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With five trillion generated per year, cigarette butts are some of the most common litter worldwide. However, despite the potential environmental and human
Aaron Hagerstrom, Eric J. Marksz, Xiaohang Zhang, Xifeng Lu, Christian Long, James Booth, Ichiro Takeuchi, Nathan Orloff
Frequency-dependent linear permittivity measurements are commonplace in the literature, providing key insights into the structure of dielectric materials. These
A prominent application of quantum cryptography is the distribution of cryptographic keys that are provably secure. Such security proofs were extended by
Combination coverage based testing supplements basic structural coverage based test selection. This provides a sound test engineering method with defensible
Samuel D. Oberdick, Stephen E. Russek, Megan E. Poorman, Gary Zabow
We show that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to visualize the spatiotemporal dynamics of iron oxide nanoparticle growth within a hydrogel network
Xinjian Yan, Sanford Markey, Ramesh Marupaka, Qian Dong, Brian T. Cooper, Yuri Mirokhin, William E. Wallace, Stephen Stein
We describe the creation of a mass spectral library of acylcarnitines and conjugated acylcarnitines from the LC–MS/MS analysis of six NIST urine reference
Yi Luo, G. G. Marcus, Benjamin Trump, J. Kindervater, M. B. Stone, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Yiming Qiu, T. M. McQueen, O. Tchernyshyov, Collin L. Broholm
We report a comprehensive neutron scattering study of low energy magnetic excitations in the breathing pyrochlore helimagnetic Cu 2OSeO 3. Fully documenting the
Accurate pose of robot end effector is required in many applications. Typically, this is achieved by robot calibration and then, registration of the robot frame
Mihee Kim, Frank Heinrich, Greg Haugstad, Guichuan Yu, Guangcui Yuan, Sushil K. Satija, Wenjia Zhang, Hannah S. Seo, Joseph M. Metzger, Samira M. Azarin, Timothy P Lodge, Benjamin J. Hackel, Frank S. Bates
Maintaining the integrity of cell membranes is indispensable for cellular viability. Poloxamer 188 (P188), a poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(propylene oxide)-b-poly
Robert Brinson, Luke Arbogast, John Marino, Frank Delaglio
Quality attributes (QAs) are measureable parameters of a biologic that impact product safety and efficacy and are essential characteristics that are linked to
John E. Schiel, Coffman Jon, Bruno Marques, Griesbach Jan, Ambrose Williams, Gisela Ferreira, Rushd Khalaf, David Roush, Charles Haynes
Biopharmaceutical product and process development does not yet take advantage of predictive computational modeling to nearly the degree seen in industries based
Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Angela R. Hight Walker, Bojan R. Ilic, Andrey Krayev, Ashish Bhattarai, Alan G. Joly, Matej Velicky, Patrick Z. El-Khoury
Plasmonic tip-sample junctions, at which the incident and scattered optical fields are localized and optimally enhanced, are often exploited to achieve
Mingkang Wang, Rui Zhang, Robert Ilic, Vladimir Aksyuk, Yuxiang Liu
Microfabricated mechanical resonators enable precision measurement and transduction techniques from atomic force microscopy and inertial sensing to magnetometry
Duncan H. Moseley, Shelby E. Stavretis, Zhenhua Zhu, Mei Guo, Craig Brown, Mykhaylo Ozerov, Yongqiang Cheng, Luke L. Daemen, Rachael Richardson, Gary Knight, Komalavalli Thirunavukkuarasu, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Jinkui Tang, Zi-Ling Xue
Spin-phonon coupling plays a critical role in magnetic relaxation in single-molecule magnets (SMMs) and molecular qubits. Yet, few studies of its nature have
Ahmad R. Kirmani, Christopher M. Stafford, Lee J. Richter, Emily F. Roe
Metal oxide (MO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) are expected to enable low-cost flexible and printed electronics, given their excellent charge transport, low
Walk-through metal detectors (WTMDs) are the mainstay for screening people for the presence of metal threat and/or contraband objects at security checkpoints
Richard D. Holbrook, Clelia Dispenza, Maria Antonietta Sabatino, Natascia Grimaldi, Bjorn Dahlgren, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, James F. Wishart, Zois Tsinas, Mats Jonsson
In this work we have explored the nature of macroradicals formed upon radiolysis of aqueous poly(N-‐vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) solutions using pulse radiolysis
Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons, Joshua A. Gordon
With the re-definition of the International System of Units (SI) that occurred in October of 2018, there has recently been a great deal of attention in the
Alexander Lind, Abijith S. Kowligy, Henry R. Timmers, Flavio Caldas da Cruz, Nima Nader, Myles C. Silfies, Thomas K. Allison, Scott Papp, Scott Diddams
The mid-infrared atmospheric window of 3–5.5 μm holds valuable information regarding molecular composition and function for fundamental and applied spectroscopy
Joseph A. Falco, Daniel Hemphill, Kenneth E. Kimble, Elena R. Messina, Adam Norton, Rafael F. Ropelato, Holly A. Yanco
This paper describes a set of metrics and supporting benchmarking protocols for determining the performance characteristics of robot end-effectors. In the short
Ming Zheng, Anand Jagota, Yoona Yang, Arjun Sharma, Guillaume Noetinger
DNA/single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) hybrids have attracted significant interest due to their ability for SWCNT separation and their use as promising agents
Shendong Shi, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Vincent D. Lee, Daniel S. Sawyer
Photogrammetry based motion tracking systems are widely used in entertainment, medicine, sports, and other industries for low accuracy positioning applications
Kenneth Kimble, Joseph Falco, Elena R. Messina, Karl Van Wyk , Yu Sun, Mizuho Shibata, Wataru Uemura, Yasuyoshi Yokokohji
This paper presents a set of performance metrics, test methods, and associated artifacts to help progress the development and deployment of robotic assembly
Storing hydrogen efficiently in condensed material under mild conditions is a key technique challenge. Here, we developed a new family of hydrogen storage
Ian H. Bell, Guillaume Galliero, Stephanie Delage-Santacreu, Lorenzo Costigliola
In this work we propose a generic and simple definition of a line separating gas-like and liquid-like fluid behaviors in the supercritical region. We argue that
The hardness of the effective inverse-power-law potential, which can be obtained from thermodynamics or collision integrals, can be used to obtain a coherent