Journals

No Phishing beyond This Point

June 27, 2018

Author(s)

Kristen Greene, Michelle P. Steves, Mary F. Theofanos

As phishing continues to evolve, what is your organization doing to stay off the hook?

Specific heat of aluminum oxide nanolubricants

June 27, 2018

Author(s)

Lingnan Lin, Mark A. Kedzierski

Determining Performance Metrics for Targeted Next Generation Sequencing Panels Using Reference Materials

June 26, 2018

Author(s)

Megan H. Cleveland, Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Peter M. Vallone

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed reference materials for five human genomes. DNA aliquots are available for purchase and

Data-driven Discovery of 3D and 2D Thermoelectric Materials

June 26, 2018

Author(s)

Kamal Choudhary, Kevin Garrity, Francesca Tavazza

Abstract: In this work, we perform a systematic search for high-efficiency, three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) thermoelectric materials by

Aqueous Ion trapping and transport in graphene-embedded 18-crown-6 ether pores

June 25, 2018

Author(s)

Alexander Smolyanitsky, Eugene Paulechka, Kenneth Kroenlein

Using extensive room-temperature molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate selective aqueous cation trapping and permeation in graphene-embedded 18-crown-6

A Sufficient Condition for Graphic Sequences with Fixed Largest and Smallest Entries and Sum

June 25, 2018

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux

We give a sufficient condition for a nonnegative integer list to be graphic based on its largest and smallest elements, length, and sum. This bound generalizes

J. Chem. Phys. 148, 244302 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5029929148, 244302© 2018 Author(s).Fourier-transform-spectroscopicphotoabsorption cross sections andoscillator strengths for theS2 B 3..u..X 3..g system

June 25, 2018

Author(s)

G. Stark, H. Herde, J. R. Lyons, A. N. Heays, N. Oliveira, Gillian Nave, B. R. Lewis, S. T. Gibson

Photoabsorption cross sections and oscillator strengths for the strong, predissociating vibrational bands, v 11, in the S2 B 3..u .. X 3..g (v; 0) system

The Relation of Local Order to Material Properties in Relaxor Ferroelectrics

June 25, 2018

Author(s)

Matthew Krogstad, Peter M. Gehring, Stephan Rosenkranz, Raymond Osborn, Feng Ye, Yaohua Liu, Jacob P. C. Ruff, Wenzhi Chen, Justin M. Wozniak, Haosu Luo, O. Chmaissem, Zuo-Guang Ye, Daniel Phelan

Four different forms of local order that give rise to diffuse neutron and x-ray scattering in the relaxor ferroelectric series PMN-xPT are identified via broad

Proton and Ammonia Intercalation into Layered Iron Chalcogenides

June 25, 2018

Author(s)

Xiuquan Zhou, Brandon Wilfong, Sz-Chian Liou, Halyna Hodovanets, Craig Brown, Efrain E. Rodriguez

Structurally related to the iron-based superconductors, two new intercalated iron chalcogenides (H 0.5NH 3)Fe 2Ch 2 where Ch = S, Se have been prepared. By

Using Rydberg Atoms for a New SI-Traceable Radio-Frequency Power Measurement Technique in Rectangular Waveguides

June 22, 2018

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons, Marcus D. Kautz, Abdulaziz H. Haddab, Joshua A. Gordon

In this work we demonstrate an approach for the measurement of radio-frequency (RF) power using Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in an

Determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with molecular mass 302 in standard reference material 1597a by reversed-phase liquid chromatography and stop-flow fluorescence detection

June 21, 2018

Author(s)

Hugh Hayes, Walter Wilson, Lane Sander, Stephen Wise, Andres Campiglia

The identification of isomeric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in complex samples via reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) with fluorescence

Dosimetric characterization of a new directional low-dose rate brachytherapy source

June 21, 2018

Author(s)

Michael G. Mitch, Larry A. DeWerd, Manik Aima, Clifford G. Hammer, Wesley S. Culberson

CivaTech Oncology Inc. (Durham, NC) has developed a novel low-dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy source called the CivaSheet. The source is a planar array of

Improved characterization of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

June 21, 2018

Author(s)

Ramon A. Alvarez, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, David R. Lyon, David T. Allen, Zachary R. Barkley, Adam R. Brandt, Kenneth J. Davis, Scott C. Herndon, Daniel J. Jacob, Anna Karion, Eric A. Kort, Brian K. Lamb, Thomas Lauvaux, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Anthony J. Marchese, Mark Omara, Stephen W. Pacala, Jeff Peischl, Allen L. Robinson, Paul B. Shepson, Colm Sweeney, Amy Townsend-Small, Steven C. Wofsy, Daniel Zimmerle, Steven P. Hamburg

The contribution of the U.S. oil and natural gas supply chain to global methane emissions - an important factor in climate warming - was estimated using ground

Gas Adsorption in an Isostructural Series of Pillared Coordination Cages

June 21, 2018

Author(s)

Eric J. Gosselin, Gregory R. Lorzing, Benjamin Trump, Craig Brown, Eric D. Bloch

The synthesis and characterization of six novel pillared metal-organic polyhedra is reported. By utilizing dabco (1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2.]octane), a pillar with

Evidence for cortisol-cortisone metabolism by marine mammal blubber

June 21, 2018

Author(s)

Thomas M. Galligan, Lori Schwacke, Wayne E. McFee, Ashley Russell

Blubber, a specialized form of adipose tissue in marine mammals, has been identified as a useful matrix for the assessment of steroid hormone homeostasis in

An Iterative Qualitative – Quantitative Sequential Analysis Strategy for Electron-Excited X-ray Microanalysis with Energy Dispersive Spectrometry: Finding the Unexpected Needles in the Peak Overlap Haystack

June 20, 2018

Author(s)

Dale E. Newbury, Nicholas Ritchie

When analyzing an unknown by electron-excited energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry with the entire periodic table possibly in play, how does the analyst

Robust Extraction of Hyperbolic Metamaterial Permittivity using Total Internal Reflection Ellipsometry

June 20, 2018

Author(s)

Cheng Zhang, Nina Hong, Chengang Ji, Wenqi Zhu, Xi Chen, Amit K. Agrawal, Zhong Zhang, Tom E. Tiwald, Stefan Schoeche, James N. Hilfiker, L. Jay Guo, Henri J. Lezec

Hyperbolic metamaterials are optical materials characterized by highly anisotropic effective permittivity tensor components having opposite signs along

Quantum-based vacuum metrology at NIST

June 20, 2018

Author(s)

Julia K. Scherschligt, James A. Fedchak, Zeeshan Ahmed, Daniel S. Barker, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen P. Eckel, Edward T. Hanson, Jay H. Hendricks, Thomas P. Purdy, Jacob E. Ricker, Robinjeet Singh

The measurement science in realizing and disseminating the SI unit for pressure, the pascal (Pa), has been the subject of much interest at NIST. Modern optical

Systems Design Approach to Low-Cost Coinage Materials

June 20, 2018

Author(s)

Eric Lass, Mark R. Stoudt, Carelyn E. Campbell

A system design approach using an Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) was used to design three new low-cost seamless replacement coinage

Improving dielectric nanoresonator array coatings for solar cells

June 19, 2018

Author(s)

Dongheon Ha, Nikolai B. Zhitenev

We introduce single layer silicon dioxide (SiO2) nanosphere arrays as antireflection coatings (ARCs) on a gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cell. We make macro- and

Local Structure and Relaxation Dynamics in the Brush of Polymer-Grafted Silica Nanoparticles

June 19, 2018

Author(s)

Yuan Wei, Yifan Xu, Antonio Faraone, Michael J. A. Hore

When grafted to spherical nanoparticles at high grafting densities, polymers adopt a variety of conformations. Due to strong confinement by neighboring chains

Electroformation in TaOx resistive switching devices by thermal-gradient-induced demixing

June 18, 2018

Author(s)

Andrew Herzing

Chemical Discrimination of Multilayered Paint Cross Sections for Potential Forensic Applications using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

June 15, 2018

Author(s)

Shinichiro N. Muramoto, J Greg Gillen, Eric S. Windsor

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) equipped with a bismuth imaging source and an argon gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) was used to image

Effect of Heat Treatment on the Microstructural Evolution of a Nickel-Based Superalloy Additive-Manufactured by Powder Bed Fusion Laser Sintering

June 15, 2018

Author(s)

Fan Zhang, Lyle E. Levine, Andrew J. Allen, Mark R. Stoudt, Greta Lindwall, Eric Lass, Maureen E. Williams, Yaakov S. Idell, Carelyn E. Campbell

Elemental segregation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in additive-manufactured (AM) parts due to solute rejection and redistribution during the rapid solidification

Self-assembly and soluble aggregate behavior of computationally designed coiled-coil peptide bundles

June 15, 2018

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Fagan, Darrin Pochan, Michael Haider, Huixi Zhang, Nairiti Sinha, Jeffrey Saven, Kristi Kiick

Coiled-coil peptides have proven useful in a range of materials applications ranging from the formation of well-defined fibrils to responsive hydrogels. The

Using a Modular Aperture System to Obtain Annular Dark-Field Image Intensity Distributions as a Function of Scattering Angle.

June 15, 2018

Author(s)

Jason D. Holm

In this contribution, 10 nm-thick non-stoichiometric silicon nitride films were examined in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) using a zero-dimensional solid

C3a receptor antagonism as a novel therapeutic target for chronic rhinosinusitis

June 15, 2018

Author(s)

Jennifer K. Mulligan, Tucker Williamson, Nicholas Reaves, William Carroll, Sarah Stephenson, Peng Gao, Richard R. Drake, Ben Neely, Rodney J. Schlosser, Carl Atkinson

Background: Innate immune factors, including the complement system, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP

Extended Hierarchical Solvent Perturbations from Curved Surfaces of Mesoporous Silica Particles in a Deep Eutectic Solvent

June 15, 2018

Author(s)

Joshua A. Hammons, Fan Zhang, Jan Ilavsky

Many applications of deep eutectic solvents (DES) rely on exploitation of their unique yet complex liquid structures at the mesoscopic level. Due to the ionic

Phased-Locked Two-Color Single Soliton Microcombs in Dispersion-Engineered Si3N4 Resonators

June 15, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory Moille, Qing Li, Sangsik Kim, Daron Westly, Kartik Srinivasan

We propose and theoretically investigate a dispersion-engineered Si3N4 microring resonator, based on a cross-section containing a partially-etched trench, that

A Data Processing Pipeline for Prediction of Milling Machine Tool Condition from Raw Sensor Data

June 15, 2018

Author(s)

Max K. Ferguson, Kincho H. Law, Raunak Bhinge, Jinkyoo Park, Yung-Tsun Lee

With recent advances in sensor and computing technology, it is now possible to use real-time machine learning techniques to monitor the state of manufacturing