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David Travis Gallagher, Connor V. Galvin, Ioannis Karageorgos
As the link between antigen binding and immune activation, the antibody Fc region has received extensive structural study. In this report, the structure of the...
This paper constructs an unconditionally stable explicit difference scheme, marching backward in time, that can solve an important, but limited, class of time...
Faced with the scalability and reliability challenge, the DNS is increasingly operated by geographically dispersed data centers. Energy management across those...
After serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the past three years, I am very pleased to turn over the editorial torch to Dr. Yi Qian who served as the Associate...
Marco A. Blanco Medina, Harold W. Hatch, Joseph E. Curtis, Vincent K. Shen
The theoretical framework to evaluate small-angle scattering (SAS) profiles for multi-component macromolecular solutions is re-examined from the standpoint of...
Surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRAS) was used to examine the co- adsorption of a selection of polyethers with Cl- under conditions...
Chiao Wang, Michael Gullans, James V. Porto, William D. Phillips, Jacob Taylor
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a quantum phase of matter achieved at low temperatures.Photons, one of the most prominent species of bosons, do not...
An effective attractive potential can be introduced between colloidal particles dispersed in a binary solvent when the solvent condition approaches its demixing...
The densities and speeds of sound of four surrogate diesel fuels of varying compositional accuracy were measured at atmospheric pressure over the combined...
Robert Best, Alessandro Borgia, Wenwei Zheng, Karin Buholzer, Madeleine Borgia, Hagen Hofmann, Daniel Nettels, Klaus Gast, Alexander Grishaev, Benjamin Schuler
The degree of compaction inferred from SAXS experiments by Riback et al. for unfolded proteins in water versus chemical denaturant is highly consistent with the...
Propylene (C 3H 6)/propane (C 3H 8) separation is one of the most challenging as well as most energy-intensive separation processes in the petrochemical...
Qing Lin He, Gen Yin, Luyan Yu, Alexander Grutter, Lei Pan, Chui-Zhen Chen, Xiaoyu Che, Guoqiang Yu, Bin Zhang, Qiming Shao, Alexander L. Stern, Brian Casas, Jing Xia, Xiaodong Han, Brian Kirby, Roger K. Lake, K. T. Law, Kang L. Wang
Ferromagnetism in topological insulators (TIs) opens a topologically non-trivial exchange band gap, providing an exciting platform for manipulating the...
Ashton S. Hemphill, Yuecheng Shen, Jeeseong C. Hwang, Lihong V. Wang
Digital optical phase conjugation (DOPC) enables many optical applications by permitting focusing of light through scattering media. However, DOPC systems...
Jane A. Howell, Mark D. Vaudin, Lawrence Henry Friedman, Robert F. Cook
Cross-correlation of electron backscatter diffraction patterns has been used to generate rotation maps of single crystals of tetragonal barium titanate (BaTiO3)...
Abijith S. Kowligy, Daniel D. Hickstein, Alexander Lind, David Carlson, Henry R. Timmers, Nima Nader, Daniel Maser, Daron Westly, Kartik Srinivasan, Scott Papp, Scott Diddams
We demonstrate wide-band frequency down-conversion to the mid-infrared (MIR) using four-wave mixing (FWM) of near-infrared (NIR) femtosecond-duration pulses...
Najib Cheggour, Theodore C. Stauffer, W. Starch, P. J. Lee, Jolene D. Splett, Loren F. Goodrich, A. K. Ghosh
The intrinsic irreversible strain limit εirr,0 of Nb3Sn superconducting wires, made by the restacked-rod process and doped with either Ti or Ta, undergoes a...
Alain Rufenacht, Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Samuel P. Benz
For decades, the quantum behavior of Josephson junctions has been developed and employed as intrinsic standards for voltage metrology. Conventional dc Josephson...
Measurement units have historically been defined as quantities (specific properties) of objects, such as the mass of a particular piece of metal or the length...
Matthew McBride, Alina Martinez, Lewis M. Cox, Marvin Alim, Kimberly Childress, Michael Beiswinger, Maciej Podgorski, Brady Worrell, Jason Killgore, Christopher N. Bowman
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) enable large scale reversible shape changes in polymeric materials; however, they require intensive, irreversible...
Nihar Pradhan, Carlos Garcia, Bridget Isenberg, Daniel Rhodes, Simin Feng, Shariar Memaran, Yan Xin, Amber McCreary, Angela R. Hight Walker, Aldo Raeliarijaona, Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones, Steve McGill, Luis Balicas
We fabricated ambipolar field-effect transistors (FETs) from multi-layered triclinic ReSe2, mechanically exfoliated onto a SiO2 layer grown on p-doped Si. In...
Christopher Gutierrez, Daniel T. Walkup, Fereshte Ghahari Kermani, Cyprian Lewandowski, Joaquin R. Nieva, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Leonid Levitov, Nikolai Zhitenev, Joseph A. Stroscio
Interactions amongst relativistic particles underpin exotic behaviours in diverse systems ranging from quark-gluon plasmas to Dirac electron fluids in solids...
Justin M. Zook, Luke Hickey, Benedict Paten, Robert Sebra, Valerie Schneider
There is a pressing need to better represent ethnic diversity with genomic resources and to do so in a way that maximizes utility for people working with the...
Protactinium-233 (233Pa) is used as a tracer for radiochemical analysis and is of particular interest as an isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) spike for...
Lauren E. Woodard, Cindi L. Dennis, Julie Borchers, Anilchandra Attaluri, Esteban Velarde, Charlene Dawidczyk, Peter C. Searson, Martin G. Pomper, Robert Ivkov
Mixed metal/metal oxide nanoparticles offer potential as multifunctional platforms for disease diagnosis and therapy, or 'theranostics' [1-9]. We describe the...
Greta Lindwall, Kil-Won Moon, Zhangqi Chen, Michael J. Mengason, Maureen E. Williams, Justin Gorham, Ji-Cheng Zhao, Carelyn E. Campbell
Diffusion in the Ti-Al-V system is studied and a CΑLPHAD diffusion mobility description is developed. Diffusion couple experiments are used to obtain...
Vivek M. Prabhu, Marat Andreev, Jian Qin, Matthew Tirrell, Juan J. de Pablo, Jack F. Douglas
Polyelectrolyte coacervation refers to the formation of distinct liquid phases that arise when polyelectrolytes of opposite charge are mixed under appropriate...
Jack F. Douglas, Marat Andreev, Juan J. DePablo, Vivek Prabhu, Matthew Tirrell
Polyelectrolyte coacervation refers to the formation of distinct liquid phases that arise when polyelectrolytes are mixed under appropriate polymer and salt...
Leonardo E. Silva, Scott Glancy, Hilma H. Macedo De Vasconcelos
Quantum state tomography aims to determine the quantum state of a system from measured data and is an essential tool for quantum information science. When...