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Journals

Clustering and Percolation in Suspensions of Carbon Black

November 22, 2017

Author(s)

Jeffrey J Richards, Julie Beth Hipp, John K Riley, Norman J. Wagner, Paul Butler

High-structured carbon fillers are ubiquitous as the conductive additive comprising suspension-based electrochemical storage technologies. Carbon black networks...

Experimental Aspects of Buoyancy Correction in Measuring Reliable High-Pressure Excess Adsorption Isotherms using the Gravimetric Method

November 21, 2017

Author(s)

Huong Giang T. Nguyen, Jarod C. Horn, Matthias Thommes, Roger D. van Zee, Laura Espinal

Development of a new densimeter for the combined investigation of dew-point densities and sorption phenomena of fluid mixtures

November 21, 2017

Author(s)

Katharina Moritz, Reiner Kleinrahm, Mark O. McLinden, Markus Richter

For the determination of dew-point densities and pressures of fluid mixtures, a new densimeter has been developed. The new apparatus is based on the well...

Hylleraas-Configuration Interaction study of the singlet S ground state of the negative Li ion

November 20, 2017

Author(s)

James S. Sims

In a previous work Sims and Hagstrom [J. Chem. Phys. 140,224312 (2014)] reported Hylleraas- Configuration Interaction (Hy-CI) method variational calculations...

Two-dimensional imaging and modification of nanophotonic resonator modes using a focused ion beam

November 20, 2017

Author(s)

William R. McGehee, Thomas Michels, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, Jabez J. McClelland

We report 2D imaging of the optical mode intensity of silicon microdisk resonators using a pulsed, low-energy focused ion beam of Li+. The ion beam locally...

Full four-dimensional and reciprocal Mueller matrix bidirectional reflectance distribution function of sintered polytetrafluoroethylene

November 20, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas A. Germer

We measured the Mueller matrix bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of a sintered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) sample over the scattering...

Combining fragment ion and neutral loss matching during mass spectral library searching: A new general-purpose algorithm applicable to illicit drug identification

November 20, 2017

Author(s)

Arun S. Moorthy, William E. Wallace, Anthony J. Kearsley, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Stephen E. Stein

A mass spectral library search algorithm that identifies compounds that differ from library compounds by a single inert structural component is described...

String-like Collective Motion and Diffusion in the Interfacial Region of Ice

November 20, 2017

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Hao Zhang, Xuhang Tong, Xinyi Wang

We investigate the collective molecular motions and diffusion of water molecules in the mobile interfacial region of the secondary prismatic plane of hexagonal...

Clustering and Percolation in Suspensions of Carbon Black

November 17, 2017

Author(s)

Jeffrey J Richards, Julie Hipp, John K Riley, Norman J. Wagner, Paul Butler

In situ measurements are an increasingly important tool to inform the complex relationship between nanoscale properties and macroscopic measurements. These...

LipidQC: Method Validation Tool for Visual Comparison to SRM 1950 Using NIST Interlaboratory Comparison Exercise Lipid Consensus Mean Estimate Values

November 17, 2017

Author(s)

Candice Z. Ulmer, Jared Ragland, Jeremy P. Koelmel, N. Alan Heckert, Christina Jones, Timothy J. Garrett, Richard A. Yost, John Bowden

As advances in analytical separation techniques, mass spectrometry instrumentation, and data processing platforms continue to spur growth in the lipidomics...

Steps to Achieve Quantitative Measurements of microRNA Using Two Step Droplet Digital PCR

November 16, 2017

Author(s)

Erica V. Stein, David L. Duewer, Natalia Farkas, Erica L. Romsos, Lili Wang, Kenneth D. Cole

Sketchnote summary of "The Backscattering Story: A Personal View"

November 16, 2017

Author(s)

Robert M. Dimeo

In August 2014, Dr. Anton Heidemann published a short, personal history of the development of neutron backscattering. His fascinating article 1 described the...

Temperature dependent 29Si incorporation during deposition of highly enriched 28Si films

November 16, 2017

Author(s)

Kevin J. Dwyer, Hyun S. Kim, David S. Simons, Joshua M. Pomeroy

In this study, we examine the mechanisms leading to 29Si incorporation into highly enriched 28Si films deposited by hyperthermal ion beams at elevated...

Coupling of emergent octahedral rotations to polarization in (K,Na)NbO3

November 15, 2017

Author(s)

Igor Levin, Victor Krayzman, Matt Tucker, M. G. Tucker, Giannantonio Cibin, Maksim Eremenko, Karena Chapman, Rick Paul

Crystallography of Functional Materials (Editorial Comments)

November 15, 2017

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Claudia J. Rawn

The goal of this special issue is to obtain new insights into the roles of crystallography in functional materials. This special issue consists of eight...

Simultaneous, Full Characterization of a Single-Photon State

November 15, 2017

Author(s)

Tim O. Thomay, Sergey Polyakov, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Glenn S. Solomon, Olivier Gazzano, Vivien Loo

As single-photon sources become more mature and are used more often in quantum information, communications, and measurement applications, their characterization...

Precise Measurement of Enthalpy of Sublimation of Ne, N2, O2, Ar, CO2, Kr, Xe, and H2O using an Internally Consistent Sensing Platform

November 15, 2017

Author(s)

Hamza Shakeel, Haoyan Wei, Joshua M. Pomeroy

We report precise experimental values of the enthalpy of sublimation (∆H_s) of quenched condensed films of neon (Ne), nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), argon (Ar)...

Subradiant dipolar interactions in plasmonic nanoring resonator array for integrated label-free biosensing

November 15, 2017

Author(s)

Yuzhang Liang, Hui Zhang, Wenqi Zhu, Amit Agrawal, Henri Lezec, Lixia Li, Wei Peng, Y Zou, Yanqing Lu, Ting Xu

With the development of advanced nanofabrication technologies over the last decade, plasmonic nanostructures have attracted wide attention for their potential...

Structural Aspects of Porphyrins for Functional Materials Applications

November 15, 2017

Author(s)

Lawrence P. Cook, Greg Brewer, Winnie Wong-Ng

Porphyrinic compounds comprise a diverse group of materials which have in common the presence of one or more cyclic tetrapyrrole units known as porphyrins in...

Rate effects on transformation kinetics in a metastable austenitic stainless steel

November 15, 2017

Author(s)

Rakan Alturk, William E. Luecke, Steven Mates, A Araujo, K. S. Raghavan, Fadi Abu-Farha

In this study, the effects of strain rate on the mechanical properties and the strain-induced austenite-to-martensite transformation in 201 austenitic stainless...

Weather Correlations to Calculate Infiltration Rates for U.S Commercial Building Energy Models

November 14, 2017

Author(s)

Lisa C. Ng, Nelson Ojeda-Quiles, William S. Dols, Steven J. Emmerich

As building envelope performance and heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment efficiencies are improved to reduce building energy use, a...

Comparative Performance and Model Agreement of Three Common Photovoltaic Array Configurations

November 14, 2017

Author(s)

Matthew Boyd

Three grid-connected monocrystalline silicon arrays on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland have been...

In-situ Elastic Strain Mapping During Micromechanical Testing Using EBSD

November 14, 2017

Author(s)

Mark McLean, William A. Osborn

Compared to more commonly used strain measurement techniques, EBSD offers improved spatial resolution and measurement sensitivity. Additionally, EBSD can...

Collision-Induced Dissociation of Deprotonated Peptides. Relative Abundance of Side-Chain Neutral Losses, Residue-Specific Product Ions, and Comparison with Protonated Peptides

November 14, 2017

Author(s)

Yuxue Liang, Pedatsur Neta, Xiaoyu (Sara) Yang, Stephen E. Stein

High-accuracy MS/MS spectra of deprotonated ions of 390 dipeptides and 137 peptides with 3 to 6 residues are studied. Many amino acid residues undergo neutral...

Effect of ammonium polyphosphate to aluminum hydroxide mass ratio on the properties of wood- flour/polypropylene composites

November 14, 2017

Author(s)

Mauro Zammarano

In this study, two halogen-free inorganic flame retardants, ammonium polyphosphate (APP) and aluminum hydroxide (ATH) were added to wood-flour/polypropylene...

Shape and Size of Microfine Aggregates: X-Ray Microcomputed Tomography vs. Laser Diffraction

November 13, 2017

Author(s)

Sinan Erdogan, Edward Garboczi, D Fowler

Microfine aggregates are aggregates, formed naturally or in a crushing process, that pass a #200 ASTM sieve, so are considered to have an equivalent spherical...

Charged Grain Boundaries and Carrier Recombination in Polycrystalline Thin-Film Solar Cells

November 13, 2017

Author(s)

Benoit H. Gaury, Paul M. Haney

We present analytical relations for the dark recombination current of a pn+ junction with positively charged columnar grain boundaries in the high defect...

Overview of the NIST 2016 LoReHLT Evaluation

November 13, 2017

Author(s)

Audrey N. Tong, Lukasz L. Diduch, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Yasaman Haghpanah, Shudong Huang, David M. Joy, Kay Peterson, Ian M. Soboroff

Initiated in conjunction with DARPA's Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) Program, the NIST LoReHLT (Low Re-source Human Language Technology...

Reduced resistance drift in tunnel junctions using confined tunnel barriers

November 13, 2017

Author(s)

Zachary Barcikowski, Joshua M. Pomeroy

Spontaneous avalanche dephasing in large Rydberg ensembles

November 13, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas L. Boulier, Eric Magnan, Carlos Bracamontes, James Maslek, Elizabeth Goldschmidt, Jeremey Young, Alexey Gorshkov, Steven Rolston, James V. Porto

Strong dipole-exchange interactions due to spontaneously produced contaminant states can trigger rapid dephasing in many-body Rydberg ensembles [E. Goldschmidt...

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