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Journals

Large effective three-body interaction in a double-well optical lattice

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Eite Tiesinga, Saurabh Paul

We study ultracold atoms in a double-well (DW) optical lattice and show that the low energy states of a multi-band Bose-Hubbard (BH) Hamiltonian with only pai r

Linear relation between Heisenberg exchange and interfacial DzyaloshinskiiMoriya interaction in metal films

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw, Mathias A. Weiler, Emilie M. Jue, Thomas J. Silva

Proposals for novel spin-orbitronic logic and memory devices are often dependent on assumptions as to how materials with large spin-orbit and ferromagnets

Application of Data Science Tools to Quantify and Distinguish between Structures and Models in Molecular Dynamics Datasets

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Surya R. Kalidindi, Joshua Gomberg, Zachary Trautt, Chandler Becker

Structure quantification is key to successful mining and extraction of core materials knowledge from both multiscale simulations as well as multiscale

Using Neutron Radiography to Quantify Water Transport and the Degree of Saturation in Entrained Air Cement Based Mortar

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Catherine Lucero, Dale P. Bentz, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Jason Weiss

Air entrainment is commonly added to concrete to help in reducing the potential for freeze thaw damage. It is hypothesized that the entrained air voids remain

Hydrogen induced amorphization of LaMgNi4 phase in metal hydride alloys

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Leonid A. Bendersky, Haoting Shen, Kwo Young, Taihei Ouchi

Hydrogen induced amorphization (HIA) of the LaMgNi4 phase at 30C was found in three LaMgNi4/LaNi5 two-phase metal hydride (MH)-forming alloys. The

Experimental Characterization of the Advanced Liquid Hydrogen Cold Neutron Source Spectrum of the NBSR Reactor at the NIST Center for Neutron Research

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

Jeremy C. Cook, John G. Barker, J. Michael Rowe, Robert E. Williams, Cedric V. Gagnon, Richard M. Lindstrom, Richard Michael Ibberson, Dan A. Neumann

The recent expansion of the NIST Center for Neutron Research facility has offered a rare opportunity to perform an accurate measurement of the cold neutron

Evaluating Texture Compression Masking Effects using Objective Image Quality Assessment Metrics

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

Wesley N. Griffin, Marc Olano

Texture compression is widely used in real-time rendering to reduce storage and bandwidth requirements. Recent research in compression algorithms has explored

Research highlights: detecting, characterizing and quantifying the presence and impact of carbon nanomaterials in environmental systems

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

John M. Pettibone, Stacey M. Louie

Here, we highlight articles examining different aspects contributing to the fate and role of carbon nanomaterials in environmental systems by developing new

Effect of fire prevention programs on accidental and incendiary wildfires on tribal lands in the U.S.

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

Karen L. Abt, David Butry, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Samuel Scranton

Humans cause more than 55 % of wildfires on lands managed by the USDA Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior, contributing to both suppression

Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks with Lewis Basic Nitrogen Sites for High-Capacity Methane Storage

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

Bin Li, Hui-Min Wen, Hailong Wang, Hui Wu, Taner N. Yildirim, Wei Zhou, Banglin Chen

The use of porous materials to store/deliver natural gas (mostly methane) in vehicles requires large amounts of methane being stored per unit volume. In this

Atomically thin layers of B-N-C-O with tuneable composition

July 31, 2015

Author(s)

Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Birol Ozturk, Andres de Luna Bugallo, Eugene Panaitescu, Fangze Liu, Anthony Vargas, Xueping Jiang, Ozgur Yavuzcetin, Majed Alnaji, Yongui Zhao, Nicholas King, Madan Dubey, Saroj Nayak, Srinivas Sridhar, Swastik Kar

Atomically thin ternary compounds/alloys of boron, nitrogen and carbon have generated significant excitement as they provided the first instance of a tuneable

Simple FMM libraries for electrostatics, slow viscous flow, and frequency-domain wave propagation

July 30, 2015

Author(s)

Zydrunas Gimbutas, Leslie Greengard

We have implemented easy to use FMM libraries for the Laplace, Helmholtz and Stokes equations in two and three dimensions. The codes are based on a new method

Research needs and gaps for developing a risk-based framework for facility and community disaster resilience

July 30, 2015

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister

Resilience has been defined as the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events. The term resilience

1H and 13C NMR Analysis of Gas Turbine Fuels As Applied to the Advanced Distillation Curve Method

July 30, 2015

Author(s)

Jessica L. Burger, Jason A. Widegren, Tara Lovestead, Thomas J. Bruno

The analysis of the gas turbine fuels by 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy as applied to the composition explicit (or advanced)

Consistent, Multi-Instrument Single Tube Quantification of CD20 in Antibody Bound per Cell Based on CD4 Reference

July 30, 2015

Author(s)

Heba Degheidy, Fatima Abbasi, Howard Mostowski, Adolfas Gaigalas, Gerald Marti, Steven Bauer, Lili Wang

Detecting changes in the expression levels of cell antigens could provide critical information for the diagnosis of many diseases, e.g. leukemia, lymphoma and

Ignition of Wood Fencing Assemblies Exposed to Continuous-Wind Driven Firebrand Showers

July 30, 2015

Author(s)

Sayaka Suzuki, Erik L. Johnsson, Alexander Maranghides, Samuel Manzello

A series of experiments were conducted to examine ignition of wood fencing assemblies subjected to continuous, wind-driven firebrand showers. Specifically

Reconstitution of Functionalized Transmembrane Domains of Receptor Proteins into Biomimetic Membranes

July 29, 2015

Author(s)

Daniel R Scott, Vitalii Silin, Hirsh Nanda

For integral membrane proteins, an assessment of their structures and interactions within a biomimetic lipid bilayer environment is critical for evaluating

The IAPWS Industrial Formulation for the Thermodynamic Properties of Seawater

July 29, 2015

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey, H J. Kretzschmar, Rainer Feistel, Wolfgang Wagner, Kiyoshi Miyagawa, J R. Cooper, Michael Hiegemann, Francisco L. Blangetti, Konstantin A. Orlov, I Weber, Anurag Singh, Sebastian Herrmann

In 2008, the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) adopted a standard formulation for the thermodynamic properties of seawater

Effects of Detector Dead-time on Quantitative Analyses Involving Boron and Multi-Hit Detection Events in Atom Probe Tomography

July 29, 2015

Author(s)

Frederick Meisenkothen, Eric B. Steel, T. J. Prosa, Karen T. Henry, Ratna P. Kolli

In atom probe tomography (APT), some elements tend to field evaporate preferentially in multi-hit detection events. Boron (B) is one such element. It is thought

Comprehensive Study of the Thermodynamic Properties for 2-Methyl-3-buten-2-ol

July 29, 2015

Author(s)

Dzmitry H. Zaitsau, Eugene Paulechka, Dzmitry S. Firaha, Andrey V. Blokhin, Gennady J. Kabo, Ala Bazyleva, Andrey G. Kabo, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Viktor M. Sevruk

The heat capacity of 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol over the interval (5 to 370) K was measured in an adiabatic calorimeter. The standard entropy and heat capacity of

Characterization of clay composite ballistic witness materials

July 29, 2015

Author(s)

Jonathan E. Seppala, Yoonae Heo, Paul E. Stutzman, John R. Sieber, Chad R. Snyder, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes

Mechanical and thermal properties of Roma Plastilina Clay #1 (RP1) were studied through small-amplitude oscillatory shear (SAOS), large-amplitude oscillatory

Developing a virtual machining model to generate MTConnect machine monitoring data from STEP-NC

July 27, 2015

Author(s)

Seungjun Shin, Jungyub Woo, Duck B. Kim, FNU Kumaraguru, Sudarsan Rachuri

The ability to predict performance of manufacturing equipment during early stages of process planning is vital for improving efficiency of manufacturing

Nanoscale optical positioning of single quantum dots for bright, pure, and on-demand single-photon emission

July 27, 2015

Author(s)

Luca Sapienza, Marcelo I. Davanco, Antonio Badolato, Kartik Srinivasan

Production, Purification and Characterization of 15N-Labeled DNA Repair Proteins as Internal Standards for Mass Spectrometric Measurements

July 26, 2015

Author(s)

Prasad T. Reddy, Pawel Jaruga, Bryant C. Nelson, Mark Lowenthal, Ann-Sofie Jemth, Olga Loseva, Erdem Coskun, Thomas Helleday, Miral M. Dizdar

Oxidatively induced DNA damage is caused in living organisms by a variety of damaging agents, resulting in the formation of a multiplicity of lesions, which are

Electric Field Control of Interfacial Ferromagnetism in CaMnO₃/CaRuO₃ Heterostructures

July 24, 2015

Author(s)

Alexander J. Grutter, Brian J. Kirby, M. T. Gray, C. L. Flint, U. S. Alaan, Y. Suzuki, Julie A. Borchers

A key milestone for the development of low-power spintronic devices is electric field control of ferromagnetism. To that end, we have probed the electric field

α-Synuclein Shows High-Affinity Interaction with Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel Suggesting Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Regulation and Toxicity in Parkinson Disease

July 24, 2015

Author(s)

Tatiana K. Rostovtseva, Philip A. Gurnev, Olga Protchenko, David Hoogerheide, Thai Leong Yap, Caroline C. Philpott, Jennifer C. Lee, Sergey M. Bezrukov

Magnetic Structure and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in the S=1/2 Helical-Honeycomb Antiferromagnet α-Cu₂V₂O₇

July 24, 2015

Author(s)

G. Gitgeatpong, Yang Zhao, M. Avdeev, R. O. Piltz, T. J. Sato, K. Matan

Magnetic properties of the S = 1/2 quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet alph}Cu 2V 2O 7 have been studied using magnetization and neutron scattering

Role of Elastic Strain on Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Pt

July 23, 2015

Author(s)

Gery R. Stafford, Vijay Sethuraman, Deepa Vairavapandian, Manon C. Lafouresse, Tuhina Maark, Naba Karan, Shouheng Sun, Ugo Bertocci, Andrew Peterson, Pradeep Guduru

The effect of elastic strain on catalytic activity of platinum (Pt) towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is investigated through de-alloyed Pt-Cu thin films

A Chemical Kinetic Mechanism for 2-Bromo-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (2-BTP) Flame Inhibition

July 22, 2015

Author(s)

Donald R. Burgess Jr., Valeri I. Babushok, Gregory T. Linteris, Jeffrey A. Manion

The present paper is concerned with the development of a detailed chemical kinetic mechanism to describe the flame inhibition chemistry of the fire suppressant

Thermal Conductance Engineering for High-Speed TES Microcalorimeters

July 22, 2015

Author(s)

James P. Hays-Wehle, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Daniel S. Swetz

Many current and future applications for superconducting transition-edge sensor (TESmicrocalorimeters require significantly faster pulse-response than is

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