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An open-access future for Journal of Synchrotron Radiation – an Editorial from the Main Editors and IUCr Journals Editor-in-Chief

September 1, 2021

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Kristina Kvashnina, Yoshiyuki Amemiya, Dibyendu Bhattacharyya, Ingolf Lindau, Andrew J. Allen

This is an Editorial for the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (JSR) to inform all readers, authors and supporters about the coming transition of the journal to...

Basic Recommendations For HVAC Cybersecurity

September 1, 2021

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Michael Galler

Cybersecurity has been a topic of increasing importance for several years. While fully securing a large system can be very complicated, there are some basic...

Exploring Lipid-Dependent Conformations of Membrane-Bound α-Synuclein with the VDAC Nanopore

September 1, 2021

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David Hoogerheide, Tatiana Rostovtseva, Sergey M. Bezrukov

Regulation of VDAC by α-Synuclein (αSyn) is a rich and instructive example of protein-protein interactions catalyzed by a lipid membrane surface. αSyn, a...

Towards Understanding Ignition Vulnerabilities to Firebrand Showers using Reduced-scale Experiments

August 31, 2021

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Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Over the past few years, the large outdoor fire problem has been a growing concern throughout the world. It is recommended to clear the combustibles around...

Assessing Industrial Robot agility through international competitions

August 31, 2021

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Anthony Downs, Zeid Kootbally, William Harrison, Pavlo Piliptchak, Brian Antonishek, Murat Aksu, Craig I. Schlenoff

Manufacturing and Industrial Robotics have reached a point where in order to be more useful to small and medium sized manufacturers, the systems must become...

Origin of enhanced water oxidation activity in an iridium single atom anchored on NiFe oxyhydroxide catalyst

August 31, 2021

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Xueli Zheng, Jing Tang, Allesandro Gallo, Jose A. Garrido Torres, Xiaoyun Yu, Peter Ercius, Haiyan Mao, Emily Been, Constantine J. Athanitis, Sirine C. Fakra, Chengyu Song, Ryan Davis, Jeffrey A. Reimer, John Vinson, Michal Bajdich, Yi Cui

The efficiency of the synthesis of renewable fuels and feedstocks from electrical sources is limited, at present, by the sluggish water oxidation reaction...

Interlaboratory comparison of solar cell measurements under low indoor lighting conditions

August 31, 2021

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Behrang Hamadani, Yean-San Long, Min-An Tsai, Teng-Chun Wu

Side Chain Engineering Control of Mixed Conduction in Oligoethylene Glycol-Substituted Polythiophenes

August 31, 2021

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Jonathan Onorato, Zhongyang Wang, Yangyang Sun, Christian Nowak, Ban Dong, Lucas Flagg, Ruipeng Li, Lee J. Richter, Fernando Escobedo, Paul Nealey, Shrayesh Patel, Christine Luscombe

A major limitation for polymeric mixed ionic/electronic conductors (MIECs) is the trade-off between ionic and electronic conductivity; changes made that improve...

Rotationally resolved electronic S1 spectra of tryptoline and oxindole: Reversal of the 1La and 1Lb state character

August 30, 2021

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Josue Minguela-Gallardo, John Yi, David Plusquellic, Leonardo Álvarez-Valtierra

Rotationally resolved S1←S0 fluorescence excitation spectra of the lowest electronic transitions (origin bands) of tryptoline (TRY) and oxindole (OXI) have been...

Laser-based comparison calibration of laboratory standard microphones

August 30, 2021

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Randall P. Wagner, Richard A. Allen, Qian Dong

A precision laser-based comparison calibration method for laboratory standard microphones is described that uses reference microphones calibrated by the...

Development and Evaluation of a Synthetic Opioid Targeted Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) Method

August 30, 2021

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Edward Sisco, Amber Burns, Arun Moorthy

A method for the targeted confirmation of synthetic opioids and related compounds was developed and evaluated. Using an 11-component test solution a method was...

Ultra-sensitive multi-species spectroscopic breath analysis for real-time health monitoring and diagnostics

August 30, 2021

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Qizhong Liang, Ya-Chu Chan, P. Bryan Changala, David Nesbitt, Jun Ye, Jutta Toscano

Challenges in ensuring the generalizability of image quantitation methods for MRI

August 28, 2021

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Katy Keenan, Jana Delfino, Kalina Jordanova, Megan Poorman, Prathyush Chirra, Akshay Chaudari, Bettina Baessler, Jessica Winfield, Satish Viswanath, Nandita deSouza

Interlaboratory Comparison of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Assays: Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) Intercomparison Study 2 – Part 1 Liquid Chromatography – Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) Assays – Impact of 3-epi-25-Hydroxyvitamin D3

August 27, 2021

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Stephen Wise, Johanna Camara, Carolyn Burdette, Grace Hahm, Federica Nalin, Adam Kuszak, Joyce Merkel, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Emma Walker, Andrew Hoofnagle, Fiona Ivison, Ralf Fischer, Jody van den Ouweland, Chung Ho, Emmet Law, Jean-Nicolas Simard, Renaud Gonthier, Brett Holmquist, Sarah Meadows, Lorna Cox, Kimberly Robyak, Michael Creer, Robert Fitzgerald, Michael Clarke, Norma Breen, Pierre Lukas, Etienne Cavalier, Christopher Sempos

An interlaboratory comparison study was conducted by the Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) to assess the performance of liquid chromatography – tandem...

Interlaboratory Comparison of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Assays: Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) Intercomparison Study 2 – Part 2 Immunoassays – Impact of 25 Hydroxyvitamin D2 and 24R,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 on Assay Performance

August 27, 2021

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Stephen Wise, Johanna Camara, Carolyn Burdette, Grace Hahm, Federica Nalin, Adam Kuszak, Joyce Merkel, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Emma Williams, Christian Popp, Christian Beckert, Jan Schultess, Glen Van Slooten, Carole Tourneur, Camille Pease, Kavi Kaul, Alfredo Villarreal, Marcelo Batista, Heather Pham, Alex Bennett, Eugene Jansen, Dilshad Khan, Mark Kilbane, Patrick Twomey, James Freeman, Neil Parker, Sohail Mushtaq, Christine Simpson, Pierre Lukas, Etienne Cavalier, Christopher Sempos

An interlaboratory comparison study was conducted by the Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) to assess the performance of immunoassays (Part 2) for the...

Tuning Net Charge in Aliphatic Polycarbonates Alters Solubility and Protein Complexation Behavior

August 26, 2021

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Nicholas Posey, Julia Danischewski, Michael Lueckheide, Yuanchi Ma, Jeffrey Fagan, Vivek Prabhu

A synthetic strategy yielded polyelectrolytes and polyampholytes with tunable net charge for complexation and protein binding. Organocatalytic ring-opening...

Quasi-static and dynamic investigation of an advanced high strength and corrosion resistant 10 % Cr nanocomposite martensitic steel

August 26, 2021

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Saadi Habib, Christopher Meredith, Akhtar Khan

The mechanical response of an advanced high strength and corrosion resistant 10 % Cr nanocomposite steel (ASTM A1035CS Grade 120) is measured under uniaxial...

X-ray spectroscopic and first principles investigation of lead tungstate under pressure

August 26, 2021

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Eric L. Shirley, Eric J. Cockayne, Joseph Woicik, James M. Ablett

High-energy-resolution fluorescence-detected (HERFD) near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure measurements performed at the Pb and W L3 absorption edges has...

Entropy Scaling of Thermal Conductivity: Application to Refrigerants and their Mixtures

August 26, 2021

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Ian Bell, Xiaoxian Yang, Dongchan Kim, Eric May

Residual entropy scaling (RES) of thermal conductivity was applied to pure refrigerants, including natural and halogenated refrigerants, and their mixtures. The...

Background conditions for an urban greenhouse gas network in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore metropolitan region

August 25, 2021

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Anna Karion, Israel Lopez Coto, Sharon Gourdji, Kimberly Mueller, Subhomoy Ghosh, William Callahan, Michael Stock, Elizabeth DiGangi, Steve Prinzivalli, James Whetstone

As city governments take steps towards establishing emissions reduction targets, the atmospheric research community is increasingly able to assist in tracking...

Data registration for multi-method qualification of additive manufactured components

August 25, 2021

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Maxwell R. Praniewicz, Gaurav Ameta, Jason Fox, Christopher Saldana

This work explores impact of refined surface registrations of voxel and point cloud data sets on accuracy of multi-method qualification of additively...

Naturally occurring organobromine compounds (OBCs) including polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins in the marine sponge Hyrtios proteus from The Bahamas

August 25, 2021

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Qiong Wu, Natalie Eisenhardt, Stephanie Shaw, Joseph Pawlik, John Kucklick, Walter Vetter

Halogenated natural products (HNPs) were identified from organic extracts of the marine sponge Hyrtios proteus from The Bahamas (Caribbean, FAO fishing area 31)...

Quantum routing with fast reversals

August 24, 2021

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Ani Bapat, Andrew Childs, Alexey Gorshkov, Samuel King, Eddie Schoute, Hrishee Shastri

Bottom-Up Gold Filling in New Geometries and Yet Higher Aspect Ratio Gratings for Hard X-Ray Interferometry

August 24, 2021

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Daniel Josell, Thomas P. Moffat, Carlos R. Beauchamp

An extreme bottom-up filling variant of superconformal Au electrodeposition yielding void-free filling of recessed features is demonstrated with diffraction...

Highly Basic Clusters in the Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Nuclear Egress Complex Drive Membrane Budding by Inducing Lipid Ordering

August 24, 2021

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Michael K. Thorsen, Alex Lai, Michelle W. Lee, David Hoogerheide, Gerard C. Wong, Jack H. Freed, Ekaterina Heldwein

During replication of herpesviruses, capsids escape from the nucleus into the cytoplasm by budding at the inner nuclear membrane. This process is mediated by...

Synthesis of Mixed-Valent Lanthanide Sulfide Nanoparticles

August 23, 2021

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Pricilla Glaser, Orlando Stewart, Rida Atif, Dane Asuigui, Joel Swanson, Adam Biacchi, Angela R. Hight Walker, Gregory Morrison, Hans-Conrad zur Loye, Sarah Stoll

In targeting reduced valence lanthanides, we report the first nanoparticle synthesis of the mixed-valent ferromagnets Eu3S4 and EuSm2S4. Using divalent...

High-temperature electromechanical loss in piezoelectric langasite and catangasite crystals

August 23, 2021

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Yuriy Suhak, Holger Fritze, Andrei Sotnikov, Hagen Schmidt, Ward L. Johnson

Temperature-dependent acoustic loss Q^-1 is studied in partially disordered langasite (LGS, La3Ga5SiO14) and ordered catangasite (CTGS, Ca3TaGa3Si2O14) crystals...

Relativistic aspects of orbital and magnetic anisotropies in the chemical bonding and structure of lanthanide molecules

August 23, 2021

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Eite Tiesinga, Jacek Klos, Ming Li, Alexander Petrov, Svetlana Kotochigova

The electronic structure of magnetic lanthanide atoms is fascinating from a fundamental perspective. They have electrons in a submerged open 4f shell lying...

Steroid hormone profiles and body conditions of migrating male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

August 22, 2021

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Greta Dalle Luche, Ashley Russell, John Kucklick, Darryl Hawker, Jillian Wisse, Susan Bengston Nash

Simultaneous analysis of multiple steroid hormones from remotely obtained blubber biopsies has the potential to concurrently provide information regarding...

Interplay between Magnetism and Superconductivity in UTe₂

August 22, 2021

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Di Wei, David Saykin, Oliver Miller, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Daniel Agterberg, Jorg Schmalian, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre N. Paglione, Aharon Kapitulnik

Time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) in UTe 2 was inferred from observations of a spontaneous Kerr response in the superconducting state after cooling in zero...