Journals

Characteristics and Mechanisms of Hydrogen-Induced Quasi-Cleavage Fracture of Lath Martensitic Steel

January 10, 2021

Author(s)

Lawrence Cho, Peter E. Bradley, Damian S. Lauria, May L. Martin, Matthew J. Connolly, Jake Benzing, Eun Jung Seo, Kip O. Findley, John G. Speer, Andrew J. Slifka

This study presents an in-depth characterization of the microstructures, crystallographic orientations, and dislocation characteristics beneath the hydrogen...

Tandem Heterogeneous Catalysis for Polyethylene Depolymerization via an Olefin-Intermediate Process

January 8, 2021

Author(s)

Kathryn Beers, Sara Orski, Lucas Ellis, Andrew Norman, Yuriy Rom?n-Leshkov, Gregg T. Beckham

The accumulation of plastic waste in the environment has prompted the development of new chemical recycling technologies. A recently reported approach employed...

Conduction Band Control of Oxyhalides with a Triple-Fluorite Layer for Visible Light Photocatalysis

January 8, 2021

Author(s)

Akinobu Nakada, Daichi Kato, Hikaru Takahira, Masayoshi Yabuuchi, Masanobu Higashi, Hajime Suzuki, Maria Kirsanova, Naoji Kakudou, Cedric Tassel, Takafumi Yamamoto, Craig Brown, Akinori Saeki, Artem M. Abakumov, Hiroshi Kageyama, Ryu Abe

Compounds with fluorite-type Bi 2O 2 layers display various properties due to stereoactive Bi-ions. Bi 2O 2-based oxyhalides are promising visible-light...

Van Hove Singularity in the Magnon Spectrum of the Antiferromagnetic Quantum Honeycomb Lattice

January 8, 2021

Author(s)

G. Sala, M. B. Stone, Binod Rai, A. May, Pontus Laurell, V. Garlea, Nicholas Butch, M. Lumsden, Georg Ehlers, G. Pokharel, Andrey Podlesnyak, D. Mandrus, D. Parker, S. Okamoto, Gabor Halasz, A. Christianson

Creation and Annotation of Recurrent Spectral Libraries of CHO Cell Metabolites and Media Components

January 6, 2021

Author(s)

Kelly H. Telu, Ramesh Marupaka, Nirina Rabe Andriamaharavo, Yamil Simon, Yuxue Liang, Yuri Mirokhin, Xinjian Yan, Tallat Bukhari, Stephen Stein

Comparison of measured and simulated spin-wave mode spectra of magnetic nanostructures

January 6, 2021

Author(s)

Hans Nembach, Robert McMichael, Michael Schneider, Justin Shaw, Thomas J. Silva

Motivated by the importance of magnetization dynamics in nanomagnets for the development and optimization of magnetic devices and sensors, we measured and...

State Readout of a Trapped Ion Qubit Using a Trap-integrated Superconducting Photon Detector

January 6, 2021

Author(s)

Susanna L. Todaro, Varun Verma, Katherine C. McCormick, David T. Allcock, Richard Mirin, David J. Wineland, Sae Woo Nam, Andrew C. Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried, Daniel Slichter

We detect fluorescence photons emitted by a single $^9$Be$^+$ ion confined in a surface- electrode rf ion trap, using a superconducting nanowire single photon...

On the interplay of friction and stress relaxation to improve stretch-flangeability of dual phase (DP600) steel

January 6, 2021

Author(s)

Dilip K. Banerjee, Kali Prasad, Krishnaswamy Hariharan, Uday Chakkingal

Industrial servo press has successfully demonstrated improved formability when deforming sheet metals. While the time dependent viscous behaviour of material is...

Chiral-bubble-induced topological Hall effect in ferromagnetic topological insulator heterostructures

January 6, 2021

Author(s)

Wenbo Wang, Yifan Zhao, Fei Wang, Matthew Daniels, Cui-Zu Chang, Jiadong Zang, Di Xiao, Weida Wu

The topological Hall effect (THE) is a transverse response of charge carriers due to emergent gauge field of non-coplanar spin textures. It has been a powerful...

A three-wave mixing kinetic inductance traveling-wave amplifier with near quantum-limited noise performance

January 5, 2021

Author(s)

Maxime Malnou, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler, Joe Aumentado, Johannes Hubmayr, Joel Ullom, Jiansong Gao

We present the theoretical model and experimental characterization of a microwave kinetic inductance traveling-wave amplifier (KIT), whose noise performance...

Accelerating Innovation and Commercialization Through Standardization of Microfluidic-Based Medical Devices

January 5, 2021

Author(s)

Darwin R. Reyes-Hernandez, Henne van Heeren, Suvajyoti Guha, Luke Herbertson, Alexios P. Tzannis, Jens Ducr?e, Hugo Bissig, Holger Becker

The microfluidics industry has grown steadily over the last 5 years worldwide, with the market for microfluidic medical devices experiencing a compound growth...

Enhanced Proton Selectivity in Ionomer Nanocomposites Containing Hydrophobically Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Allison Domhoff, Tyler Martin, Liyanage M. Silva, Mansour Saberi, Stephen Creager, Eric Davis

Perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) ionomers are ubiquitous as proton-exchange membranes (PEMs) in vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs), as they provide high proton...

Quantifying Uncertainties in Solvation Procedures for Modeling Aqueous Phase Reaction Mechanisms

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Kathleen Schwarz, Alex Maldonado, Tae Hoon Choi, Frank Eckert, Satoshi Hagiwara, Minoru Otani, Ravishankar Sundararaman, John Keith

Computational quantum chemistry provides fundamental chemical and physical insights into solvated reaction mechanisms across many areas of chemistry, especially...

Coherent optical processes with an all-optical atomic simulator

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Ivan Burenkov, Sergey Polyakov, Olga Tikhonova, Irina Novikova

We show how novel photonic devices such as broadband quantum memory and efficient quantum frequency transduction can be implemented using three-wave mixing...

Non-classical energy squeezing with of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Xizheng Ma, Jeremie Viennot, Shlomi S. Kotler, John Teufel, Konrad Lehnert

Tender X-ray scattering of conjugated polymers reveals strong resonant diffraction effects at the sulfur K-edge

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Eliot Gann, Christopher McNeill, Guillaume Freychet, Lars Thomsen, Xuchem Jiao, Feng Guitao, Weiwei Li

Resonant diffraction (also known as anomalous diffraction) occurs when the X-ray energy used in an X- ray diffraction experiment matches an X-ray absorption...

Evaluation of a Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer at Low Voltages for the Calibration of Lock-In Amplifiers

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Ilya F. Budovsky, Samuel P. Benz

We have evaluated a Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer (JAWS) in the voltage range from 1 μV to 1 mV at frequencies from 60 to 1000 Hz for the use in the...

Structural Characterization and Modeling of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus Fusion Glycoprotein Nanoparticle Vaccine in Solution

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Susan T. Krueger, Joseph E. Curtis, Daniel R. Scott, Alexander Grishaev, Greg Glenn, Gale Smith, Larry Ellingsworth, Oleg Borisov, Ernest Maynard

Globally, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)is a major cause of sever lower respiratory tract infection in young children, older adults, and immune compromised...

Measuring Water Flow Rate for a Fire Hose Using a Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Fire Fighting

January 2, 2021

Author(s)

Christopher Brown, Gregory Vogl, Wai Cheong Tam

A wireless sensor network was created to measure water-flow rate in a fire hose. An integrated electronic piezoelectric accelerometer was chosen as the sensor...

In situ characterization of ceramic cold sintering by small-angle scattering

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Andrew Allen, Igor Levin, Russell Maier, Suzanne E. Witt, Fan Zhang, Ivan Kuzmenko

The first in situ characterization of the pore morphology evolution during the cold sintering process (CSP) is presented using small-angle X-ray scattering...

Structural resolution and mechanistic insight into hydrogen adsorption in flexible ZIF-7

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Ryan Klein, Sarah Shulda, Philip Parilla, Pierre Le Maqueres, Rachelle Richardson, William Morris, Craig Brown, C. Michael McGuirk

Flexible metal–organic frameworks offer a route towards high useable hydrogen storage capacities with minimal swings in pressure and temperature via step-shaped...

Measurement and Evaluation for Prognostics and Health Management for Manufacturing Operations – Lessons Learned from an Interactive Workshop

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Brian Weiss, Michael Brundage

Personnel from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) organized and led a Measurement and Evaluation for Prognostics and Health Management...

Measurement of mass of aerosol particles

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Kevin J. Coakley, Robert Hagwood, Kensei Ehara, Nobuhiko FUKUSHIMA, Kittichote WORACHOTEKAMJORN, Naoko TAJIMA, Hiromu SAKURAI

An aerosol particle mass analyzer (APM) which classifies aerosol particles according to their mass has been developed. Mass distributions of aerosol particles...

Complete collision data set for electrons scattering on molecular hydrogen and itsisotopologues: I. Fully vibrationally-resolved electronic excitation of H 2 (X 1 ? g + ).

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Liam H. Scarlett, D Fursa, Mark C. Zammit, I Bray, Yuri Ralchenko, Kayla D. Davie

We present a comprehensive set of vibrationally-resolved cross sections for electron-impact electronic excitation of molecular hydrogen suitable for...

Independent Calculation of "Move Lists" for Incumbent Protection in a Multi-SAS Shared Spectrum Environment

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Michael R. Souryal, Thao T. Nguyen

We present a simplified method for protecting an incumbent in shared spectrum when the secondary users are managed by independent spectrum access systems (SASs)...

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE OF AXIALLY LOADED STEEL MEMBERS WITH WIDE-FLANGE SHAPES EXPOSED TO FIRE

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Ana Sauca, Rachel Chicchi, Chao Zhang, Lisa Choe

This paper presents closed-formed equations developed to evaluate critical temperatures of structural steel compression and tension members exposed to fire. The...

Biomonitoring of emerging DINCH metabolites in pregnant women in Charleston, SC: 2011-2014

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Abby G. Wenzel, Jessica L. Reiner, Satomi Kohno, Bethany J. Wolf, John W. Brock, Lori Cruze, Roger B. Newman

Due to the mounting evidence that phthalates produce adverse endocrine effects in humans and wildlife, the use of other chemicals as replacements has increased...

Complex by Design: Hydrotrope-Induced Micellar Growth in Deep Eutectic Solvents

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Adrian Sanchez-Fernandez, Anna E. Leung, Elizabeth Kelley, Andrew J. Jackson

Here the microstructure of hydrotrope-surfactant assemblies in 1:2 choline chloride:glycerol (ChCl:Glyc) is presented. The effect of choline salicylate (ChSal)...

Synthesis, Characterization, and Crystal Structure of Lithium Pyrrolide

January 1, 2021

Author(s)

Zijun Jing, Khai Tan, Teng He, Yang Yu, Qijun Pei, Hui Wu, Ping Chen

Microstructure Homogenization of Concrete Used in Nuclear Power Plants

December 31, 2020

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi, Christa Torrence, Zachary Grasley, Aishwarya Baranikumar, William Lawrimore

Nearly all nuclear power plants in the United States are operating past their intended lifetimes or are requesting lifetime extensions. Therefore, understanding...