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The development of surrogate fuels with measured and predicted thermophysical properties similar to their authentic refinery stream counterparts is critical for
Carlos A. Castaneda, Apurva Chaturvedi, Christina M. Camara, Joseph E. Curtis, Susan T. Krueger, David Fushman
Polyubiquitination is a critical protein post-translational modification involved in a variety of processes in eukaryotic cells. The molecular basis for
Successful design of materials and manufacturing processes requires the availability of reliable materials data. Commercial alloys usually contain a large
Lee J. Richter, Hyunbok Lee, Christopher McNeil, Eliot Gann, Lars Thomsen, S. Park, J. Jeong, Z. A. Page, Egle Puodziukynaite, Todd Emrick, Alejandro Briseno, John C. Stephenson, Dean M. DeLongchamp
Market demand for ubiquitous, increased functionality products at low cost (the internet of things) is spurring development in additive, solution processing of
Harshita Kumari, Steven R. Kline, Stuart R. Kennedy, Christopher Garvey, Colin L. Raston, Jerry L. Atwood, Jonathan W. Steed
Vortex fluidic mediated shearing of supramolecular gels in thin films leads to complete disruption of fluorous bis-urea derived gels. Hydrocarbon analogues
Alexander J. Grutter, Dustin A. Gilbert, U. S. Alaan, E. Arenholz, Brian B. Maranville, Julie A. Borchers, Y. Suzuki, Kai Liu, Brian J. Kirby
We demonstrate reversible control of magnetization and anisotropy in La 0.67Sr 0.33MnO 3 films through interfacial oxygen migration. Gd metal capping layers
Many objects in nature prefer to spiral in one particular direction to the other. A nanostructured magnetic system with strong spin-orbit coupling now shows
Nicholas E. Sharp, John D. Fassett, David S. Simons
Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) plays an important role in nuclear forensics through its ability to identify isotopic ratios of particles accurately and
Daniel B. Gopman, June W. Lau, Kotekar P. Mohanchandra, Kyle Wetzlar, Greg Carman
We present measurements of the exchange stiffness D and the exchange constant A of a sputtered 80 nm Tb0.3Dy0.7Fe2 film. Using a broadband ferromagnetic
Leonid A. Bendersky, Haoting Shen, Kwo-hsiung Young
The microstructures of three Laves phase-related body-center-cubic (bcc) solid solution metal hydride alloys with different phase abundances were closely
The symposium was titled Multicomponent Alloy Metallurgy: Bridge from Materials Science to Materials Engineering with focus on the physical metallurgy of
Tian Zhang, Brian Simonds, Keita Nomoto, Binesh Puthen Veettil, Ziyun Lin, Ivan Perez Wurfl, Gavin Conibeer
We demonstrate that a pulsed KrF excimer laser (λ=248 nm, τ=22 ns) can be used as a post-furnace annealing method to greatly increase the electrically active
Eugene Paulechka, Andrey V. Blokhin, Ana Rodriguez, Marisa A. Rocha, Luis M.N.B.F. Santos
The heat capacities in the temperature range (5 to 370) K and the parameters of solid-phase phase transitions and fusion were determined for three [Cnmim][NTf2]
Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Anna E. Fox, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Robert E. Schwall, Samuel P. Benz
The root-mean-square (rms) output voltage of the NIST Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer (JAWS) has been doubled from 1 V to a record 2 V by combining two
Dmitry A. Ruzmetov, Kehao Zhang, Gheorghe Stan, Berc Kalanyan, Ganesh R. Bhimanapati, Sarah M. Eichfeld, R A. Burke, Pankaj B. Shah, Terrance P. O'Regan, Frank J. Crowne, A. Glen Birdwell, Joshua A. Robinson, Albert Davydov, Tony G. Ivanov
When designing semiconductor heterostructures, it is expected that epitaxial alignment will facilitate low-defect interfaces and efficient vertical transport
Thomas J. Bruno, Jessica L. Burger, Tara M. Lovestead
Analysis of fuel gas (such as natural gas) for compounds with more than 6 carbon atoms (the C6+ fraction) has historically been technically complex and
Lisa Y. Choe, Chao Zhang, William E. Luecke, John L. Gross, Amit Varma
Finite-element (FE) analysis was used to compare the high-temperature responses of steel columns with two different stressstrain models: the Eurocode 3 model
George C. Rhoderick, Duane Kitzis, Michael E. Kelley, Walter R. Miller Jr., Bradley Hall, Edward Dlugokencky, Pieter Tans, Antonio M. Possolo, Jennifer Carney
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently began to develop standard mixtures of greenhouse gases as part of a broad program mandated by
Lawrence Henry Friedman, Mark D. Vaudin, Stephan J. Stranick, Gheorghe Stan, Yvonne B. Gerbig, William Alexander Osborn, Robert F. Cook
The accuracy of electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) and confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) for small-scale strain mapping are assessed using the multi-axial
Bhaven Mehta, Kurt D. Benkstein, Stephen Semancik, Mona E. Zaghloul
The motivation behind this work is to study the gas phase chemical sensing characteristics of optical (plasmonic) nano antennas (ONA) and graphene/graphene
Wojtek J. Tutak, Carl Simon Jr., Jyotsnendu J. Giri, Peter Bajcsy
Recent work has shown that osteoprogenitor cell culture on nanofiber scaffolds can promote differentiation. This response may be driven by changes in cell
Jose M. Ortiz, Tam H. Duong, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Jih-Sheng Lai
A multi-scale electro-thermal simulation approach is presented to optimize the design of a hybrid switch soft-switching inverter using a library of dynamic
Paul A. Williams, Joshua A. Hadler, Frank C. Maring, Robert Lee, Kyle A. Rogers, Brian J. Simonds, Matthew T. Spidell, Ari D. Feldman, John H. Lehman
We describe a unique optical power meter which measures the radiation pressure to accurately determine a lasers optical power output. This approach traces its
The interactions of molecules and particles in solution often involve an interplay between isotropic and highly directional interactions that lead to a mutual