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Quantification Of Genomic DNA Damage In Lung and Nasal Epithelium and Response To Allergen Challenge

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

M Miral Dizdar, Koa Hosoki, Pawel Jaruga, Toshiko Itazawa, Erdem Coskun, Sanjiv Sur

Repair of oxidatively-induced DNA base lesions can stimulate innate and allergic airway inflammation. Specific allergenic extracts like ragweed pollen extract...

High-throughput first principles search for new ferroelectrics

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Kevin F. Garrity

We use a combination of symmetry analysis and high-throughput density functional theory calculations to search for new ferroelectric materials. We use two...

MTT President's Column

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Dylan F. Williams

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CONTIN XPCS: Program for Inverse Transform Analysis of X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Dynamics

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Ross N. Andrews, Suresh Narayanan, Fan Zhang, Ivan Kuzmenko, Jan Ilavsky

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) reveal dynamics by interference of coherent scattering, but X-rays permit...

Inverse Transformation: Unleashing Heterogeneous Dynamics with an Alternative Approach to XPCS Data Analysis

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Ross N. Andrews, Suresh Narayanan, Fan Zhang, Ivan Kuzmenko, Jan Ilavsky

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), as an extension of dynamic light scattering (DLS) in the X-ray regime, detects temporal intensity fluctuations of...

Educating Next-Gen Computer Scientists

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Jeff Voas, D. Richard Kuhn, Celia Paulsen, Kim B. Schaffer

Just as yeast, flour, water, and salt are to bread, algorithms, data structures, operating systems, database design, compiler design, and programming languages...

A Minimum Set of Common Principles for Enabling Smart City Interoperability

January 31, 2018

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Angelo Frascela, Arianna Brutti, Nicola Gessa, Piero De Sabbata, Cristiano Novelli, Martin Burns, Vatsal Bhatt, Raffaelle Ianniello, Linghao He

The current investments for smart infrastructure development in cities result in the proliferation of self-consistent and closed applications (often called...

forum Update May 31 2017

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Carl G. Simon Jr.

Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) The Department of Defense has announced an award of $80M to the non-profit Advanced Regenerative...

Acceleration of diffraction calculations in cylindrically symmetrical optics by use of discrete fast Fourier transforms

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Jeremy S. Rubin, Eric L. Shirley, Zachary H. Levine

We have achieved significant acceleration of diffraction calculations in two different, though related contexts. In the first case, we consider Wolf's formula...

Determining the physical properties of molecules with nanometer-scale pores

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Haiyan Wang, Jessica Ettedgui, Jacob Fortater, Joseph W. Robertson, Joseph Reiner, Huisheng Zhang, Siping Chen, John J. Kasianowicz

Nanometer-scale pores have recently been developed for the detection, characterization, and quantitation of a wide range of analytes (e.g., ions, polymers...

Direct measurement of the static and 1 transient magneto-optical permittivity of cobalt across the entire M-edge in a reflection geometry by use of polarization scanning

January 30, 2018

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Dmitriy Zusin, Phoebe Tengdin, Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan, Christian Gentry, Adam Blonsky, Michael Gerrity, Justin Shaw, Hans Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Peter Oppeneer, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane

The effects of isoprene and NOx on secondary organic aerosols formed through reversible and irreversible uptake to aerosol water

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Marwa M. El-Sayed, Diana Ortiz-Montalvo, Christopher J. Hennigan

Isoprene oxidation produces water-soluble organic gases capable of partitioning to aerosol liquid water. The formation of secondary organic aerosols through...

Low-temperature thermal reduction of graphene oxide: In situ correlative structural, thermal desorption and electrical transport measurements

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Alexey Lipatov, Maxime Guinel, Dmitry S. Muratov, Vladislav O. Vanyushin, Peter Wilson, Andrei Kolmakov, Alexander Sinitskii

Elucidation of the structural transformations in graphene oxide (GO) upon reduction remains an active and important area of research. We report the results of...

Dimensional Analysis on Forest Fuel Bed Fire Spread

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

Jiann C. Yang

A dimensional analysis was performed to correlate the fuel bed fire spread data previously reported in the literature. Under wind condition, six pertinent...

STM patterned nanowire measurements using photolithographically defined implants in Si(100)

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

Aruna N. Ramanayaka, Hyun Soo Kim, Ke Tang, Xiqiao Wang, Richard M. Silver, Michael D. Stewart, Joshua M. Pomeroy

Using photolithographically defined implant wires for electrical connections, we demonstrate measurement of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) patterned...

Data and Analysis for the CODATA 2017 Special Fundamental Constants Adjustment for the Revision of the SI

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

David B. Newell, Peter J. Mohr, Barry N. Taylor, Eite Tiesinga

Described in detail is the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) special least- squares adjustment of the values of the fundamental constants...

Coherent Optical Phase Transfer across Turbulent Open Air Paths with 10^-17 instability at 1- second

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

Laura C. Sinclair, Hugo Bergeron, William C. Swann, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Nathan R. Newbury

We demonstrate carrier-phase optical two-way time-frequency transfer (carrier-phase OTWTFT) across a turbulent air path. Through the two-way exchange of optical...

p-type doping efficiency in CdTe: Influence of second phase formation

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

Jedidiah J. McCoy, Santosh K. Swain, David R. Diercks, Brian Gorman, Kelvin G. Lynn, John R. Sieber

Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) high purity, bulk crystals doped with phosphorus have been grown via vertical Bridgman melt growth technique to understand and improve...

Effects of Distal Residues Mutations on the Structure, Dynamics and Catalysis of Human Monoacylglycerol Lipase

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

Sergiy Tyukhtenko, Girija Rajarshi, Ioannis Karageorgos, Nikolai Zvonok, Elyssia S. Gallagher, Hongwei Huang, Kiran Vemuri, Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Alexandros Makriyannis

An understanding of how conformational dynamics modulates function and catalysis of human monoacylglycerol lipase (hMGL), an important pharmaceutical target...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Anion and Cation Reorientational Dynamics in (NH₄)₂B₁₂H₁₂

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

Alexander V. Skripov, Roman V. Skoryunov, Alexei V. Soloninin, Olga A. Babanova, Vitalie Stavila, Terrence J. Udovic

Diammonium dodecahydro-closedidecabirate (NH 4) 2B 12H 12 is the ionic compound combining NH 4 + cations and [B 12H 12] 2- anions both of which can exhibit high...

Absence of Thermalization in Finite Isolated Interacting Floquet Systems

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

Karthik Seetharam, Paraj T. Bhattacharjee, Michael Kolodrubetz, Gil Refael

Ultralow power artificial synapses using nanotextured magnetic Josephson junctions

January 28, 2018

Author(s)

Michael L. Schneider, Christine A. Donnelly, Stephen E. Russek, Burm Baek, Matthew R. Pufall, Peter F. Hopkins, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz, William H. Rippard

Neuromorphic computing is a promising avenue to dramatically improve the efficiency of certain computational tasks, such as perception and decision making...

Multi-Robot Assembly Strategies and Metrics

January 26, 2018

Author(s)

Jeremy A. Marvel, Roger V. Bostelman, Joseph A. Falco

We present a survey of multi-robot assembly applications and methods, and describe trends and general insights into the multi-robot assembly problem for...

Quantifying Atom-scale Dopant Movement and Electrical Activation in Si:P Monolayers

January 26, 2018

Author(s)

Xiqiao Wang, Joseph A. Hagmann, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Jonathan E. Wyrick, Kai Li, Roy E. Murray, Frederick Meisenkothen, Alline F. Myers, Michael D. Stewart, Richard M. Silver

Doped semiconductor structures with ultra-sharp dopant confinement, minimal lattice defects, and high carrier concentrations are essential attributes in the...

Large magneto-optical Kerr effect and real-time imaging of magnetic domain in an antiferromagnet

January 26, 2018

Author(s)

Daniel B. Gopman, Robert D. Shull, Yury Kabanov, Huiyan Man, L. Wu, O.M.J. van 't Erve, D. Rees, Yufan Li, S. Pantakar, C L. Chien, J Orenstein, Tomoya Higo, Satoru Nakatsuji

When a linearly polarized light beam is incident upon the surface of a magnetic material, the reflected light becomes elliptically polarized and the ellipse...

Strategies for Improving Robot Registration Performance

January 26, 2018

Author(s)

Karl Van Wyk, Jeremy A. Marvel

The ability to calculate rigid-body transformations between arbitrary coordinate systems (i.e., registration) is an invaluable tool in robotics. This effort...

Transition probabilities of Ce I obtained from Boltzmann analysis of visible and near-infrared emission spectra

January 26, 2018

Author(s)

David E. Nitz, John J. Curry, M Buuck, A. DeMann, N. Mitchell, W. Shull

We report radiative transition probabilities for 5029 emission lines of neutral cerium within the wavelength range 417 to 1110 nm. Transition probabilities for...

Band offset and electron affinity of MBE-grown SnSe2

January 25, 2018

Author(s)

Qin Zhang, Mingda Li, Edward Lochocki, Suresh Vishwanath, Xinyu Liu, Rusen Yan, Huai-Hsun Lien, Malgorzata Dobrowolska, Jacek Furdyna, Kyle M. Shen, Guangjun Cheng, Angela R. Hight Walker, David J. Gundlach, Huili G. Xing, Nhan V. Nguyen

SnSe2 is currently considered a potential 2D material that can form a near-broken gap heterojunction in a tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) due to its...

Comparisons of Analytical Approaches for Determining Shell Thicknesses of Core-Shell Nanoparticles by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

January 25, 2018

Author(s)

Cedric J. Powell, Wolfgang Werner, Henryk Kalbe, Alexander Shard, David G. Castner

We assessed two approaches for determining shell thicknesses of core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. These assessments were based...

Glycerol Hydrogen-Bonding Network Dominates Structure and Collective Dynamics in a Deep Eutectic Solvent

January 25, 2018

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Antonio Faraone, Durgesh V. Wagle, Gary A. Baker, E. C. Novak, M. Ohl, D. Reuter, Peter Lunkenheimer, A. Loidl, Eugene Mamontov

The deep eutectic solvent glyceline formed by choline chloride and glycerol in 1:2 molar ratio is much less viscous compared to glycerol, which facilitates its...

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