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Lawrence H. Friedman, Wen-Li Wu, Wei-En Fu, Yunsan Chien
Feature sizes in integrated circuits (ICs) are often at the scale of 10 nm and are ever shrinking. ICs appearing in todays computers and hand held devices are...
Ward L. Johnson, Danielle C. France, Nikki S. Rentz, William T. Cordell, Fred L. Walls
A new approach is presented for sensing mechanical fluctuations of populations of bacteria, with potential application in monitoring microbial responses to...
Luke W. Arbogast, Frank Delaglio, John E. Schiel, John P. Marino
Two-dimensional (2D) 1H13C methyl NMR provides a powerful tool to probe the higher order structure (HOS) of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), since spectra can...
Ward L. Johnson, Danielle C. France, F L. Walls, William T. Cordell, Nikki S. Rentz
An approach is presented for sensing mechanical fluctuations of bacteria, with potential application in monitoring microbial responses to changes in chemical...
A. Scheie, J. Kindervater, S. Saubert, C. Duvinage, C. Pfleiderer, H. J. Changlani, S. Zhang, Leland Harriger, K. Arpino, S. M. Koohpayeh, Collin L. Broholm
We present a phase diagram of rare-earth pyrochlore Yb 2Ti 2O 7 in a (111) magnetic field. Using heat capacity, magnetization, and neutron scattering data, we...
Jeff L. Hernandez, Nabankur Deb, Rylan M. Wolfe, Chi K. Lo, Sebastian Engmann, Lee J. Richter, John R. Reynolds
To develop an understanding of the effect spin coating or blade coating have on the morphology of polymer:fullerene thin films for organic solar cells, we have...
Ajay Krishnamurthy, Donald L. Hunston, Amanda L. Forster, Bharath NMN Natarajan, Sunny Wicks, Paul E. Stutzman, James A. Liddle, Aaron M. Forster, Brian L. Wardle
As carbon nanotube (CNT) based composites are increasingly being identified as viable aerospace materials, it is vital to study their environmental degradation...
Trevor Keller, Greta Lindwall, Supriyo Ghosh, Li Ma, Brandon M. Lane, Fan Zhang, Ursula R. Kattner, Eric Lass, Yaakov S. Idell, Maureen E. Williams, Andrew J. Allen, Jonathan E. Guyer, Lyle E. Levine
Numerical simulations are used in this work to investigate aspects of microstructure and microsegregation during rapid solidification of a Ni-based superalloy...
Berc Kalanyan, Junjie Zhao, Heather F. Barton, Brent A. Sperling, Gregory N. Parsons
In situ chemical measurements of solution/surface reactions during metal-organic framework (MOF) thin film growth can provide valuable information about the...
Lane Sander, Jeanita Pritchett, Laura J. Wood, Brian Lang, Stephen Wise, Matt J. Walters, T. Phillips, M. J. Holman, G. Lee, J. Lisko, B. Lane, L. Valentin, B. Kimbrell, S. Kuklenyik, S. Stanfill, C. Watson
A new tobacco filler Standard Reference Material (SRM) has been issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in September 2016 with...
The thermochemical characteristics were determined for several National Institute of Standards and Technology Standard Reference Material petroleum-based and...
Molecular dynamics simulations were used to examine the solvation behavior of carbon nanoparticles in a range of water/alcohol solvent compositions. Results...
The radionuclide copper-64 is a promising candidate for nuclear medicine, but its complex decay creates challenges in the primary standardization of its...
Pan Feng, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Edward Garboczi, Pan Feng
A recent microstructural model for simulating near-surface external sulfate attack on cement paste is modified to incorporate diffusive ionic transport between...
Piotr A. Domanski, Riccardo Brignoli, S J. Brown, Andrei F. Kazakov, Mark O. McLinden
The merits of an alternative refrigerant are established based on many attributes including environmental acceptance, chemical stability in the refrigeration...
Francis J. Lovas, Vadim V. Ilyushin, Alyssa M. Johnson, Jenna Hohl, Emily A. Cloessner, Richard Lavrich
We present here the first experimental study of the microwave spectrum of deuterated 5-methyltropolone, a molecule which exhibits two large-amplitude motions...
Vipin N. Tondare, John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar
Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a sample surface from scanning electron microscope (SEM) images taken at two perspectives has been known for decades...
Tracey B. Schock, Peter D. Moeller, Rick Belisle, Christopher W. Via, Tracy A. Villareal, Kevin Beauchesne, Matthew J. Bertin, Paul Zimba
Mass spectrometry-guided isolation of the lipophilic extract of Trichodesmium thiebautii bloom material led to the isolation and structure characterization of a...
Yi Bao, Matthew Hoehler, Fujian Tang, Christopher M. Smith, Matthew Bundy, Genda Chen
In this study, Brillouin scattering-based distributed fiber optic sensor is implemented to measure temperature distributions and detect cracks in concrete...
We are entering an era where large volumes of scientific data, coupled with algorithmic and computational advances, can reduce both the time and cost of...
One may measure the kinetic rate constants associated with biochemical reactions using an optical biosensor: an instrument in which ligand molecules are...
Edward J. Garboczi, Jack F. Douglas, Luis Fernando Vargas Lara, Ahmed M. Hassan, Deb Chatterjee, Kalyan Durbhakula, Md Gaffar
Graphene flakes in real composites are rarely perfectly flat, and often exhibit complicated crumpled shapes. Therefore, the goal of this work was to quantify...
In the previous work, palmitic acid in sebum was used as a chronological marker for age dating of fingerprints, using time-of-flight secondary ion mass...
Purpose: The goal is to determine whether dual-energy computed tomography (CT) leads to a unique reconstruction into two basis materials. Methods and Materials...
Wenwei Zheng, Alessandro Borgia, Karin Buholzer, Alexander Grishaev, Benjamin Schuler, Robert Best
Chemical denaturants are the most commonly used agent for unfolding proteins, and are thought to act by better solvating the unfolded state. Improved solvation...
Alessandro Borgia, Wenwei Zheng, Karin Buholzer, Madeleine Borgia, Anja Schuler, Hagen Hoffman, Andrea Sorrano, Daniel Nettels, Klaus Gast, Alexander Grishaev, Robert Best, Benjamin Schuler
There has been a long-standing controversy regarding the effect of chemical denaturants on the dimensions of unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins: A...
Joel Helton, Susumu K. Jones, Daniel E Parshall, Matthew B. Stone, Dmitry A. Shulyatev, Jeffrey W. Lynn
While the spin dynamics of La 0.7Cad0.3MnO 3 in the ferromagnetic phase are known to be unconventional, previous measurements have yielded contradictory results...
Jungseok Chae, Sangmin An, Georg Ramer, Vitalie Stavila, Glenn Holland, Yohan Yoon, Alec Talin, Mark Allendorf, Vladimir Aksyuk, Andrea Centrone
The atomic force microscope (AFM) offers a rich observation window on the nanoscale, yet many dynamic phenomena are too fast and too weak for direct detection...