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Experienced researcher and academic writer with 10+ years of experience in laboratory research.

Profile Summary

- Primary expertise in synthetic organic chemistry, polymer science and engineering, nanomaterials, and electronic materials research. - Worked in a variety of settings that have enabled/shaped my style of writing stemming from time in academic, start-up business, and government laboratory settings. - Published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, extensive experience writing grant proposals for the NSF, SBIR-type grants, DoD, and DoE. - I excel at data analysis and visualization especially concerning optical measurements (UV-Vis, PL, IR, Raman), NMR, electrochemical (CV, spectroelectrochemistry), surface analysis (AFM and KPFM), and microscopy (TEM/SEM).

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials
• ★ Polymer Chemistry
• ★ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Raman Spectroscopy
• ☆ NMR Spectroscopy
• ☆ Carbon Materials
• ☆ Organic Chemistry
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Semiconductors
• ☆ Optoelectronics
• ☆ Grant Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, Newswriting

Research Market Research, User Research, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Processing, Data Insights

Product Development Formulation, Product Evaluation, Material Sourcing, Concept Development

Work Experience

Research Scientist

UES Inc

April 2021 - Present

Senior Research Scientist

Ecolectro Inc,

October 2020 - March 2021

Postdoctoral Researcher

Carnegie Mellon University

January 2019 - October 2020

Education

Ph.D. in Polymer Science & Engineering (Polymer Science & Engineering)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

January 2013 - January 2019

Masters of Science in Polymer Science & Engineering (Polymer Science & Engineering)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

August 2013 - August 2014

Bachelor's of Science in Chemistry Double Major Mathematics (Chemistry)

Wright State University

August 2009 - May 2013

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sun, Y.-L., Montz, B.J., Selhorst, R., Tang, H.-Y., Zhu, J., Nevin, K.P., Woodard, T.L., Ribbe, A.E., Russell, T.P., Nonnenmann, S.S., et al.(2021). Solvent-Induced Assembly of Microbial Protein Nanowires into Superstructured Bundles . Biomacromolecules. 22. (3). p. 1305-1311.

Selhorst, R., Gaitor, J., Lee, M., Markovich, D., Yu, Y., Treichel, M., Olavarria Gallegos, C., Kowalewski, T., Kourkoutis, L.F., Hayward, R.C., et al.(2021). Multiblock Copolymer Anion-Exchange Membranes Derived from Vinyl Addition Polynorbornenes . ACS Applied Energy Materials.

You, W., Hugar, K.M., Selhorst, R.C., Treichel, M., Peltier, C.R., Noonan, K.J.T., Coates, G.W.(2021). Degradation of Organic Cations under Alkaline Conditions . Journal of Organic Chemistry. 86. (1). p. 254-263.

Treichel, M., Tyler Womble, C., Selhorst, R., Gaitor, J., Pathiranage, T.M.S.K., Kowalewski, T., Noonan, K.J.T.(2020). Exploring the Effects of Bulky Cations Tethered to Semicrystalline Polymers: The Case of Tetraaminophosphoniums with Ring-Opened Polynorbornenes . Macromolecules. 53. (19). p. 8509-8518.

Sun, M., Gottlieb, E., Yuan, R., Ghosh, S., Wang, H., Selhorst, R., Huggett, A., Du, X., Yin, R., Waldeck, D.H., et al.(2020). Polyene-free photoluminescent polymers via hydrothermal hydrolysis of polyacrylonitrile in neutral water . ACS Macro Letters. 9. (9). p. 1403-1408.

Wang, P., Selhorst, R., Emrick, T., Ramasubramaniam, A., Barnes, M.D.(2019). Bidirectional Electronic Tuning of Single-Layer MoS <inf>2</inf> with Conjugated Organochalcogens . Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123. (2). p. 1506-1511.

Marques, S.R.-M., Selhorst, R.C., Venkataraman, D., Barnes, M.D.(2019). Probing the evolution of molecular packing underlying hj-Aggregate transition in organic semiconductors using solvent vapor annealing . Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123. (47). p. 28948-28957.

Selhorst, R., Wang, P., Barnes, M., Emrick, T.(2018). Bithiazolidinylidene polymers: Synthesis and electronic interactions with transition metal dichalcogenides . Chemical Science. 9. (22). p. 5047-5051.

Alon, H., Stern, C., Kirshner, M., Sinai, O., Wasserman, M., Selhorst, R., Gasper, R., Ramasubramaniam, A., Emrick, T., Naveh, D.(2018). Lithographically Patterned Functional Polymer-Graphene Hybrids for Nanoscale Electronics . ACS Nano. 12. (2). p. 1928-1933.

Skinner, M., Johnston, B.M., Liu, Y., Hammer, B., Selhorst, R., Xenidou, I., Perry, S.L., Emrick, T.(2018). Synthesis of Zwitterionic Pluronic Analogs . Biomacromolecules. 19. (8). p. 3377-3389.

Ramasubramaniam, A., Selhorst, R., Alon, H., Barnes, M.D., Emrick, T., Naveh, D.(2017). Combining 2D inorganic semiconductors and organic polymers at the frontier of the hard-soft materials interface . Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5. (43). p. 11158-11164.

Skinner, M., Selhorst, R., Emrick, T.(2016). Synthesis of water-soluble zwitterionic polysiloxanes . Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry. 54. (1). p. 127-134.

Selhorst, R.C., Puodziukynaite, E., Dewey, J.A., Wang, P., Barnes, M.D., Ramasubramaniam, A., Emrick, T.(2016). Tetrathiafulvalene-containing polymers for simultaneous non-covalent modification and electronic modulation of MoS<inf>2</inf> nanomaterials . Chemical Science. 7. (7). p. 4698-4705.

Selhorst, R., Fossum, E.(2013). Utilization of N,N-diethyl-3,5-difluorobenzene sulfonamide to prepare functionalized poly(arylene ether)s . Polymer. 54. (2). p. 530-535.

Balaguer, A., Selhorst, R., Turnbull, K.(2013). Metal triflate-catalyzed friedel-crafts acetylation of 3-phenylsydnone . Synthetic Communications. 43. (12). p. 1626-1632.

Tatli, M., Selhorst, R., Fossum, E.(2013). Poly(arylene ether)s with pendent 3-iodophenyl sulfonyl groups: Synthesis, characterization, and modification . Macromolecules. 46. (11). p. 4388-4394.