Prof. Thomas MEERSMANN

  Department of Chemistry

Colorado State University

Fort Collins CO 80526

phone: (970) 491 3195

fax: (970) 491 1763

email: meer@lamar.colostate.edu

web: www.MagneticResonance.us

last updated November 2006

 

EDUCATION

 

1993                        Chemie-Diplom (Chemistry Masters), Universitt Tbingen, Germany

 

1997                        Ph.D. in Chemistry, Universit de Lausanne, Switzerland

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

                        2000 – 2005:            Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Colorado State University

 

                        2005 – present:            Associate Professor, Chemistry, Colorado State University

 

OTHER POSITIONS

 

1993 – 1994    Visiting research scholar, Cambridge University, Department of Chemistry, UK, in the laboratory of Dr. James Keeler (5 months).

 

1997 – 1998    Research scientist, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), Tallahassee, Florida (7 months)

 

1998 – 2000    Postdoctoral fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2 years & 4 months) and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Feodor-Lynen postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley (2 years)

 

2001                        Invited visiting Professor, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris,

France (1 month)

 

HONORS & AWARDS

 

2002                        NSF CAREER award

1998                        Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Feodor-Lynen research fellowship in science.

1997                Universit de Lausanne: award for Ph.D. thesis: "Prix de la Facult"

1983                German science competition: State competition for young scientists (Jugend

                        Forscht –Landeswettbewerb Niedersachen)

 

 

 

TEACHING

 

C474      Physical Chemistry I (Quantum Mechanics)                  2000F, 2001F, 2002F, 2004F

C478      Physical Chemistry Laboratory                                      2002S

C593      NMR, Diffusion Msrmts and MRI Techniques             2003S, 2004S

C111      General Chemistry                                                         2003F

C571      Quantum Chemistry                                                       2005F

 

 

PUBLISHED WORKS

 

Refereed Journal Articles

From prior work (# 7, 8 & 12 from prior independent work):

 

1.)     D. Raftery, H. Long, T. Meersmann, P. J. Grandinetti, L. Reven, and A. Pines*, "High-Field NMR of Adsorbed Xenon Polarized by Laser Pumping" Phys. Rev. Lett. 66 (1991) 584-587.

2.)        T. Meersmann, and G. Bodenhausen* "Transverse Relaxation in Proton NMR. Separate Measurement of Decay Rates of In-phase and Antiphase Coherences" J. Magn. Reson. A 115 (1995) 277-282.

3.)        T. Meersmann,  M. Schwager, V. Varma and G. Bodenhausen* "Little-Known Advantages of Very High Fields in NMR" J. Magn. Reson. A 119 (1996) 275-279.

4.)        T. Meersmann and G. Bodenhausen* "Relaxation-induced oscillations of spin-echo envelopes" Chem. Phys. Lett. 257 (1996) 374-380.

5.)        D. Jeannerat et. al., "Two Years of NMR Developments at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, USA", Chimia  50 (1996) 633-638.

6.)        T. Meersmann, S.A. Smith, and G. Bodenhausen*, "Multiple Quantum Filtered Gas-Phase Xenon-131 NMR Spectroscopy as a Surface Probe", Phys. Rev. Lett.. 80 (1997) 1398-1401.

7.)        T. Meersmann* and M. Haake, "Gas Phase 131Xe Quadrupolar Splitting", Phys. Rev. Lett.  81 (1998) 1211-1214.

8.)        G. Pavlovskaya, A. Blue, S.J. Gibbs, M. Haake, F. Cros, L. Mailer and T. Meersmann*, "Xenon-131 Surface Sensitive Imaging of Aerogels in Liquid Xenon Near the Critical Point." J. Magn. Reson.  137 (1999) 258-264.

9.)        L. Kaiser, T. Meersmann, J. Logan, and A. Pines*, "Visualization of gas flow and diffusion in porous media" Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 97 (2000) 2414-2418.

10.)     P. Sozzani, A. Comott, R. Simonutti, T. Meersmann, J.W. Logan, and A. Pines*, "A porous crystalline molecular solid explored by hyperpolarized xenon", Angewannte Chemie 39 (2000) 2695-2698.

11.)     T. Meersmann, J.W. Logan, R. Simonutti, S. Calderelli, A. Commotti, P Sozzani, L. Kaiser and A. Pines*, " Exploring single-file diffusion in one-dimensional nanochannels by laser-polarized Xe-129 NMR spectroscopy", J. Phys. Chem. A. 104 (2000) 11665-11670.

12.)     T. Meersmann*, M. Dechamps and G. Bodenhausen* "Probing the Surfaces of Aerogels by Multiple Quantum Filtered Xenon-131 NMR Spectroscopy", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123 (2001) 941-945.

13.)     L.G. Kaiser, J.W. Logan, T. Meersmann, and A. Pines* Dynamic NMR Microscopy of Gas Phase Poiseuille Flow, J. Magn. Res. 149, (2001) 144 – 148.

 

From independent work at Colorado State University

(undergraduate researchers indicated by #):

 

14.)     M. G. Mortuza, A. Satyanarayana, G. E. Pavlovskaya, T. J. Dieken#, and T. Meersmann*, Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping of High-Density Xenon-129,J. Chem. Phys., 118, (2003), 1581-1584.

15.)     S. Anala, G.E. Pavlovskaya, P. Pichumani, T.J. Dieken#, M.D. Olsen and T. Meersmann*, In Situ NMR of Combustion, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, (2003), 13298 –13302.

16.)     G.E. Pavlovskaya, C.F. Horton-Garcia#, C. Dybowski, D.R. Corbin and T. Meersmann*, Metallic Clusters and Color Changes in Silver-Exchanged Zeolites: 109Ag Solid State NMR and Optical Studies, J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, (2004), 1548-1589.

17.)     C.F. Horton-Garcia, G.E. Pavlovskaya  and T. Meersmann*. Introducing 83Kr-NMR spectroscopy as a new probe of void space in solids, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, (2005), 1958-1962.

18.)     K. Bartik, Ph. Choquet, A. Constantinesco, G. Duhamel, J. Fraissard*, JN. Hyacinthe, G.E. Pavlovskaya, J. Jokisaari, E. Locci, T.J. Lowery, M. Luhmer, T. Meersmann, I.L. Moudrakovshi, K.L. Pierce, A. Pines, J. Ripmeester, V-V Telkki, W.S. Veeman, Xenon NMR as a probe for microporous and mesoporous solids, polymers, liquid crystals, solutions, flames, protein, imaging. l'Actualit Chimique, 287, (2005), 16 -34. [Note, review article contributed by a number of the major research groups working with hyperpolarized xenon, coordinated by Jacques Fraissard for the monthly journal of the Socit Franaise de Chimie (SFC).]

19.)     G.E. Pavlovskaya, Z. Cleveland, C.F. Stupic, R.J. Basaraba, and T. Meersmann*, Hyperpolarized Krypton-83 as a New Contrast Agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA., 102 (2005) (51): 18275-18279.

19.)     Z. Cleveland, G.E. Pavlovskaya, C.F. Stupic, C.F. LeNoir#, and T. Meersmann*, Exploring Hyperpolarized Krypton-83 by Remotely Detected NMR Relaxometry, J. Chem. Phys., 124, (2006), 044312.

20.)     C.F. Stupic, Z. Cleveland, G.E. Pavlovskaya, and T. Meersmann*, Quadrupolar Relaxation of  Hyperpolarized Krypton-83 as a Probe for Surfaces, Solid State NMR Spectr. (2006), 29, 79-84.

21.)     Z.I. Cleveland, K.F. Stupic, G.E. Pavlovskaya, J.E. Repine, J.B. Wooten, and T. Meersmann*, Hyperpolarized 83Kr and 129Xe NMR Relaxation Measurements of Hydrated Surfaces: Implications for Materials Science and Pulmonary Diagnostics, accepted J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2006).

22.)     Z.I. Cleveland, G.E. Pavlovskaya, K.F. Stupic, J.B. Wooten, J.E. Repine, and T. Meersmann*, Detecting Tobacco Smoke Deposition by Hyperpolarized 83Kr Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magn. Reson. Imaging in preparation.

23.)     T. Meersmann, Hyperpolarized 83Kr and 129Xe by Spin Exchange Optical Pumping at High Noble Gas Densities, Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, invited contribution, in preparation.

 

 

Refereed Chapters in Books:

 

1.)   G.E. Pavlovskaya and T. Meersmann*. Hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR spectroscopy, MRI and dynamic NMR microscopy for the in situ monitoring of gas dynamics in opaque media including combustion processes., in: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Chemical Engineering, Wiley-VCH publishers, Weinheim, Germany, (2005) in press.

 

 

Patents/Copyrights

 

1.)   T. Meersmann, Z. Cleveland, Carl F. Stupic, G.E. Pavlovskaya, Hyperpolarized Noble Gasses with Nuclear Electric Quadrupole Moment as Probe for Surfaces and Interfaces, pending

 

Other

1.)   Recommendation to IUPAC: Measurement of the neon-21 resonance frequency as NMR standard, see: NMR Nomenclature: Nuclear Spin Properties and Conventions for Chemical shifts (IUPAC Recommendations 2001), R.K. Harris et. al., Concepts. Magn. Reson., 14, 326-346, 2002.

2.)   C&EN News report concerning In Situ NMR of Combustion, November 3, 2003.

3.)   Nature News and Views report concerning In Situ NMR of Combustion, 426, 508-509, 2003.

4.)   La Recherche report concerning In Situ NMR of Combustion, 372, 10 – 11, 2003.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED/SYMPOSIA/INVITED LECTURES / PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS

 

Lectures and seminars related to independent work at Colorado State University

 

1.)            2001, Novel Tools to Investigate Porous Materials: Multiple Quantum Filtered 131Xe NMR Spectroscopy and Continuous Flow Laser Polarized 129Xe for Diffusion Measurements, 42th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference (ENC), Orlando, Florida, March 2001.

2.)            2001, Single File Diffusion in the One-Dimensional Gas-Phase within Nanochannels by Continuous-Flow Laser-Spin-Polarized Xenon-120 NMR Spectroscopy, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris - Jussieu, France June 2001, presentation as visiting professor.

3.)            2001, Principles of Rubidium Vapor Pumping and its Applications in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and NMR Spectroscopy, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2001, invitation by Nestl

4.)            2002, Production of laser-polarized xenon in mixtures with high noble gas partial pressures, NMR2 conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2002, invited presentation.

5.)            2002, Hyper-Polarized Xenon-129 NMR Spectroscopy in Material Sciences: Basic Concepts and Novel Applications, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, November 15, 2002, invited by the Department of Chemistry.

6.)            2003, Hyper-Polarized Xenon-129 NMR Spectroscopy in Material Sciences: Basic Concepts and Novel Applications, Clark University, Worchester, Massachusetts, July 9 2003, invited by the Department of Chemistry.

7.)            2003, Dynamics of Methane Combustion by In Situ NMR Spectroscopy using High Density Xenon-129 Optical Pumping, 45th Rocky Mountain Conference, Denver, Colorado, July 28-31, 2003.

8.)            2003, Hyperpolarization, Spins & Fire, initialization of the Rocky Mountain Magnetic Resonance (RMMR) at CSU (joint operation of the Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Veterinarian Science Departments), September 16, 2003.

9.)            2003, High Density Xenon-129 Optical Pumping for In-Situ NMR Spectroscopy of Methane Combustion, 7th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy, Snowbird, Utah, September 20-25, 2003.

10.)         2003, Multiple-Quantum Filtered (MQF) NMR Spectroscopy and MRI as a Probe in Material Sciences and Biology, Rocky Mountain Magnetic Resonance (RMMR) workshop, CSU, December 4th 2003.

11.)         2004, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Combustion, Richmond, Virginia, February 13, 2004, invited by Philip Morris.

12.)         2004, Study of open and catalytic combustion processes by NMR spectroscopy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, March 15, 2004, invited by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry .

13.)         2004, NMR Spectroscopy and Combustion 45th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference (ENC), Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, April 18-23, 2004.

14.)         2004, Prospects of Krypton-83 NMR Spectroscopy For Material Sciences46th Rocky Mountain Conference,  Denver,  Colorado, August 2-5, 2004.

15.)         2004, MRI of Combustion, 15th Annual Varian Workshop, Fort Collins, Colorado, August 6, 2004. invited presentation.

16.)         2004, Development of a new analytical tool: In situ NMR and in situ MRI of high-temperature reaction, 228th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry (ACS Fall meeting), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 22-26, 2004.

17.)         2004, Studies of gas dynamics in materials by spin-polarized 129Xe-NMR spectroscopy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, September 20, 2004, invited by the Department of Physics.

18.)         2004, Study of open and catalytic combustion processes by NMR spectroscopy, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, September 24, 2004, invited by the Department of Chemistry.

19.)         2004, In situ NMR and MRI of open and catalytic combustion processes, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, October 22, 2004 invited by the Department of Chemistry.

20.)         2004, In situ NMR spectroscopy and in situ Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Combustion in Opaque Media, 6th Philip Morris USA Symposium on Fundamental Science, Richmond Virgina, October 26-28, 2004, invited presentation.

21.)         2004, In-situ NMR of open and catalytic combustion processes, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, November 19, 2004, invited by the Department of Chemical Engineering .

22.)         2005, Recent Advances with hyperpolarized gases in NMR and MRI, Society of Western Analytical Professors (SWAP), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, January 14-15 2005.

23.)         2005, "Novel advances with hyperpolarized gases in magnetic resonance imaging", 229th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Division of Physical Chemistry (ACS Spring meeting), San Diego, California, March 13 -17, 2005, invited presentation.

24.)         2005, Recent developments in NMR and MRI using hyperpolarized gases, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 29, 2005, invited by the Chemistry Department.

25.)         2005, NMR Spectroscopy and MR Imaging using Hyperpolarized Xenon and Krypton, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 31, 2005, invited by the Chemistry Department.

26.)         2005, Hyperpolarized Xenon and Krypton in NMR Spectroscopy and MR Imaging, Columbia University,  New York, NY, April 4, 2005, Chemistry Department.

27.)         2005, Novel Contrast in MR Imaging through Hyperpolarized Krypton-83, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, April 5, 2005, Massachusetts General Hospital, MRI Center.

28.)         2005, Novel Contrast in MR Imaging through Hyperpolarized Krypton-83, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 6, 2005, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

29.)         2005, Recent Advances in NMR Spectroscopy and MR Imaging with Hyperpolarized Xenon and Krypton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 7, 2005, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory.

30.)         2005, Introducing Hyperpolarized Krypton-83 MRI, 46th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference (ENC), Providence, Rhode Island, April 10-15, 2005, invited presentation.

31.)         2005, Hyperpolarized Xenon and Krypton in NMR Spectroscopy and MR Imaging., Sandia National Laboratory,  Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 6, 2005, invited by NMR Division.

32.)         2005, Introducing Krypton-83 NMR Spectroscopy, Hyperpolarized (hp) Krypton-83 and hp Krypton-83 MR Imaging., NMR2 (regional) conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 7, 2005, invited presentation.

33.)         2005, Recent developments in NMR and MRI using hyperpolarized gases., University of California, Los Angeles, California, May 16, 2005, invited by the Chemistry Department.

34.)         2005, Hyperpolarized Xenon and Krypton for NMR Spectroscopy and MR Imaging., University of California, Irvine, California, May 17, 2005, invited by the Chemistry Department.

35.)         2005, Hyperpolarized Xenon and Krypton for NMR Spectroscopy and MR Imaging., University of California, Riverside, California, May 18, 2005, invited by the Chemistry Department.

36.)         2005, Hyperpolarized Xenon and Krypton for NMR Spectroscopy and MR Imaging., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, May 16, 2005, invited by the Chemical Physics Division.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poster and Seminar Presentations by the Meersmann Group

 

1.)            2002, 41th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, April 14-19, 2002, 3 poster, presenting Authors: Satyanarayana Anala, Muhammad G. Mortuza Galina E. Pavlovskaya.

2.)            2002, 44th Rocky Mountain Conference, Denver, Colorado,  July 28-August 1 2002, 2 poster, Presenting Author: Satyanarayana  Anala, Galina E. Pavlovskaya.

3.)            2003, 42th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Savannah, Georgia, March 30 – April 4, 2003, 3 posters, presenting Authors: Satyanarayana Anala, T. Meersmann, Galina E. Pavlovskaya.

4.)            2003, Gordon Research Conference on Magnetic Resonance, Newport, Rhode Island, June 15-20, 2003, 2 poster, presenting authors: Galina E. Pavlovskaya, T. Meersmann

5.)            2003, Metallic Clusters and Colors in Silver Exchanged Zeolites; 109Ag and 133Cs NMR studies.45th Rocky Mountain Conference, Denver, Colorado, July 28-August 1, 2003, 1 poster, presenting author: Charlene Horton-Garcia.

6.)            2003, Divergent Velocity Fields during Contraction Flow of Viscoelastic Fluids, 7th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy, Snowbird, Utah, September 20-25, 2003, Galina E. Pavlovskaya, oral presentation

7.)            2004, Introducing Krypton NMR Spectroscopy as a Probe of Void Space in Solids. & Divergent Velocity Fields during Contraction flow of a viscoelastic fluid, 43th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, April 18-23, 2004, 2 poster, presenting Authors: Charlene Horton-Garcia, Galina E. Pavlovskaya.

8.)            2004, Formation of metallic nanoparticles in Zeolites RHO: soild state 109Ag and 133CS NMR studies, 46th Rocky Mountain Conference, Denver, Colorado, August 2-5, 2004, 1 poster, presenting authors: Zackary Cleveland, Galina E. Pavlovskaya.

9.)            2005, Characterization of divergence in velocity fields during entry flow of a viscoleastic fluid by MRI velocimetry methods, The Society of Rheology 76th annual meeting, Lubbock, Texas, February 13-17, 2005, Galina E. Pavlovskava, oral presentation.

10.)         2005, Advances in High Density Optical Pumping, 46th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference (ENC), Providence, Rhode Island, April 10-15, 2005, 1 Poster, presenting author: Zackary Cleveland.

11.)         2005, Hyperpolarized Krypton-83 as a new Contrast Agent for MR Imaging., Galina E Pavlovskaya, Zackary I Cleveland, Randall J. Basaraba, Thomas Meersmann, 47th Rocky Mountain Conference, Denver, Colorado, August 1-4, 2005.

12.)         2005, Relaxation of 83Kr in Porous Media, Karl Stupic, Galina E. Pavlovskaya, Zackary I. Cleveland, and Thomas Meersmann, 47th Rocky Mountain Conference, Denver, Colorado, August 1-4, 2005.

13.)         2005,  Introducing Krypton NMR Spectroscopy as a Probe of Void Space in Solids., Charlene Horton-Garcia, Galina E. Pavlovskaya,  and Thomas Meersmann, 47th Rocky Mountain Conference, Denver, Colorado, August 1-4, 2005.

14.)         2005, Novel Production and Application of High-Density Optically Pumped Gases, Zackary I. Cleveland, Karl Stupic, Galina E. Pavlovskaya, Cathrine LeNoir,  and Thomas Meersmann, 47th Rocky Mountain Conference, Denver, Colorado, August 1-4, 2005.