Journals

Enrichment of rare events using a multi-parameter high throughput microfluidic droplet sorter

January 17, 2020

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Sheng-Ting Hung, Srijit Mukherjee, Ralph Jimenez

Surface-reaction induced structural oscillations in the subsurface

January 16, 2020

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Xianhu Sun, Wenhui Zhu, Dongxiang WU, Chaoran Li, Jianyu Wang, Yaguang Zhu, Xiaobo Chen, Jorge A. Boscoboinik, Renu Sharma, Guangwen Zhou

Surface and subsurface are commonly considered as separate entities because of the difference in the bonding environment and are often investigated separately...

Microwave-to-optical transduction using a mechanical supermode for coupling piezoelectric and optomechanical resonators

January 16, 2020

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Marcelo H. Wu, Emil Zeuthen, Krishna Balram, Kartik Srinivasan

Circular photogalvanic spectroscopy of Rashba splitting in 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite multiple quantum wells

January 16, 2020

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Xiaojie Liu, Ashish Chanana, Uyen Huynh, Fei Xue, Paul M. Haney, Steve Blair, Xiaomei Jiang, Valy Vardeny

The two-dimensional (2D)-phenylethyl ammonium lead iodide (2D-PEPI) is an exemplary hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite, possessing large spin-orbit...

Magnetic Correlations in the Disordered Ferromagnetic Alloy Ni-V Revealed with Small Angle Neutron Scattering

January 16, 2020

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A. Schroeder, S. Bhattarai, A. Gebretsadik, H. Adawi, J.-G. Lussier, Kathryn L. Krycka

We present small angle neutron scattering (SANS) data collected on polycrystalline Ni 1-xV x samples with x ≥ 0:10 with confirmed random atomic distribution. We...

Graphene oxide/waterborne polyurethane nanocoatings: Effects of graphene oxide content on performance properties

January 15, 2020

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David G. Goodwin, Coralie Bernard, Xiaohong Gu, Mat Celina, Marc R. Nyden, Deborah S. Jacobs, Li Piin Sung, Tinh Nguyen

Graphene oxide (GO) is a good nanofiller candidate for waterborne coatings because of its outstanding physical and mechanical properties, good dispersibility in...

Effect of Vacancy Creation and Annihilation on Grain Boundary Motion

January 15, 2020

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Geoffrey B. McFadden, William J. Boettinger, Yuri Mishin

The interaction of vacancies with grain boundaries (GBs) is involved in many processes occurring in materials, including radiation damage healing and...

THE CERTIFICATION OF STANDARD REFERENCE MATERIAL 660C FOR POWDER DIFFRACTION

January 15, 2020

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David R. Black, Marcus H. Mendenhall, Albert Henins, James J. Filliben, James P. Cline

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certifies a suite of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) to evaluate specific aspects of instrument...

Transgranular Cracking in a Liquid Zn Embrittled High Strength Steel

January 15, 2020

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Diptak Bhattacharya, Lawrence Cho, Ellen Van der Aa, Hassan Ghassemi-Armaki, Andreas Pichler, Kip O. Findley, John G. Speer

Intergranular Zn-assisted liquid metal embrittlement (LME) cracks have been frequently reported in steels, involving austenite grain boundary penetration of...

Role of non-linear data processing on speech recognition task in the framework of reservoir computing

January 15, 2020

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Flavio Abreu Araujo, Mathieu Riou, Jacob Torrejon, Sumito Tsunegi, Damien Querlioz, K. Yakushiji, Akio Fukushima, Hitoshi Kubota, Shinji Yuasa, Mark D. Stiles, Julie Grollier

The reservoir computing neural network architecture is widely used to test hardware systems for neuromorphic computing. One of the preferred tasks for bench...

Valley Phenomena in the Candidate Phase Change Material WSe2(1-x)Te2x

January 15, 2020

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Sean M. Oliver, Joshua Young, Sergiy Krylyuk, Thomas L. Reinecke, Albert Davydov, Patrick M. Vora

Alloyed transition metals dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide the unique opportunity for coupling band engineering and valleytronic phenomena in an atomically-thin...

Scattering mechanism for quadratic evolution of depolarization

January 15, 2020

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Thomas A. Germer

It was recently demonstrated theoretically, when the polarimetric properties of a material depend only upon the direction transverse to that of propagation...

Input Space Coverage Matters

January 15, 2020

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David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei, Dimitris Simos

Testing is the most commonly used approach for software assurance, yet it remains as much judgement and art as science. Structural coverage adds some rigor to...

Structure of the cell-binding component of the Clostridium difficile binary toxin reveals a di- heptamer macromolecular assembly

January 14, 2020

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Xingjian Xu, Raquel Ruiz, Kaylin Adipietro, Christopher Peralta, Danya Ben-Hail, Kristen Varney, Mary Cook, Braden Roth, Paul Wilder, Thomas Cleveland, Alexander Grishaev, Heather Neu, Sarah Michel, Wenbo Yu, Dorothy Beckett, Richard Rustandi, Alex MacKerell, Amedee des Georges, Edwin Pozharski, David Weber

Targeting Clostridium difficile infection is challenging because treatment options are limited, and high recurrence rates are common. One reason for this is...

Overshoot Mitigation Using the Reference Governor Framework

January 12, 2020

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DJ Anand, Hamid Ossareh, Collin Freiheit

This paper presents a novel reference governor scheme for overshoot mitigation in a tracking control system. Our proposed scheme, referred to as the Reference...

Observation of an isomerizing double-well quantum system in the condensed phase

January 10, 2020

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Varun Verma, Jascha A. Lau, Arnab Choudhury, Li Chen, Dirk Schwarzer, Alec M. Wodtke

Molecules are quantum objects; therefore, isomerization fundamentally involves quantum states bound within a molecular potential energy function with multiple...

Implications of DNA Damage and DNA Repair on Human Diseases

January 10, 2020

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Bryant C. Nelson, M Miral Dizdar

Cellular DNA damage is implicated in the etiology and progression of many different types of human disorders and diseases. Much of the current research in the...

Experimental Low-Latency Device-Independent Quantum Randomness

January 10, 2020

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Yanbao Zhang, Lynden K. Shalm, Joshua C. Bienfang, Martin J. Stevens, Michael D. Mazurek, Sae Woo Nam, Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, Morgan Mitchell, Honghao Fu, Carl A. Miller, Alan Mink, Emanuel H. Knill

Applications of randomness such as private key generation and public randomness beacons require small blocks of certified random bits on demand. Device...

Detector-Agnostic Phase-Space Distributions

January 9, 2020

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Thomas Gerrits, Adriana Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Jan Sperling, David Phillips, Jacob Bulmer, G Thekkadath, A. Eckstein, T Wolterink, J Lugani, Wolfgang Vogel, G.S. Agarwal, Christine Silberhorn, Ian Walmsley

The representation of quantum states via phase-space functions constitutes an intuitive technique to characterize light. However, the reconstruction of such...

Recent achievements and current interests in research on characterization and quality control of biopharmacueticals in Japan?

January 9, 2020

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Akiko Ishii-Watabe, Hiroko Shibata, Hiroyuki Suetomo, Yosuke Ikeda, Srivalli Telikepalli, Masato Kiyoshi, Yu Hayashi, Takashi Muto, Yukako Tanaka, Satomi Ueda, Takafumi Iwura, Satoshi Saitoh, Michihiko Aoyama, Akira Harazono, Masashi Hyuga, Yukihiro Goda, Tetsuo Torisu, Susumu Uchiyama

The impact of the metal interface on the stability and quality of a therapeutic fusion protein

January 9, 2020

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Adrian P. Defante, Steven D. Hudson, Cavan K. Kalonia, Emma Keegan, Steven Bishop, Paul Santacroce, Satish Hasige

Subvisible particle formation which occurs after the sterile filtration step of the fill/finish process is challenge that may occur during the development of...

Structural stability of Co-V intermetallic phases and thermodynamic description of the Co-V system

January 9, 2020

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Peisheng Wang, Thomas Hammerschmidt, Ursula R. Kattner, Olson B. Gregory

The Co-V system has been reviewed. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations using the generalized gradient approximation were used to obtain the energies...

Modelling photovoltaic soiling losses through optical characterization

January 9, 2020

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Greg P. Smestad, Thomas Germer, Hameed Alrashidi, Eduardo F. Fern?ndez, Sumon Dey, Paidisetty S. Kumar, Honey Brahma, Aritra Ghosh, Nazmi Sellami, Ibrahim A. Hassan, Amal Kasry, Bala Pesala, S. Senthilarasu, Florencia Almonacid, K. S. Reddy, Tapas K. Mallick, Leonardo Micheli

The accumulation of soiling on photovoltaic (PV) modules affects PV systems worldwide. Soiling consists of mineral dust, soot particles, aerosols, pollen, fungi...

Materials Characterization With Multiple Offset Reflects at Frequencies to 110 GHz

January 8, 2020

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Nina P. Basta, Aaron Hagerstrom, Jasper A. Drisko, James Booth, Edward Garboczi, Christian Long, Nathan Orloff

Understanding the electrical properties of materials is a necessary part of any microwave circuit design. In this article, we explore the possibility of...

Organoarsenicals in Seafood: Occurrence, Dietary Exposure, Toxicity, and Risk Assessment Considerations − A Review

January 8, 2020

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Caleb Luvonga, Catherine A. Rimmer, Lee L. Yu, Sang B. Lee

Diet, especially seafood, is the main source of arsenic exposure for humans. Total arsenic content provides limited information for evaluation of the...

Selective Ethane/Ethylene Separation in a Robust Microporous Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework

January 8, 2020

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Xu Zhang, Libo Li, Jia-Xin Wang, Hui-Min Wen, Rajamani Krishna, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Zhong-Ning Chen, Bin Li, Guodong Qian, Banglin Chen

The separation of ethane (C 2H 6) from ethylene (C 2H 4) is of prime importance in the production of polymergrade C 2H 4 for industrial manufacturing. It is...

Ultranarrow linewidth photonic-atomic laser

January 8, 2020

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Wei Zhang, Liron Stern, David R. Carlson, Douglas G. Bopp, Zachary L. Newman, Songbai Kang, John Kitching, Scott Papp

Lasers with high spectral purity can enable a diverse application space, including precision spectroscopy, coherent high-speed communications, physical sensing...

Database-Assisted Design of Purlins and Girts for Wind Accounting for Directionality

January 8, 2020

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Dat Duthinh, Emil Simiu

For the database-assisted design (DAD) of low-rise building purlins and girts, a method is proposed that explicitly accounts for wind directionality by using...

Detection Orthogonality in Macromolecular Separations. 2. Exploring Wavelength Orthogonality and Spectroscopic Invisibility Using SEC/DRI/UV/FL

January 7, 2020

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Andre M. Striegel, Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander

We continue herein the exploration of detector orthogonality in size-based macromolecular separations. Previously [5], the sensitivity of viscometric detection...

Efficient Randomness Certification by Quantum Probability Estimation

January 7, 2020

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Emanuel H. Knill, Yanbao Zhang, Honghao Fu

For practical applications of quantum randomness generation, it is important to produce a fixed block of fresh random bits with as few trials as possible...