Journals

Toward Development of Optimum Specimen Designs and Modeling of In-plane Uniaxial Compression Testing of Aluminum alloy 2024 and AISI 1008 Steel Sheet Material

July 1, 2018

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Dilip K. Banerjee, Mark A. Iadicola, William E. Luecke, Timothy J. Foecke, Christopher A. Calhoun

Tuning Color through Sulfur and Fluorine Substitutions in the Defect Tin(II, IV) Niobate Pyrochlores

July 1, 2018

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Gabriella Giampaoli, Jun Li, Raphael P. Hermann, Judith K. Stalick, M. A. Subramanian

Sulfur and fluorine substituted Sn 2Nb 2O6d7^ pyrochlore compounds were synthesized to produce brilliant orange/red colors as an environmentally friendly...

Inelastic and Deep Inelastic Neutron Spectroscopy of Water Molecules under Ultra-Confinement

July 1, 2018

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A. I. Kolesnikov, G. F. Reiter, Timothy R Prisk, M. Krzystyniak, G. Romanelli, D. J. Wesolowski, Lawrence M. Anovitz

Water confined within sub-nanometer channels of silicate minerals presents an extreme case of confinement, where the restricted molecules are situated in...

Characterization of Circulating Steroid Hormone Profiles in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)

July 1, 2018

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Thomas M. Galligan, Lori Schwacke, Dorian S. Houser, Randall Wells, Teresa Rowles, Ashley Russell

Circulating steroid hormone concentrations are typically measured by immunoassays, which have imperfect specificity and are limited to the measurement of a...

Faster quantum algorithm to simulate Fermionic quantum field theory

July 1, 2018

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Ali Hamed Moosavian, Stephen P. Jordan

In quantum algorithms discovered so far for simulating scattering processes in quantum field theories, state preparation is the slowest step. We present a new...

Residual Stress in Additive Manufactured Nickel Alloy 625 Parts

June 29, 2018

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Lindsey B. Bass, Justin L Milner, Thomas Gnaupel-Herold, Shawn P. Moylan

One of the key barriers to widespread adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) for metal parts is the build-up of residual stresses. In the laser-based powder...

Perpetual emulation threshold of PT-symmetric Hamiltonians

June 29, 2018

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Ian B. Spielman, Clive Emary, Dimitris Trypogeorgos, Ana Vald?s-Curiel

We describe a technique to emulate a two-level PT-symmetric spin Hamiltonian, replete with gain and loss, using only the unitary dynamics of a larger quantum...

Second Chern number of a quantum-simulated non-Abelian Yang monopole

June 29, 2018

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Ian B. Spielman, Francisco Salces Carcoba, Yuchen Yue, Abigail Perry, Seiji Sugawa

Topological order is often quantified in terms of Chern numbers, each of which classifies a topological singularity. Here, inspired by concepts from high-energy...

Erratum to "Configuration interactions of class 11: An error in Cowan'satomic structure theory" [Comput. Phys. Commun. 215 (2017) 47–48]

June 28, 2018

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Alexander Kramida

The article in CPC 215 (2017) 47 suggested a wrong solution for the treatment of error in calculation of configuration interactions in Rydberg series. This...

The utility of nanopore technology for protein and peptide sensing

June 28, 2018

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Joseph W. Robertson, Joseph Reiner

High Pressure Cell for Bio-SANS Studies under Sub-Zero Temperatures or Heat Denaturing Conditions

June 28, 2018

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Susana Cristina Marujo Teixeira, Juscelino Leao, Cedric Victor Lucien Gagnon, M. A. McHugh

The second biennial International Society for Sample Environment (ISSE) school included training on high pressure (HP) cells for Soft Matter studies. Neutron...

Machine learning modeling of superconducting critical temperature

June 28, 2018

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Aaron Gilad Kusne, Valentin Stanev, Ichiro Takeuchi

Superconductivity has been the focus of enormous research effort since its discovery more than a century ago. Yet, some features of this unique phenomenon...

Improved Mesoscale Segmentation of Concrete from 3D X-ray Images Using Contrast Enhancers

June 28, 2018

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Pietro Carrara, Rolands Kruse, Dale P. Bentz, M Lunardelli, Thorsten Leusmann, P Varady, Laura De Lorenzis

Obtaining the mesostructure of concrete from X-ray computed tomography (CT) requires segmentation of the data into distinct phases, a process complicated by the...

Measurement and Correlation of the Thermal Conductivity of 1,1,1,2,2,4,5,5,5-Nonafluoro-4- (trifluoromethyl)-3-pentanone

June 28, 2018

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Richard A. Perkins, Marcia L. Huber, Marc J. Assael

New experimental data on the thermal conductivity 1,1,1,2,2,4,5,5,5-Nonafluoro-4- (trifluoromethyl)-3-pentanone (Novec 649, Novec 1230) are reported that allow...

A practical field guide to thermoelectrics: fundamentals, synthesis, and characterization

June 27, 2018

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Alex Zevalkink, David M. Smiadak, Joshua Martin, Michael Chabinyc, Olivier Delaire, Jeffrey Blackburn, Andrew Ferguson, Jian Wang, Kirill Kovnir, Laura Schelhas, Stephen D. Kang, Maxwell T. Dylla, G. J. Snyder, Brenden Ortiz, Eric Toberer

The study of thermoelectric materials spans condensed matter physics, materials science and engineering, and solid-state chemistry. The diversity of the...

Stoichiometric analysis of hydrogen bonding interactions in a mixture of cross-linking resin monomers

June 27, 2018

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Seungwan Ryu, Xiaohui Liu, Ying Jin, Jirun Sun, Young Jong Lee

We investigate multiple hydrogen bonding interactions in a binary mixture of cross-linking resin monomers: urethane dimethacrylate (UDMA) and triethylene glycol...

No Phishing beyond This Point

June 27, 2018

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Kristen Greene, Michelle P. Steves, Mary 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

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Lingnan Lin, Mark A. Kedzierski

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

June 26, 2018

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...