Journals

Determination of Fluorine in Reference Materials by chopped-beam Cold Neutron Prompt Gamma-ray Activation Analysis (CB-CNPGAA)

October 14, 2024

Author(s)

Rick Paul, Huaiyu Chen-Mayer

A method is described for determination of fluorine in reference materials by chopped beam cold neutron prompt gamma-ray activation analysis (CB-CNPGAA). The

BIT-FL: Blockchain-Enabled Incentivized And Secure Federated Learning Framework

October 14, 2024

Author(s)

Tao Zhang, Chenhao Ying, Fuyuan Xia, Haiming Jin, Yuan Luo, David Wei, Xinchun Yu, Yibin Xu, Xikun Jiang, Weiting Zhang, Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) enables the protection of data privacy through collaborative training of a machine learning (ML) model without sharing local data

An Instrumentation Guide to Measuring Thermal Conductivity Using Frequency Domain Thermoreflectance (FDTR)

October 14, 2024

Author(s)

Dylan Kirsch, Joshua B. Martin, Ronald Warzoha, Mark McLean, Donald Windover, Ichrio Takeuchi

Frequency Domain Thermoreflectance (FDTR) is a versatile and rapidly developing technique used to measure the thermal properties of thin films, multilayer

StratoMod: predicting sequencing and variant calling errors with interpretable machine learning

October 13, 2024

Author(s)

Nathan Dwarshuis, Nathanael Olson, Fritz Sedlazeck, Justin Wagner, Justin Zook

Despite the variety in sequencing platforms, mappers, and variant callers, no single pipeline is optimal across the entire human genome. Therefore, developers

Correlation of Structure and Morphology in an Ethylene-glycol Side-chain Modified Polythiophene via Combined X-ray Scattering and Four-dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Andrew Herzing, Lucas Flagg, Chad R. Snyder, Lee Richter, Jonathan Onorato, Christine Luscombe, Ruipeng Li

We report the results of a combined grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS) and four-dimensional scanning transmission microscopy (4D-STEM)

Single-Crystalline Covalent Organic Frameworks with Exceptionally High Specific Surface Areas and Gas Storage Capacities

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Baoqiu Yu, Yu Tao, Xuan Yao, Yucheng Jin, Shan Liu, Tongtong Xu, Hailong Wang, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Xin Zhou, Xiao Wang, Xu Ding, Xin Xiao, Yue-Biao Zhang, Jianzhuang Jiang

Single-crystalline covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are highly desirable towards understanding their pore chemistry and functions. Herein, two 50100 μm single

Fast Ground State to Ground State Separation of Small Ion Crystals

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Tyler Gugliemo, Dietrich Leibfried, Stephen Libby, Daniel Slichter

Rapid separation of linear crystals of trapped ions into different subsets is critical for realizing trapped ion quantum computing architectures where ions are

Reference Correlation for the Viscosity of Nitrogen from the Triple Point to 1000 K and up to 2200 MPa

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Marcia Huber, Richard A. Perkins, Eric W. Lemmon

We present a new wide-ranging correlation for the viscosity of nitrogen based on critically evaluated experimental data. The correlation is designed to be used

Path-integral calculation of the third dielectric virial coefficient of helium based on ab initio three-body polarizability and dipole surfaces

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Giovanni Garberoglio, Allan H. Harvey, Jakub Lang, Michał Przybytek, Michal Lesiuk, Bogumil Jeziorski

We develop a surface for the electric dipole moment of three interacting helium atoms and use it, together with state-of-the-art potential and polarizability

Absence of a Bulk Signature of a Charge Density Wave in Hard X-ray Measurements of UTe2

October 9, 2024

Author(s)

Caitlin Kengle, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Xuefei Guo, Thomas Johnson, Simon Bettler, Wolfgang Simeth, Matthew Krogstad, Zahir Islam, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch, Eduardo Fradkin, Vidya Madhavan, Peter Abbamonte

The long-sought pair density wave (PDW) is an exotic phase of matter in which charge density wave (CDW) order is intertwined with the amplitude or phase of

Phase Transitions in Random Circuit Sampling

October 9, 2024

Author(s)

Sergio Boixo, Rene Peralta

Undesired coupling to the surrounding environment destroys long-range correlations on quantum processors and hinders the coherent evolution in the nominally

High-Throughput LC-PDA Method for Determination of Δ9-THC and Related Cannabinoids in Cannabis sativa

October 9, 2024

Author(s)

Walter Brent Wilson, Aaron Urbas, Haley Jensen, Lane C. Sander

Before the passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 more commonly referred to as the 2018 Farm Bill, forensic laboratories were only required to

Forecasting demand data for critical materials

October 9, 2024

Author(s)

Kyle Foster, Nehika Mathur

Gallium, Indium and Cobalt are critical materials that vital to ramping up the adoption of clean energy technologies such as solar photovoltaics (PVs), electric

Hidden-State Proofs of Quantumness

October 8, 2024

Author(s)

Carl A. Miller

An experimental cryptographic proof of quantumness — that is, a proof, based only on well-studied cryptographic assumptions, that a physical device is

Comprehensive Data Evaluation Methods Used in Developing the SWGDRUG Mass Spectral Reference Library for Seized Drug Identification

October 8, 2024

Author(s)

Weihua Ji, William Wallace

The mass spectral library of the Scientific Working Group for the Analysis of Seized Drugs (SWGDRUG) is the most comprehensive free reference database of its

Gated InAs quantum dots embedded in surface acoustic wave cavities for low-noise optomechanics

October 8, 2024

Author(s)

Zixuan Wang, Ryan DeCrescent, Poolad Imany, Joseph Bush, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman

Self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) are promising optomechanical elements due to their excellent photonic properties and sensitivity to local strain fields

Gravimetric drop-on-demand inkjet deposition for imaging phantoms with traceable activity

October 7, 2024

Author(s)

Sean Jollota, Denis Bergeron, R. Michael Verkouteren, Svetlana Nour, Ryan Fitzgerald, Ohyun Kwon, Jeffrey Radtke, Bryan Bednarz, Brian Miller, Larry DeWerd

Autoradiography can be an important tool in preclinical investigations with alpha-emitting radionuclides. Precise biodistribution studies establish the

Visualizing Shockwave Interactions and Sub-Catastrophic Damage in Materials via Mechanophores

October 7, 2024

Author(s)

Polette Centellas, Kyle Mehringer, Andrew Bowman, Katherine Evans, Parth Vagholkar, Travis Thornell, Liping Huang, Sarah Morgan, Christopher Soles, Yoan Simon, Edwin Chan

Understanding the physical and chemical response of materials to impulsive deformation is crucial for applications ranging from soft robotic locomotion to space

Speed of Sound for Understanding Metals in Extreme Environments

October 7, 2024

Author(s)

Elizabeth Rasmussen, Boris Wilthan

Knowing material behavior is crucial to successful design, especially given the growing number of next-generation energy, defense, and manufacturing systems

Conversion of a piston--cylinder dimensional dataset to the effective area of a mechanical pressure generator

October 7, 2024

Author(s)

Patrick Egan, Eric S. Stanfield, John R. Stoup, Christopher W. Meyer

Recent developments in diameter metrology at NIST have improved the dimensional characterization of piston–cylinder assemblies (PCAs) to unprecedented precision

On a conjecture that strengthens Kundu's k-factor Theorem

October 6, 2024

Author(s)

James Shook

Let π = (d1, . . . , dn) be a non-increasing degree sequence with even n. In 1974, Kundu showed that if Dk(π) = (d1 − k, . . . , dn − k) is graphic, then some

Understanding AFM-IR Signal Dependence on Sample Thickness and Laser Excitation: Experimental and Theoretical Insights

October 4, 2024

Author(s)

Devon Jakob, Jeffrey Schwartz, Georges Pavlidis, Karen Grutter, Andrea Centrone

Photothermal induced resonance (PTIR), also known as AFM-IR, enables nanoscale IR absorption spectroscopy by transducing the local photothermal expansion and

Validated UV-C bidirectional reflectance distribution function measurements with a spectrophotometer directional reflectance module

October 4, 2024

Author(s)

Aaron Goldfain, Grace Waters, Lynn Davis, Heather Patrick, Thomas A. Germer

The efficacy and safety of UV disinfection systems depend on the radiant flux throughout the space being disinfected, which in turn depends on the directional

Developing Interoperable, Accessible Software via the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences Gateway: A Case Study of the B-spline atomic R-Matrix code Graphical User Interface

October 3, 2024

Author(s)

Barry I. Schneider, kathryn hamilton, Sudhakar Pamidighantam, Tom Wolcott

The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science Gateway\citeamosgateway} is a comprehensive cyber\-infrastructure for research and educational activities in

Concordant inter-laboratory derived concentrations of ceramides in human plasma reference materials via authentic standards

October 3, 2024

Author(s)

Tracey Schock, Christina Jones, Federico Torta, Nils Hoffmann, Bo Burla, Irina Alecu, Makoto Arita, Takeshi Bamba, Steffany A.L. Bennett, Justine BERTRAND-MICHEL, Britta Brugger, Mónica Molina, María Dolores Camacho Muñoz, Antonio Checa, Michael Chen, Michelle Cinel, Benoit COLSCH, Cristina Coman, Bebiana Da Costa Sousa, Alex Dickens, Maria Maria, Finnur Freyr Eiríksson, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Mohan Ghorasaini, Martin Giera, Xue Guan, Mark Haid, Thomas Hankemeier, Amy Harms, Marcus Höring, Michal Holčapek, Thorsten Hornemann, Chunxiu Hu, Andreas Hülsmeier, Julijana Ivanisevic, Harald Köfeler, Sin Man Lam, Jong Cheol Lee, Gerhard Liebisch, Andrea F Lopez-Clavijo, Malena Manzi, Peter Meikle, Maria Monge, Sneha Muralidharan, Anna Nicolaou, Valerie O'Donnell, Matej Oresic, Arvind Ramanathan, Daisuke Saigusa, Heidi Schwartz-Zimmermann, Guanghou Shui, Masatomo Takahashi, Margrét Thorsteinsdóttir, Anthony Tournadre, Hiroshi Tsugawa, Victoria Tyrrell, Grace van der Gugten, Michael Wakelam, Craig Wheelock, Denise Wolrab, Guowang Xu, John Bowden, Kim Ekroos, Robert Ahrends, Markus Wenk

In this community effort, we compared measurements between 34 laboratories from 19 countries, utilizing mixtures of authentic synthetic standards, to quantify

Real-Time Automated Quality Control for Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting

October 3, 2024

Author(s)

Andrew Dupuis, Rasim Boyacioglu, Kathryn Keenan, Mark Griswold

Stretch-inactivated ion transport through subnanoporous two-dimensional membranes

October 3, 2024

Author(s)

Yechan Noh, Alex Smolyanitsky

In biology, mechanosensitive ion channels facilitate the conversion of mechanical stimuli, such as sound and touch, into electrical signals. Similar

The Platinum Pedigree: A long-read benchmark for genetic variants

October 3, 2024

Author(s)

Zev Kronenberg, Nathanael Olson, Justin Zook, Michael Eberle

Recent advances in genome sequencing have improved variant calling in complex regions of the human genome. However, it is difficult to quantify variant calling

Jointly benchmarking small and structural variant calls with vcfdist

October 2, 2024

Author(s)

Tim Dunn, Justin Zook, James Holt, Satish Narayanasamy

In this work, we extend vcfdist to be the first variant call benchmarking tool to jointly evaluate phased single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), small

Cryogenic Sapphire Optical Reference Cavity with 1 x 10^-16 fractional instability

October 2, 2024

Author(s)

Jose Valencia, George Iskandr, Nicholas Nardelli, David Leibrandt, David Hume

The frequency stability of a laser locked to an optical reference cavity is fundamentally limited by thermal noise in the cavity length, caused by local thermal