003)
• Graduated with Departmental Honors in Physics, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA (2001)
• Summer Research Intern, NSF, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan (2001)

Non-NIST affiliated publications

Nieuwendaal, R. C.; Bertmer, M.; Hayes, S. E.; “An unexpected phase transition during the [2+2] photocycloaddition reaction of cinnamic acid to truxillic acid: Changes in polymorphism monitored by solid-state NMR” J. Phys. Chem. B. (2008), 112(41), 12920-12926.  

Bertmer, M.; Nieuwendaal, R. C.; Barnes, A. B.; Hayes, S. E. “Solid-state photodimerization kinetics of a-trans-cinnamic acid to a-truxillic acid studied via solid-state NMR” J. Phys. Chem. B (2006), 110(12), 6270-6273. 

Nieuwendaal, R. C.; Schue, A.; Blair, S; Stentz, D.; Feller, S.; Affatigato, M; “Structure of bismuth gallate glasses using time of flight mass spectroscopy” Phys. Chem. Glasses. (2005), 46(3), 302-308. 

Ma, G.; Fischer, A.; Nieuwendaal, R. C.; Ramaswamy, K.; Hayes, S. E.; “Cd(II)-ethylenediamine Mono- and Bimetallic Complexes – Synthesis and Characterization by 113 Cd NMR Spectroscopy and Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction” Inorganica Chemica Acta, (2005), 358(11), 3165-3173. 

Kojima, S.; Anwar, H.; Ko, Jae-Hyeon; Kodama, M.; Feller, S.A.; Affatigato, M.; Nieuwendaal, R. C.; Clarida,  W. J.; Leelasagar, R. “Brillouin and Raman spectroscopic studies of caesium lithium borate glasses”  Phys. Chem. Glasses. (2003), 44(2), 88-90.