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Eric J. Cockayne, Marek Mihalkovic, Christopher L. Henley
We model the remarkable thin-film Ba-Ti-O structures formed by heat treatment of an initial perovskite BaTiO$_3$ thin film on a Pt(111) surface. All structures...
Donat F. Natterer, Jeonghoon Ha, Hongwoo H. Baek, Duming Zhang, William G. Cullen, Nikolai B. Zhitenev, Young Kuk, Joseph A. Stroscio
Superconducting aluminum films were grown on multilayer graphene. The aluminum films were discontinuous with networks of trenches in the film morphology...
Charles J. Mueller, William J. Cannella, J. Timothy Bays, Thomas J. Bruno, Kathy DeFabio, Heather Dettman, Rafal M. Gieleciak, Marcia L. Huber, Chol-Bum Kweon, Steven S. McConnell, William J. Pitz, Matthew A. Ratcliff
The primary objectives of this work were to formulate, blend, and characterize a set of four ultra-low-sulfur diesel surrogate fuels in quantities sufficient to...
Mina S. Seif, Therese P. McAllister, Joseph A. Main, William E. Luecke
Performance-based methodologies to evaluate the fire performance of structures are needed to move beyond the prescriptive procedures presently in use, which...
The spectrum of five-times-ionized zirconium Zr VI was observed from 160 Å to 2000 Å with sliding spark discharges on 10.7-m normal- and grazing-incidence...
Jia Ma, Huaying Zhao, Julia Sandmaier, James Alexander Liddle, Peter Schuck
Sedimentation velocity (SV) analytical ultracentrifugation is a classical biophysical technique for the determination of the size-distribution of macromolecules...
A cavity ring-down spectrometer and condensation particle counter were used to investigate the limitations in the separation of singly and multiply charged...
Aaron Forster, Maryam Salehi, Kuang-Ting Hsiao, Andrew J. Whelton
The incorporation of carbon nanofiber (CNF) into glass fiber (GF) composites is a potential route to extending the life of water conveyance piping. Mechanical...
Compressed-liquid densities of three compositions of the binary mixture dimethyl ether (CAS No. 115-10-6) + pentane (CAS No. 109-66-0) have been measured with a...
Kathryn E. Keenan, Sheye O. Aliu, Lisa J. Wilmes, David C. Newitt, Ella F. Jones, Wen Li, Michael A. Boss, Nola M. Hylton
Purpose: We present a breast phantom designed to enable quantitative assessment of measurements of T 1 relaxation time, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC)...
Jessica L. Reiner, Paul R. Becker, Jennifer M. Lynch, Amanda J. Moors, Jennifer M. Ness, Rebecca S. Pugh, Catherine A. Rimmer, John R. Kucklick, Matthew O. Gribble, Danielle Peterson, Jody Rhoderick, Jennifer Trevillian
During native subsistence hunts from 1987 to 2007, blubber and liver samples from 50 subadult male northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) were collected on St...
Nathan A. Hotaling, Kapil Bharti, Hayden Kriel, Carl G. Simon Jr.
DiameterJ is an open source image analysis plugin for ImageJ. DiameterJ produces ten files for every image that it analyzes. These files include the images that...
Carl G. Simon Jr., John Test, Michael Yaszemski, Reto Luginbuehl, Anthony Ratcliffe, Paul Tomlins
A Workshop on Standards & Measurements for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds was held on May 21, 2013 and was sponsored by the American Society of Testing and...
Michael R. Moldover, Weston L. Tew, Howard W. Yoon
The last 25 years have seen tremendous progress in thermometry in the moderate temperature range (1 K to 1235 K). Various primary thermometers based on...
With a growth of surveillance cameras, the amount of captured videos expands. Manually analyzing and retrieving surveillance video is labor intensive and...
Sulayman Sowe, Eric D. Simmon, Koji Zettsu, Frederic J. de Vaulx, Irena Bojanova
This paper outlines the need to effectively integrate people into the design of a new generation of Cyber-Physical Social Systems (CPSS) and proposes a Human...
Angela M. Hansen, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Kristi West, Brenda Jensen
The impacts of anthropogenic contaminants on marine ecosystems are a concern worldwide. Anthropogenic activities can enrich trace elements in marine biota to...
Recent research into Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) flows accounts for the difference between �neutral� and �conventionally neutral� flows. Of interest in...
Simple vibration-based metrics are, in many cases, insufficient to diagnose machine tool spindle condition. These metrics couple defect-based motion with...
Yong Sik Kim, Nicholas Dagalakis, Chiara C. Ferraris, Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic1
Rotational rheometers are used to measure paste properties, but the test would take too long to be useful for a quality control (QC) on the job site. In this...
The effect of faults on cooling capacity, COP, sensible heat ratio, and superheat/subcooling temperatures in five split and rooftop systems, which use different...
We describe a general purpose digital servo optimized for feedback control of lasers in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics experiments. The servo is...
Alexander L. Ayzner, Jianguo Mei, Anthony Appleton, Dean DeLongchamp, Alexandre Nardes, Stephanie Benight, Nikos Kopidakis, Michael F. Toney, Zhenan Bao
Conjugated polymers are widely used materials in organic photovoltaic devices. Owing to their extended electronic wavefunctions, they often form semicrystalline...
Matthew E. Staymates, Robert A. Fletcher, R M. Verkouteren, Jessica L. Staymates, John G. Gillen
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is involved in a chemical metrology program to support the development of well characterized trace...
Bradley K. Alpert, Elena Ferri, Douglas A. Bennett, Marco Faverzani, Joseph W. Fowler, Andrea Giachero, James P. Hays-Wehle, Angelo Nucciotti, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom
For experiments with high arrival rates, reliable identification of nearly-coincident events can be crucial. For calorimetric measurements to directly measure...
This paper investigates the potential advantages and pitfalls of directly integrating knowledge expressed as predictive model equations with other process...
Elisabeth Mansfield, Ari D. Feldman, Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, John H. Lehman, Alexandra E. Curtin
Six types of multiwall carbon nanotube soot were obtained and prepared into buckypapers by pellet pressing and by filtration into a paper. These samples were...