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Journals

Social and Economic Components of Resilient Multi-Hazard Building Design

October 3, 2019

Author(s)

Katherine Johnson, Juan Fung, Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Therese McAllister, Steven McCabe

In 2017, U.S. damages from natural hazard events exceeded $300B, suggesting that current targets for building performance do not sufficiently mitigate loss. The...

Non-solvating, side-chain polymer electrolytes as lithium single-ion conductors: synthesis and ion transport characterization

October 3, 2019

Author(s)

Jiacheng Liu, Phillip Pickett, Bumjun Park, Sunil Upadhyay, Sara Orski, Jennifer Schaefer

Solid-state single-ion conducting polyelectrolytes have drawn considerable interest for secondary lithium batteries due to their high ion conductivities under...

Ultrathin Wetting Layer-Free Plasmonic Gold Films

October 3, 2019

Author(s)

Robert Lemasters, Cheng Zhang, Manoj Manjare, Wenqi Zhu, Junyeob Song, Sergei Urazhdin, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Hayk Harutyunyan

Ultrathin gold films are attractive for plasmonic and metamaterial devices, thanks to their useful optical and optoelectronic properties. However, deposition of...

Calibration

October 2, 2019

Author(s)

Lane C. Sander

In the context of chemical metrology, calibration is the process of relating a known quantity of an analyte to the corresponding measured instrumental response...

Effect of partial coherence on dimensional measurement sensitivity for DUV scatterfield imaging microscopy

October 2, 2019

Author(s)

Yoon Sung Bae, Martin Sohn, Dong-Ryoung Lee, Sang-Soo Choi

Optical scatterfield imaging microscopy technique which has the capability of controlling scattered fields in the imaging mode is useful for quantitative...

Plastic Marine Debris Polymers in the Hawaiian Islands: Beach, Sea Surface, and Seafloor

October 2, 2019

Author(s)

Kayla C. Brignac, Melissa R. Jung, Cheryl King, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Lauren Blickley, Megan Lamson, James Potemra, Jennifer Lynch

Identifying the polymer type of plastic marine debris is crucial for understanding sources, fate, transport, and effects of this emerging global contaminant in...

Potential Use of Lightweight Aggregate (LWA) Produced from Bottom Coal Ash for Internal Curing of Concrete Systems

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Mohammad Balapour, Weijin Zhao, Edward Garboczi, Nay Ye Oo, Sabrina Spatari, Grace Hsuan, Peter Billen, Yaghoob Farnam

This study evaluates the potential use of a novel lightweight aggregate (LWA), spherical porous reactive aggregate (SPoRA), which is produced from waste coal...

Simulation of Copper Electrodeposition in Through-Hole Vias

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Trevor M. Braun, Daniel Josell, Thomas P. Moffat, Jimmy John

Copper electrodeposition processes for filling metallized through-hole (TH) and through-silicon vias (TSV) depend on selective breakdown of a co-adsorbed...

2D J-correlated proton NMR experiments for structural fingerprinting of biotherapeutics

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Robert G. Brinson, John P. Marino

The higher order structure (HOS) of biotherapeutics is essential for drug safety and efficacy and can be evaluated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)...

Revealing the emergence of classicality in nitrogen-vacancy centers

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas Unden, Daniel Louzon, Michael P. Zwolak, Wojciech Zurek, Fedor Jelezko

The origin of classical behavior of quantum systems is a long-standing mystery. Here, we examine a nitrogen vacancy center evolving naturally in the presence of...

Field-Tunable Quantum Disordered Ground State in the Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnet NaYbO₂

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Mitchell M. Bordelon, Eric Kenney, Chunxiao Liu, Tom Hogan, Lorenzo Posthuma, Marzieh Kavand, Yuangqi Lyu, Mark Sherwin, Nicholas Butch, Craig Brown, M. J. Graf, Leon Balents, Stephen D. Wilson

One of the simplest routes to pursuing magnets with strong quantum fluctuations that quench conventional order is via decorating a triangular lattice with...

Broadband Resonator-Waveguide Coupling for Efficient Extraction of Octave Spanning Microcombs

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Gregory Moille, Qing Li, Travis Briles, Su P. Yu, Tara E. Drake, Xiyuan Lu, Ashutosh Rao, Daron Westly, Scott Papp, Kartik Srinivasan

Frequency combs spanning over an octave have been successfully demonstrated on-chip in Kerr nonlinear microresonators, thanks to their large effective...

Microstructure of Neat and SBS Modified Asphalt Binder by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Liyan Shan, Ru Xie, Norman J. Wagner, Hongsen He, Yun Liu

The microstructure of asphalt binders has been believed to have a significant impact on the performance of binders used in roadway constructions. However, there...

Numerical solution of inward solidification of a dilute ternary solution towards a semi-permeable spherical cell

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Daniel M. Anderson, James Benson, Anthony J. Kearsley

We study a free-boundary problem arising in the cryopreservation of a biological cell. In particular, we examine a spherically-symmetric model of a biological...

Oxidative Potential of Particles at a Research House: Influencing Factors and Comparison with Outdoor Particles

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Shahana S. Khurshid, Steven Emmerich, Andrew K. Persily

The oxidative potential (OP) of particles can be represented by the ability of particles to generate hydroxyl radicals in an aqueous solution which can be...

Lattice theory for binding of linear polymers to a solid substrate from polymer melts: II. Influence of van der Waals interactions and chain semi?exibility on molecular binding and adsorption

September 30, 2019

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Jacek Dudowicz, Karl Freed

The Polymeric Langmuir Theory (PLT), developed in Paper I, is employed to investigate the inﬂuence of van der Waals interactions and chain rigidity on the...

Systematic uncertainty due to background-gas collisions in trapped-ion optical clocks

September 30, 2019

Author(s)

Aaron M. Hankin, Ethan Clements, Huang Yao, Samuel M. Brewer, Jwo-Sy Chen, Chin-wen Chou, David Hume, David Leibrandt

We describe a framework for calculating the frequency shift and uncertainty of trapped-ion optical atomic clocks caused by background-gas collisions, and apply...

Phonon Dispersion of Mo-stabilized -γ-U measured using Inelastic X-ray Scattering

September 30, 2019

Author(s)

Z. E. Brubaker, Sheng NMN Ran, A. H. Said, M. E. Manley, P. Soderlind, D. Rosas, Y. Idell, R. J. Zieve, Nicholas Butch, J. R. Jeffries

We have measured the room-temperature phonon spectrum of Mo-stabilized γ−U. The dispersion curves show unusual softening near the H point, q=[1/2,1/2,1/2]...

Study of the neutron spin-orbit interaction in silicon

September 29, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas R. Gentile, Michael G. Huber, Muhammad D. Arif, Daniel Hussey, David Jacobson, Donald D. Koetke, Murray Peshkin, Thomas Dombeck, Paul Nord, Dimitry A. Pushin, Robert Smither

The neutron spin-orbit interaction, which results from the interaction of a moving neutron's magnetic dipole moment (MDM) with the atomic electric fields...

Characterization of the Ultralow Interfacial Tension in Liquid-Liquid Phase Separated Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates by the Deformed Drop Retraction Method

September 27, 2019

Author(s)

Vivek M. Prabhu, Samim Ali

Tensile Testing of Aged Flexible Unidirectional Composite Laminates for Body Armor

September 27, 2019

Author(s)

Amy E. Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Faraz A. Burni, Amanda L. Forster

Flexible Unidirectional (UD) composite laminates are commonly being used for ballistic- resistant body armor. These laminates are comprised of UD layers, each...

Lattice theory for binding of linear polymers to a solid substrate from polymer melts: I. In?uence of chain connectivity on molecular binding and adsorption

September 27, 2019

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, J Dudowicz, Freed Karl

Most theories of the molecular binding to surfaces, or between molecules, treat the binding species as structureless entities and further neglect their rigidity...

Pumpless Microfluidic Devices for Generating Healthy and Diseased Endothelia

September 27, 2019

Author(s)

Yang Yang, Parinaz Fathi, Glenn Holland, Dipanjan Pan, Nam Wang, Mandy Esch

We have developed a pumpless cell culture platform that can recirculate small amounts of cell culture medium (400 µL) in a unidirectional or bidirectional flow...

Discriminative potential of ion mobility spectrometry for the detection of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues relative to confounding environmental interferents

September 27, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas Forbes, Jeffrey Lawrence, Jennifer R. Verkouteren, R. Michael Verkouteren

The opioid crisis and emergence of fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, and other synthetic opioids has highlighted the need for sensitive and robust detection for...

Separation and detection of trace fentanyl from complex mixtures using gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis

September 27, 2019

Author(s)

Shannon T. Krauss, Thomas Forbes, David Ross

The current opioid epidemic remains an ongoing challenge, exacerbated by the extreme potency of synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl and fentanyl analogues)...

Kerr Microresonator Soliton Frequency Combs at Cryogenic Temperatures

September 27, 2019

Author(s)

Gregory Moille, Xiyuan Lu, Ashutosh Rao, Qing Li, Daron Westly, Leonardo Ranzani, Scott Papp, Mohammad Soltani, Kartik Srinivasan

We present measurements of silicon nitride nonlinear microresonators and frequency comb generation at cryogenic temperatures as low as 7 K. A resulting two...

The Interfacial Zone in Thin Polymer Films and Around Nanoparticles in Polymer Nanocomposites

September 26, 2019

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Wengang Zhang, Hamed Emamy, Fernando Vargas-Lara, Beatriz Betancourt, Francis W. Starr

We perform coarse-grained simulations of model unentangled polymer materials to quantify the range over which interfaces alter the structure and dynamics in the...

Screening of Chemical Libraries Using a Yeast Model of Retinal Disease

September 25, 2019

Author(s)

Benjamin M. Scott

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a degenerative retinal disease, often caused by mutations in the G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin. The majority of pathogenic...

Effects of Al-Si Coating and Zn Coating on the Hydrogen Uptake and Embrittlement of Ultra-High Strength Press-Hardened Steel

September 25, 2019

Author(s)

Kyoung Rae Jo, Lawrence Cho, Dimas H. Sulistiyo, Eun Jung Seo, Seong Woo Kim, Bruno C. De Cooman

Press-hardened steel (PHS), used for automotive safety-related structure parts, is sensitive to hydrogen embrittlement due to its martensitic microstructure...

Characterization of Zinc Carboxylates in an Oil Paint Test Panel

September 25, 2019

Author(s)

Christine Romano, Thomas Lam, G. Asher Newsome, Joshua A. Taillon, Nicole Little, Jia-sun Tsang

Zinc (carboxylate) soaps, formed by reactions between zinc oxide (ZnO) and fatty acids in a drying oil, are known to cause deterioration in the paint layers of...

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