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Ala Bazyleva, Andrey V. Blokhin, Dzmitry H. Zaitsau, Gennady J. Kabo, Yauheni Paulechka, Andrei F. Kazakov, John M. Shaw
Heat capacities of antiviral and antiparkinsonian drug amantadine hydrochloride in the crystalline state were measured by adiabatic and differential scanning...
Viscosity control for concentrated protein solutions is very important for the manufacturability and and drug delivery routes of many protein therapeutics of...
Mixtures of light and heavy water are used in NMR, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), growth media for producing deuterated biological molecules, and...
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Sonia M. Buckley, Nima Nader, Cale M. Gentry, Kevin C. Cossel, Milos A. Popovic, Nathan R. Newbury, Richard P. Mirin
We present an approach to fabrication and packaging of integrated photonic devices that utilizes waveguide and detector layers deposited at near-ambient...
Kaichao Sun, Lin-wen Hu, Thomas H. Newton, Erik Wilson, Arne Olson
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (MITR-II) is a research reactor in Cambridge, Massachusetts designed primarily for experiments using neutron...
Benjamin A. Neely, Elizabeth Yeh, Joelle S. Zambrano
Hormonally Up-regulated Neu-associated Kinase (Hunk) is a kinase that was originally identified in the murine mammary gland and has been shown to be highly...
Pin Ann Lin, Jose Gomez-Ballesteros, Juan Burgos, Perla Balbuena, Bharath N. Natarajan, Renu Sharma
A heterogeneous catalyst usually works by letting the reactant adsorb onto its surface where the energies for specific bonds to dissociate and/or combine with...
Christoph Mahrenholtz, Rolf Eligehausen, Tara C. Hutchinson, Matthew Hoehler
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) standards for qualification of post-installed concrete anchors (ACI 355.2 and ACI 355.4) include a nonseismic crack...
Stacy Lee Pesek, Qiqi Xiang, Boualem Hammouda, Rafael Verduzco
Bottlebrush polymers have densely tethered side-chains that are grafted to a linear polymer backbone, resulting in stretching of both the side-chains and...
A. E. Danks, M. J. Hollamby, Boualem Hammouda, D. C. Fletcher, F. Johnston-Banks, S. E. Rogers, Z. Schnepp
Porous carbons are important for many applications. The biopolymer gelatin provides a simple route to functional carbon foams with77 multimodal porosity. In...
Rebecca Eells, Marilia Barros, Kerry M. Scott, Ioannis Karageorgos, Frank Heinrich, Mathias Loesche
The structural characterization of peripheral membrane proteins represents a tremendous challenge in structural biology due to their transient interaction with...
Amber M. Larson, Brandon Wilfong, Pouya Moetakef, Craig Brown, Peter Zavalij, Efrain E. Rodriguez
We describe a metal-insulator transition for a quasi-one dimensional system containing a mix of S = 1 and S=1/2 vanadium cations. Unlike all other known...
John M. Yarbrough, Ashutosh Mittal, Elisabeth Mansfield, Larry Taylor, Stephen R. Decker, Michael E. Himmel, Todd B. Vinzant
Commercial fungal cellulases used in biomass-to-biofuels processes can be grouped into three general classes: native, augmented, and engineered. Colorimetric...
A Hueltes, Eduard Rocas, Carlos Collado, Jordi Mateu, D Garcia-Pastor, James Booth, Rafael P. Robles
This paper proposes a novel 3-port absorptive limiter for frequency selective circuits based on a similar configuration than a conventional 90º hybrid coupler...
Ingesting plastic marine debris is a threat to sea turtles. We quantified the amounts, types, colors and locations of ingested plastics in the gastrointestinal...
In this paper we examine the two-dimensional tunneling formalism used previously to fit the hydrogen-transfer and internal-rotation splittings in the microwave...
Rian You, James Radney, Christopher D. Zangmeister, Michael R. Zachariah
Particles from smoldering biomass burning (BB) represent a major source of carbonaceous aerosol in the terrestrial atmosphere. In this study, mass specific...
Alexander Yulaev, Hongxuan Guo, Evgheni Strelcov, Lei Chen, Ivan Vlasssiouk, Andrei Kolmakov
An atomic-scale thickness, molecular impermeability, low atomic number, and mechanical strength make graphene an ideal electron transparent membrane for...
Edward Sisco, Jennifer R. Verkouteren, Jessica L. Staymates, Jeffrey Lawrence
Fentanyl and fentanyl analogues represent a current and emerging threat in the United States as pure illicit narcotics and as cutting agents with heroin...
Lorenzo Fallarino, Brian Kirby, Matteo Pancaldi, Patricia Riego, Andrew L. Balk, Casey W. Miller, Paolo Vavassori, A. Berger
We present a study of the compositional and temperature dependent magnetic properties of epitaxial CoCr thin films whose composition has a bathtub-like depth...
The effective attenuation length (EAL) is normally used in place of the inelastic mean free path (IMFP) to account for elastic-scattering effects when...
Kaya Wei, Joshua Martin, Satofumi Maruyama, Lukasz Wojtas, Takao Mori, George S. Nolas
The madocite Pb17(Sb0.75As0.25)16S41 was synthesized by reaction of binary compounds and densified using hot pressing. The optical band-gap, thermal stability...
Samuel Lenton, Marco Grimaldo, Felix Roosen-Runge, Frank Schreiber, Tommy Nylander, Roger Clegg, Carl Holt, Michael Hartlein, Victoria Garcia Sakai, Tilo Seydel, Susana C. Marujo Teixeira
Osteopontin is a disordered phosphoprotein that is expressed in many species and tissues and has a range of distinct functions. A notable property of more...
Edward J. Garboczi, David F. Plusquellic, Robert D. McMichael, Virgil Provenzano, Paul E. Stutzman, Jack T. Surek, Shin G. Chou, Shuangzhen Wang
Virtually every corrosion detection method reports only the presence of a material phase denoting probable corrosion, not its spectral signature. A signature...
Bess Vlaisavljevich, Johanna Huck, Zeric Hulvey, Kyuho Lee, Jarad A. Mason, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey R. Long, Craig Brown, Dario Alfe, Angelos Michaelides, Berend Smit
Small molecule binding in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be accurately studied both experimentally and computationally, provided the proper tools are...
Kathryn Butler, Erica D. Kuligowski, Susanne M. Furman, Richard Peacock
Since the tragic loss of life in the World Trade Center disaster, efforts have refocused on the provision of safe and efficient evacuation procedures...
Piotr Domanski, Riccardo Brignoli, J S. Brown, Andrei Kazakov, Mark McLinden
The merits of an alternative refrigerant are established based on many attributes including environmental acceptance, chemical stability in the refrigeration...
Frances Nilsen, Brittany L. Kassim, Patrick Delaney, Ted Lange, Arnold Brunell, Stephen E. Long, Tracey B. Schock, Louis J. Guillette Jr.
Routine monitoring of contaminant levels in wildlife is an important measure of ecosystem health and also can identify potential human health implications. This...