Journals

Antichiral Spin Order, its Soft Modes, and their Hybridization with Phonons in the Topological Semimetal Mn₃Ge

August 3, 2020

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Y. Chen, Jonathan Gaudet, S. Dasgupta, G. G. Marcus, J. Lin, T. Chen, T. Tomita, M. Ikhlas, Yang Zhao, Wangchun Chen, Matthew B. Stone, O. Tchernyshyov, S. Nakatsuji, Collin L. Broholm

Quantum materials with strong transport responses to disparate physical quantities are of great fundamental significance and may hold technological potentials...

Numerical and Experimental Studies of Extinguishment of Cup-Burner Flames by C6F12O

August 1, 2020

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Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Valeri Babushok, Gregory Linteris

The extinguishment processes of cup-burner flames by adding a halon-replacement fire-extinguishing agent C6F12O (Novec 1230) to coflowing air in normal gravity...

A Phase Measurement Method to Guarantee the Traceability of the Calibration System

August 1, 2020

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Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Sergio Rapuano, Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Francesco Picariello, Ioan Tudosa

In this paper, an innovative phase measurement method of sinusoidal signals is presented and a proof-of-concept implementation is demonstrated. The method...

Improving signal-to-noise ratio for the forensic analysis of glass using micro x-ray fluorescence spectrometry

August 1, 2020

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Ruthmara Corzo, Eric B. Steel

Micro x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (u-XRF) is a standard technique used for the elemental analysis of glass fragments in forensic casework. The glass...

Procedures for Validating the Performance of Instruments Used for Automated Inorganic Gunshot Residue Analysis

August 1, 2020

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Nicholas Ritchie, J Matney Wyatt, Doug DeGaetano, Ludwig Niewoehner, Frank Platek, David Edwards

The reliability of forensic inorganic gunshot residue (iGSR) analysis depends strongly on the performance of the scanning electron microscope with energy...

Numerical simulation of wind-induced mean and peak pressures around a low-rise structure

August 1, 2020

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DongHun Yeo, Robert H. Ong, Luca Patruno, Yaping He, Kenny C. Kwok

We performed Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of the low-rise buildings immersed in a turbulent boundary layer. The Silsoe 6 m cube was chosen as the...

Dominant factors for fracture at the micro-scale in electrodeposited nickel alloys

August 1, 2020

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May L. Martin, Li-Anne Liew, David T. Read, Todd Christensen, Frank W. DelRio, John Geaney

Two different LIGA electrodeposited nickel alloys displayed distinct fracture modes after meso- scale tensile testing. The Ni-Co alloy failed in a ductile...

Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina Flood: An Interdisciplinary Approach

August 1, 2020

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John W. van de Lindt, Walter G. Peacock, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Nathanael Rosenheim, Derya Deniz, Maria Dillard, Tori Tomiczek, Andrew Graettinger, Patrick Crawford, Kenneth W. Harrison, Andre Barbosa, Jennifer Tobin, Jennifer Helgeson, Lori Peek, Mehrdad Memari, Elaina Sutley, Sara Hamideh, Donghwan Gu, Stephen Cauffman, Juan Fung

In early October 2016, Hurricane Matthew crossed North Carolina (NC) as a Category 1 storm, with some areas receiving 0.38 m to 0.46 m (15 to 18 in) of rainfall...

Early stage nucleation in barium disilicate glass

August 1, 2020

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Ling Cai, Randall E. Youngman, David E. Baker, Aram Rezikyan, Minghui Zhang, Bryan Wheaton, Indrajit Dutta, Bruce G. Aitken, Andrew J. Allen

Early stage nucleation in silicate glasses is often evidenced by formation of nanosized regions that are stoichiometrically different from the surrounding...

The Antioxidant Vitamin E as a Membrane Raft Modulator: Tocopherols do not Abolish Lipid Domains

August 1, 2020

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Mitchell DiPasquale, Michael H. Nguyen, Brett W. Rickeard, Nicole Cesca, Christopher Tannous, Stuart R. Castillo, John Katsaras, Elizabeth Kelley, Frederick A. Heberle, Drew Marquardt

A great deal of individuals across North America regularly supplement their diet with the antioxidant, vitamin E. This billion-dollar supplementation industry...

Neutron Diffraction Study of Macrostress and Microstress in Al-Al₂O₃-Based Corrosion Protection Coating Obtained by Cold Spray (Dynamic Metallization)

August 1, 2020

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V. Luzin, P. Spiridonov, K. Spencer, Thomas H. Gnaupel-Herold

Protective coatings based on an Al/Al2O3 metal matrix composite (MMC) were sprayed using Dynamic Metallisation (DM), a low-pressure cold spray variant. A series...

Effect of Molecular Weight and Layer Thickness on the Dielectric Breakdown Strength of Neat and Homopolymer Swollen Lamellar Block Copolymer Films

July 31, 2020

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Saumil Samant, Monali Basutkar, Maninderjeet Singh, Ali Masud, Christopher A. Grabowski, Kim Kisslinger, Joseph Strzalka, Guangcui Yuan, Sushil K. Satija, Ikeoluwa Apata, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Michael Durstock, Alamgir Karim

Designing next generation light-weight pulsed power sources hinges on understanding the factors influencing the performance of high energy density storage...

Comparison between Graphene and GaAs Quantized Hall Devices with a Dual Probe

July 31, 2020

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Shamith Payagala, Albert Rigosi, Alireza Panna, Alessio Pollarolo, Mattias Kruskopf, Stephan Schlamminger, Dean G. Jarrett, Ryan Brown, Randolph Elmquist, Duane Brown, David B. Newell

Data-driven characterization of computational models for powder-bed-fusion additive manufacturing

July 31, 2020

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Yan Lu, Zhuo Yang, Paul W. Witherell, Wentao Yan, Kevontrez Jones, Gregory Wagner, Wing-Kam Liu, Jason C. Fox

Computational modeling for additive manufacturing has proven to be a powerful tool to understand the physical mechanisms, predict fabrication quality, and guide...

A residual heat compensation based scan strategy for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing

July 31, 2020

Author(s)

Ho Yeung, Brandon M. Lane

Typical scan strategies for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing systems apply a constant laser power and scan speed while scanning the laser...

Does Cosmological Evolution Select for Technology?

July 30, 2020

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Jeff Shainline

Fine tuning of the parameters defining the physics of our universe has been proposed to result from the natural selection of universes capable of prolific...

Quantitative 3D Characterization of Novel Polymer-Nanocrystal Hybrid Catalysts by Electron Tomography

July 30, 2020

Author(s)

Andrew Herzing

Brightly Luminescent CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals through Ultracentrifugation

July 30, 2020

Author(s)

Jeffrey Fagan, Erik K. Hobbie, Aaron Forde, Richard D. Schaller, salim thomas, samuel brown, Matthew B. Kurtti, dmitri kilin

Colloidal lead-halide-perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) offer broad color tunability with bright photoluminescence (PL), fast lifetime, and narrow spectral...

Terrestrial laser scanner calibration and performance evaluation using the network method

July 30, 2020

Author(s)

Shendong Shi, Bala Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer

In this paper, we discuss two aspects concerning terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) - error model calibration and performance evaluation. Error model calibration...

Performance evaluation of laser trackers using the network method

July 30, 2020

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Ling Wang, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Octavio Icasio Hernandez, Craig M. Shakarji, Daniel S. Sawyer

Due to their accuracy, portability, and large working volume, laser trackers (LTs) are widely used for dimensional metrology in a variety of large-scale...

Towards Accurate and Reproducible Uranium Isotopic Analysis via Atom Probe Mass Spectrometry

July 30, 2020

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Frederick Meisenkothen, Mark McLean, Irina Kalish, Daniel V. Samarov, Eric B. Steel

NexusLIMS: Leveraging Shared Microscopy Resources for Data Analysis with a Configurable Laboratory Information Management System

July 30, 2020

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Joshua A. Taillon, Raymond L. Plante, Marcus W. Newrock, June W. Lau, Gretchen R. Greene

Nanoscale Spatial Distribution of Supported Nanoparticles Controls Activity and Stability in Powder Catalysts for CO Oxidation and Photocatalytic H2 Evolution

July 30, 2020

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Aaron C. Johnston-Peck, Matteo Cargnello, Emmett D. Goodman, Joakim Halldin Stenlid, Rosadriana Zelaya, Benjamin T. Diroll, Kun-Che Kao, Curtis W. Frank, Lars Gunnar Moody Pettersson, Aisulu Aitbekova

Spiking and homogenization of biological matrices for production of reference materials using cryogenic processes

July 29, 2020

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Debra L. Ellisor, William C. Davis, Rebecca S. Pugh

Biological reference materials (RMs) are essential for quality assurance, traceability of measurement results and for method validation. When addressing new...

Effect of Notch Geometry and Lack-of-Fusion on the Elastic-Plastic Fracture Toughness of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V parts

July 28, 2020

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, Jake Benzing, Nik Hrabe

A comparison between fatigue precracked and sharp-notched Charpy-type fracture toughness specimens is presented for characterizing the elastic-plastic fracture...

The Art in Science of MicroTAS 2019

July 28, 2020

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Gregory A. Cooksey

The 2019 MicroTAS conference (the 23rd International Conference of Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences) held in Basel, Switzerland, brought...

Structural and magnetic properties of sputtered FePd thin films grown on MgO single-crystal substrates with oblique and normal substrate orientation

July 28, 2020

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Xinjun Wang, Sergiy Krylyuk, Daniel Josell, Daniel Gopman, Jian-Ping Wang, Delin Zhang

Materials possessing perpendicular magnetic anisotropy derived from the intrinsic crystal structure, such as in L10 Fe-based alloys, have the potential to...

Cesium Substitution Disrupts Concerted Cation Dynamics in Formamidinium Hybrid Perovskites

July 28, 2020

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Eve M. Mozur, Michael A. Hope, Julia C. Trowbridge, David M. Halat, Luke L. Daemen, Annalise E. Maughan, Timothy R Prisk, Clare P. Grey, James R. Neilson

While hybrid perovskites show great promise for photovoltaic applications, several of the most technologically relevant hybrid perovskites degrade rapidly when...

Kinetics and Mechanism of Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) Crystallization in Solution under Shear-flow

July 28, 2020

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Ngoc A. Nguyen, Hao Shen, Yun Liu, Michael E. Mackay

The morphology of poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) in its liquid phase and its manipulation via flow-induced solution crystallization and its crystallization...

Understanding Photovoltaic Energy Losses under Indoor Lighting Conditions

July 28, 2020

Author(s)

Behrang H. Hamadani

The external luminescence quantum yield as a function of the solar cell current density when exposed to low indoor light was estimated based on absolute...