Journals

Nanoscale chemical imaging of individual chemotherapeutic cytarabine-loaded liposomal nanocarriers

January 1, 2019

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Wieland Karin, Georg Ramer, Victor U. Weiss, Guenter Allmaier, Bernhard Lendl, Andrea Centrone

Dosage of chemotherapeutic drugs is a tradeoff between efficacy and side-effects. Liposomes are nanocarriers that increase therapy efficacy and minimize side...

Hydrogen Finds a Home in Ionic Devices

January 1, 2019

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Dustin A. Gilbert, Alexander Grutter

Deciphering Structural and Magnetic Disorder in the Chiral Skyrmion Host Materials Co_xZn^y^Mn_z (x + Y + z = 20)

January 1, 2019

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Joshua D. Bocarsly, Colin A. Heikes, Craig Brown, Stephen D. Wilson, Ram Seshadri

Co xZn yMn z (x+y+z = 20) compounds crystallizing in the chiral β-Mn crystal structure are known to host skyrmion spin textures even at elevated temperatures...

Exploration of Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Separation and Purification

January 1, 2019

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Rui-Biao Lin, Shengchang Xiang, Huabin Xing, Wei Zhou, Banglin Chen

Continuum of Quantum Fluctuations in a Three-Dimensional S = 1 Heisenberg Magnet

January 1, 2019

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K. W. Plumb, Hitesh J. Changlani, A. Scheie, Shu Zhang, J. W. Krizan, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Yiming Qiu, B. Winn, R. J. Cava, Collin L. Broholm

Spin liquids are a fundamentally new phase of matter that cannot be described by a broken symmetry and have no order parameter. While the quantum entanglement...

Atomic layer deposition of MoS2 films using bis(tert-butylimido)-bis(dimethylamido)molybdenum and 1-propanethiol

December 31, 2018

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Berc Kalanyan, Ryan Beams, Michael B. Katz, Albert Davydov, James E. Maslar, Ravindra Kanjolia

Proposed commercial applications using transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors such as MoS2 rely on unique material properties that are only...

Chip-scale atomic diffractive optical elements

December 31, 2018

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Liron Stern, Douglas G. Bopp, Susan A. Schima, Vincent N. Maurice, John E. Kitching

Atomic systems have long provided a useful material platform with unique quantum properties. The efficient light-matter interaction in atomic vapors has led to...

Fundamental solutions and Gegenbauer expansions of Helmholtz operators on Riemannian spaces of constant curvature

December 31, 2018

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Howard S. Cohl, Thinh Dang, Dunster Mark

We compute closed-form expressions for oscillatory and damped spherically symmetric fundamental solutions of the Helmholtz equation in $d$-dimensional...

Improving Accuracy, Precision, Detection Limits, and Sample Throughput in PGAA Using Cold and Thermal Neutrons and Element Ratios

December 28, 2018

Author(s)

Rick Paul

A combination of thermal neutron (TN) and cold neutron (CN) PGAA has been used to improve accuracy, precision, detection limits, and sample throughput time in...

Microwave Monitoring of Atmospheric Corrosion of Interconnects

December 28, 2018

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Papa Amoah, Dmitry Veksler, Christopher E. Sunday, Stephane Moreau, David Bouchu, Yaw S. Obeng

Traditional metrology has been unable to adequately address the reliability needs of emerging integrated circuits at the nano scale; thus, new metrology and...

Nondegenerate Parametric Resonance in Large Ensembles of Coupled Micromechanical Cantilevers with Varying Natural Frequencies

December 28, 2018

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Christopher B. Wallin, Roberto De Alba, Daron Westly, Glenn Holland, Scott Grutzik, Richard Rand, Alan Zehnder, Vladimir Aksyuk, Slava Krylov, Robert Ilic

We investigate the collective dynamics and nondegenerate parametric resonance (NPR) of coplanar, interdigitated arrays of microcantilevers distinguished by...

Substrate Characteristics that Enable Intrinsically Stretchable Polymer Semiconductors

December 28, 2018

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Tianlei Sun, Runqiao Song, Nrup Balar, Pratik Sen, Regis J. Kline, Brendan T. O'Connor

A Triplet Resonance in Superconducting Fe_1.03Se_0.4Te_0.6

December 28, 2018

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Juanjuan Liu, A. T. Savici, G. E. Granroth, K. Habicht, Yiming Qiu, Jin Hu, Z. Q. Mao, Wei Bao

Boehmite and Gibbsite Nanoplates for the Synthesis of Advanced Alumina Products

December 28, 2018

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Xin Zhang, Patricia L. Huestis, Carolyn I. Pearce, Jian Zhi Hu, Katharine Page, Lawrence M Anovitz, Alexandr B. Aleksandrov, Micah P. Prange, Sebastien Kerisit, Mark E. Bowden, Wenwen Cui, Zheming Wang, Nicholas R. Jaegers, Trent R. Graham, Mateusz Dembowski, Hsiu-Wen Wang, Jue Liu, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Markus Bleuel, David F. Mildner, Thomas M. Orlando, Greg A. Kimmel, Jay A. La Verne, Sue B. Clark, Kevin M. Rosso

Boehmite (γ-AlOOH) and gibbsite (α-A;(OH) 3) are important archetype (oxy)hydroxides of aluminum in nature that also play diverse roles across a plethora of...

Transition from Antiferromagnetic Ground State to Robust Ferrimagnetic order with Curie Temperatures above 420 K in Manganese-Based Antiperovskite-Type Structures

December 28, 2018

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Xinghong Zhang, Quan Yuan, Tangling Gao, Yang Ren, Hui Wu, Qingzhen Huang, Jinggeng Zhao, Xianjie Wang, Ye Yuan, Chi Xu, Yongfeng Hu, James J. Dynes, Jigang Zhou, Shengqiang Zhou, Yu Liu, Bo Song

MIL-100Cr with Open Cr Sites for a Record N₂O Capture

December 28, 2018

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Jiangfeng Yang, Bingjie Du, Jiaqi Liu, Rajamani Krishna, Feifei Zhang, Wei Zhou, Yong Wang, Jinping Li, Banglin Chen

Calculations of electron inelastic mean free paths. XII. Data for 42 inorganic compounds over the 50 eV to 200 keV range with the full Penn algorithm

December 27, 2018

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Cedric J. Powell, H Shinotsuka, Shigeo Tanuma, David R. Penn

We have calculated inelastic mean free paths (IMFPs) for 42 inorganic compounds (AgBr, AgCl, AgI, Al2O3, AlAs, AlN, AlSb, cubic BN, hexagonal BN, CdS, CdSe...

Valence-to-core XES of Ti, TiO and TiO2 by means of a double crystal von Hamos spectrometer

December 27, 2018

Author(s)

Malte Wansleben, John Vinson, Ina Holfelder, Yves Kayser, Burkhard Beckhoff

We present valence-to-core x-ray emission spectra (vtc-XES) of Ti, TiO and TiO2 by means of a double crystal von Hamos spectrometer based on full-cylinder...

Evidence for multiple mechanisms underlying surface-electric field noise in ion traps

December 27, 2018

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J. A. Sedlacek, J. Stuart, Daniel Slichter, C. D. Bruzewicz, R. McConnell, J. M. Sage, J. Chiaverini

Energetic ion bombardment, or ion milling, of ion-trap electrode surfaces has previously been shown to reduce electric-field noise, a limit to quantum-logic...

In-situ near-field probe microscopy of plasma processing

December 27, 2018

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Alexander Tselev, Jeffrey Fagan, Andrei Kolmakov

There exists a great necessity for in situ nanoscale characterization of surfaces and thin films during plasma treatments. To address this need, the current...

Carbon-Coated Cobalt Molybdenum Oxide as a High-Performance Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

December 27, 2018

Author(s)

Ning Xu, Guoxuan Cao, Liyong Gan, Zhengjun Chen, Mingjie Zang, Hui Wu, Ping Wang

Compressed-liquid densities of Dimethyl Carbonate + Heptane at Three Compositions

December 27, 2018

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Stephanie L. Outcalt, Arno Laesecke

Compressed-liquid densities of the binary system dimethyl carbonate + heptane have been measured with a vibrating-tube densimeter over the temperature and...

Communication: Gibbs phenomenon and the emergence of the steady-state in quantum transport

December 26, 2018

Author(s)

Michael P. Zwolak

Simulations are increasingly employing explicit reservoirs internal, finite regions to drive electronic or particle transport. This naturally occurs in...

Unitary Entanglement Construction in Hierarchical Networks

December 26, 2018

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Aniruddha Bapat, Zachary Eldredge, James R. Garrison, A Deshpande, Frederic Chong, Alexey Gorshkov

Effects of Ionic Strength, Salt, and pH on Aggregation of Boehmite Nanocrystals: Tumbler Small-Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering and Imaging Analysis

December 26, 2018

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L. M. Anovitz, X. Zhang, J. Soltis, E. Nakouzi, A. J. Krzysko, J. Chun, G. K. Schenter, T. R. Graham, K. M. Rosso, J. J. De Yoreo, A. G. Stack, Markus Bleuel, Cedric V. Gagnon, David F. Mildner, J. Ilavsky, I. Kuzmenko

The U.S. government currently spends significant resources annually managing the legacies of the Cold War, including 300 million liters of highly radioactive...

Evaluating the Effects of Hinge Flexibility on the Solution Structure of Antibodies at Concentrated Conditions

December 26, 2018

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Marco Blanco, Harold Hatch, Joseph E. Curtis, Vincent K. Shen

Employing two different coarse-grained models, we evaluated the effect of intramolecular domain-domain distances and hinge flexibility on the general solution...

Three-dimensional shape characterization of fine sands and the influence of particle shape on the packing and workability of mortars

December 25, 2018

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Edward Garboczi, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Pierre Estephane, Olafur Wallevik

TThis paper studies a selection of fine sands, their particle shape and its effect on the plastic properties of mortars via the influence on the workability and...

Probing the link between residual entropy and viscosity of molecular fluids and model potentials

December 24, 2018

Author(s)

Ian H. Bell

This work investigates the link between residual entropy and viscosity based on wide-ranging, highly accurate experimental ans simulation data. This link was...

Spin Waves Across Three-Dimensional, Close-Packed Nanoparticles

December 21, 2018

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Kathryn Krycka, James Jennings Rhyne, Samuel D Oberdick, Ahmed M. Abdelgawad, Julie A. Borchers, Yumi Ijiri, Sara A. Majetich, Jeffrey W. Lynn

Inelastic neutron scattering is utilized to measure the spin waves, or magnons, which arise from inter-particle coupling between 8.4 nm ferrite nanoparticles...

Uncertainty analysis for ac-dc difference measurements with the AC Josephson Voltage Standard

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Jason M. Underwood

A detailed analysis of the uncertainties encountered in ac-dc difference measurements with an AC Josephson Voltage Standard (ACJVS) is presented. While the...