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David R. Parks, Wayne A. Moore, Ryan Brinkman, Yong Chen, Danilo Condello, Faysal E. Khettabi, John P. Nolan, Stephen P. Perfetto, Doug Redelman, Josef Spidlen, Jonathan V. Dyke, Lili Wang, James C. Wood
We developed measurement methods and analysis procedures to perform inter-instrument comparisons and used them to evaluate and compare the fluorescence...
Seyed M. Razavi, Richard A. Messerly, J. R. Elliott
In this work, an isothermal-isochoric integration (ITIC) method is proposed and tested as a viable method for vapor pressure calculation by molecular simulation...
The nanoscale hygromechanical behavior of lignin is presented in this work. Three atomic force microscopy experimental methods were used to correlate moisture...
Christopher Sims, Russell Maier, Aaron Johnston-Peck, Justin Gorham, Vincent Hackley, Bryant Nelson
Cerium oxide nanomaterials (nanoceria, CNMs) are receiving increased attention from the research community due to their unique chemical properties, most...
Li-6 alumino-silicate glass, a neutron shielding material, has been studied to determine if and to what extent it alters under natural conditions. Analyses...
Richard A. Messerly, Michael R. Shirts, Andrei F. Kazakov
Molecular simulation results at extreme temperatures and pressures can supplement experimental data when developing fundamental equations of state. Since most...
Byung N. Kim, Alia Weaver, Marina Chumakov, Ileana M. Pazos, Dianne L. Poster, Karen Gaskell, Do H. Han, Gunther Scherer, Michael A. Yandrasits, Byung C. Lee, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
During the pulsed-electron beam direct grafting of neat styrene onto poly(tetrafluoroethylene-co-hexafluoropropylene) (FEP) substrate, the radiolytically...
a L. Balk, F Li, Ian J. Gilbert, John Unguris, N A. Sinitsyn, S A. Crooker
We use scanning optical magnetometry to study the broadband frequency spectra of spontaneous magnetization fluctuations, or "magnetization noise", in an...
Antonio Tavera-Vazquez, Brisa Arenas-Gomez, Cristina Garza, Yun Liu, Rolando Castillo
A diblock copolymer made of poly(but-2-ene-1,4-diyl)-block-poly(oxyethylene), with a degree of polymerization of the polybutadiene and polyethylene blocks of 37...
Linda Johnston, Zygmun Jakubek, Stephanie Beck, Jun Arak, Emily Cranston, Christoph Danumah, Douglas Fox, Li Haifeng, Zoltan Mester, Audrey Moores, Savelas A. Rabb, Karen E. Murphy, Chady Stephan
Charged functional groups on the surface of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are important for controlling the colloidal stability of suspensions and the...
There has been a long partnership in the materials science of building materials between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United...
Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Paul T. Blanchard, Alexandre La Fontaine, Florent Exertier, Sandra Piazolo, Elena Belousova, Zirong Peng, Baptiste Gault, David W. Saxey, Denis Fougerouse, Steven Reddy, Julie Cairney
In recent years, atom probe tomography (APT) has been increasingly used to study minerals, and in particular Zircons. The mineral Zircon (ZrSiO4) is ideally...
Semiconducting electronics have been transformed in part due to progress in spin polarized transport. Central to modern day spintronics, contemporary...
Efficient estimation of the enthalpies of formation for closed-shell organic compounds \emph{via} atom-equivalent-type computational schemes and with the use of...
While background studies have been commonplace in many occupational fields for a long time, attempts to understand the chemical background in forensics labs has...
Cindi L. Dennis, Robert D. Shull, Nobuhiro Matsumoto
We report here on the reproducibility of measurements on a commercial SQUID Magnetometer of two different yttrium iron garnet (YIG) spheres, both having a...
Erik Brok, Kathryn L. Krycka, Erika C. Vreeland, Andrew Gomez, Dale L. Huber, Charles Majkrzak
Small angle neutron scattering is a useful technique for determining the structure of biomolecules in solution. However, because of the well-known problem that...
Kristine A. Bertness, John P. Houlton, Matthew D. Brubaker, Charles T. Rogers
We report the use of optical Bragg scattering and homodyne interferometry to simultaneously measure all the first order cantilever-mode mechanical resonance...
This feature topic aims at providing timely and comprehensive overviews of the current state-of-the art in terms of fundamental theoretical innovations and...
Nicholas B. Guros, Arvind Balijepalli, Jeffery B. Klauda
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to describe the function of the transporter protein alpha- hemolysin (αHL) in lipid membranes that were...
Gheorghe Stan, Jeffrey Braun, Christina Rost, Mina Lim, Ashutosh Giri, David Olson, George Kotsonis, Donald Brenner, Jon-Paul Maria, Patrick Hopkins
Manipulating a crystalline materials configurational entropy though the introduction of unique atomic species can produce novel materials with desirable...
Joseph P. Angelo, Sez-Jade Chen, Marien Ochoa, Ulas Sunar, Sylvain Gioux, Xavier Intes
Diffuse optical imaging probes deep living tissue enabling structural, functional, metabolic, and/or molecular imaging. Recently, thanks to the availability of...
Alexana Roshko, Matthew D. Brubaker, Paul T. Blanchard, Todd E. Harvey, Kristine A. Bertness
Selective area growth (SAG) of GaN nanowires and nanowalls on Si(111) substrates with AlN and GaN buffer layers was studied. For N-polar samples filling of SAG...
Stephen P. Eckel, Daniel S. Barker, James A. Fedchak, Nikolai N. Klimov, Eric B. Norrgard, Julia K. Scherschligt, Constantinos Makrides, Eite Tiesinga
Cold atoms are excellent metrological tools; they currently realize SI time and, soon, SI pressure in the ultra-high (UHV) and extreme high vacuum (XHV) regimes...
Benjamin W. Caplins, Jason D. Holm, Robert R. Keller
A new type of angularly selective electron detector for use in a scanning electron microscope is presented. The detector leverages a digital micromirror device...
Masoud Aghajani, Mengyuan Wang, Lewis M. Cox, Jason Killgore, Alan R. Greenberg, Yifu Ding
It is commonly believed that the overall resistance of thin film composite (TFC) membranes is dictated by the crosslinked, ultrathin polyamide barrier layer...
Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Donald R. Larson, John A. Ely
Measuring the detection performance of metal detectors (hand-worn, hand-held, and walk-through models) is based on the observation of an alarm indication (light...