Journals

Characterization of Halogenated Organic Compounds in Pelagic Sharks and Sea Turtles Using a Nontargeted Approach

December 1, 2021

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Aikebaier Renaguli, Sujan Fernando, Thomas Holsen, Philip Hopke, Douglas Adams, George Balazs, T Jones, Thierry Work, Jennifer Lynch, Bernard Crimmins

Halogenated organic compounds (HOCs) in marine species collected from the Atlantic Ocean [3 shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and 1 porbeagle (Lamna nasus)]...

Towards community-driven metadata standards for light microscopy: tiered guidelines extending the OME model

December 1, 2021

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Peter Bajcsy, Mathias Hammer, Maximiliaan Huisman, Alex Rigano, Ulrike Boehm, James J. Chambers, Nathalie Gaudreault, Jaime A. Pimentel, Damir Sudar, Claire M. Brown, Alexander D. Corbett, Orestis Faklaris, Judith Lacoste, Alex Laude, Glyn Nelson, Roland Nitschke, Alison J. North, Renu Gopinathan, Farzin Farzam, Carlas Smith, David Grunwald, Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia

While the power of modern microscopy techniques is undeniable, rigorous record-keeping and quality control are required to ensure that imaging data may be...

Nonlinear reverberation spectroscopy with phase-sensitive superheterodyne reception

December 1, 2021

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Ward L. Johnson

A technique is presented for determining elastic nonlinearity of materials from resonant frequency shifts as a function of signal amplitude during free...

Bayesian automated weighting of aggregated DFT, MD, and experimental data for candidate thermodynamic models of aluminum with uncertainty quantification

December 1, 2021

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Francesca Tavazza, Chandler A. Becker, Ursula R. Kattner, Joshua Gabriel, Noah Palson, Thien Duong, Marius Stan

Atomic-scale modeling methods such as density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) can predict the thermodynamic properties of materials at a...

A Solid Transformation into Carboxyl Dimers Based on a Robust Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework for Propyne/Propylene Separation

December 1, 2021

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Baoqiu Yu, Shubo Geng, Hailong Wang, Wei Zhou, Zhenjie Zhang, Banglin Chen, Jianzhuang Jiang

Opportunities in electrically tunable 2D materials beyond graphene: Recent progress and future outlook

November 30, 2021

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Tom Vincent, Jiayun liang, simrjit singh, eli castanon, xiaotian zhang, deep jariwala, olga kazakova, zakaria al-balushi, Amber McCreary

The interest in two-dimensional and layered materials continues to expand, driven by the compelling properties of individual atomic layers that can be stacked...

Perspectives in Scanning Probe Microscopy from the 2021 Joint International Scanning Probe Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy on Soft and Polymeric Materials Conference

November 30, 2021

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Liam Collins, Jason Killgore, Samuel Berweger, Rachael Cohn, neus domingo, Georg Fantner, Rajiv Giridharagopal, Sergei Kalinin, Philippe LECLERE, Simon Scheuring, Rama Vasudevan, Dalia Yablon

In March 2020 our plans for organizing and hosting one of the premier scanning probe microscopy (SPM) conferences in Breckenridge, Colorado, USA were well...

Impact of Polymer Molecular Weight on Polymeric Photodiodes

November 29, 2021

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Eliot Gann, Christopher McNeill, Lars Thomsen, Siddhartha Saggar, Kedar D Deshmukh, Monirul Hasan, Atul Shukla, Ebinazar B Namdas, Shih-Chun Lo, Jyoti S. Agawane, Nagaraj Nayak, Anil Kumar

The field of organic photodiodes has witnessed continuous development in the last decade. Although a considerable portion of electron-donating materials are...

Impact of the precursor gas ratio on dispersion engineering of broadband silicon nitride microresonator frequency combs

November 29, 2021

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Gregory Moille, Daron Westly, Gregory Simelgor, Kartik Srinivasan

Microresonator frequency combs, or microcombs, have gained wide appeal for their rich nonlinear physics and wide range of applications. Stoichiometric silicon...

Magnetic Structure Determination of High-Moment Rate-Earth-Based Laminates

November 29, 2021

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D. Potashnikov, E. Caspi, A. Pesach, Q. Tao, J. Rosen, D. Sheptyakov, Hayden Evans, C. Ritter, Z. Salman, P. Bonfa, T. Ouisse, M. Barbier, O. Rivin, A. Keren

We report μSR on the 2D rare earth based parent magnets (Mo 2/3RE 1/3) 2AlC with RE = Nd, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho and Er, and neutron diffraction on the series with RE ≠...

Sintered powder oxidation variation as a function of build height for titanium alloy produced by electron beam powder-bed fusion

November 26, 2021

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Nicholas Derimow, Alejandro Romero, Aldo Rubio, Cesar Terrazas, Francisco Medina, Ryan Wicker, Nik Hrabe

It is well-established that titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) powder oxidizes during electron beam powder-bed fusion (PBF-EB) due to the high background temperatures...

In-situ Monitoring of Protein Unfolding/Structural States under Cold High-Pressure Stress

November 26, 2021

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Diana Gomes, Susana C. Marujo Teixeira, Juscelino Leao, Vladimir Razinkov, Wei Qi, Miguel Rodrigues, Christopher Roberts

Biopharmaceutical formulations may be compromised by freezing, which has been attributed to protein conformational changes at a low temperature, and adsorption...

Development, Validation, Qualification and Dissemination of Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Methods: Overview and Recommendations by the ISMRM Quantitative MR Study Group

November 26, 2021

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Sebastian Weingartner, Kimberly Desmond, Nancy Obuchowski, Bettina Baessler, Yuxin Zhang, Emma Biondetti, Dan Ma, Xavier Golay, Michael Boss, Jeffrey Gunter, Katy Keenan, Diego Hernando

BIPM comparison BIPM.RI(II)-K1.Gd-153 of activity measurements of the radionuclide 153Gd to include the 2020 result of the NIST (United States)

November 25, 2021

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Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Leticia Pibida, Carine Michotte, S Courte, M Nonis, R Coulon, S Judge

Since 1988, 3 laboratories have submitted 5 samples of 153Gd to the International Reference System (SIR) for activity comparison at the Bureau International des...

NUScon: A community-driven platform for quantitative evaluation of nonuniform sampling in NMR

November 25, 2021

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Yulia Pustovalova, Frank Delaglio, Darien Craft, Hari Arthanari, Ad Bax, Martin Billeter, Mark Bostock, Hesam Dashti, Flemming Hansen, Sven Hyberts, Bruce Johnson, Krzysztof Kazimierczuk, Hengfa Lu, Mark W. Maciejewski, Tomas Miljenovic, Mehdi Mobli, Daniel Nietlispach, Vladislav Orekhov, Robert Powers, Xiaobo Qu, Scott Robson, David Rovnyak, Gerhard Wagner, Jinfa Ying, Matthew Zambrello, Jeffrey C. Hoch, David Donoho, Adam D. Schuyler

Although the concepts of non-uniform sampling (NUS) and non-Fourier spectral reconstruction in multidimensional NMR began to emerge four decades ago...

Imaging of Magnetic Excitations in Nanostructures with Microwave Near-Field Microscopy

November 25, 2021

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Samuel Berweger, Robert Tyrrell-Ead, Houchen Chang, Mingzhong Wu, Hong Tang, Hans Nembach, Karl Stupic, Stephen E. Russek, Thomas Mitchell (Mitch) Wallis, Pavel Kabos

We present images of spin-wave excitations in a patterned yttrium iron garnet (YIG) thin film obtained by use of near-field microwave microscopy, which can...

The science of the host–virus network

November 24, 2021

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Gregory Albery, Daniel J. Becker, Liam Brierley, Cara Brook, Rebecca Christofferson, Lily Cohen, Tad Dallas, Evan Eskew, Anna Fagre, Maxwell Farrell, Emma Glennon, Sarah Guth, Maxwell Joseph, Nardus Mollentze, Ben Neely, Timothee Poisot, Angela Rasmussen, Sadie Ryan, Anna Siodin, Stephanie Seifert, Erin Sorrell, Colin Carlson

Better methods to predict and prevent the emergence of zoonotic viruses could support future efforts to reduce the risk of epidemics. We propose a network...

Comparison of Phase Estimation Methods for Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping Using a Rotating-Tube Phantom

November 24, 2021

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Katy Keenan, Ben Berman, Slavka Carnicka, Stephen E. Russek, Wen-Tung Wang, John Butman, Dzung Pham, Joseph Dagher

Practical Applications of NMR to Solve Real-World Problems

November 24, 2021

Author(s)

Robert Brinson

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Quantitative Evaluation of Footwear Evidence: Initial Workflow for an End-to-End System

November 23, 2021

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Gautham Venkatasubramanian, Vighnesh Hegde, Steven Lund, Hariharan K. Iyer, Martin Herman

In the U.S., footwear examiners make decisions about the sources of crime scene shoe impressions using subjective criteria. This has raised questions about the...

Effects of Molecular Crowders on Single-Molecule Nucleic Acid Folding: Temperature-Dependent Studies Reveal True Crowding vs Enthalpic Interaction

November 23, 2021

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Hsuan-Lei Sung, David Nesbitt

Homogeneity assessment of the elemental composition of windshield glass by LIBS and µ-XRF analysis

November 23, 2021

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Claudia Martinez-Lopez, Oriana Ovide, Ruthmara Corzo, Zachary Andrews, Jose Almirall, Tatiana Trejos

Uncertainty Prediction for Machine Learning Models of Material Properties

November 23, 2021

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Francesca Tavazza, Brian DeCost, Kamal Choudhary

Uncertainty quantification in artificial intelligence (AI)-based predictions of material properties is of immense importance for the success and reliability of...

Enhancement of electromagnetically induced transparency based Rydberg-atom electrometry through population repumping

November 22, 2021

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chris holloway, Nik Prajapati, MATTHEW SIMONS, Samuel Berweger, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, Amy Robinson

We demonstrate the improvement of Rydberg electrometry based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) through the use of a ground state repumping laser...

Gradient Decomposition Methods for Training Neural Networks with Non-Ideal Synaptic Devices

November 22, 2021

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Junyun Zhao, Siyuan Huang, Osama Yousuf, Yutong Gao, Brian Hoskins, Gina Adam

While promising for high capacity machine learning accelerators, memristor devices have non-idealities that prevent software-equivalent accuracies when used for...

Using Surface Asperities for Efficient Random Particle Overlap Detection in the Generation of Randomly Oriented and Located Particle Arrangements

November 22, 2021

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Edward Garboczi, Christa Torrence, Zachary Grasley, William Lawrimore

A novel method of detecting overlap between two irregularly shaped virtual particles whose surfaces are described by analytical functions is presented in this...

Systematically Controlling Acceptor Fluorination Optimizes Hierarchical Morphology, Vertical Phase Separation, and Efficiency in Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

November 21, 2021

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Guoping Li, Xiaohua Zhang, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Wei Huang, Ding Zheng, Liang-Wen Feng, Yao Chen, Jianglin Wu, Vinod Sangwan, Mark Hersam, Dean DeLongchamp, Junsheng Yu, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin Marks

Non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) end group (EG) functionalization, especially by fluorination, affects not only the energetics but also the morphology of bulk...

EFFECT OF FLUID PROPERTIES ON CONTACT ANGLES IN THE EAGLE FORD SHALE MEASURED WITH SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION

November 19, 2021

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Joanna McFarlane, Victoria H. DiStefano, Philip R. Bingham, Hassina Z. Bilheux, Michael C. Cheshire, Richard E. Hale, Daniel Hussey, David Jacobson, Lindsay M. Kolbus, Jacob LaManna, Edmund Perfect, Mark Rivers, Louis J. Santodonato, Lawrence M. Anovitz

Models of fluid flow are used to improve the efficiency of oil and gas extraction and to estimate the storage and leakage of carbon dioxide in geologic...

Machine-Perception Nanosensor Platform to Detect Cancer Biomarkers

November 19, 2021

Author(s)

Dan Heller, Zvi Yaari, Ming Zheng

Measurement of electric-field noise from interchangeable samples with a trapped-ion sensor

November 18, 2021

Author(s)

Kyle McKay, Dustin Hite, Philip D. Kent, Shlomi S. Kotler, Dietrich Leibfried, Daniel Slichter, Andrew C. Wilson, David P. Pappas

We demonstrate the use of a single trapped ion as a sensor to probe electric-field noise from interchangeable test surfaces. As proof of principle, we measure...