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Journals

UV Stabilizer BTMPS in the Illicit Fentanyl Supply in 9 US Locations

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Chelsea Shover, Morgan Godvin, Meghan Appley, Elise Pyfrom, Fernando Montero Castrillo, Karli Hochstatter, Neil Garg, Adam Koncsol, Joseph Friedman, Caitlin Molina, Ruby Romero, Brendan Harshberger, Jordan Spoliansky, Candace Winstead, Edward Sisco
Bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate (BTMPS) belongs to a class of molecules called hindered amine light stabilizers that are used in plastics

Nanocalorimetry for plasma metrology relevant to semiconductor fabrication

Author(s)
John Diulus, Carles Corbella Roca, Feng Yi, David LaVan, Berc Kalanyan, Mark McLean, Lakshmi Ravi Narayan, William Osborn, James Maslar, Andrei Kolmakov
This letter reports on pilot tests of microfabricated nanocalorimeters as a metrology platform for the rapid (sub-100 ms response time) and sensitive detection

Resilience-Runtime Tradeoff Relations for Quantum Algorithms

Author(s)
Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos, Tom O'Leary, Tanmoy Biswas, Jacob Bringewatt, Lukasz Cincio, Lucas Brady, Yi-Kai Liu
A leading approach to algorithm design aims to minimize the number of operations in an algorithm's compilation. One intuitively expects that reducing the number

A bilateral comparison of 227Th activity standards between NPL and NIST

Author(s)
Andrew Fenwick, Denis Bergeron, Brittany Broder, Emma Bendall, Jeffrey Cessna, Sean Collins, Leticia Pibida, Natasha Ramirez, Elisa Napoli
The National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States) each determined the massic activity and

Layer ensemble averaging for fault tolerance in memristive neural networks

Author(s)
Osama Yousuf, Brian Hoskins, Karthick Ramu, Mitchell Fream, William Borders, Advait Madhavan, Matthew Daniels, Andrew Dienstfrey, Jabez McClelland, Martin Lueker-Boden, Gina Adam
Advancements in continual learning with artificial neural networks have been fueled in large part by scaling network dimensionalities. As this scaling continues

Calibrating laser Doppler anemometers utilizing an optical chopper

Author(s)
Christopher Crowley, Iosif Isaakovich Shinder, Michael R. Moldover, Joey Boyd, James Filla, Aaron Johnson
Laser Doppler anemometers (LDAs) use scattered light to determine velocity components of a flowing fluid. The operating principal of LDAs is simple conceptually

Aflatoxin B1-induced DNA adduct formation in murine kidney and liver

Author(s)
Pawel Jaruga, Vladimir Vartanian, Irina Minko, M Miral Dizdar, Amanda McCullough, R. Stephen Lloyd
Aflatoxicosis is a life-threatening nephrotoxic condition arising from eating foods highly contaminated with aflatoxin-producing molds. Additionally, chronic

Using enantioselective biosensors to evolve asymmetric biocatalysts

Author(s)
d’Oelsnitz Simon, Wantae Kim, Haley Hardtke, Svetlana Ikonomova, Nina Alperovich, Olga Vasilyeva, Michael James, Eric Zigon, Charlie Johnson, Andrew Ellington, Quincey Justman, Michael Springer, Jessie Zhang, Pamela Silver, David Ross
Biocatalysts are championed for their exquisite stereochemistry, but slow chromatographic separations necessary to measure enantiomeric excess can bottleneck

Autonomous bootstrapping of quantum dot devices

Author(s)
Anton Zubchenko, Danielle Middlebrooks, Torbjoern Rasmussen, Lara Lausen, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Anasua Chatterjee, Justyna Zwolak
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are a promising platform for multiple different qubit implementations, all of which are voltage controlled by programmable gate

Primary quantum thermometry of mm-wave blackbody radiation via induced state transfer in Rydberg states of cold atoms

Author(s)
Noah Schlossberger, Andrew Rotunno, Stephen Eckel, Eric Norrgard, Dixith Manchaiah, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Samuel Berweger, Matthew Simons, Dangka Shylla, William Watterson, Charles Patrick, Adil Meraki, Rajavardhan Talashila, Amanda Younes, David La Mantia, Christopher Holloway
Rydberg states of alkali-metal atoms are highly sensitive to electromagnetic radiation in the GHz-to-THz regime because their transitions have large electric di

Platinum Hydride Formation during Cathodic Corrosion in Aqueous Solutions

Author(s)
Thomas Hersbach, Angel T. Garcia-Esparza, Selwyn Hanselman, Thijs Hoogenboom, Ian McCrum, Dimitra Anastasiadou, Jeremey Feaster, Thomas Jaramillo, John Vinson, Thomas Kroll, Amanda Garcia, Petr Krtil, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Marc Koper
Cathodic corrosion is an electrochemical phenomenon that dramatically etches metals under commonly used electrocatalytic conditions. Though cathodic corrosion