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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work on dynamics in the condensed phase, especially molecular assemblies, molecules at liquid interfaces and in confined environments by ultrafast spectroscopic techniques and neutron scattering

Overview

Nancy E. Levinger is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to several subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Organic Chemistry, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their work covers a range of main research topics such as Seed Germination and Physiology, Plant Tissue Culture and Regeneration, Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research, Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, and Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Cryobiology
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Langmuir
  • Plants
  • Acta Horticulturae

Recent notable papers authored by Nancy E. Levinger and collaborators include:

  • Nanoconfinement Raises the Energy Barrier to Hydrogen Atom Exchange between Water and Glucose, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Non-Uniform Distribution of Cryoprotecting Agents in Rice Culture Cells Measured by CARS Microscopy, 2021, Plants
  • Tracking Permeation of Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Mentha × piperita Shoot Tips Using Coherent Raman Microscopy, 2023, Plants
  • Urea Disrupts the AOT Reverse Micelle Structure at Low Temperatures, 2022, Langmuir
  • How to Characterize Amorphous Shapes: The Tale of a Reverse Micelle, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues including Fionna Samuels, Gayle M. Volk, Remi Bonnart, Heidi D. Kreckel, and Dominik Stich.

Nancy E. Levinger has been recognized by several scientific societies with fellowships. These include Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2014), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010, and Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2005. The APS fellowship citation notes their pioneering work on dynamics in the condensed phase, particularly molecular assemblies, molecules at liquid interfaces, and in confined environments using ultrafast spectroscopic techniques and neutron scattering.

Best Publications

  • Testing the core/shell model of nanoconfined water in reverse micelles using linear and nonlinear IR spectroscopy

    Ivan R. Piletic;David E. Moilanen;D. B. Spry;Nancy E. Levinger

  • Water in Confinement

    Nancy E. Levinger

  • Interplay of solvent motion and vibrational excitation in electron-transfer kinetics : experiment and theory

    Gilbert C. Walker;Eva Aakesson;Alan E. Johnson;Nancy E. Levinger

  • Water Immobilization at Surfactant Interfaces in Reverse Micelles

    Ruth E. Riter;Dale M. Willard;Nancy E. Levinger

  • Analysis of Water in Confined Geometries and at Interfaces

    Michael D Fayer;Nancy E Levinger

  • Nonaqueous polar solvents in reverse micelle systems.

    N Mariano Correa;Juana J Silber;Ruth E Riter;Nancy E Levinger

  • Confinement or the nature of the interface? Dynamics of nanoscopic water.

    David E. Moilanen;Nancy E. Levinger;D. B. Spry;M. D. Fayer

  • Dynamics of Polar Solvation in Lecithin/Water/Cyclohexane Reverse Micelles

    Dale M. Willard;and Ruth E. Riter;Nancy E. Levinger

  • IMPACT OF COUNTERION ON WATER MOTION IN AEROSOL OT REVERSE MICELLES

    Ruth E. Riter;Erik P. Undiks;Nancy E. Levinger

  • Photoabsorption and photofragmentation studies of (Ar+)n cluster ions

    Nancy E. Levinger;Douglas Ray;Michael L. Alexander;W. C. Lineberger

  • When is water not water? Exploring water confined in large reverse micelles using a highly charged inorganic molecular probe.

    Bharat Baruah;Jennifer M. Roden;Myles Sedgwick;N. Mariano Correa

  • Novel Reverse Micelles Partitioning Nonaqueous Polar Solvents in a Hydrocarbon Continuous Phase

    Ruth E. Riter;Joel R. Kimmel;Erik P. Undiks;Nancy E. Levinger

  • Femtosecond experiments and absolute rate calculations on intervalence electron transfer of mixed‐valence compounds

    Keisuke Tominaga;Dahv A. V. Kliner;Alan E. Johnson;Nancy E. Levinger

  • Photodissociation and geminate recombination dynamics of iodine (I2-) in mass-selected iodine-carbon dioxide (I2-(CO2)n) cluster ions

    John M. Papanikolas;James R. Gord;Nancy E. Levinger;Douglas Ray

  • Dynamics of water confined on a nanometer length scale in reverse micelles: ultrafast infrared vibrational echo spectroscopy.

    Howe-Siang Tan;Ivan R. Piletic;Ruth E. Riter;Nancy E. Levinger

  • Ultrafast Dynamics in Reverse Micelles

    Nancy E. Levinger;Laura A. Swafford

  • Photodissociation of Mass-Selected (CO2)n– Clusters: Evaporation Leading to Magic Numbers in Fragment-Ion Distributions

    Michael L. Alexander;M. A. Johnson;Nancy E. Levinger;W. C. Lineberger

  • Water motion in reverse micelles studied by quasielastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulations

    Michael R. Harpham;Branka M. Ladanyi;Nancy E. Levinger;Kenneth W. Herwig

  • Formamide in Reverse Micelles: Restricted Environment Effects on Molecular Motion

    Ruth E. Riter;Erik P. Undiks;Joel R. Kimmel;Nancy E. Levinger

  • Recombination of Br−2 photodissociated within mass selected ionic clusters

    Michael L. Alexander;Nancy E. Levinger;M. A. Johnson;Douglas Ray

  • Ultrafast dynamics in reverse micelles, microemulsions, and vesicles

    Nancy E Levinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Debbie C. Crans
Debbie C. Crans Colorado State University
Michael D. Fayer
Michael D. Fayer Stanford University
Branka M. Ladanyi
Branka M. Ladanyi Colorado State University
Paul F. Barbara
Paul F. Barbara The University of Texas at Austin
W. C. Lineberger
W. C. Lineberger University of Colorado Boulder
Juana J. Silber
Juana J. Silber National University of Río Cuarto
Thomas Elsaesser
Thomas Elsaesser Max Planck Society
Erik T. J. Nibbering
Erik T. J. Nibbering Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
Ellen R. Fisher
Ellen R. Fisher Colorado State University
Gilbert C. Walker
Gilbert C. Walker University of Toronto

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