Journals

Cold Microscopy Solves Hot Problems in Energy Storage

November 6, 2019

Author(s)

Andrew A. Herzing, Dean M. DeLongchamp

Locality and Heating in Periodically Driven, Power-law Interacting Systems

November 6, 2019

Author(s)

Minh Cong Tran, Adam Ehrenberg, Andrew Guo, Paraj Titum, Dmitry Abanin, Alexey Gorshkov

Flow Resistance & Structures in Viscoelastic Channel Flows at Low Re

November 5, 2019

Author(s)

Boyang Qin, Paul Salipante, Steven Hudson, Paulo E. Arratia

The flow of viscoelastic fluids in channels and pipes remain poorly understood, particularly at low Reynolds numbers. Here, we investigate the flow of polymeric...

Contactless Resonant Cavity Dielectric Spectroscopic Studies of Recycled Office Papers

November 5, 2019

Author(s)

Mary Kombolias, Jan Obrzut, Michael T. Postek, Dianne L. Poster, Yaw S. Obeng

Current product composition and quality test methods for the paper and pulp industry are rooted in wet-bench chemistry techniques which are highly subjective...

Soft X-ray spectroscopy with transition-edge sensors at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource beamline 10-1

November 5, 2019

Author(s)

Sang-Jun Lee, Charles Titus, Roberto A. Mori, Michael Baker, Douglas Bennett, Hsiao-Mei Cho, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Joseph Fowler, Kelly J. Gaffney, Allesandro Gallo, Johnathon Gard, Gene C. Hilton, Hoyoung Jang, Young I. Joe, Christopher Kenney, Jason Knight, Thomas Kroll, Jun-Sik Lee, Dale Li, Donhui Lu, Ronald Marks, Michael Minitti, Kelsey Morgan, Ogasawara Hirohito, Galen O'Neil, Carl D. Reintsema, Dan Schmidt, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Joel Ullom, Tsu-Chien Weng, Christopher Williams, Betty A. Young, Daniel Swetz, Kent D. Irwin, Dennis Nordlund

We present results obtained with a new soft X-ray spectrometer based on transition-edge sensors (TESs) composed of Mo/Cu bilayers coupled to bismuth absorbers...

First-Pass design of UWB Microwave and Millimeter-wave Filters for Multi-Stage Frequency Multiplication

November 4, 2019

Author(s)

H. M. Talasila, F. R. Morales, Nathan Orloff, Dazhen Gu, C. Oakley, J. Paden, M. McKeown

Compact microwave and millimeter (mm-wave) wave filters with fractional bandwidths exceeding 20 % are in demand for applications such as wireless communications...

Predicting strength distributions of MEMS structures using flaw size and spatial density

November 4, 2019

Author(s)

Robert F. Cook, Frank W. DelRio, Brad L. Boyce

The populations of flaws in individual layers of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) structures are determined and verified using a combination of specialized...

Characterization of junction uniformity in Nb/NbxSi¬1-x/Nb Josephson junctions through automated probing at room temperature and 4K

November 4, 2019

Author(s)

Ian W. Haygood, Eric R. Edwards, Anna E. Fox, Matthew R. Pufall, Michael L. Schneider, William H. Rippard, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz

Elusive Valence Transition in Mixed-Valence Sesquioxide Cs₄O₆

November 4, 2019

Author(s)

Ross H. Colman, H. Esma Okur, Winfried Kockelmann, Craig Brown, Annette Sans, Claudia Felser, Martin Jansen, Kosmas Prassides

Cs 4O 6 is a mixed valence molecular oxide with a cubic structure, comprising valency-delocalized O 2 4/3- units and with properties highly sensitive to cooling...

Realization of Interlayer Ferromagnetic Interaction in MnSb₂Te₄ toward the Magnetic Weyl Semimetal State

November 4, 2019

Author(s)

Taito Murakami, Yusuke Nambu, Takashi Koretsune, Gu Xiangyu, Takafumi Yamamoto, Craig Brown, Hiroshi Kageyama

Magnetism in the newly synthesized topological magnet Sb 2MnTe 4 is examined. Magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and neutron diffraction measurements...

Recognition of DNA adducts by edited and unedited forms of DNA glycosylase NEIL1

November 2, 2019

Author(s)

Irina G. Minko, Vladimir Vartanian, Naoto Tozaki, Erdem Coskun, Sanem Hosbas Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, J Yeo, M.P. Stone, M Egli, Miral M. Dizdar, Amanda K. McCullough, R S. Lloyd

Pre-mRNA encoding human NEIL1 undergoes editing by adenosine deaminase ADAR1 that converts a single adenosine to inosine, and this conversion results in an...

Nestor: A Tool for Natural Language Annotation of Short Texts

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Michael Brundage, Rachael Sexton

Nestor is a software tool that annotates natural language CSV (comma-separated variable) files, with a UTF-8 encoding, using a process called tagging [1]. The...

Selective spin inversion in solution by magic field cross polarization

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Joel Tolman, Luke Arbogast

A pulsed element is proposed allowing the selective inversion of a single 1H nucleus, without regard to the presence of other degenerate 1H nuclei, provided...

Reversible Epitaxial Electrodeposition of Metals in Battery Anodes

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Jingxu Zheng, Qing Zhao, Tian Tang, Jiefu Yin, Calvin D. Quilty, Genesis D. Renderos, Xiaotun Liu, Yue Deng, Lei Wang, David C. Bock, Cherno Jaye, Esther S. Takeuchi, Kenneth J. Takeuchi, Amy C. Marschilok, Lynden A. Archer

The propensity of metals to form irregular and non-planar electrodeposits at liquid/solid interfaces has emerged as a fundamental barrier to high-energy...

Measurements and Predictions of Thermophoretic Soot Deposition

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Amy E. Mensch, Thomas G. Cleary

A thin laminar flow channel with a transverse temperature gradient was used to examine thermophoretic deposition of soot aerosol particles in experiments and...

Design of the ASTM E119 fire environment in a large compartment

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Chao Zhang, William L. Grosshandler, Ana Sauca, Lisa Y. Choe

This paper presents a basis for designing the ASTM E119 fire environment in a large compartment of about 10 m wide, 7 m deep and 3.8 m high constructed in the...

An improved program for the estimation of protein theoretical relative molecular mass and uncertainty

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Eric L. Kilpatrick

Here is presented the NIST Mass Calculator to provide both a relative molecular mass value (Mr) and an associated uncertainty value of a given protein sequence...

Rheology of crystallizing polymers: The role of spherulitic superstructures, gap height, and nucleation densities

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Debjani Roy, Debra Audus, Kalman D. Migler

A longstanding goal in polymer rheology is to develop a physical picture that relates the growth of mechanical moduli during polymer crystallization to that of...

Towards Estimating the Uncertainty Associated with 3D Geometry Reconstructed from Medical Image Data

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Marc Horner, Karim O. Genc, Stephen M. Luke, Todd M. Pietila, Ross T. Cotton, Benjamin Ache, Kevin C. Townsend, Zachary H. Levine

Patient-specific computational modeling is increasingly being used to assist with the visualization, planning and execution of medical treatments. This trend is...

Effect of Common U.S. Ground Motion Selection Methods on the Structural Response of Steel Moment Frame Buildings

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Raul Uribe, Siamak Sattar, Matthew Speicher, Luis Ibarra

This study quantifies the impact of two common ground motion (GM) selection methods, included in U.S. standards, on the seismic performance evaluation of steel...

Magnetic Ground State and Magnetic Excitations in Black Dioptase Cu₆Si₆O₁₈

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

A. Podlesnyak, O. Prokhnenko, S. E. Nikitin, A. I. Kolesnikov, M. Matsuda, Sachith E. Dissanayake, Timothy R Prisk, H. Nojiri, I. F. Diaz-Ortega, L. M. Anovitz

The low-temperature magnetic properties and magnetic structure of fully dehydrated black dioptase Cu 6Si 6O 18 have been studied by single-crystal neutron...

Recent trends in crystallography a current IUCr journals perspective

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Andrew J. Allen

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) publishes papers in nine scientific journals, including its high-impact, cross-cutting open-access journal...

A Graph-based Automatic Services Composition based on Cost Estimation Heuristic

October 31, 2019

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Yunsu Lee, Minchul Lee, Yun Peng, Nenad Ivezic

Currently, software and hardware are being virtualized and offered as services on the internet. Companies have an opportunity to improve their workflow by...

Sensitive Method for the Confident Identification of Genetically Variant Peptides in Human Hair

October 31, 2019

Author(s)

Zheng Zhang, Meghan Burke, William E. Wallace, Yuxue Liang, Sergey L. Sheetlin, Yuri Mirokhin, Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi, Stephen Stein

Recent reports have demonstrated that genetically variant peptides (GVPs) derived from human hair shaft proteins can be used to differentiate individuals of...

Enriching Analytics Models with Domain Knowledge for Smart Manufacturing Data Analysis

October 31, 2019

Author(s)

Heng Zhang, Utpal Roy, Yung-Tsun Lee

Today, data analytics plays an important role in Smart Manufacturing decision making. Domain knowledge is very important to support the development of analytics...

Copper Nanocubes for CO2 Reduction in Gas Diffusion Electrodes

October 31, 2019

Author(s)

Yuxuan Wang, Hao Shen, Ken J. Livi, David Raciti, Han Zong, John Gregg, Mofopefoluwa Onadeko, Yidong Wang, Adam Watson, Chao Wang

Electroreduction of CO2 represents a promising solution for addressing the global challenges in energy and sustainability. The reaction is highly sensitive to...

Your Mileage May Vary

October 30, 2019

Author(s)

Elena R. Messina

Requiring and rethinking reproducibility will foster faster progress in robotics.

An updated protocol based on CLSI document C37 for preparation of off-the-clot serum from individual units for use alone or to prepare commutable pooled serum reference materials

October 30, 2019

Author(s)

Johanna Camara, Uliana Danilenko, Hubert W. Vesper, Gary L. Myers, Patric A. Clapshaw, W. Greg Miller

Manufacturers of in-vitro diagnostic medical devices, clinical laboratories, research laboratories and calibration laboratories require commutable reference...

Measurement of mass of aerosol particles

October 30, 2019

Author(s)

Kevin J. Coakley, Robert C. Hagwood, Kensei Ehara, Nobuhiko Fukushima, Kittichote Worachotekamjorn, Naoko Tajima, Hiromu Sakurai

An aerosol particle mass analyzer (APM) which classifies aerosol particles according to their mass has been developed. Mass distributions of aerosol particles...

Phase-Appropriate Application of Analytical Methods to Monitor Subvisible Particles Across the Biotherapeutic Drug Product Life Cycle

October 30, 2019

Author(s)

Roman Mathaes, Linda Narhi, Andrea Hawe, Anja Matter, Karoline Bechtold-Peters, Sophia Kenrick, Sambit Kar, Olga Laskina, John Carpenter, Richard E. Cavicchi, Ellen Koepf, Neil Lewis, Rukman De Sliva, Dean C. Ripple

The phase-appropriate application of analytical methods to characterize, monitor, and control particles is an important aspect of the development of safe and...