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Mechanism of α-Synuclein Translocation through a VDAC Nanopore Revealed by Energy Landscape Modeling of Escape Time Distributions

November 17, 2016

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David Paul Hoogerheide, Philip A. Gurnev, Tatiana K. Rostovtseva, Sergey M. Bezrukov

We probe the energy landscape governing the passage of α-synuclein, a natural "diblock copolymer"-like polypeptide, through a nanoscale pore. The motion of this...

Unified scaling law for flux pinning in practical superconductors: Part 2. Parameter testing, scaling constants, and the extrapolative scaling expression

November 17, 2016

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

A scaling study of several thousand Nb3Sn critical-current (Ic) measurements is used to derive the extrapolative scaling expression (ESE), a relation that can...

Lineage mapper: A versatile cell and particle tracker

November 17, 2016

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Joe Chalfoun, Michael P. Majurski, Alden A. Dima, Michael W. Halter, Kiran Bhadriraju, Mary C. Brady

Optical amplitude and Phase Modulation Dynamics at the Single Photon Level in a Quantum Dot Ridge Waveguide

November 17, 2016

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Galan A. Moody, Corey A. McDonald, Ari D. Feldman, Todd E. Harvey, Richard P. Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman

The amplitude and phase of a materials nonlinear optical response provide insight into the underlying electronic and exciton dynamics that determine its...

Entangling distant resonant exchange qubits via circuit quantum electrodynamics

November 16, 2016

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Jacob M. Taylor, Vanita Srinivasa, Charles Tahan

We investigate a hybrid quantum system consisting of spatially separated resonant exchange qubits, defined in three-electron semiconductor triple quantum dots...

Simultaneously Tailoring Surface Energies and Thermal Stabilities of Cellulose Nanocrystals Using Ion Exchange: Effects on Polymer Composites Properties for Transportation, Infrastructure, and Renewable Energy Applications

November 16, 2016

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Douglas M. Fox, Rebecca S. Rodriguez, Mackenzie Devilbliss, Chelsea S. Davis, Jeremiah Woodcock, Jeffrey W. Gilman

Scalable, chip-based optically-controlled gates for quantum information processing

November 15, 2016

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Sergey V. Polyakov, Ivan Burenkov, Olga Tikhonova

Here we present a simple and robust method to build on-the-fly configurable quantum gates based on photonic exchange between quantum nodes. The idea is based on...

Organic Spin-Valves and Beyond: Spin injection and Transport in Organic Semiconductors and the Effect of Interfacial Engineering

November 15, 2016

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Hyuk-Jae Jang, Curt A. Richter

Since the first observation of spin-valve effect through organic semiconductors, efforts to realize novel spintronic technologies based on organic...

Ultramicroelectrode Studies of Self-Terminated Nickel Electrodeposition and Nickel Hydroxide Formation upon Water Reduction

November 14, 2016

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Nicole Ritzert, Thomas Moffat

The interaction between electrodeposition of Ni and electrolyte breakdown, namely the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) via H3O+ and H2O reduction, was...

A Planar Hyperblack Absolute Radiometer

November 14, 2016

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John H. Lehman, Michelle S. Stephens, Malcolm G. White, Andreas Steiger, Christian Monte, Joerg Hollandt, Ivan Ryger, Mathias Kehrt, Marla L. Dowell

The absolute responsivity of a planar radiometer fabricated from micromachined silicon and having carbon nanotubes as the absorber and thermistor was measured...

Enhanced Stability of Pt-TiO2-CNT Heterostructure Composite Cathodes for Li-O2 Batteries Studied by High-Resolution AEM

November 14, 2016

Author(s)

Vladimir P. Oleshko

Li-O2 batteries currently attract a lot of attention due to their super-high theoretical specific energy (~3500 Wh kg-1), which is almost an order of magnitude...

Predictive modeling and optimization of multi-track processing for laser powder bed fusion of nickel alloy 625

November 14, 2016

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Luis Criales, Yigit Arisoy, Brandon Lane, Shawn P. Moylan, Alkan Donmez, Tugrul Ozel

This paper presents a physics-based modeling approach to predict temperature profile and melt pool geometry in multi-track processing of laser powder bed fusion...

Superconformal Bottom-Up Cobalt Deposition in High Aspect Ratio Through Silicon Vias

November 11, 2016

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Daniel Josell, Thomas P. Moffat, Manoj R. Silva

This work demonstrates and models controlled bottom-up Co filling of Through Silicon Vias (TSVs) based on the coupling of suppression breakdown and surface...

Interacting atomic interferometry for rotation sensing approaching the Heisenberg Limit

November 11, 2016

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Jacob M. Taylor, Stephen Ragole

Atom interferometers provide exquisite measurements of the properties of non-inertial frames. Typically atomic interactions are detrimental to good sensing...

Liquid Chromatography with Absorbance Detection and with Isotope-Dilution Mass Spectrometry for Determination of Isoflavones in Soy Standard Reference Materials

November 10, 2016

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Melissa M. Phillips, Mary Bedner, Manuela Reitz, Carolyn Q. Burdette, Michael A. Nelson, James H. Yen, Lane C. Sander, Catherine A. Rimmer

Two independent analytical approaches, based on liquid chromatography with absorbance detection and liquid chromatography with mass spectrometric detection...

Role of Molecular Flexibility and Colloidal Descriptions of Proteins in Crowded Environments from Small-Angle Scattering

November 10, 2016

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Maria Monica Castellanos Mantilla, Nicholas J. Clark, Max C. Watson, Susan Krueger, Arnold McAuley, Joseph Curtis

Small-angle scattering is a powerful technique to study molecular conformation and interactions in a variety of systems. Recent work has questioned the validity...

Reduction of Domain Spacing and Interfacial Width in Fast Ordering Nanofilled Copolymer Films by Direct Immersion Annealing

November 10, 2016

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Melanie Longanecker, Arvind Modi, Andrey Dobrynin, Seyong Kim, Guangcui Yuan, Ronald L. Jones, Sushil K. Satija, Joona Bang, Alamgir Karim

Block copolymers (BCPs) offer a convenient templating method on the nanoscale to organize nanoparticles within a polymer film for the enhancement of various...

Fabrication, Testing and Simulation of All Solid State Three Dimensional Li-ion Batteries

November 10, 2016

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Alec Talin, Dimitry Ruzmetov, Andrei Kolmakov, Kim McKelvey, N Ware, Farid El Gabaly, Bruce Dunn, Henry White

In this paper we demonstrate fully-functional 3D SSLIBs fabricated using materials and thin film deposition methods compatible with semiconductor device...

Cascaded emission of single photons from the biexciton in monolayered WSe2

November 10, 2016

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Yu-Ming He, Oliver Iff, Nils Lundt, Vasilij Baumann, Marcelo I. Davanco, Kartik Srinivasan, Sven Hofling, Christian Schneider

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenide materials emerged as a new material class to study excitonic effects in solid state. They benefit from the...

Fragile Morphotropic Phase Boundary and Phase Stability in the Near-Surface Region of Relaxor Ferroelectric (1-x)Pb(Zn_1/3Nb_2/3)O_3-xPbTiO₃: [001] Field-Cooled Phase Diagrams

November 10, 2016

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Yaojin Wang, Ding Wang, Guoliang Yuan, He Ma, Feng Xu, Jiefang Li, D. Viehland, Peter M. Gehring

We have examined the effects of field cooling on the phase diagram of the relaxor system (1-X)Pb(Zn 1/3Nb 2/3)O6d3-x^PbTiO 3 (PZN-xPT) for compositions near the...

Heralding single photons from a high-Q silicon microdisk

November 10, 2016

Author(s)

Xiyuan Lu, Steven Rogers, Thomas Gerrits, Wei Jiang, Sae Woo Nam, Qiang Lin

Integrated quantum photonics has recently attracted considerable attention due to the promise of realizing chip-scale quantum information processing with...

Erratum: "Intermolecular potential energy surface and second virial coefficients for the water- CO2 dimer" [J. Chem. Phys. 134, 134109 (2011)]

November 9, 2016

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey, Richard J. Wheatley

Minor correction to previous publication to make tables in paper fully consistent with potential function supplied in Supplementary Material.

Phase-specific Raman analysis of n-alkane melting by moving-window two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy

November 9, 2016

Author(s)

Ying Jin, Anthony Kotula, Angela R. Hight Walker, Kalman D. Migler, Young Jong Lee

We usemoving-window two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (MW-2DCOS) for phase-specific Raman analysis of the n-alkane (C21H44) duringmelting from the...

Towards a generalized energy prediction model for machine tools

November 9, 2016

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Raunak Bhinge, Jinkyoo Park, Kincho H. Law, David Dornfeld, Moneer Helu, Sudarsan Rachuri

Energy prediction of machine tools can deliver many advantages to a manufacturing enterprise, ranging from energy-efficient process planning to machine tool...

The influence of the aromatic character in the gas chromatography elution order: the case of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

November 8, 2016

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Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Walter B. Wilson, Federica Nalin, Lane C. Sander, Patricia Schubert, Stephen A. Wise

A link between the aromatic character of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and gas chromatography (GC) elution order in columns with a polysiloxane...

VECSEL systems for generation and manipulation of trapped magnesium ions

November 8, 2016

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Shaun C. Burd, David T. Allcock, Tomi Leinonen, Jussi-Pekka Penttinen, Daniel H. Slichter, Raghavendra Srinivas, Andrew C. Wilson, Robert Jordens, Micrea Guina, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland

Experiments in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics rely on lasers at many different wave- lengths and with varying requirements on spectral linewidth...

Influence of Cohesive Energy on the Thermodynamic Properties of a Model Glass-Forming Polymer Melt

November 8, 2016

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Wensheng Xu, Karl Freed

We systematically investigate the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of a model glass-forming (GF) polymer melt by molecular dynamics simulation over a wide...

Influence of cohesive energy on relaxation in a model glass-forming polymer melt

November 8, 2016

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Wensheng Xu, Karl Freed

The wide range of chemical compositions exhibited by polymer materials leads to materials having highly tunable cohesive energy strength epsilon, and many of...

Comparison of CBED and ABF Atomic Imaging for GaN Polarity Determination

November 8, 2016

Author(s)

Alexana Roshko, Matthew D. Brubaker, Paul T. Blanchard, Kristine A. Bertness, Todd E. Harvey, Igor Levin, R.H. Geiss

A comparison of two electron microscopy techniques used to determine the polarity of GaN nanowires is presented. The techniques are convergent beam electron...

Multicomponent adsorption in mesoporous flexible materials with flat-histogram Monte Carlo methods

November 7, 2016

Author(s)

Nathan Mahynski, Vincent K. Shen

We demonstrate an extensible flat-histogram Monte Carlo simulation methodology for studying the adsorption of multicomponent fluids in flexible porous solids...

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