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Broadband thermomechanically limited sensing with an optomechanical accelerometer

March 9, 2021

Author(s)

Feng Zhou, Yiliang Bao, Ramgopal Madugani, David Long, Jason J. Gorman, Thomas W. LeBrun

Cavity optomechanics has enabled precision measurements with unprecedented levels of sensitivity, including the detection of attonewton forces, nanoparticles...

Chiral Properties of the Zero-Field Spiral State and Field-Induced Magnetic Phases of the Itinerant Kagome Metal YMn₆Sn₆

March 8, 2021

Author(s)

Rebecca Dally, Jeffrey Lynn, Nirmal J. Ghimire, Dina Michel, Peter Siegfried, Igor I. Mazin

Applying a magnetic field in the hexagonal plane of YMn 6Sn 6 leads to a complex magnetic phase diagram of commensurate and incommensurate phases, one of which...

Hydration of Hydrophilic Cloth Facial Coverings Greatly Increases the Filtration Properties for Nanometer and Micrometer-sized Particles

March 8, 2021

Author(s)

Christopher Zangmeister, James Radney, Matthew Staymates, Edward P. Vicenzi, Jamie Weaver

Filtration efficiencies (FE) of natural, synthetic, and blended fabrics were measured as a function of relative humidity (RH) for particles with mobility...

Towards Quantitative and Standardized Serological and Neutralization Assays for COVID-19

March 8, 2021

Author(s)

Linhua Tian, Elzafir B. Elsheikh, Paul Patrone, Anthony Kearsley, adolfas Gaigalas, Sarah L. Inwood, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Dominic Esposito, Lili Wang

Quantitative and robust serology assays are critical measurements underpinning global COVID-19 response to diagnostic, surveillance, and vaccine development...

Development of a Tool to Determine the Variability of Consensus Mass Spectra

March 8, 2021

Author(s)

Benjamin Place

The success of non-targeted analysis often depends on libraries containing reference mass spectra of known chemical compounds; the mass spectra of unknown...

Path-integral calculation of the fourth virial coefficient of helium isotopes

March 8, 2021

Author(s)

Giovanni Garberoglio, Allan H. Harvey

We use the path-integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method and state-of-the-art two-body and three-body potentials to calculate the fourth virial coefficient D(T) of...

Origin of Magnetovolume Effect in a Cobaltite

March 8, 2021

Author(s)

Ping Miao, Zhijian Tan, Sanghyun Lee, Yoshihisa Ishikawa, Shuki Torii, Masao Yonemura, Akihiro Koda, Kazuki Komatsu, Shinichi Machida, Asami Sano-Furukawa, Takanori Hattori, Xiaohuan Lin, Kuo Li, Takashi Mochiku, Ryosuke Kikuchi, Chizuru Kawashima, Hiroki Takahashi, Qingzhen Huang, Shinichi Itoh, Ryosuke Kadono, Yingxia Wang, Feng Pan, Kunihiko Yamauchi, Takashi Kamiyama

Synthesis, Structural and Sorption Characterization of a Hofmann Compound, Ni(3-Methy-4,4'-bipyridine)[Ni(CN)4]

March 6, 2021

Author(s)

Winnie Wong-Ng, Jeffrey T. Culp, Daniel Siderius, Yu-Sheng Chen, S. Y. G. Wang, Andrew J. Allen, Eric J. Cockayne

Crystal structure of the guest-free Ni(CN)4-based metal organic framework Ni(3-Methy-4,4'-bipyridine)[Ni(CN)4] (nicknamed Ni-BpyMe(A)), was determined to be...

Single-cell measurement of plasmid copy number and promoter activity

March 5, 2021

Author(s)

Bin Shao, Jayan Rammohan, Daniel Anderson, Nina Alperovich, David Ross, Christopher Voigt

We have developed a method to simultaneously count plasmid DNA, RNA transcripts, and protein expression in single living bacteria. From these data, the activity...

Uncertainty Quantification of Atomistic (DFT and MD), Mesoscale (PFM) and Continuum (CALPHAD) Methods and the Impact on Thermodynamic Models of Metals: A Review

March 5, 2021

Author(s)

Gabriel Joshua, Noah Paulson, Thien Duong, Francesca Tavazza, Chandler Becker, Santanu Chaudhuri, Stan Marious

Design of improved metals relies on multi-scale computer simulations to provide thermodynamic properties when experiments are difficult to conduct. In...

DART-MS Spectral Similarity of Infrared Thermally Desorbed Solid Particulate and Solution Cast Propellant Samples

March 4, 2021

Author(s)

Thomas Forbes, John Gillen

Security and forensic applications employ test and reference materials to develop, calibrate, and validate analytical instrumentation such as mass spectrometry...

From single-particle-like to interaction-mediated plasmonic resonances in graphene nanoantennas

March 4, 2021

Author(s)

Marvin M. Muller, Miriam Kosik, Marta Pelc, Garnett W. Bryant, Andres Ayuela, Carsten Rockstuhl, Karolina Slowik

Plasmonic nanostructures attract tremendous attention as they confine electromagnetic fields well below the diffraction limit while simultaneously sustaining...

Comparative study of multiwall carbon nanotube nanocomposites by Raman, SEM, and XPS measurement techniques

March 3, 2021

Author(s)

Yanmei Piao, Vipin Tondare, Chelsea S. Davis, Justin Gorham, Elijah Petersen, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Keana Scott, Andras Vladar, Angela R. Hight Walker

Substantial ongoing research efforts are investigating the production of novel composite material enhanced by the incorporation of nanomaterial fillers such as...

Efficient and low-backaction measurement of a superconducting qubit

March 3, 2021

Author(s)

Eric Rosenthal, Christian M. Schneider, Maxime Malnou, Ziyi Zhao, Felix Leditzky, Benjamin Chapman, Waltraut Wustmann, Xizheng Ma, Daniel A. Palken, Leila R. Vale, Gene C. Hilton, Jiansong Gao, Graeme Smith, Gerhard Kirchmair, Konrad Lehnert

Utilization of NIST SRM: A case study for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in NIST SRM 1957 Organic Contaminants in Non-Fortified Human Serum

March 2, 2021

Author(s)

Alix Rodowa, Jessica Reiner

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) generates and maintains thousands of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) to serve commerce worldwide...

Design, calibration, and application of a cryogenic low-background infrared radiometer for spectral irradiance and radiance measurements from 4 um to 20 um wavelength

March 2, 2021

Author(s)

Simon G. Kaplan, Solomon Woods, Eric L. Shirley, Adriaan C. Carter, Timothy M. Jung, James E. Proctor, Dale R. Sears, Jinan Zeng

We have constructed, calibrated, and tested a cryogenic low-background infrared radiometer for both spectral radiance and irradiance measurements over the 4 um...

Geometrical-Empirical Channel Propagation Model for Human Presence at 60 GHz

March 2, 2021

Author(s)

Camillo Gentile, Anmol Bhardwaj, Derek Caudill, Peter B. Papazian, Jack Chuang, David Michelson

Previous efforts to develop simulation and/or measurement-based channel propagation models for the effect of human blockage on millimeter-wave communication...

Protecting Building Occupants from Smoke during Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Events

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

Tom Javins, Gail Robarge, Emily Snyder, Gregory Nilsson, Steven Emmerich

Guideline 44 is in development to provide building measures to minimize occupant health impacts during wildfire and prescribed burn smoke events. In 2020, over...

Convergent Close-Coupling Calculations of Electrons Scattering on Electronically Excited Molecular Hydrogen

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

Barry I. Schneider

Operando Study of Thermal Oxidation of Monolayer MoS2

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

Sangwook Park, Angel Garcia-Esparza, Hadi Abroshan, Baxter Abraham, John Vinson, Allesandro Gallo, Dennis Nordlund, Joonsuk Park, Taeho R. Kim, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Xiaolin Zheng

Monolayer MoS2 is a promising semiconductor to overcome the physical dimension limits of the microelectronic devices. Understanding the thermochemical stability...

How Residential Water Heating is Changing

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

William M. Healy, Carl Hiller, James Lutz

Water heating system energy use is typically the second largest in U.S. residences behind space conditioning (space heating and cooling). Recent advances are...

Using thermo-optical nonlinearity to robustly separate absorption and radiation losses in nanophotonic resonators

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

Mingkang Wang, Diego J. Perez, Vladimir Aksyuk

Low-loss nanophotonic resonators have been widely used in fundamental science and applications thanks to their ability to concentrate optical energy. Key for...

Correction of Artifacts Induced by B0 Inhomogeneities in Breast MRI using Reduced Field-of-View Echo-Planar Imaging and Enhanced Reverse Polarity Gradient Method

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

Ana Rodriguez-Soto, Lauren Fang, Dominic Holland, Jingjing Zou, Helen Park, Katy Keenan, Hauke Bartsch, Joshua Kuperman, Anne Wallace, Michael Hahn, Haydee Ojeda-Fournier, Anders Dale, Rebecca Rakow-Penner

Determination of Total Arsenic and Hydrophilic Arsenic species in Seafood

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

Caleb Luvonga, Catherine A. Rimmer, Lee L. Yu, Sang Bok Lee

Marine organisms are vital sources of staple and functional food but are also the major dietary route of human exposure to total arsenic. We report the total...

Field-Tuned Magnetic Structure and Phase Diagram of the Honeycomb Magnet YbCl₃

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

Yiqing Hao, Hongliang Wo, Yimeng Gu, Xiaowen Zhang, YiQing Gu, ShiYi Zheng, Yang Zhao, Guangyong Xu, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Naoki Murai, Wenbin Wang, Jun Zhao

We report thermodynamic and neutron diffraction measurements on the magnetic ordering properties of the honeycomb lattice magnet YbCl 3. We find YbCl 3 exhibits...

Charge Transfer Enhanced Magnetic Correlations in Type-II Multiferroic Co₃TeO₆

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

Chi-Hung Lee, Erdembayalag Batsaikhan, Ma-Hsuan Ma, Wen-Hsien Li, Chin-Wei Wang, Chun-Min Wu, Hung-Duen Yang, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Helmuth Berger

Magnetic structure of the Co ions in monoclinic Co 3TeOd6^ in the antiferroelectric state at 16 K has been determined by neutron powder together with single...

Towards Deep Transfer Learning in Industrial Internet of Things

February 26, 2021

Author(s)

Xing Liu, Wei Yu, Fan Liang, David Griffith, Nada T. Golmie

In this paper, we propose a general framework to adopt transfer learning in IIoT systems. Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that fully uses the...

Optimizing Flame Retardancy and Durability of Melamine-Formaldehyde/Solid-Urban-Waste Composite Panels

February 26, 2021

Author(s)

Mauro Zammarano, Carola Esposito Corcione, Francesca Ferrari, Raffaella Striani, Laura J. Dubrulle, Paolo Visconti, Antonio Greco

In our previous study, an innovative method for sterilization, inertization, and valorization of organic fraction of the municipal solid waste (OFMSW), to be...

Corrections to standard state in combustion calorimetry: an update and a web-based tool

February 26, 2021

Author(s)

Eugene Paulechka, Demian Riccardi

Combustion calorimetry is the predominant method for determination of enthalpies of formation for organic compounds. Both initial and nal states of the...

Concentration and Size Effects on the Size-Selective Particle Purification Method using the Critical Casimir Force

February 25, 2021

Author(s)

Jose Ramon Villanueva-Valencia, Hongyu Guo, Ramon Castaneda-Priego, Yun Liu

Critical Casimir force (CCF) is a solvent fluctuation introduced interaction between particles dispersed in a binary sol-vent. Recently, it has been...

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