Journals

Towards model-based integration specifications to secure the extended enterprise

September 30, 2020

Author(s)

Sylvere Krima, Marion Toussaint, Allison Barnard Feeney

With the growing digitalization of manufacturing and the associated reliance on digital data, manufacturers, their supply chains, and their customers are

Pushing the Limits of Bottom-Up Gold Filling for X-Ray Grating Interferometry

September 30, 2020

Author(s)

Daniel Josell, Thomas Moffat, Z Shi, K Jefimovs, L Romano, J. Vila-Comamala

The application of superconformal Bi-catalyzed Au electrodeposition for void-free filling of recessed trenches in X-ray gratings used in phase contrast imaging

Large Exchange Splitting in Monolayer Graphene Magnetized by an Antiferromagnet

September 30, 2020

Author(s)

Yingying Wu, Gen Yin, Lei Pan, Alexander Grutter, Quanjun Pan, Albert Lee, Dustin A. Gilbert, Julie A. Borchers, William D. Ratcliff, Ang Li, Xiao-dong Han, Kang L. Wang

Spin splitting in graphene has been identified as a key component for unlocking multifunctionality with low dissipation and long-distance spin transport

Porous Organic Cages as Synthetic Water Channels

September 30, 2020

Author(s)

Yi D. Yuan, Jinqiao Dong, Jie Liu, Daohui Zhao, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Hui X. Gan, Yen W. Tong, Jianwen Jiang, Dan Zhao

Nature has protein channels (e.g., aquaporins) that preferentially transport water molecules while rejecting even the smallest hydrated ions. Aspirations to

Relaxation of the collective magnetization of the dense 3D array of interacting dipolar S=3 atoms

September 30, 2020

Author(s)

Lucas Gabardos, Bihui Zhu, Steven Lepoutre, Ana Maria Rey, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra, L Vernac

Lattice Green's Function for Multiscale Modeling of Strain Field Due to a Vacancy in Graphene

September 29, 2020

Author(s)

Vinod Tewary, Edward Garboczi

A multiscale Green's function method, using the Dyson equation, is described for modeling the strain field due to a vacancy in graphene. Numerical results are

Testing the stability of plasma protein and whole blood RNA in archived blood of loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta

September 29, 2020

Author(s)

Kelly Townsend, Jennifer Ness, Jennifer Hoguet, Nicole Stacy, Lisa M. Komoroske, Jennifer Lynch

Sample storage conditions can affect accuracy and reproducibility of biological measurements. Storing samples rapidly at lowest available temperatures is

Quantum Versus Classical Spin Fragmentation in Dipolar Kagome Ice Ho₃Mg₂Sb₃O₁₄

September 29, 2020

Author(s)

Zhiling Dun, Xiaojian Bai, Jospeh A. Paddison, Emily Hollingworth, Nicholas Butch, Clarina D. Cruz, Matthew Stone, Tao Hong, Franz Demmel, Martin Mourigal, Haidong Zhou

A promising route to realize entangled magnetic states combines geometrical frustration with quantum-tunneling effects. Spin-ice materials are canonical

Kinetics of Isopropanol Decomposition and Reaction with H atoms from Shock Tube Experiments and Rate Constant Optimization using the Method of Uncertainty Minimization using Polynomial Chaos Expansions (MUM-PCE)

September 28, 2020

Author(s)

Laura A. Mertens, Jeffrey A. Manion

Recent interest in isopropanol (2-propanol, C3H¬7OH) combustion stems from its potential as a renewable biofuel. Here, we report shock tube investigations of

Broadband, electro-optic, dual-comb spectrometer for linear and nonlinear measurements

September 28, 2020

Author(s)

David Carlson, Daniel D. Hickstein, Scott Papp

We demonstrate a dual-comb spectrometer based on electro-optic modulation of a continuous-wave laser at 10 GHz. The system simultaneously offers fast

Determination of glyphosate and AMPA in oatmeal and oat-based breakfast cereals for the selection of candidate reference materials

September 28, 2020

Author(s)

Justine M. Cruz, Jacolin Murray

The use of reference materials (RMs) is critical to improve measurements accuracy for validating and testing the accuracy of analytical protocols. To the best

Measuring Three-Dimensional Temperature Distributions in Steel-Concrete Composite Slabs Subjected to Fire Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors

September 26, 2020

Author(s)

Yi Bao, Matthew Hoehler, Christopher M. Smith, Matthew Bundy, Genda Chen

Detailed information about temperature distribution can be important to understand structural behavior in fire. This study develops a method to image three

Anomalous Helimagnetic Domain Shrinkage due to the Weakening of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in CrAs

September 25, 2020

Author(s)

B. Pan, H. Xu, Y. Liu, R. Sutarto, F. He, Y. Shen, Y. Hao, J. Zhao, Leland Harriger, D. Feng

Tuning Magnetic Confinement of Spin-Triplet Superconductivity

September 25, 2020

Author(s)

Wen-Chen Lin, Daniel J. Campbell, Sheng Ran, I-Lin Liu, Hyunsoo Kim, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, David Graf, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione

Multi-Integral Representations for Associated Legendre and Ferrers Functions

September 25, 2020

Author(s)

Howard S. Cohl

We obtain antiderivatives and complex integral representations for associated Legendre functions and Ferrers functions (associated Legendre functions on-the-cut

Towards defining reference materials for extracellular vesicle size, concentration, refractive index and epitope abundance

September 24, 2020

Author(s)

Joshua Welsh, Edwin van der Pol, Britta Bettin, David Carter, An Hendrix, Metka Lenassi, Marc-Andre Langlois, Alicia Liorente, Arthur van de Nes, Rienk Nieuwland, Vera Tang, Kenneth Witwer, Jennifer Jones, Lili Wang

Accurate characterization of extracellular vesicles (EVs) is critical to explore their diagnostic and therapeutic applications. As the EV research field has

Firearm examination: Examiner judgments and computer-based comparisons

September 24, 2020

Author(s)

Erwin J. Mattijssen, Cilia Witteman, Charles Berger, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Johannes A. Soons, Reinoud Stoel

Forensic firearm examination provides the court of law with information about the source of fired cartridge cases. We assessed the validity of source decisions

First-Principles Diffusivity Ratios for Kinetic Isotope Fractionation of Water in Air

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

Robert Hellmann, Allan H. Harvey

Kinetic isotope fractionation between water vapor and liquid water or ice depends on the ratio of the diffusivities of the isotopic species in air, but there is

Lens-Free Imaging as a Sensor for Dynamic Cell Viability Detection Using the Neutral Red Uptake Assay

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

Brian J. Nablo, Jungjoon Ahn, Kiran Bhadriraju, Jong M. Lee, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez

Neutral red is a supravital stain that estimates the number of viable cells based on its accumulation and retention within lysosomes. The standard protocol

Electron-Phonon Coupling and Superconductivity in the Doped Topological Crystalline Insulator (Pb_0.5Sn_0.5_)_1-xIn_xTe

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

A. Sapkota, Y. Li, B. L. Winn, A. Podlesnyak, Guangyong Xu, Zhijun Xu, Kejing Ran, Tong Chen, Jian Sun, Jinsheng Wen, Lihua Wu, Jihui Yang, Qiang Li, G. D. Gu, J. M. Tranquada

We present a neutron scattering study of phonons in single crystals of (Pb 0.5Sn 0.5) 1−xIn xTe with x = 0 (metallic, but nonsuperconducting) and x = 0.2

Differential equations for critical curves of fluid mixtures

September 22, 2020

Author(s)

Ian Bell, Ulrich K. Deiters

A novel, particularly robust method for the calculation of critical curves of fluid mixtures is proposed that makes use of differential equations representing

Tuning between proper and hybrid-improper mechanisms for polar behavior in CsLn2TiNbO10 Dion-Jacobson phases

September 22, 2020

Author(s)

Igor Levin, Vanessa Cascos, Chloe Skingle, Weguo Zhang, Shiv Halasyamani, Martin Stennett, Neil Hyatt, Eric Bousquet, Emma McCabe

Quantum Randomness from Probability Estimation with Classical Side Information

September 22, 2020

Author(s)

Emanuel Knill, Yanbao Zhang, Peter L. Bierhorst

We develop a framework for certifying randomness from Bell-test trials based on directly estimating the probability of the measurement outcomes with adaptive

A Diploid Assembly-based Benchmark for Variants in The Major Histocompatibility Complex

September 22, 2020

Author(s)

Justin M. Zook, Justin M. Wagner, Chen-Shan Chin, Qiandong Zeng, Alexander Dilthey, Tobias Marschall, Mikko Rautiainen, Erik Garrison, Shilpa Garg

Most human genomes are characterized by aligning individual reads to the reference genome, but accurate long reads and linked reads now enable us to construct

Diffusion-limited reactions in nanoscale electronics

September 22, 2020

Author(s)

Ryan Evans, Arvind Balijepalli, Anthony J. Kearsley

To quantify interactions between drug molecules and target receptors, a novel nanoscale electronics instrument is under development. The instrument consists of

Elucidating the Structure of the Metal-Organic Framework Ru-HKUST-1

September 22, 2020

Author(s)

Gregory R. Lorzing, Krista P. Balto, Alexandra M. Antonio, Benjamin Trump, Craig Brown, Eric D. Bloch

Ru-HKUST-1 (Ru 3(btc) 2X 1.5; btc 3– = 1,3,5-benzentricarboxylate; X –^ = chloride, acetate, trimesate) has received considerable attention as a result of its

Development of a transition-edge sensor bilayer process providing new modalities for critical temperature control

September 21, 2020

Author(s)

Joel Weber, Kelsey Morgan, Daikang Yan, Christine Pappas, Abigail Wessels, Galen O'Neil, Douglas Bennett, Gene C. Hilton, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Daniel Schmidt

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) are thermal detectors in which a superconducting film that is electrically biased in the superconducting-to-normal transition is

Field-induced magnetic phase transitions and the resultant giant anomalous Hall effect in the antiferromagnetic half-Heusler compound DyPtBi

September 21, 2020

Author(s)

H. Zhang, Y. L. Zhu, Yiming Qiu, W. Tian, H. B. Cao, Z. Q. Mao, X. Ke

Rare earth half-Heuslers LnPtBi have been proposed to be candidates of topological materials. These materials enable the integration of magnetism with

Scaling Relationships for the Elastic Moduli and Viscosity of Mixed Lipid Membranes

September 21, 2020

Author(s)

Elizabeth Kelley, Paul Butler, Rana Ashkar, Robert Bradbury, Michihiro Nagao

The elastic and viscous properties of biological membranes play a vital role in controlling cell functions that require local reorganization of the membrane

Time-Resolving Quantum Measurement Enables Energy-Efficient, Large-Alphabet Communication

September 21, 2020

Author(s)

Ivan Burenkov, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov

Information exchange requires a measurement of physical states. Because quantum measurements enable accuracy beyond the classical shot-noise limit, they are