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Measurement of Submilligram Masses Using Electrostatic Force

May 3, 2021

Author(s)

Gordon Shaw, Julian Stirling

Spectral, spatial, and survivability evaluation of a binder-depleted, isotropic mat, nanotube spray coating

May 3, 2021

Author(s)

Matthew Spidell, Davis conklin, Christopher Yung, EVANGELOS THEOCHAROUS, John H. Lehman

We have improved the manufacturability of spectrally flat pyroelectric detectors for visible to mid-infrared wavelengths by demonstrating a spray-on, binder...

Comparison of electrostatic and photon pressure force references at the nanonewton level

May 3, 2021

Author(s)

Gordon Shaw, John A. Kramar, Paul Williams, Matthew Spidell, Richard Mirin, Julian Stirling

This work describes a comparison between nanonewton force references derived from an electrostatic force balance and photon pressure force from calibrated laser...

Cautionary Note on Contamination of Reagents Used for Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2

May 3, 2021

Author(s)

Peter Vallone, James Huggett, Vladimir Benes, Jeremy Garson, Kathryn Harris, Mikael Kubista, Timothy McHugh, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Tania Nolan, Michael Pfaffl, Marc Salit, Greg Shipley, Jo Vandesompele

Reverse transcription (RT)-PCR, the principal diagnostic method applied in the world-wide struggle against COVID-19, is capable of detecting a single molecule...

Observation of Stark many-body localization without disorder in a quantum simulator

May 3, 2021

Author(s)

W. Morong, F. Liu, P. Becker, K. Collins, L. Feng, A. Kyprianidis, G. Pagano, T. You, Alexey Gorshkov, C. Monroe

Quantum field theory for the chiral clock transition in one spatial dimension

May 3, 2021

Author(s)

Seth P. Whitsitt, Rhine Samajdar, Subir Sachdev

We describe the quantum phase transition in the N-state chiral clock model in spatial dimension d=1. With couplings chosen to preserve time-reversal and spatial...

Beyond Color: The New Carbon Ink

May 2, 2021

Author(s)

Ming Zheng, YuHuang Wang

For thousands of years, carbon ink has been used as a black color pigment for writing and painting purposes. However, recent discoveries of nanocarbon materials...

Orientational ordering within semiconducting polymer fibrils

May 2, 2021

Author(s)

Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Eliot Gann, Masrur M. Nahid, Terry McAfee, Andrew Herzing, Dean DeLongchamp, Harald W. Ade

Due to a general paucity of suitable characterization methods, the internal orientational ordering of polymer fibrils has rarely been measured despite its...

Residential net-zero energy buildings: Review and perspective

May 1, 2021

Author(s)

Wei Wu, Harrison Skye

Advancements in residential net-zero energy buildings (NZEBs) could significantly reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. NZEB design considerations...

Comparing Footwear Impressions that are Close Non-Matches Using Correlation-Based Approaches

May 1, 2021

Author(s)

Gautham Venkatasubramanian, Vighnesh Hegde, Sarala Padi, Hariharan K. Iyer, Martin Herman

Forensic activities related to footwear evidence may be broadly classified into the following two categories: (1) intelligence gathering and (2) evidential...

Distributed fiber optic measurements of strain and temperature in long-span composite floor beams with simple shear connections subject to compartment fires

May 1, 2021

Author(s)

Yanping Zhu, Matthew Klegseth, Yi Bao, Matthew Hoehler, Lisa Choe, Genda Chen

This study explores an instrumentation strategy using distributed fiber optic sensors to measure strain and temperature through the concrete volume in large...

The Critical Role of Spin Rotation in the Giant Magnetostriction of La(Fe,AL)₁₃

May 1, 2021

Author(s)

Yuzhu Song, Rongjin Huang, Ji Zhang, Qingzhen Huang, Shouguo Wang, Yong Jiang, Laifeng Li, Xianran Xing, Jun Chen

Flexible Assemblies of Electrocapacitive Volume Tomographic Sensors for Gauging Fuel of Spacecraft

April 30, 2021

Author(s)

Seung H. Yang, Yong Sik Kim, Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Yicheng Wang

Gauging propellant fuel of spacecraft in outer space has been an issue, because their liquid fuels tend to float, slosh, adhere to the tank walls, and form...

Identifications of extreme ultraviolet spectra of Br-like to Ni-like neodymium ions using an electronbeam ion trap

April 30, 2021

Author(s)

C. Suzuki, Dipti Goyal, Y. Yang, A. Gall, Roshani Silwal, S. Sanders, Aung S. Naing, Joseph N. Tan, Endre A. Takacs, Yuri Ralchenko

Charge-resolved extreme ultraviolet spectra of open N-shell neodymium (Nd) ions have been recorded in an electron beam ion trap facility at the National...

Entanglement and purification transitions in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics

April 30, 2021

Author(s)

Michael Gullans, Sarang Gopalakrishnan

A quantum system subject to continuous measurement and post-selection evolves according to a non- Hermitian Hamiltonian. We show that, as one increases the rate...

Experimental constraint on Axionlike Particles over Seven Orders of Magnitude in Mass

April 30, 2021

Author(s)

Tanya S. Roussy, Daniel A. Palken, William B. Cairncross, Benjamin M. Brubaker, Daniel N. Gresh, Matt Grau, Kevin C. Cossel, Kia B. Ng, Yuval Shagam, Yan Zhou, V V. Flambaum, Konrad Lehnert, Jun Ye, Eric A. Cornell

Effect of spiral scan strategy on microstructure for additively manufactured stainless steel 17-4

April 30, 2021

Author(s)

Ho Yeung, Jordan Weaver, J. Chen, Y. Guo, G Yang, D. Lin, W. Tan

The effect of the scan strategy on the microstructure is investigated on a custom-built laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing testbed. Eight stainless...

A Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata Schema for Materials Science Data Discovery

April 29, 2021

Author(s)

Andrea M. Medina-Smith, Chandler Becker, Raymond L. Plante, Laura Bartolo, Alden A. Dima, James A. Warren, Robert Hanisch

The International Materials Resource Registries (IMRR) working group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) was created to spur initial development of a federated...

Catalyst Enabled in Situ Linkage Reduction in Imine Covalent Organic Frameworks

April 29, 2021

Author(s)

Jiyun Hu, Federica Zanca, Gregory McManus, Isabella Riha, Huong Giang Nguyen, William Shirley, Collin Borcik, Benjamin Wylie, Mourad Benamara, Roger van Zee, Peyman Moghadam, M. Hassan Beyzavi

New linkages for covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have been continuously pursued by chemists as it serves as the structure and property foundation for the...

Spontaneous Pulse Formation in Edgeless Photonic Crystal Resonators

April 29, 2021

Author(s)

Su P. Yu, Daniel Cole, Hojoong Jung, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan, Scott Papp

Complex systems are a proving ground for fundamental interactions between components and their collective emergent phenomena. Through intricate design...

Compact Thermal Actuation by Water and Flexible Hydrophobic Nanopore

April 29, 2021

Author(s)

Miroslaw Chorazewski

Efficient and compact energy conversion is at the heart of sustainable development of humanity. In this work it is demonstrated that hydrophobic flexible...

Comparative Apex Electrostatics of Atom Probe Tomography Specimens

April 28, 2021

Author(s)

Qihua Zhang, B. Klein, Norman A. Sanford, Ann Chiaramonti Debay

Laser-assisted atom probe tomography (APT) is the only known analytical method that can simultaneously provide sub-nm 3D spatial resolution and quantitative...

NexusLIMS: A Laboratory Information Management System for Shared-Use Electron Microscopy Facilities

April 28, 2021

Author(s)

Joshua A. Taillon, Thomas F. Bina, Raymond L. Plante, Marcus W. Newrock, Gretchen Greene, June W. Lau

This work introduces NexusLIMS, an electron microscopy laboratory information management system designed and implemented by the Office of Data and Informatics...

Ambient-Temperature Hydrogen Storage via Vanadium(II)-Dihydrogen Complexation in a Metal−Organic Framework

April 28, 2021

Author(s)

David Jaramillo, Henry Jiang, Hayden Evans, Romit Chakraborty, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Craig Brown, Martin Head-Gordon, Jeffrey Long

The widespread implementation of H 2 as a fuel is currently hindered by the high pressures or cryogenic temperatures required to achieve reasonable storage...

Optical Scattering Characteristics of 3D Lunar Regolith Particles Measured using X-Ray Nano Computed Tomography

April 27, 2021

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi, Ann Debay, Somen Baidya, Ahmed M. Hassan, Andrew Sharits, Jay D. Goguen, Thomas Lafarge, Mikolas Melius

Shape is a critical property, besides size and material composition, which has a strong effect on the optical scattering characteristics of a particle. In this...

Determination ofeffective magnetizationand gyromagnetic ratio ofyttrium iron garnetfrom multi-modeferromagnetic resonanceS21 spectra

April 27, 2021

Author(s)

Kevin Coakley, Pavel Kabos, Scooter D. Johnson

We acquire ferromagnetic resonance spectra for an out-of-plane magnetized yttrium iron garnet sample with a vector network analyzer at microwave frequencies...

Spatially Resolved Photoconductivity in WS2/MoS2 lateral heterostructures

April 27, 2021

Author(s)

Samuel Berweger, Hanyu Zhang, Prasana Sahoo, Benjamin Kupp, Jeffrey Blackburn, Elisa Miller, Thomas Mitchell (Mitch) Wallis, Dmitri Voronine, Pavel Kabos, Sanjini Nanayakkara

The optical and electronic properties of 2D semiconductors are intrinsically linked via the strong interactions between optically excited bound species and free...

Cavity-QED Quantum Simulator of Dynamical Phases of a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Superconductor

April 27, 2021

Author(s)

Robert J. Lewis-Swan, Diego Barberena, Julia R. Cline, Dylan J. Young, James K. Thompson, Ana Maria Rey

Multi-Detector Hydrodynamic Chromatography of Colloids: Following in Hamish Small's Footsteps

April 27, 2021

Author(s)

Andre Striegel

Hamish Small, scientist extraordinaire, is best known as the inventor of both ion chromatography and hydrodynamic chromatography (HDC). The latter has...

Deep Representation Learning for Process Control in Laser Additive Manufacturing

April 26, 2021

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Sepehr Fathizadan, Feng Ju

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is an additive manufacturing process where laser power is applied to fuse the spread powder and fabricate industrial parts in a...

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