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Y.- Y. Jau, Daniel S. Hussey, Thomas R. Gentile, Wangchun Chen
We experimentally demonstrate that electrically neutral particles, neutrons, can be used to directly visualize the electrostatic field inside a target volume...
David Goodwin, Shih Jia Shen, Ronald S. Lankone, Wendel Wohlleben, Tinh Nguyen, Li Piin Sung, Francois Perreault, Ana Barrios
The ultraviolet (UV)-induced degradation of graphene/polymer nanocomposites was investigated in this study. Specifically, the effect of few-layer graphene...
This has been a very eventful quarter for standardization efforts within the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). Even the virtual nature of the 2020...
Xinyu Li, Maribel Garc?a-Ib??ez, Brendan Carter, Baoshen Chen, Qian Li, Regina Easley, Wei-Jun Cai
Ocean acidification, a phenomenon of seawater pH decreasing due to increasing atmospheric CO2, has a global effect on seawater chemistry, marine biology, and...
Qiang Gu, Weifang Liu, Winnie Wong-Ng, Xingxing Wu, Yao Jiang, Chao Wang, Shuang Ma, Shouyu Wang
Layered perovskite Ca2.91Na0.09Ti2-xRhxO7 (x=0.00, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06) were synthesized by a conventional solid-state reaction. The two strongest peaks of XRD...
Jason K. Lee, ChungHyuk Lee, Kieran F. Fahy, Pascal J. Kim, Kevin Krause, Jacob LaManna, Eli Baltic, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Aimy Bazylak
Mass transport losses ultimately suppress gas evolving electrochemical energy conversion technologies, such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide electrolyzers, from...
Dylan F. Williams, Benjamin F. Jamroz, Jake D. Rezac
We use synthetic data to investigate the performance of a recently developed algorithm that uses regression residuals to evaluate the uncertainty of nonlinear...
Clarence Zarobila, Steven Grantham, Steven W. Brown, John T. Woodward IV, Stephen Maxwell, Dana R. Defibaugh, Thomas Larason, Kevin Turpie
We have designed a non-imaging telescope for measurement of the spectral irradiance of the moon. The telescope was integrated into a wing pod of a NASA ER-2...
Moustafa A. Hafiz, Remy Vicarini, Nicolas Passilly, Claudio Calosso, Vincent N. Maurice, Juniper Pollock, V Yudin, John Kitching, Rodolphe Boudot
Light shifts are known to be an important limitation to the mid- and long-term fractional frequency stability of different types of atomic clocks. In this...
Parinaz Fathi, Glenn E. Holland, Dipanjan Pan, Mandy B. Esch
Lymph nodes comprise a complex organ system that is essential in regulating the development of host immune responses. Due to the complexity of lymph nodes and...
Over the last 25 years, the atomic standard reference databases and online tools developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provide...
A traveling wave or wave packet may possess orbital angular momentum in the form of a phase vortex about its axis of propagation. These orbital angular momentum...
Pengcheng Huo, Maowen Song, Wenqi Zhu, Cheng Zhang, Lu Chen, Henri Lezec, Yanqing Lu, Amit Agrawal, Ting Xu
We design and experimentally demonstrate a TiO2 metasurface that enables full-color generation and ultrasmooth color brightness variations. The reproduced...
Jeffrey Swab, Wayne Chen, James Hogan, Hangjie Liao, Calvin Lo, Steven Mates, Christopher Meredith, John Pittari, Richard Rhorer, George Quinn
The dynamic compressive strength of a commercial alumina was determined by five participants using the Split-Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) method with a...
The chemical analysis of homemade explosives (HMEs) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) remains challenging for fieldable analytical instrumentation and...
This work describes measurements of the thermal conductivity of three polyol esters pentaerythritol tetrapentanoate (POE5), pentaerythritol tetraheptanoate...
Mauro Zammarano, John R. Shields, Isaac T. Leventon, Ickchan Kim, Shonali Nazare, Andre L. Thompson, Rick D. Davis, Artur A. Chernovsky, Matthew F. Bundy
In this work, we describe a reduced-scale test (Cube test), based on cone calorimetry, measuring the fire performance (heat release rate, propensity to pool...
Bryant Nelson, Hao-Wei Wang, Samantha Maragh, Paul DeRose, Elzafir B. Elsheikh, Wyatt Vreeland, Ionita Ghiran, Jennifer Jones
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), and in particular exosomes, have the potential to revolutionize the development and efficient delivery of clinical therapeutics...
Parker J. Nichols, Alexandra Born, Morkos A. Henen, Dean Strotz, David N. Jones, Frank Delaglio, Beat Vogeli
We have previously reported on the measurement of exact NOEs (eNOEs), which yield a wealth of additional information in comparison to conventional NOEs. We have...
Daniel Gopman, Yury Kabanov, Robert D. Shull, Philip Pong, Chao Zheng
We report the magnetization reversal behavior of the Co2FeSi Heusler alloy free layer in a pinned magnetic tunnel junction film using magneto-optic indicator...
Deepa Rajagopal, Linhua Tian, Shiqiu Xiong, Hao-Wei Wang, Jonathan Campbell, Luisa Saraiva, S Vessillier
Activation of T lymphocytes leads to differentiation, characterized by the ability to induce production of cytokines. Accurate determination of cellular subsets...
Galen O'Neil, Samuel C. Sanders, Paul Szypryt, Dipti Goyal, Amy Gall, Yang Yang, Samuel M. Brewer, William Doriese, Joseph Fowler, Daniel Swetz, Joseph Tan, Joel Ullom, Andrey V. Volotka, Endre Takacs, Yuri Ralchenko
Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is currently considered to be one of the most accurate theories of fundamental interactions. As its extraordinary precision offers...
Coriolis mass flowmeters are known to be stable, have low uncertainty (± 0.1 %), and are insensitive to fluid properties. This meter type is used for many...
Adam J. Biacchi, Thinh Q. Bui, Cindi L. Dennis, Solomon I. Woods, Angela R. Hight Walker
Thermometry based on magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) is an emerging technology that allows for remote temperature measurements throughout a volume that are...
This paper presents a computational study of two precast concrete moment-frame assemblies, each comprising three columns and two beams, subjected to...