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Sequence-Dependent Structure/Function Relationships of Catalytic Peptide-Enabled Au Nanoparticles Generated Under Ambient Synthetic Conditions

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Nicholas M. Bedford, Zak E. Hughes, Zhenghua Tang, Beverly Briggs, Yang Ren, Valeri Petkov, Marc Knecht, Tiffany R. Walsh, Rajesh Naik

Electron-Excited Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry in the Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope (EDS/VPSEM): Its Not Microanalysis Anymore!

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Dale E. Newbury, Nicholas W. Ritchie

X-ray spectra measured in the variable-pressure scanning electron microscope (VPSEM, chamber pressure 1 to 2500 Pa) suffer significantly degraded spatial...

Peptide-Directed PdAu Nanoscale Surface Segregation: Toward Controlled Bimetallic Architecture for Catalytic Materials

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Nicholas M. Bedford, Allison R. Showalter, Taylor J. Woehl, Zak E. Hughes, Sungsik Lee, Benjamin Reinhart, S. P. Ertem, E. B. Coughlin, Yang Ren, Bruce A. Bunker

Direct Synthetic Control over the Size, Composition, and Photocatalytic Activity of Octahedral Copper Oxide Materials: Correlation between the Surface Structure and Catalytic Functionality

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Nicholas M. Bedford, Michelle A. Nguyen, Yang Ren, Robert C. Goodin, Fatima Chagani, Elsayed M. Zahran, Leonidas G. Bachas, Marc Knecht

Here, we report a synthetic approach to form octahedral Cu2O microcrystals with a tunable edge length and demonstrate their use as catalysts for the...

ASSESSMENT OF A METHOD FOR ESTIMATING PEAKS OF STATIONARY RANDOM PROCESSES BY USING EXTREME VALUE TYPE I DISTRIBUTIONS

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Dat Duthinh, Dong Hun Yeo, Emil Simiu

The purpose of this note is to assess a method based on the Extreme Value Type I distribution currently employed in wind engineering practice to estimate...

OBITUARY Dr. William (Mickey) Haynes

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Daniel G. Friend, Thomas J. Bruno, Chris D. Muzny

Obituary tribute as requested by journal.

A method for characterization of low molecular weight organic acids in atmospheric aerosols using ICM

Author(s)

Lacey C. Brent

The structural composition of PM2.5 monitored in the atmosphere is usually divided by the analysis of organic carbon, black (elemental) carbon, and inorganic...

Anomalous damping of excitations in a collisionless dipolar Bose gas

Author(s)

Stefan Natu, Ryan M. Wilson

We present a theory for the Landau damping of low energy quasi-particles in a collisionless, quasi- 2D dipolar Bose gas and produce expressions for the damping...

Improvements in the Winkler Titration for Iodide in Iodized Salt

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Kenneth W. Pratt, Karen E. Murphy

A bromine gas generator, based on bleach, potassium bromide and dilute hydrochloric acid, replaces hazardous pure bromine used in the classical Winkler...

User-Centered Processes for Studying Human Interaction with Virtual Environments and Human-Human Interaction in Virtual Environments

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Theresa O'Connell, Kevin Workman, Wyatt Wong

This paper sets out a usability engineering framework of processes that were applied to user-centered studies of digital natives interacting with virtual...

dint u say that: Digital Discourse, Digital Natives and Gameplay

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Theresa O'Connell, John D. Grantham, Wyatt Wong, Kevin Workman, Alexander Wang

Traditional, new and modified discourse analysis methods were applied to a corpus of 858 discrete gameplay discourse events disclosing discourse characteristics...

Towards Cross-Layer Optimization of a Wireless Network for Diverse Rate and Delay Requirements

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

This paper extends the conventional link-centric aggregate utility maximization framework to a situation of users (applications) with diverse delay as well as...

Energy efficiency of milling machining: Component modeling and online optimization of cutting parameters

May 5, 2017

Author(s)

Seungjun Shin, Jungyub Woo, Sudarsan Rachuri, Seungjun Shin

Energy consumption is a major sustainability focus in the metal cutting industry. As a result, process planning is increasingly concerned with reducing energy...

Quantifying the sensitivity of the network structure and properties from simultaneous measurements during photopolymerization

May 5, 2017

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Swarnavo Sarkar, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Edwin P. Chan, Martin Y. Chiang, Paula J. Baker

We present a method that combines experimental and computational approaches to assess a comprehensive set of structural and functional evolution during a...

Estimating yield-strain via deformation-recovery simulations

May 5, 2017

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Paul N. Patrone, Samuel Tucker, Andrew M. Dienstfrey

Field Induced Spontaneous Quasiparticle Decay and Renormalization of Quasiparticle Dispersion in a Quantum Antiferromagnet

May 5, 2017

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Tao Hong, Yiming Qiu, M. Matsumoto, D. A. Tennant, K. Coester, K. P. Schmidt, F.F. Awwadi, M. M. Turnbull, H. Agrawal, A. L. Chernyshev

We present the fine-resolution neutron scattering study in magnetic fields applied perpendicular to an easy-axis (Ising type) on the S=1/2 coupled two-leg...

DART-MS analysis of inorganic explosives using high temperature thermal desorption

May 4, 2017

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Thomas P. Forbes, Edward R. Sisco, Matthew E. Staymates, John G. Gillen

An ambient mass spectrometry (AMS) platform coupling Joule heating thermal desorption (JHTD) and direct analysis in real time (DART) was developed, generating...

Tuning Biocompatible Block Copolymer Micelles by Varying Solvent Composition: Core/Corona Structure and Solvent Uptake

May 4, 2017

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Tyler J. Cooksey, Avantika Singh, Kim Mai Le, Shu Wang, Elizabeth Kelley, Lilin He, Sameer Vajjala Kesava, Enrique D. Gomez, Bryce E. Kidd, Louis A. Madsen, Megan L. Robertson

The structural properties and solvent uptake of biocompatible poly(ethylene oxide-b/}-ε-caprolactone) (PEO-PCL) diblock copolymers in deuterated water (D 2O)...

Coherent quantum frequency bridge: phase preserving, nearly-noiseless parametric frequency converter

May 3, 2017

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Ivan A. Burenkov, Yu-Hsiang Cheng, Tim O. Thomay, Glenn S. Solomon, Alan L. Migdall, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Lynden K. Shalm, Sergey V. Polyakov

We characterize an efficient and nearly-noiseless parametric frequency upconverter. The ultra- low noise regime is reached by the wide spectral separation...

Static and dynamic magnetic properties of sputtered Fe-Ga thin films

May 3, 2017

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Daniel B. Gopman, Vimal Sampath, Hasnain Ahmad, Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Jayasimha Atulasimha

We present measurements of the static and dynamic properties of iron-gallium films, ranging from 20~nm to 80~nm and sputtered from an $\mathrm{Fe_{0.8}Ga_{0.2}}...

Kinetic theory of dark solitons with tunable friction

May 3, 2017

Author(s)

Ian B. Spielman, Hilary Hurst, Victor Galitski

We study controllable friction in a system consisting of a dark soliton in a one-dimensional Bose- Einstein condensate coupled to a non-interacting Fermi gas...

Full statistical mode reconstruction of a light field via a photon-number resolved measurement

May 2, 2017

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Ivan A. Burenkov, Sergey V. Polyakov, Thomas Gerrits, Timothy J. Bartley, Georg Harder, Christine Silberhorn, Ankita Sharma, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt

We present a method to reconstruct the mode structure and optical losses of multimode conjugated optical fields using an experimentally measured joint photon...

Dynamic Metrology and ASTM E57.02 Dynamic Measurement Standard

May 2, 2017

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong, Steven A. Legowik, Mili Shah

Optical tracking systems are used in a wide range of fields. The market for optical tracking systems has dramatically increased over the past several years to...

Numerical Analysis of the Influence of Low Frequency Vibration on Bubble Growth

May 2, 2017

Author(s)

Dong Han, Mark A. Kedzierski

Numerical simulation of bubble growth during pool boiling under the influence of low frequency vibration was done to understand the influence of common...

High-brightness Cs focused ion beam from a cold-atomic-beam ion source

May 2, 2017

Author(s)

Adam V. Steele, Andrew Schwarzkopf, Jabez J. McClelland, Brenton Knuffman

We present measurements of focal spot size and brightness in a focused ion beam system utilizing a laser-cooled atomic beam source of Cs ions. Spot sizes as...

Low Temperature Curing Strength Enhancement in Cement-Based Materials Containing Limestone Powder

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Paul E. Stutzman, Franco Zunino

The incorporation of limestone powder in cementitious binders for concrete in the U.S. has become a subject of renewed interest, in part due to the ongoing...

Cigarette Fires Involving Upholstered Furniture in Residences: The Role that Smokers, Smoker Behavior, and Less-Fire Prone Cigarettes Play

May 1, 2017

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David T. Butry, Douglas S. Thomas

Residential structure fires pose a significant risk to life and property. A major source of these fire incidents is the ignition of upholstered furniture by...

Dynamic Appliances Scheduling in Collaborative MicroGrids System

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi, Hasnae Bilil

AbstractIn this paper a new approach which is based on a collaborative system of MicroGrids (MGs), is proposed to enable household appliance scheduling. To...

Energy Efficiency Challenges of 5G Small Cell Networks

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

The deployment of a large number of small cells poses new challenges to energy efficiency, which has often been ignored in fifth generation (5G) cellular...

Targets for Relative Range Error Measurement of 3D Imaging Systems

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Prem K. Rachakonda, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Katharine M. Shilling, Geraldine S. Cheok, Vincent D. Lee, Christopher J. Blackburn, Dennis S. Everett, Daniel S. Sawyer

The Dimensional Metrology Group (DMG) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is performing research to support the development of...

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