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DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) pose a major threat to genome stability, if not promptly and properly repaired. Understanding where, along the genome, DSBs...
Gretchen Ferguson, Albert Rigosi, Dominick Scaletta, David Newell, Dean Jarrett
Contemporary advances in electrical metrology include the understanding and development of star-mesh transformations and their applicability to the access of...
Marc Assael, Sofia Sotiriadou, Monika Thol, Marcia Huber
A new wide-ranging correlation for the thermal conductivity of neon, based on the most recent ab-initio dilute gas theoretical calculations, a simplified...
Two-color refractivity measurements are reported for carbon dioxide, oxygen, binary mixtures of nitrogen--oxygen, natural dry air, and water vapor. For the '...
Katharina Fransen, Julia Casey, Gabrielle Godbille-Cardona, Natalie Mamrol, Jiale Shi, Alex Zappi, Jignesh Mahajan, Jiarui Lu, Debra Audus, Bradley Olsen
With growing concerns about increasing plastic pollution, interest in biodegradable polymers, particularly polyesters, continues to grow. Copolymerization is an...
NIST is developing a suite of material metrology tools to understand and characterize the development of residual stresses during epoxy curing. In this work...
Kyle Tynan, Catherine Mouchahoir, Mark Lowenthal, Karen Phinney
dsRNA is a highly immunogenic byproduct generated during in vitro transcription of mRNA, leading to unwanted immunos- timulatory responses and reduced vaccine...
The best separation possible of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC) in complex samples via liquid chromatography (LC) is particularly challenging due to the...
Harold Hatch, Christina Bergonzo, Marco Blanco, Guangcui N. Yuan, Sergei Grudinin, Mikael Lund, Joseph E. Curtis, Alexander Grishaev, Yun Liu, Vincent Shen
The authors initiate a correction to Hatch et al. [J. Chem. Phys., 161, 094113 (2024)]. If the particles are of the same type, particle swap symmetry was...
Isabel Vinterbladh, Jordan Bye, Robin Curtis, Harold Hatch, Sergei Grudinin, Mikael Lund
Computing molecular thermodynamic properties is instrumental in multiple scientific disciplines, such as statistical physics, N-body simulations, and molecular...
Zongze Li, Aaron Cornelius, Gonzalo Reyes, Edward Kinzel, Ryuta Sato, Gregory Vogl, Robert Landers
Machine tool deformations due to thermal loads from motors and part processing, as well as from changing ambient temperature, can dominate the machine tool's...
Dominick Scaletta, Ngoc Thanh Mai Tran, Marta Musso, Valery Ortiz Jimenez, Heather Hill, Dean Jarrett, Massimo Ortolano, Curt Richter, David Newell, Albert Rigosi
Bret Tantorno, Tuyen Truong, Lori Hoover, Gregory McKenna, Ran Tao, Fan Zhang
The relationship between dynamic and spatial heterogeneity in polymer blends is still not fully understood, yet it plays a crucial role in our understanding of...
Accurate prediction of Schottky barrier heights (SBHs) at metal-semiconductor (M-SC) interfaces is essential for understanding charge injection in electronic...
Albert Rigosi, Hansjorg Scherer, Mathieu Taupin, Luca Callegaro, Hans He, Susmit Kumar, Ali Eichenberger, Mattias Kruskopf, Yanfei Yang, Martina Marzano, Stephen Giblin, Sergiy Rozhko, Takehiko Oe, Dong-Hun Chae, Pierre Gournay
Katherine Shaw, Zachary Bramble, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Matthias Egger, Matthew Iacchei, Jennifer Lynch, K David Hyrenbach
Plastic marine debris (PMD) is rapidly accumulating in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, exposing fishes living in the North Pacific garbage patch (NPGP) to...
Sarala N. Padi, Kinjal Mondal, David Hoogerheide, Frank N. Heinrich, Mihaela Mihailescu, Jeffery Klauda, Antonio Cardone
Antimicrobial resistance poses a major global health challenge, necessitating efficient strategies for discovering potent antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). While...
In situ X-ray tomography experiments provide powerful insight into material deformation and damage evolution under mechanical load. However, laboratory-based...
Lauren Mullen, Carolyn Steffen, Katherine Gettings, Kevin Kiesler, Peter Vallone
Traditionally, Sanger sequencing was used to characterize reference materials and confirm discordant allele calls from different STR typing kits at the National...
Ali Rad, Alexander Schuckert, Eleanor Crane, Gautam Nambiar, Fan Fei, Jonathan Wyrick, Richard Silver, Mohammad Hafezi, Zohreh Davoudi, Michael Gullans
Simulating fermions coupled to large spin degrees of freedom represents a promising application for quantum simulators, given its relevance to lattice gauge...
Probabilistic computers offer promising solutions for computationally hard problems in domains such as combinatorial optimization and machine learning. A key...
Firebrand ignition is a significant contributor to the spread of wildfires into communities. This study investigates effects of flow velocity, firebrand wood...
Tracey Johnston, Leo Cheng, Anastasios Theodorou, Marie Phelan, Goncalo J Gouveia, Robert Powers, Panteleimon Takis, Fabio Casu, Robert Brua, Gagandeep Kaur, Wimal Pathmasiri, Teklab Gebregiworgis, Valerie Copie
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a fundamental tool of metabolomics, valued for its reproducibility, quantitative accuracy, and broad...
Katarina Goodge, Alexander Landauer, Cecelia Vederman, Amanda Forster
Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is a rapid, non-invasive technique often used for chemical bond structure identification, making it a prime candidate for...
Artificial intelligence systems, particularly through generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs), have enabled capability-rich language models, but their...
Bruce Ravel, Abdul Rumaiz, Francesca Capocasa, GIOVANNI PINAROLI, Thomas Krings, David Siddons
We report on the development, fabrication, and performance evaluation of Gepta-EX, a compact multi-channel high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector system designed...