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Journals

Concordant inter-laboratory derived concentrations of ceramides in human plasma reference materials via authentic standards

Author(s)
Tracey Schock, Christina Jones, Federico Torta, Nils Hoffmann, Bo Burla, Irina Alecu, Makoto Arita, Takeshi Bamba, Steffany A.L. Bennett, Justine BERTRAND-MICHEL, Britta Brugger, Mónica Molina, María Dolores Camacho Muñoz, Antonio Checa, Michael Chen, Michelle Cinel, Benoit COLSCH, Cristina Coman, Bebiana Da Costa Sousa, Alex Dickens, Maria Maria, Finnur Freyr Eiríksson, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Mohan Ghorasaini, Martin Giera, Xue Guan, Mark Haid, Thomas Hankemeier, Amy Harms, Marcus Höring, Michal Holčapek, Thorsten Hornemann, Chunxiu Hu, Andreas Hülsmeier, Julijana Ivanisevic, Harald Köfeler, Sin Man Lam, Jong Cheol Lee, Gerhard Liebisch, Andrea F Lopez-Clavijo, Malena Manzi, Peter Meikle, Maria Monge, Sneha Muralidharan, Anna Nicolaou, Valerie O'Donnell, Matej Oresic, Arvind Ramanathan, Daisuke Saigusa, Heidi Schwartz-Zimmermann, Guanghou Shui, Masatomo Takahashi, Margrét Thorsteinsdóttir, Anthony Tournadre, Hiroshi Tsugawa, Victoria Tyrrell, Grace van der Gugten, Michael Wakelam, Craig Wheelock, Denise Wolrab, Guowang Xu, John Bowden, Kim Ekroos, Robert Ahrends, Markus Wenk
In this community effort, we compared measurements between 34 laboratories from 19 countries, utilizing mixtures of authentic synthetic standards, to quantify

Nanotechnology solutions for the climate crisis

Author(s)
Maria F. Campa, Craig Brown, Peter Byrley, Jason Delborne, Nicholas Glavin, Craig Green, Mark Griep, Tina Kaarsberg, Igor Linkov, Jeffrey B. Miller, Joshua E. Porterfield, Birgit Schwenzer, Quinn Spadola, Branden Brough, James Warren
Climate change is one of humankind's biggest challenges, leading to more frequent and intense climate extremes, including heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes

Preliminary observations of the April 5th, 2024, Mw4.8 New Jersey Earthquake

Author(s)
Oliver Boyd, William Barnhart, James Bourke, Martin Chapman, Paul Earle, Guo-chin Dino Huang, Jessica Thompson Jobe, Won-Young Kim, Frederik Link, Mairi Litherland, Andrew Lloyd, Maureen D. Long, Sara McBride, Andrew Michael, Walter Mooney, Gregory Mountain, Aspasia Nikolaou, Alexandros Savvaidis, Felix Waldhauser, Cecily Wolfe, Clara Yoon
On April 5, 2024, at 10:23 am local time, a moment magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Tewksbury Township, NJ, about 65 km west of the New York City metropolitan

VHF Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

Author(s)
Jeremy Thomas, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Anna Fox, Akim Babenko, Samuel Benz, Paul Dresselhaus
We report on the design, fabrication, and measurement of a Very High Frequency band Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (VHF-JAWS) at frequencies up to 50

Quantification Approaches in Non-Target LC/ESI/HRMS Analysis: An Interlaboratory Comparison

Author(s)
Clay Davis, Anneli Kruve-Viil, Louise Malm, Jaanus Liigand, Reza Aalizadeh, Nikiforos Alygizakis, Emil Egede Fro̷kjær, Mulatu Yohannes Nanusha, Martin Hansen, Merle Plassmann, Stefan Bieber, Thomas Letzel, Lydia Balest, Pier Paolo Abis, Michele Mazzetti, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Nicola Ceolotto, Sangeeta Kumari, Stephan Hann, Sven Kochmann, Teresa Steininger-Mairinger, Coralie Soulier, Giuseppe Mascolo, Sapia Murgolo, Manuel Garcia-Vara, Miren López de Alda, Juliane Hollender, Katarzyna Arturi, Gianluca Coppola, Massimo Peruzzo, Hanna Joerss, Carla van der Neut-Marchand, Eelco N. Pieke, Ruben Gil-Solsona, Viktória Licul-Kucera, Claudio Roscioli, Sara Valsecchi, Austeja Luckute, Jan H. Christensen, Selina Tisler, Dennis Vughs, Nienke Meekel, Begoña Talavera Andújar, Dagny Aurich Dagny Aurich, Emma L. Schymanski, Gianfranco Frigerio, André Macherius, Uwe Kunkel, Tobias Bader, Pawel Rostkowski, Hans Gundersen, Belinda Valdecanas, Bastian Schulze, Sarit Kaserzon, Martijn Pijnappels, Mar Esperanza, Aurélie Fildier, Emmanuelle Vulliet, Laure Wiest, Adrian Covaci, Alicia Macan Schönleben, Lidia Belova, Alberto Celma, Lubertus Bijlsma, Emilie Caupos, Emmanuelle Mebold, Julien Le Roux, Eugenie Troia, Eva de Rijke, Rick Helmus, Gaëla Leroy, Niels Haelewyck, David Chrastina, Milan Verwoert, Nikolaos S. Thomaidis
Nontargeted screening (NTS) utilizing liquid chromatography electrospray ionization high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC/ESI/HRMS) is increasingly used to

A network of cooler white dwarfs as infrared standards for flux calibration

Author(s)
Abbigail Elms, Nicola Gentile Fusillo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, ralph bohlin, Mark Hollands, Snehalata Sahu, Mairi O'Brien, Susana Deustua, Tim Cunningham
The accurate flux calibration of observational data is vital for astrophysics and cosmology because absolute flux uncertainties of stellar standards propagate i

Setting standards for data driven materials science

Author(s)
Keith Butler, Kamal Choudhary, Gabor Csanyi, Alex Ganose, Sergei Kalinin, Dane Morgan
A young Steve Jobs once called computers 'bicycles for the mind' – he was referring to the dramatic decrease in the energetic cost of transportation that could

Synthesis and Size Dependence of Strongly Interacting Ferrite Nano-Objects: Implications for Magnetic Particle Imaging and Spatially Resolved Thermometry

Author(s)
Frank Abel, Eduardo De Lima Correa, Thinh Bui, Adam Biacchi, Michael J. Donahue, Mia Merritt, Jonathan Seppala, Solomon I. Woods, Angela Hight Walker, Cindi Dennis
High crystal quality nano-ferrites with short surface ligands (oleic acid) were recently shown to exhibit enhanced spatial resolution in magnetic particle

Feasibility of Metrological Traceability Implementation Using the Joint Committee on Traceability in Laboratory Medicine Database Entries Including the Fulfillment of "Fit-for-Purpose" Maximum Allowable Measurement Uncertainty

Author(s)
MAURO PANTEGHINI, Johanna Camara, VINCENT DELATOUR, Katleen Van Uytfanghe, Hubert Vesper, Tianjiao Zhang
Background: In previous publications, the Task Force on Reference Measurement System Implementation proposed a procedural approach combining a critical review

Topological Hall Effect Induced by Chiral Fluctuations in ErMn6Sn6

Author(s)
Kyle Fruhling, Alenna Streeter, Sougata Mardanya, Xiaoping Wang, Priya Baral, Oksana Zaharko, Igor Mazin, Sugata Chowdhury, William Ratcliff, Fazel Tafti
Topological Hall effect (THE) is a hallmark of scalar spin chirality, which is found in static skyrmion lattices. Recent theoretical works have shown that

Unusually strong near-infrared photoluminescence of highly transparent bulk InSe flakes

Author(s)
Jamie Geng, Dehui Zhang, Inha Kim, Hyong Min Kim, Naoiki Higashitarumizu, I K M Reaz Rahman, Lam Lam, Joel W. Ager III, Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Ali Javey
Bulk γ-InSe has a direct bandgap of 1.24 eV, which corresponds to near infrared wavelengths (λ = 1.0 µm) useful in optoelectronic applications from biometric

On-chip synthesis of quasi two-dimensional semimetals from multi-layer chalcogenides

Author(s)
Jun Cai, Huairuo Zhang, Yuanqiu Tan, Zheng Sun, Rahul Tripathi, Peng Wu, Sergiy Krylyuk, Caleb Suhy, Jing Kong, Albert Davydov, Zhihong Chen, Joerg Appenzeller
Reducing the dimensions of materials from three to two, or quasi-two, provides a fertile platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena and developing next
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