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Journals

Application of 2D-NMR with Room Temperature NMR Probes for the Assessment of the Higher Order Structure of Filgrastim

January 15, 2017

Author(s)

Robert G. Brinson, Houman Ghasriani, Derek Hodgson, Adams Kristie, Ian McEwen, Kang Chen, Yves Aubin, John P. Marino

The higher order structure (HOS) of biotherapeutics is a critical quality attribute that can be evaluated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy at...

Bench-Scale Test Facility for Evaluating the Imaging Performance of Thermal Imagers for Fire Service Applications

January 15, 2017

Author(s)

Sung C. Kim, Anthony Hamins

The present study investigates the characteristics of obscuring media inside an optical smoke cell, which is developed as a bench-scale testing facility for the...

Activity Model for Homogenization of Data Sets in Laser-based Powder Bed Fusion

January 14, 2017

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Paul W. Witherell, Duck B. Kim

Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes are the integration of many different science and engineering-related disciplines, such as material metrology, design...

Engineering Approach for Designing a Thermal Test of Real-scale Steel Beam Exposed to Localized Fire

January 13, 2017

Author(s)

Chao Zhang, Lisa Y. Choe, John L. Gross, Selvarajah Ramesh, Matthew F. Bundy

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has completed construction of a new facility, the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL), which...

Measurement of Uranium-236 in Particles by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

January 12, 2017

Author(s)

David S. Simons, John D. Fassett

The determination of the relative isotopic abundance by secondary ion mass spectrometry of 236U in uranium-containing material is complicated by the presence of...

Evaluation of Method-Specific Extraction Variability for the Measurement of Fatty Acids in a Candidate Infant/Adult Nutritional Formula Reference Material

January 12, 2017

Author(s)

Benjamin J. Place

To address community needs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a candidate Standard Reference Material (SRM) for infant...

Tricritical Point of the f-Electron Antiferromagnet USb₂ Driven by High Magnetic Fields

January 12, 2017

Author(s)

Ryan L. Stillwell, I Lin NMN Liu, N. Harrison, M. Jaime, J. R. Jeffries, Nicholas Butch

In pulsed magnetic fields up to 65T and at temperatures below the Neel transition, our magnetization and magnetostriction measurements reveal a field-induced...

Growth of Monolayer Graphene on Nanoscale Copper-Nickel Alloy Thin Films

January 11, 2017

Author(s)

Jason J. Gorman, Michael Cullinan, Joon H. Cho

The integration of graphene into nanoscale electrical and mechanical devices is often limited by the ability to grow monolayer graphene on extremely thin copper...

Quantum Frequency Bridge: High-Accuracy Characterization of a Nearly-Noiseless Parametric Frequency Converter

January 11, 2017

Author(s)

Ivan Burenkov, Sergey Polyakov

We demonstrate an efficient and inherently ultra-low noise frequency conversion via a parametric sum frequency generation. Due to the wide separation between...

LipidPioneer: Comprehensive User-Generated Exact Mass Templates for Lipidomics

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Candice Z. Ulmer, John Bowden, Jared M. Ragland, Timothy J. Garrett, Jeremy P. Koelmel

Lipidomics, the comprehensive measurement of lipid species in a biological system, has promising potential in biomarker discovery and elucidating disease...

Retention behavior of isomeric polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles in gas chromatography on stationary phases of different selectivity

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander, Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Leonard M. Sidisky, Milton Lee, Stephen A. Wise

Retention indices for 70 polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles (PASHs) were determined using gas chromatography with three different stationary phases: a 50%...

Retention behavior of alkyl-substituted polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycle isomers in gas chromatography on stationary phases of different selectivity

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander, Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Stephanie Mossner, Leonard M. Sidisky, Milton Lee, Stephen A. Wise

Retention indices for 10 sets of alkyl-substituted polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles (PASHs) isomers (total of 80 PASHs) were determined using gas...

Gapped Excitation in Dense Kondo Lattice CePtZn

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Leland Weldon Harriger, Steven M.T. Disseler, J. Gunasekera, Jose A. Rodriguez, J. Pixley, P. Manfrinetti, S. K. Dhar, D. K. Singh

We report on neutron υSR scattering studies of dense Kondo lattice CePtZn. The system develops long range incommensurate magnetic order as the temperature is...

Fast Formation of Low-Defect-Density Tethered Bilayers by Fusion of Multilamellar Vesicles

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Tadas Ragaliauskas, Mindaugas Mickevicius, Bozena Rakovska, Tadas Penkauskas, Frank Heinrich, Gintaras Valincius

Multilamelar vesicles fuse to molecular-anchor-grafted surfaces yielding low defect density, tethered bilayer membranes. Continuous bilayers are formed within...

Analysis of Thickness and Quality Factor of a Double Paddle Oscillator at Room Temperature

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Hamza Shakeel, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Thomas Metcalf

In this paper, we evaluate the quality (Q) factor and the resonance frequency of a double paddle oscillator (DPO) with different thickness using analytical...

Origins and Demonstrations of Electrons with Orbital Angular Momentum

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Benjamin McMorran, Amit Agrawal, Peter Ercius, Vincenzo Grillo, Andrew Herzing, Tyler R. Harvey, Martin Linck

The surprising message of the 1992 paper of Allen, Beijersbergen, Spreeuw, and Woerdman (ABSW) was that photons could exhibit orbital motion in free space...

Preflight Radiometric Calibration of Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen Maxwell, B. Carol Johnson, Robert Rosenberg, Lars Chapsky, Richard A. Lee, Randy Pollock

This paper describes the prelaunch radiometric calibration of the imaging spectrometers used on the second Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2). The gain and...

Determination of Vertical Borehole and Geological Formation Properties using the Crossed Contour Method

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Brian P. Leyde, S. A. Klein, G. F. Nellis, Harrison Skye

This paper presents a new method called the Crossed Contour Method for determining the effective properties (borehole radius and ground thermal conductivity) of...

Coherent UV-to-Visible Light Arrays

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Dong Yoon Oh, Scott Diddams, Ki Youl Yang, Kerry J. Vahala, Connor Fredrick, Gabriel Ycas

Short duration, intense pulses of light can experience dramatic spectral broadening when propagating through lengths of optical fiber. This continuum generation...

Applying 3D measurements and computer matching algorithms to two firearm examination proficiency tests

January 8, 2017

Author(s)

Daniel B. Ott, Robert M. Thompson, Jun-Feng Song

In order for a crime laboratory to assess a firearms examiner's training, skills, experience, and aptitude, it is necessary for the examiner to participate in...

Data Resources for Thermophysical Properties of Metals and Alloys, Part 1: Structured Data Capture from the Archival Literature

January 7, 2017

Author(s)

Boris Wilthan, Erik A. Pfeif, Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Ursula R. Kattner, Kenneth G. Kroenlein

In support of the continuous scientific and industrial need for accessible and high-quality thermophysical property data for metals and alloy systems, NIST/TRC...

Exposure of Few Layer Graphene to Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri: Uptake, Proteins Secretion and Their Effects on the Graphene

January 6, 2017

Author(s)

Liang Mao, Chuanlin Liu, Kun Lu, Cheng Gu, Elijah Petersen

While graphene has substantial commercial potential, numerous aspects regarding its potential ecological effects such as its potential for bioaccumulation are...

Breaking of Galilean invariance in the hydrodynamic formulation of ferromagnetic thin films

January 6, 2017

Author(s)

Ezio Iacocca, Thomas J. Silva, Mark Hoefer

Microwave magnetodynamics in ferromagnets are often studied in the limit of small-amplitude modes that modulate a well-defined magnetic state. However, strongly...

Accurate and Interpretable Classification of Microspectroscopy Pixels Using Artificial Neural Networks

January 6, 2017

Author(s)

Petru S. Manescu, Young Jong Lee, Charles Camp, Marcus T. Cicerone, Mary C. Brady, Peter Bajcsy

This paper addresses the problem of classifying materials from microspectroscopical images at each pixel. The challenges lie in identifying discriminatory...

Limestone and Silica Powder Replacements for Cement: Early-Age Performance

January 5, 2017

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Chiara F. Ferraris, Scott Z. Jones, Didier Lootens, Franco Zunino

Developing functional concrete mixtures with less ordinary portland cement (OPC) has been one of the key objectives of the 21st century sustainability movement...

Matter-Wave-Optical-Wave Mixing-Induced Transparency and a Nonhyperbolic Matter-Wave Quasisoliton in Quantum Gases

January 5, 2017

Author(s)

Y Li, C.J. Zhu, W. R. Garrett, Edward W. Hagley, Lu Deng

The realization of atomic quantum gases has brought out surprising effects that have no correspondence in nonlinear optics with thermal gases, presenting...

Segmental Deuteration of α-Synuclein for Neutron Reflectometry on Tethered Bilayers

January 5, 2017

Author(s)

Zhiping Jiang, Frank Heinrich, Ryan P. McGlinchey, James M. Gruschus, Jennifer C. Lee

Neutron reflectometry (NR) is uniquely suited for studying protein interaction with phospholipid bilayers. While molecular details along the bilayer normal can...

MCDHF and RCI calculations of energy levels, lifetimes andtransition rates for 3l3l0, 3l4l0 and 3s5l states in Ca IX - As XXII andKr XXV

January 4, 2017

Author(s)

S. Gustafsson, P. Jonsson, Charlotte F. Fischer, Ian P. Grant

Multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock (MCDHF) calculations and relativistic configuration interaction (RCI) calculations are performed for states of the 3l3l0...

Extrapolative Scaling Expression: A Fitting Equation for Extrapolating Full Ic(B,T,ε) Data Matrixes from Limited Data

January 4, 2017

Author(s)

John (Jack) W. Ekin, Najib Cheggour, Loren F. Goodrich, Jolene D. Splett, Bernardo Bordini, David Richter, Luca Bottura

Scaling analysis of several thousand Nb3Sn critical-current (Ic) measurements is used to derive the extrapolative scaling expression (ESE), a global fitting...

Diffusion of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) through an HDPE geomembrane

January 4, 2017

Author(s)

Pooneh Taghizadeh-Saheli, R. K. Rowe, Elijah Petersen, Denis O'Carroll

The new applications for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in various fields and consequently the increase in their production volume have increased their potential...

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