Journals

Low damping and high thermal stability of Ru-seeded L10-phase FePd perpendicular magnetic thin films

August 25, 2020

Author(s)

Daniel B. Gopman, Xinjun Wang, Delin Zhang, Dingbin Huang, Ryan Wu, Dustin Lattery, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Xiojia Wang, Jian-Ping Wang

Bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy materials are proposed to be a promising candidate for exploring next-generation ultrahigh density and ultralow energy...

Parallel Prefetching for Canonical Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulations

August 25, 2020

Author(s)

Harold Wickes Hatch

In order to enable large-scale molecular simulations, algorithms must efficiently utilize multi-core processors that continue to increase in total core count...

X-ray Scattering Studies of Reverse Osmosis Materials

August 25, 2020

Author(s)

Qinyi Fu, Nisha Verma, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Francisco J. Medellin-Rodriguez, Peter Beaucage, Christopher Stafford, Benjamin M. Ocko

Scarcity of freshwater is becoming a world crisis. In a recent annual risk report, the World Economic Forum lists it in their greatest global risk category...

Non-dispersive infrared gas analyzer for partial pressure measurements of a tantalum alkylamide during vapor deposition processes

August 24, 2020

Author(s)

James Maslar, William A. Kimes, Brent A. Sperling, Ravindra K. Kanjolia

A non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) gas analyzer was demonstrated for investigating metal alkylamide precursor delivery for microelectronics vapor deposition...

Stochastic diffusion-reaction model of the binding of monoclonal antibodies to CD4 receptors on the surface of T cells

August 24, 2020

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Paul DeRose, Sarah L. Inwood, Adolfas K. Gaigalas, Lili Wang

A stochastic diffusion-reaction model was developed to describe the labeling process in which labeled monoclonal antibodies (mAb) were bound to CD4 receptors on...

Evolution of the Structural Transition in Mo_1-xW_xTe₂

August 24, 2020

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John A. Schneeloch, Yu Tao, Chunruo Duan, Masaaki Matsuda, Adam A. Aczel, Jaime A. Fernandez-Baca, Guangyong Xu, Jorg C. Neuefeind, Junjie Yang, Despina Louca

The composition dependence of the structural transition between the monoclinic 1T′ and orthorhombic T d phases in the Mo 1-xW xTe 2 Weyl semimetal was...

Low global-warming-potential refrigerant CH2F2 (R-32): Integration of a radiation heat loss correction method to accurately determine experimental flame speed metrics

August 22, 2020

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Gregory Linteris, Raik Hesse, Lukas Berger, Michael Hegetschweiler, Heinz Pitsch, Joachim Beeckmann

Due to their high global warming potential (GWP), hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants (HFCs) are systematically being phased out. Replacements with low GWP exist...

Position-dependent neutron detection efficiency loss in 3He gas proportional counters

August 22, 2020

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Patrick N. Peplowski, Zachary W. Yokley, Madison Liebel, Shuo Cheng, Richard C. Elphic, Shannon Hoogerheide, David J. Lawrence, Jeffrey Nico

The position-dependent neutron detection response of a 3He gas proportional counter (GPC) was characterized using a collimated (3-mm-wide), monoenergetic 0.05...

Assessing Fire-blocking Performance of Laminated Barrier Fabrics Using Derived Cone Calorimetric Parameters

August 21, 2020

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Shonali Nazare, William M. Pitts, John R. Shields, Mauro Zammarano

The fire blocking performance of barrier fabrics laminated to upholstery materials was investigated. The results are two-fold. The first involves information...

Nesting and Scheduling Problems for Additive Manufacturing: A Taxonomy and Review

August 21, 2020

Author(s)

Yosep Oh, Paul Witherell, Yan Lu, Timothy A. Sprock

With the trends of Industry 4.0 spanning physical and virtual worlds, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been the mainstream for realizing complex geometries...

Synthesis and Characterization of Bulk Nd_1-xSr_xNiO₂ and Nd_1-xSr_xNiO₃

August 21, 2020

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Bi-Xia Wang, Hong Zheng, E. Krivyakina, Omar Chmaissem, Pietro Papa Lopes, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Leighanne C. Gallington, Y. Ren, S. Rosenkranz, J. F. Mitchell, D. Phelan

The recent reports of superconductivity in Nd 1-xSr xNiO 2/SrTiO 3 heterostructures have reinvigorated interest in potential superconductivity of low-valence...

Extracting electron densities in n-type GaAs from Raman spectra: Comparisons with Hall measurements

August 20, 2020

Author(s)

Maicol A. Ochoa, James E. Maslar, Herbert S. Bennett

Raman measurements can be utilized as a non-destructive method for determining carrier density in compound semiconductors. Rigorous determination of carrier...

Measuring Microfluidic Flow Rates: Monotonicity, Convexity and Uncertainty

August 20, 2020

Author(s)

Paul Patrone, Qing Hai Li, Gregory A. Cooksey, Anthony J. Kearsley

A class of non-linear integro-differential equations characterizing microfluidic measurements is considered. Under reasonable conditions, these non-linear...

Smoldering Propensity in Upholstered Furniture: Effects of Mockup Configuration and Foam Thickness

August 20, 2020

Author(s)

Jiuling Yang, Guillermo Rein, Haixiang Chen, Mauro Zammarano

Reduced-scale mock-ups had been developed to assess and regulate smoldering ignition resistance of residential upholstered furniture (RUF). However, there are...

Structural and Dynamical Properties of Potassium Dodecahydro-Monocarba-Closo-Dodecaborate: KCB₁₁H₁₂

August 20, 2020

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Mirjana Dimitrievska, Hui Wu, Vitalie Stavila, Olga A. Babanova, Roman V. Skoryunov, Alexei V. Soloninin, Wei Zhou, Benjamin Trump

MCB 11H 12 (M: Li, Na) dodecahydro-monocarba-closo-dodecaborate salt compounds are known to have stellar superionic Li + and Na + conductivities in their high...

Temperature-induced heteroaggregation in polydisperse portlandite suspensions

August 17, 2020

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Edward Garboczi, Gaurav Sant, Iman Mehdipour, Narayanan Neithalath, Mathieu Bauchy, Samanvaya Srivastava, Sharu Bhagavathi Kandy

Temperature is well-known to affect the aggregation behavior of colloidal suspensions. This paper elucidates the temperature dependence of the rheology of...

ARES: Automated Risk Estimation in Smart Sensor Environments

August 17, 2020

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Athanasios Dimitriadis, Jose L. Flores, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Ioannis Mavridis

Industry 4.0 adoption demands integrability, interoperability, composability, and security. Currently, integrability, interoperability and composability are...

Predicting Sorbent-Air Partition Coefficients for Terpenoids at Multiple Temperatures

August 17, 2020

Author(s)

Kavita M. Jeerage, Elijah Holland

Partition coefficients describe the relative concentration of a chemical equilibrated between two phases. In the design of air samplers, the sorbent-air...

Accelerated Weathering Parameters for Some Aromatic Engineering Thermoplastics. Part 2: Polycarbonate copolymers, polyarylate and ABS

August 16, 2020

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Li Piin Sung, James E. Pickett, Olga Kuvshinnikova, Brett Ermi

Understanding the responses of materials to environmental variables is essential for performing meaningful accelerated weathering and service life prediction...

Transient Laser Energy Absorption, Co-axial Melt Pool Monitoring, and Relationship to Melt Pool Morphology

August 16, 2020

Author(s)

Brandon M. Lane, Ivan Zhirnov, Sergey Mekhontsev, Steven E. Grantham, Richard E. Ricker, Santosh Rauniyar, Kevin Chou

Many recent and ongoing studies into the complex melt pool physics during laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) process measure...

Feshbach resonances in p-wave three-body recombination within Fermi-Fermimixtures of open-shell 6-Li and closed-shell 173-Yb atoms

August 14, 2020

Author(s)

Aliana Green, Hui Li, Jun Hui See Toh, Xinxin Tang, Katherine McCormick, Ming Li, Eite Tiesinga, Svetlana Kotochigova, Subhadeep Gupta

We report on observations and modeling of interspecies magnetic Feshbach resonances in dilute ultracold mixtures of open-shell alkali-metal 6 Li and closed...

High-brightness lasing at submicrometer enabled by droop-free fin light-emitting diodes (LEDs)

August 14, 2020

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Robin P. Hansen, Amit K. Agrawal, Michael Shur, Jerry Tersoff, Babak Nikoobakht, Yuqin Zong

"Efficiency droop," i.e., a decline in brightness of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at high electrical currents, limits the performance of all commercial LEDs and...

Enriching Standards-Based Digital Thread by Fusing As-Designed and As-Inspected Data Using Ontologies

August 13, 2020

Author(s)

Soonjo Kwon, William Z. Bernstein, Laetitia V. Monnier, Raphael Barbau

Realizing the digital thread is essential for linking and orchestrating data across the product lifecycle in smart manufacturing. Linking heterogeneous...

Thermochemical principles of the production of lightweight aggregates from waste coal bottom ash

August 12, 2020

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Edward Garboczi, Mohammad Balapour, Rathin Rao, Sabrina Spatari, Grace Hsuan, Peter Billen

Manufacturing lightweight aggregate (LWA) (i.e., porous ceramics) by means of a sintering technique requires a delicate balance among three conditions: (i)...

Aqueous Nanofluids Containing Paraffin-filled MWCNTs for Improving Effective Specific Heat and Extinction Coefficient

August 12, 2020

Author(s)

Tae Jong Choi, Sung Hyoun Kim, Seok Pil Jang, Lingnan Lin, Mark A. Kedzierski

Termination Switching of Antiferromagnetic Proximity Effect in Topological Insulator

August 12, 2020

Author(s)

Chao-Yao Yang, Lei Pan, Alexander Grutter, Haiying Wang, Xiaoyu Che, Qing L. He, Yingying Wu, Dustin A. Gilbert, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Hao Wu, Gen Yin, Peng Deng, Julie Borchers, William D. Ratcliff, Kang L. Wang

The magnetic proximity effect (MPE) allows exchange-coupling of topological insulators (TIs) with magnetically ordered materials to break time-reversal-symmetry...

Ultrafast spectroscopy of biliverdin dimethyl ester in solution: pathways of excited-state depopulation

August 11, 2020

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Yangyi Liu, Zhuang Chen, Xueli Wang, Simin Cao, Jianhua Xu, Ralph Jimenez, Jiaquan Chen

The Impact and Fate of Graphene Oxide in Graphene Oxide/Polymer Nanocomposites Exposed to Ultraviolet Irradiation

August 11, 2020

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David G. Goodwin, Trinny Lai, Yadong Lyu, Chen Yuan Lu, Alejandro Campos, Vytautas Reipa, Tinh Nguyen, Li Piin Sung

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation, heat and moisture can lead to polymer degradation outdoors but the effect of graphene oxide (GO) nanofiller incorporation on this...

Test of the Dynamic-Domain and Critical Scattering Hypotheses in Cubic Methylammonium Lead Triiodide

August 10, 2020

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Nicholas J. Weadock, Peter M. Gehring, Aryeh Gold-Parker, Ian C. Smith, Hemamala I. Karunadasa, Michael F. Toney

We investigate the hypothesis of dynamic tetragonal domains occuring in cubic CH 3NH 3PbI 3 using high-resolution neutron spectroscopy to study a fully...

Proteomics in non-model organisms: a new analytical frontier

August 9, 2020

Author(s)

Michelle Heck, Ben Neely

For the last century we have relied on model organisms to help understand fundamental biological processes. Now, with advancements in genome sequencing...