Journals

Elucidating the Role of Surface Chemistry on the Dispersion of Nanoparticles in Nanophase-Segregated Ionomer Nanocomposites

November 11, 2019

Author(s)

Allison Domhoff, Apoorv Balwani, Tyler Martin, Eric Davis

Ionomer nanocomposites provide a promising solution to address ion crossover issues inherent to traditional ion- containing membranes used in batteries for grid...

Understanding the characteristics of sequence-based single-source DNA profiles

November 9, 2019

Author(s)

Sarah Riman, Hariharan K. Iyer, Lisa A. Borsuk, Peter M. Vallone

The sequencing of STR markers provides additional information present in the underlying sequence variation that is typically masked by traditional fragment...

Harmonizing Across Environmental Nanomaterial Testing Media for Increased Comparability of Nanomaterial Datasets

November 8, 2019

Author(s)

Nicholas Geitner, Christine O. Hendren, Geert Cornelis, Ralf Kaegi, Jamie Lead, Gregory Lowry, Iseult Lynch, Bernd Nowack, Elijah Petersen, Emily Bernhardt, Scott Brown, Warren Chan, Camille de Garidel-Thoron, Jaydee Hanson, Stacey Harper, Kim Jones, Frank von der Kammer, Alan Kennedy, Justin Kidd, Cole Matson, Christopher Metcalf, Joel Pedersen, Willie Peijnenburg, Joris Quik, Sonia Rodriguez, Jerome Rose, Phil Sayre, Marie Simonin, Claus Svendsen, Robert Tanguay, Nathalie Tukenji, Tom van Teunenbroek, Gregory Thies, Yuan Tian, Jacelyn Rice, Jie Liu, Jason Unrine, Marina Vance, Jason White, Mark Wiesner

The chemical composition and properties of environmental media play defining roles in determining nanomaterial (NM) transport, fate, biouptake, and even...

Method for Evaluating Ion Mobility Spectrometers for Trace Detection of Fentanyl and Fentanyl- related Substances

November 8, 2019

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Jennifer R. Verkouteren, Jeffrey Lawrence, R. Michael Verkouteren, Edward Sisco

Continuing efforts to combat the opioid crisis in the U.S. require technologies that can detect the presence of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances for...

Correlating Decoherence in Transmon Qubits: Low Frequency Noise by Single Fluctuators

November 8, 2019

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Steffen Schlor, Jurgen Lisenfeld, Clemens Muller, Alexander Bilmes, Andre Schneider, David P. Pappas, Alexey V. Ustinov, Martin Weides

We report on long-term measurements of a highly coherent, nontunable superconducting transmon qubit, revealing low-frequency burst noise in coherence times and...

Optimal Series Resistors for On-Wafer Calibrations

November 8, 2019

Author(s)

Jasper A. Drisko, Richard A. Chamberlin, James C. Booth, Nathan D. Orloff, Christian J. Long

The series resistor is a common on-wafer device typically used in the series-resistor calibration and for estimating the capacitance per unit length of coplanar...

Metabolomics Test Materials for Quality Control: A Study of a Urine Materials Suite

November 7, 2019

Author(s)

Dan Bearden, David A. Sheen, Yamil Simon, Bruce A. Benner Jr., Werickson Fortunato de Carvalho Rocha, Niksa Blonder, Katrice A. Lippa, Richard Beger, Laura Schnackenberg, Jinchun Sun, Khyati Mehta, Amrita Cheema, Haiwei Gu, Ramesh Marupaka, Nagana Gowda, Daniel Raftery

There is a lack of experimental reference materials and standards for metabolomics measurements, such as urine, plasma, and other human fluid samples. Reasons...

ENTHALPY OF FORMATION OF AQUEOUS HYDROFLUORIC ACID: REVISION NEEDED?

November 7, 2019

Author(s)

Yauheni Paulechka, Andrei F. Kazakov

Accurate enthalpies of formation of hydrofluoric acid in the gas and liquid states as well as in aqueous solutions are critical for reduction and interpretation...

Anomaly in the Virial Expansion of IAPWS-95 at Low Temperatures

November 6, 2019

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey

In the standard reference equation of state for the thermodynamic properties of water, known as IAPWS-95, the fourth virial coefficient D(T) becomes abnormally...

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...

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 Levine

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

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...

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...