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An Overview of Research Needs Concerning the Performance of Fiber Reinforced (FR) Composite Retrofit Systems for Buildings and Infrastructure

April 1, 2022

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Jazalyn Dukes, David Goodwin, Siamak Sattar, Li Piin Sung

FR composites have become popular for use as retrofit solutions for buildings and infrastructure due to their ease of application, lightweight properties, and...

Complete genomic and epigenetic maps of human centromeres

April 1, 2022

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Nicolas Altemose, Glennis Logsdon, Andrey Bzikadze, Pragya Sidhwani, Sasha Langley, Gina Caldas, Justin Zook, Ivan Alexandrov, Karen Miga

Existing human genome assemblies have almost entirely excluded repetitive sequences within and near centromeres, limiting our understanding of their...

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy for polymers

April 1, 2022

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Shuyu Xu, Charles Camp, Young Jong Lee

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy is a label-free chemical imaging modality capable of interrogating local molecular composition...

Preview of the 2022 Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series and Conference (AM-Bench)

April 1, 2022

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Brandon Lane, Brian Simonds, Jonathan Seppala, Lyle E. Levine

Natural hazards compound COVID-19 impacts on small businesses disproportionately for historically underrepresented group operators

April 1, 2022

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Jennifer Helgeson, Payam Aminpour Mohammadabadi, Juan Fung, Alfredo Roa Henriquez, Ariela Zycherman, David Butry, Claudia Nierenberg, Yating Zhang

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic small businesses made headlines as hard hit by customer losses, revenue declines, and business closures. Yet, the impacts...

Viscosity Reduction in Polymer Nanocomposites: Insights from Dynamic Neutron and X-ray Scattering

April 1, 2022

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Erkan Senses, Christopher Kitchens, Antonio Faraone

The addition of nanoparticles to a polymer matrix can in certain cases induce a reduction in viscosity, with respect to the pure matrix, in the resulting...

Chasing perfection: validation and polishing strategies for telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies

March 31, 2022

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Ann Mc Cartney, Kishwar Shafin, Michael Alonge, Justin Zook, Adam Phillippy, Arang Rhie

Advances in long-read sequencing technologies and genome assembly methods have enabled the recent completion of the first telomere-to-telomere human genome...

Polyoxovanadates as Precursors for the Synthesis of Colloidal Multi-Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

March 31, 2022

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Adam Biacchi, Lucas Johnson, Ashley Sweet, Eric Cal, Angela R. Hight Walker, Matthew Buck, Luke Barrante

Colloidal multi-metal oxide nanocrystals that contain the element vanadium are attractive materials for enabling diverse technologies. Few nanocrystal systems...

Three-Dimensional Molecular Orientation Imaging of a Semicrystalline Polymer Film under Shear Deformation

March 31, 2022

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Young Jong Lee, Shuyu Xu, Chad R. Snyder, Jeremy Rowlette

The 3D molecular orientations of polymer chains are imaged and compared for a quiescent spherulite region and a shear deformed region of a semicrystalline poly...

The complete sequence of a human genome

March 31, 2022

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Sergey Nurk, Sergey Koren, Arang Rhie, Mikko Rautiainen, Jennifer McDaniel, Nathanael David Olson, Justin Wagner, Justin Zook, Evan Eichler, Karen Miga, Adam Phillippy

Since its initial release in 2000, the human reference genome has covered only the euchromatic fraction of the genome, leaving important heterochromatic regions...

Hydrogen-Induced Cracking and Blistering in Steels: A Review

March 31, 2022

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May Ling Martin, Petros Sofronis

This paper presents a review of the current state of scientific understanding of the corrosion phenomenon known as Hydrogen-Induced Cracking (HIC). HIC is...

Effects of Monovalent Salt on Protein-Protein Interactions of Dilute and Concentrated Monoclonal Antibody Formulations

March 31, 2022

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Amy Y. Xu, Nicholas J. Clark, Joseph Pollastrini, Maribel Espinoza, Hyo-Jin Kim, Sekhar Kanapuram, Bruce Kerwin, Michael J. Treuheit, Susan T. Krueger, Arnold McAuley, Joseph E. Curtis

On the relation between Gegenbauer polynomials and the Ferrers function of the first kind

March 30, 2022

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Roberto S. Costas-Santos, Howard Cohl

Using the direct relation between the Gegenbauer polynomials C_n^λ(x) and the Ferrers function of the first kind P_μ^ν(x), we compute interrelations between...

SuperMind: A survey of the potential of superconducting electronics for neuromorphic computing

March 30, 2022

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Michael Schneider, Emily Toomey, Graham Rowlands, Jeff Shainline, Paul Tschirhart, Ken Segall

Neuromorphic computing is a broad eld that uses biological inspiration to address computing design. It is being pursued in many hardware technologies both novel...

A small-volume microcapillary rheometer

March 30, 2022

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Paul Salipante, Steve Kuei, Steven Hudson

We demonstrate a capillary device used to measure the shear rate dependent viscosity of microliter scale volumes. Liquid samples are driven pneumatically to...

Comprehensive Data via Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics of Chemically Treated Graphene Nanoplatelets

March 30, 2022

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Olasunbo Farinre, Hawazin Alghamdi, Mathew Kelley, Adam Biacchi, Albert Davydov, Christina Hacker, Albert Rigosi, Prabhakar Misra

Thermal Noise-Limited Laser Stabilization to an 8 mL Volume Fabry-Perot Reference Cavity with Microfabricated Mirrors

March 29, 2022

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Charles McLemore, Naijun Jin, Megan Kelleher, James Hendrie, David Mason, Yizhi Luo, Dahyeon Lee, Peter Rakich, Scott Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan

Lasers stabilized to vacuum-gap Fabry-Perot optical reference cavities display extraordinarily low noise and high stability, with linewidths much less than 1 Hz...

Coherent contributions to population dynamics in a semiconductor microcavity

March 29, 2022

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Jagannath Paul, Hendrik Rose, Ethan Swagel, Torsten Meier, Jared Wahlstrand, Alan Bristow

Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy (MDCS) is used to separate coherent and incoherent many-body contributions to the population-time dynamics in a GaAs...

Technology readiness: A global snapshot of 3D concrete printing and the frontiers for development

March 29, 2022

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Guowei Ma, Richard Buswell, Wilson Ricardo Leal da Silva, Li Wang, Jie Xu, Scott Jones

Picosecond-resolution single-photon time lens for temporal mode quantum processing

March 28, 2022

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Chaitali Joshi, Ben Sparkes, Alessandro Farsi, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Varun Verma, Sven Ramelow, Alex Gaeta

Techniques to control the spectro-temporal properties of quantum states of light at ultrafast time scales are crucial for several applications in quantum...

Method of Moment Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes Embedded in A Lossy Dielectric Slab Using A Multilayer Dyadic Green's Function

March 28, 2022

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Edward Garboczi, Sumitra Dey, Ahmed Hassan, Deb Chatterjee

Modeling the electromagnetic response of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) reinforced composites is inherently a three dimensional (3D) multi-scale problem that is...

Reassessing the Significance of Reduced Aggregation and Crystallinity of Naphthalene Diimide-Based Copolymer Acceptors in All-Polymer Solar Cells

March 28, 2022

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Eliot Gann, Christopher McNeill, Doan Vu, Martyn Jervic, Chao Wang, Lars Thomsen, Mats Andersson

Terpolymerization is a facile and effective strategy to control the aggregation and crystallinity of semiconducting polymers which has been exploited to improve...

Robust Bottom-Up Gold Filling of Deep Trenches and Gratings

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Daniel Josell, William Alexander Osborn, Maureen E. Williams

This work extends application of an extreme variant of superconformal Au electrodeposition to deeper device architectures while exploring factors that constrain...

Effects of crystalline anisotropy on resonant acoustic loss of torsional quartz viscometers

March 25, 2022

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Paul Heyliger, Clemens Junker, Karsten Meier, Ward L. Johnson

Vibrational modes of unrestrained elastic cylinders of trigonal crystals are studied using Ritz-based polynomial approximations for displacements formulated in...

Enabling Traceability in Agri-Food Supply Chains Using an Ontological Approach

March 25, 2022

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Farhad Ameri, Evan K. Wallace, Reid Yoder, Frank H. Riddick

Traceability of food products to their sources is critical for quick responses to food emergencies. US law now requires stakeholders in the agri-food supply...

Digital Control of Superconducting Qubit Using a Josephson Pulse Generator at 3K

March 25, 2022

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Logan Howe, Manuel Castellanos Beltran, Adam Sirois, David Olaya, John Biesecker, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz, Pete Hopkins

Scaling of quantum computers to fault-tolerant levels relies critically on the integration of energy-efficient, stable, and reproducible qubit control and...

Models for an Ultraviolet-C Research and Development Consortium

March 25, 2022

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Dianne L. Poster, C Cameron Miller, Yaw S. Obeng, John J. Kasianowicz, Michael T. Postek, Norman Horn, Troy Cowan, Richard Martinello

The development of an international, precompetitive, collaborative, ultraviolet (UV) research consortium is discussed as an opportunity to lay the groundwork...

Print Fidelity Metrics for Additive Manufacturing of Cement-based Materials

March 24, 2022

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Edward Garboczi, Newell Moser, Joseph Biernacki, Hajar Afarani, Ebrahim Esfahani

Additively manufactured cement-based structures for infrastructure applications suffer from in-construction shape deformations, which are a strong function of...

Serum proteomics identifies immune pathways and candidate biomarkers of coronavirus infection in wild vampire bats

March 24, 2022

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Daniel Becker, Guang-Sheng Lei, Michael Janech, Alison Bland, Brock Fenton, Ryan Relich, Ben Neely

The apparent ability of bats to harbor many virulent viruses without showing disease is likely driven by distinct immune responses that coevolved with mammalian...

Effects of Thermal Aging on Molar Mass of Ultra-High Molar Mass Polyethylene Fibers

March 24, 2022

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Zois Tsinas, Sara Orski, Viviana Bentley, Lorelis Gonzalez-Lopez, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, Amanda L. Forster

Ultra-high molar mass polyethylene (UHMMPE) is commonly used for ballistic-resistant body armor applications due to the superior strength of the fibers...

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