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Gel Phase Formation in Dilute Triblock Copolyelectrolyte Complexes

February 23, 2017

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Vivek M. Prabhu, Samanvaya Srivastava, Marat Andreev, Adam E. Levi, David J. Goldfeld, Jun Mao, William T. Heller, Juan de Pablo, Matthew Tirrell

Dynamical Heterogeneity in a Vapor-Deposited Polymer Glass

February 23, 2017

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Jack F. Douglas, Wengang Zhang, Francis W. Starr

Recently, there has been great interest in 'ultrastable' glasses formed via vapor deposition, both because of emerging applications of these materials (e.g...

Classification of petroleum Standard Reference Materials and other fuels by chemometric analysis of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data

February 23, 2017

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Werickson Fortunato de Carvalho Rocha, Michele M. Schantz, David Sheen, Katrice Lippa, Pamela M. Chu

As feedstocks transition from conventional oil to increasing amounts of unconventional petroleum sources and biomass, it will be necessary to determine whether...

Cryogenic photoluminescence imaging system for nanoscale positioning of single quantum emitters

February 23, 2017

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Jin Liu, Marcelo I. Davanco, Luca Sapienza, Kumarasiri Konthasinghe, Jose Vinicius De Miranda Cardoso, Jin Dong Song, Antonio Badolato, Kartik Srinivasan

Combined Monte Carlo / Torsion-Angle Molecular Dynamics for Ensemble Modeling of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Carbohydrates

February 23, 2017

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Weihong Zhang, Steven C Howell, David W. Wright, Andrew Heindel, Xiangyun Qiu, Jianhan Chen, Joseph E. Curtis

Entropy-Driven Segregation of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles under Confinement

February 22, 2017

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Ren Zhang, Bongjoon Lee, Christopher Stafford, J. F. Douglas, Andrey V. Dobrynin, Michael R. Bockstaller, Alamgir Karim

Polymer-grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) have attracted much attention due to the enhanced dispersion in polymeric materials via an interacting brush layer that...

Building Caring Healthcare Systems in the Internet of Things

February 22, 2017

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Phillip Laplante, Mohamad Kassab, Nancy Laplante, Jeff Voas

The nature of healthcare and the computational and physical technologies and constraints present a number of challenges to systems designers and implementers...

Hybrid quantum systems with trapped charged particles

February 21, 2017

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Shlomi S. Kotler, Raymond Simmonds, Dietrich Leibfried, David J. Wineland

Trapped charged particles have been at the forefront of quantum information processing (QIP) for a few decades now, with deterministic two-qubit logic gates...

Predicting low-temperature free energy landscapes with flat-histogram Monte Carlo methods

February 21, 2017

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Nathan Mahynski, Marco A. Blanco Medina, Jeffrey R. Errington, Vincent K. Shen

We present a method of predicting the free energy landscape of fluids at low temperatures from flat-histogram grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations performed...

Advanced Waveform Synthesis with Pulse-driven Josephson Voltage Standards

February 21, 2017

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Justus A. Brevik, Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Anna E. Fox, Evan B. Golden, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz

We describe the implementation of new commercial pulse-bias electronics that have enabled an improvement in the generation of quantum-accurate waveforms both...

Silver nanoparticles: technological advances, societal impacts, and metrological challenges

February 21, 2017

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Bryan Calderon Jimenez, Monique E. Johnson, Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Karen E. Murphy, Michael R. Winchester, Jose R. Vega Baudrit

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) show different physical and chemical properties compared to their macroscale analogs. This is primarily due to their small size and...

Low-Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Fiber-Laser Welded, Corrosion-Resistant, High-Strength Low Alloy Sheet Steel

February 21, 2017

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Jeffrey W. Sowards, Erik A. Pfeif, Matthew J. Connolly, Joseph D. McColskey, Stephanie L. Miller, Brian J. Simonds, James R. Fekete

Incorporation of high-strength steels into ground vehicles provides a weight-savings advantage by using thinner sections of material, which increases vehicle...

Measurements of translation initiation from all 64 codons in E. coli

February 21, 2017

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Ariel H. Hecht, Jeff E. Glasgow, Paul Jaschke, Lukmaan Bawazer, Matthew S. Munson, Jennifer R. Cochran, Drew Endy, Marc L. Salit

Our understanding of translation represents a cornerstone of molecular biology and underpins our capacity to engineer living matter. For decades, the codon AUG...

In situ X-ray scattering studies of the influence of an additive on the formation of a low-bandgap bulk- heterojunction

February 21, 2017

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Felicia A. Bokel, Lee J. Richter, Sebastian Engmann, Andrew Herzing, Brian A. Collins, Hyun W. Ro, Dean DeLongchamp

The evolution of the morphology of a high-efficiency, blade-coated, organic-photovoltaic (OPV) active layer containing the low band-gap polymer poly[(4,8-bis[5-...

Multi-configuration Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations of forbidden transitions within the 3d^k ground configurations of highly charged ions (Z = 72 − 83)

February 21, 2017

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Z.L. Zhao, K. Wang, S. Li, R. Si, C.Y. Chen, J. Yan, Yuri Ralchenko

Extensive self-consistent multi-configuration Dirac-Hartree-Fock (MCDHF) calculations are performed for the 3s^2 3p^6 3d^k(k = 1−9) ground configurations of...

Numerical Analysis and Simulation for a Generalized Planar Ginzburg-Landau Equation in a Circular Geometry

February 21, 2017

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Sean A. Colbert-Kelly, Geoffrey B. McFadden, Daniel Phillips, Jie Shen

In this paper, a numerical scheme for a generalized planar Ginzburg-Landau energy in a circular geometry is studied. A spectral-Galerkin method is utilized, and...

An All-Metal, 3-D-Printed CubeSat Feed Horn: An assessment of performance conducted at 118.7503 GHz using a robotic antenna range

February 20, 2017

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Josh Gordon, David R. Novotny, Ronald C. Wittmann, Michael Francis, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, Alexandra Curtin, Miranda L. Butler, Albin Gasiewski, Lavanya Periasamy

Three-dimensional (3-D) printing is finding applications across many areas and may be a useful technology for antenna fabrication for cube satellites (CubeSats)...

Optical quantum memory based on electromagnetically induced transparency

February 20, 2017

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Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a promising approach to implement quantum memory in quantum communication and quantum computing applications...

Spectral characterization of single photon sources with ultra-high resolution, accuracy and sensitivity

February 20, 2017

Author(s)

Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang

In future quantum communication systems, single photons, as the information carriers, are required to possess very narrow linewidth and accurate wavelength for...

Leaching of Conductive Species: Implications to Measurements of Electrical Resistivity

February 20, 2017

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Robert Spragg, Scott Jones, Yiwen Bu, Yang Lu, Dale P. Bentz, Kenneth A. Snyder, Jason Weiss

Electrical tests have been used to characterize the microstructure of porous materials, the measured electrical response being determined by the contribution of...

Effect of Adhesion Hysteresis and Roughness Upon Solid-Liquid and Solid-Solid Friction

February 19, 2017

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Michael Nosonovsky

Mechanisms of energy dissipation during solid-solid and solid-liquid friction are discussed. A conservative van der Waals adhesion force, when combined with...

Gravitational Effects on Mercuric Iodide Crystal Growth

February 19, 2017

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B W. Steiner, L van den Berg, U Laor

Gravity can affect the physical vapor growth of mercuric iodide in two distinct ways. First, gravity will induce convection during growth, which strongly mixes...

Report of VAMAS TWA 23 - Thermal Properties of Thin Films: A Round Robin to Measure the Thermal Conductivity of Silcon Dioxide Films on Silicon

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

A Feldman

A round-robin to measure the thermal conductivity (k) of SIQ^2^ thin films has taken place under the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards...

Spontaneous Ejecta From [Beta]-Eucryptite Composites

February 19, 2017

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Ivar E. Reimanis, C Seick, K Fitzpatrick, Lin-Sien H. Lum, S Landin

Polycrystalline ceramic composites, comprised of primarily b-eucryptite (LiAlSiO4) and lithium aluminate (LiAl5O8) crystals, with a near-zero coefficient of...

Coupling Between Octahedral Tilting and Ferroelectric Order in Tetragonal Tungsten Bronze-Structured Dielectrics

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Igor Levin, M Stennett, D I. Woodward, A R. West, I Reaney

Strong coupling between local polar displacements and a commensurate octahedral tilting is proposed to explain the onset of classic ferroelectric behavior in...

Instability of Adhesion Force Between Rough Surfaces

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Nosonovsky, Seung H. Yang, Huan Zhang

Adhesion force has a significant effect upon the contact of rough surfaces with nanoscale asperities. The dominant component of the adhesion force is the...

Interfacial Dewetting in Silicon Nitride Containing Aligned Grains

February 19, 2017

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B Hockey, D S. Park, H D. Kim, S W. Lee

It is generally believed that liquid phase sintering of silicon nitride invariably results in a continuous intergranular phase such that individual grains are...

Experimental Determination of Chemical Hydridization in Rutile TiO₂ Using Site-Specific X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Joseph Woicik, E J. Nelson, L Kronik, M Jain, J R. Chelikowsky, D Heskett, L E. Berman, G S. Herman

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has emerged as a premier method by which to study the chemical bonding in solids. Owing to the conservation of energy...

Phase Equilibria Diagrams - Volume XIII: Oxides

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Robert S. Roth

This volume is the thirteenth of the topically-oriented series of phase diagram compilations and the eighth to appear since the National Institute of Standards...

Experts Evaluate Pulsed Laser Deposition Technology

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

John W. Hastie, D W. Bonnell, D Chrissey

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD) and The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL, Washington, DC) jointly hosted a workshop...

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