Journals

Effect of Micellar Morphology on the Temperature-Induced Structural Evolution of ABC Polypeptoid Triblock Terpolymers into Two-Compartment Hydrogel Network

June 28, 2024

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Naisheng Jiang, Tianyi Yu, Meng Zhang, Bailee Barrett, Haofeng Sun, Jun Wang, Ying Luo, Garrett Sternhagen, Sunting Xuan, Guangcui Yuan, Elizabeth Kelley, Shuo Qian, Peter Bonnesen, Kunlun Hong, Dongcui Li, Donghui Zhang

We investigated the temperature-dependent structural evolution of thermoreversible triblock terpolypeptoid hydrogels, namely poly(N-allyl glycine)-b-poly(N...

Effect of Micellar Morphology on the Temperature-Induced Structural Evolution of ABC Polypeptoid Triblock Terpolymers into Two-Compartment Hydrogel Network

June 28, 2024

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We investigated the temperature-dependent structural evolution of thermoreversible triblock terpolypeptoid hydrogels, namely poly(N-allyl glycine)-b-poly(N...

On the Nusselt Number Correlations of Tandem Surrogate Firebrands on a Flat Surface

June 28, 2024

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Savannah Wessies, Jiann C. Yang

Through the heat-mass transfer analogy, naphthalene sublimation experiments were conducted in a heated-air wind tunnel to study the effects of aspect ratio and...

Single-Phase L10-Ordered High Entropy Thin Films with High Magnetic Anisotropy

June 28, 2024

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Willie Beeson, Dinesh Bista, Huairuo Zhang, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Gen Yin, Kai Liu

The vast high entropy alloy (HEA) composition space is promising for discovery of new material phases with unique properties. We explore the potential to...

Molecular transport enhancement in purely metallic carbon nanotube porins

June 27, 2024

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Yuhao Li, Sidi Zhao, Rahul Prasanna Misra, Chenxing Liang, Alice Judith Gillen, jobaer abdullah, Ted Laurence, Jeffrey Fagan, Narayana Aluru, Daniel Blankschtein, Aleksandr Noy

Nanofluidic channels impose extreme confinement on water and ions, giving rise to unusual transport phenomena that strongly depend on the interactions at the...

AtomGPT: Atomistic Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Forward and Inverse Materials Design

June 27, 2024

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Kamal Choudhary

Large language models (LLMs) such as generative pretrained transformers (GPTs) have shown potential for various commercial applications, but their applicability...

Leveraging Combinatorial Coverage in the Machine Learning Product Lifecycle

June 27, 2024

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Jaganmohan Chandrasekaran, erin lanus, tyler cody, laura freeman, Raghu N. Kacker, M S Raunak, D. Richard Kuhn

The data-intensive nature of machine learning (ML)-enabled systems introduces unique challenges in test and evaluation. We present an overview of combinatorial...

Sensitivity of a vector atomic magnetometer based on electromagnetically induced transparency

June 26, 2024

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Ying-Ju Wang, John Kitching, Mario Alberto Gonzalez Maldonado, Yang Li

We present a realization of a magnetic sensor based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) resonances observed in hot Rb vapor using lin∥lin...

Measuring the Exploitation of Weaknesses in the Wild

June 26, 2024

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Peter Mell, Irena Bojanova, Carlos Eduardo Cardoso Galhardo

Identifying the software weaknesses exploited by attacks supports efforts to reduce developer introduction of vulnerabilities and to guide security code review...

Exact and approximate fluxonium array modes

June 26, 2024

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Stephen Sorokanich, Neill Warrington, Max Hays

We present an exact solution for the array modes of fluxonium. This solution holds for arrays of any length and ground capacitance. Array mode energies are...

A Distributed Theory for Contactless Interconnects at Terahertz Frequencies

June 25, 2024

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Nicholas Jungwirth, Bryan Bosworth, Aaron Hagerstrom, Meagan Papac, Eric Marksz, JEROME CHERON, Kassiopeia Smith, Angela Stelson, Ari Feldman, Dylan Williams, Nathan Orloff, Christian Long

Here we test a multimodal model for distributed contactless interconnects by comparing it to 3D full-wave simulations. In comparison to 3D simulations, the...

New Method to Probe the Surface Properties of Polymer Thin Films by Two-Dimensional (2D) Inverse Gas Chromatography (iGC)

June 25, 2024

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Whirang Cho, Lucas Flagg, Christopher Stafford, Jeremiah Woodcock, Daniel Burnett, Anett Kondor, Douglas Fox, John Hoffmann

Polymer-based functional surface coatings are extensively used in advanced technologies, including optics, energy, and environmental applications. Surface...

High resolution X-ray Spectra of the Time Evolution of Emission from Metastable Electronic States of Highly Charged Ni-like Ions

June 25, 2024

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Timothy Burke, Endre Takacs, Dipti Dipti, Adam Hosier, Galen O'Neil, Hunter Staiger, Joseph N. Tan, Aung S. Naing, Joan Marler, Yuri Ralchenko

Metastable levels of highly charged ions that can only decay via highly forbidden transitions can have a significant effect on the properties of high...

Do Specific Ion Effects on Collective Relaxation Arise from Perturbation of Hydrogen-Bonding Network Structure?

June 24, 2024

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Jennifer Clark, Jack F. Douglas

The change in the transport properties (i.e., water diffusivity, shear viscosity, etc.) when adding salts to water has been used to classify ions as either...

GPU-accelerated parallel image reconstruction strategies for magnetic particle imaging

June 24, 2024

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Klaus Natorf Quelhas, Mark-Alexander Henn, Ricardo Farias, Weston L. Tew, Solomon I. Woods

Image reconstruction is a fundamental step in Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI). Since it was developed, several methods have been studied to perform more...

Third density and acoustic virial coefficients of helium isotopologues from ab initio calculations

June 24, 2024

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Daniele Binosi, Giovanni Garberoglio, Allan H. Harvey

Improved two-body and three-body potentials for helium have been used to calculate from first principles the third density and acoustic virial coefficients for...

Transmission Electron Imaging and Diffraction of Asbestos Fibers in a Scanning Electron Microscope

June 24, 2024

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Jason Holm, Elisabeth Mansfield

Test protocols for airborne clearance of asbestos abatement sites define the collection, imaging and quantification of asbestos with transmission electron...

Developmental Validation of the PowerPlex® 35GY System: An 8-Dye STR Multiplex for Human Identification Applications

June 22, 2024

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Erica Graham, Michael Lauck, John Picciano, Jessica Seifarth, Jon Drobac, Megan O'Donnell, Nisha Sullivan, Lilliana Moreno, Monica Zaky, Lori Flanagan, Caroline Parker, Peter Vallone, Carolyn Steffen, Jesus Martinez, Kristy Lenz, Stephen McDaniel, Dawn Rabbach, Karthika Divakaran, Robert McLaren, Douglas Storts, Cindy Sprecher, Jonelle Thompson

The PowerPlex® 35GY System is a 35-locus, eight-dye, STR multiplex optimized for use with Spectrum CE Systems. It simultaneously amplifies all CODIS and ESS...

The Chemical Assessment of Surfaces and Air (CASA) Study: Using chemical and physical perturbations in a test house to investigate indoor processes

June 21, 2024

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Delphine K Farmer, Marina E Vance, Dustin Poppendieck, Jon Abbatt, Michael R Alves, Karen C Dannemiller, Cholaphan Deeleepojananan, Jenna Ditto, Brian P. Dougherty, Olivia R Farinas, Allen H Goldstein, Vicki H Grassian, Han Huynh, Deborah Kim, Jon C King, Jesse Kroll, Jienan Li, Michael Link, Liora Mael, Kathryn Mayer, Andrew B Martin, Glenn Morrison, Rachel O’Brien, Shubhransgshu Pandit, Barbara Turpin, Marc Webb, Jie Yu, Stephen Zimmerman

The Chemical Assessment of Surfaces and Air (CASA) study aimed to understand how chemicals transform in the indoor environment using perturbations (e.g...

Observation of topological frequency combs

June 21, 2024

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Christopher Flower, Mahmoud Mehrabad, Lida Xu, Gregory Moille, Daniel Suarez-Forero, Yanne Chembo, Sunil Mittal, Kartik Srinivasan, Mohammad Hafezi

On-chip generation of optical frequency combs using nonlinear ring resonators has enabled numerous applications of combs that were otherwise limited to mode...

Borophene: Synthesis, Chemistry, and Electronic Properties

June 20, 2024

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Kai Wang, Shilpa Choyal, Jeremy Schultz, James McKenzie, Linfei Li, Xiaolong Liu, Nan Jiang

As a neighbor of carbon in the periodic table, boron exhibits versatile structural and electronic configurations, with its allotropes predicted to possess...

A collaborative study on the precision of the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms used for DNA profile interpretation

June 19, 2024

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Sarah Riman, Jo-Anne Bright, Kaitlin Huffman, Lilliana Moreno, Sicen Liu, Asmitha Sathya, Peter Vallone

Several fully continuous probabilistic genotyping software (PGS) use Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms (MCMC) to assign weights to different proposed genotype...

Predicting the toughness of compatibilized polymer blends

June 19, 2024

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Robert Ivancic, Debra Audus

Polymer blends can yield superior materials by merging the unique properties of their components. However, these mixtures often phase separate, leading to...

Phantoms for Quantitative Body MRI: a review and discussion of the phantom value

June 19, 2024

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Katy Keenan, Kalina Jordanova, Stephen Ogier, Daiki Tamada, Jitka Starekova, Jon Riek, Paul McCracken, Diego Hernando

Memory Efficient Segmentation of Large Microscopy Images Using Graph-based Neural Networks

June 18, 2024

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Atishay Jain, David Laidlaw, Ritambhara Singh, Peter Bajcsy

We present a graph neural network (GNN) based framework applied to a large-scale image segmentation task. While deep learning models, like convolutional neural...

Suppression of Segmental Chain Dynamics on a Particle's Surface in Well-Dispersed Polymer Nanocomposites

June 18, 2024

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Jihyuk Kim, Benjamin Thompson, Taiki Tominaga, Takahito Osawa, Takeshi Egami, Stephan Forster, Michael Ohl, Erkan Senses, Antonio Faraone, Norman J. Wagner

The Rouse dynamics of polymer chains in model nanocomposite polyethylene oxide/silica nanoparticles (NPs) was investigated using quasielastic neutron scattering...

Entangled matter waves for quantum enhanced sensing

June 18, 2024

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John Wilson, Jarrod T. Reilly, HAOQING ZHANG, Chengyi Luo, Anjun Chu, James Thompson, Ana Rey Ayala, MURRAY HOLLAND

Structural Relaxation and Nanodomain Dynamics in Highly Concentrated Electrolytes for Zinc Batteries

June 17, 2024

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Antonio Faraone, Fei Wang, Saya Takeuchi, Joseph Dura

QuasiElastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) was employed to investigate the molecular-level dynamics of highly concentrated zinc-ion electrolytes (HCZE), a water-in...

Breaking Boundaries: Investigating the Effects of Model Editing on Cross-linguistic Performance

June 17, 2024

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Somnath Banerjee, Avik Halder, Rajarshi Mandal, Sayan Layek, Ian Soboroff, Rima Hazra, Animesh Mukherjee

The integration of pretrained language models (PLMs) like BERT and GPT has revolutionized NLP, particularly for English, but it has also created linguistic...

United States Navy Nuclear Accident Dosimetry Program: History and Current Status

June 15, 2024

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Alexander Romanyukha, Jessica Saunders, David Boozer, Keith Consani, Jeff Delzer

United States Code of Federal Regulations 10, § 835.1304 requires that installations possessing sufficient quantities of fissile material to potentially...