Journals

Determination of Fluorine in Reference Materials by chopped-beam Cold Neutron Prompt Gamma-ray Activation Analysis (CB-CNPGAA)

October 14, 2024

Author(s)

Rick Paul, Huaiyu Chen-Mayer

A method is described for determination of fluorine in reference materials by chopped beam cold neutron prompt gamma-ray activation analysis (CB-CNPGAA). The...

BIT-FL: Blockchain-Enabled Incentivized And Secure Federated Learning Framework

October 14, 2024

Author(s)

Tao Zhang, Chenhao Ying, Fuyuan Xia, Haiming Jin, Yuan Luo, David Wei, Xinchun Yu, Yibin Xu, Xikun Jiang, Weiting Zhang, Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) enables the protection of data privacy through collaborative training of a machine learning (ML) model without sharing local data...

An Instrumentation Guide to Measuring Thermal Conductivity Using Frequency Domain Thermoreflectance (FDTR)

October 14, 2024

Author(s)

Dylan Kirsch, Joshua B. Martin, Ronald Warzoha, Mark McLean, Donald Windover, Ichrio Takeuchi

Frequency Domain Thermoreflectance (FDTR) is a versatile and rapidly developing technique used to measure the thermal properties of thin films, multilayer...

StratoMod: predicting sequencing and variant calling errors with interpretable machine learning

October 13, 2024

Author(s)

Nathan Dwarshuis, Nathanael Olson, Fritz Sedlazeck, Justin Wagner, Justin Zook

Despite the variety in sequencing platforms, mappers, and variant callers, no single pipeline is optimal across the entire human genome. Therefore, developers...

Itinerant A-Type Antiferromagnet Order in Co1/4TaSe2

October 11, 2024

Author(s)

H. C. Mandujano, Gicela Saucedo Salas, Tianyu Li, Peter Zavalij, Alicia Manjon-Sanz, Nicholas Butch, Efrain Rodriguez

We present the magnetic behavior and resulting transport properties of TaSe2 when intercalated by magnetically active cobalt cations. Acting as the layered host...

Single-Crystalline 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks with Exceptionally High Specific Surface Areas and Gas Storage Capacities

October 11, 2024

Author(s)

Baoqiu Yu, Yu Tao, Xuan Yao, Yucheng Jin, Shan Liu, Tongtong Xu, Hailong Wang, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Xin Zhou, Xiao Wang, Xu Ding, Xin Xiao, Yue-Biao Zhang, Jianzhuang Jiang

Single-crystalline covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are highly desirable towards understanding their pore chemistry and functions. Herein, two 50100 μm single...

Graphics card-based real-time processing for dual comb interferometry

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Mathieu Walsh, James Kasic, Kevin Cossel, Jerome Genest

The technique of performing interferometry with two optical frequency combs is used by an increasing number of research groups and even for field deployed...

Correlation of Structure and Morphology in an Ethylene-glycol Side-chain Modified Polythiophene via Combined X-ray Scattering and Four-dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Andrew Herzing, Lucas Flagg, Chad R. Snyder, Lee Richter, Jonathan Onorato, Christine Luscombe, Ruipeng Li

We report the results of a combined grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS) and four-dimensional scanning transmission microscopy (4D-STEM)...

Fast Ground State to Ground State Separation of Small Ion Crystals

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Tyler Gugliemo, Dietrich Leibfried, Stephen Libby, Daniel Slichter

Rapid separation of linear crystals of trapped ions into different subsets is critical for realizing trapped ion quantum computing architectures where ions are...

Reference Correlation for the Viscosity of Nitrogen from the Triple Point to 1000 K and up to 2200 MPa

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Marcia Huber, Richard A. Perkins, Eric W. Lemmon

We present a new wide-ranging correlation for the viscosity of nitrogen based on critically evaluated experimental data. The correlation is designed to be used...

Path-integral calculation of the third dielectric virial coefficient of helium based on ab initio three-body polarizability and dipole surfaces

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Giovanni Garberoglio, Allan H. Harvey, Jakub Lang, Michał Przybytek, Michal Lesiuk, Bogumil Jeziorski

We develop a surface for the electric dipole moment of three interacting helium atoms and use it, together with state-of-the-art potential and polarizability...

Absence of a Bulk Signature of a Charge Density Wave in Hard X-ray Measurements of UTe2

October 9, 2024

Author(s)

Caitlin Kengle, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Xuefei Guo, Thomas Johnson, Simon Bettler, Wolfgang Simeth, Matthew Krogstad, Zahir Islam, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch, Eduardo Fradkin, Vidya Madhavan, Peter Abbamonte

The long-sought pair density wave (PDW) is an exotic phase of matter in which charge density wave (CDW) order is intertwined with the amplitude or phase of...

Phase Transitions in Random Circuit Sampling

October 9, 2024

Author(s)

Sergio Boixo, Rene Peralta

Undesired coupling to the surrounding environment destroys long-range correlations on quantum processors and hinders the coherent evolution in the nominally...

High-Throughput LC-PDA Method for Determination of Δ9-THC and Related Cannabinoids in Cannabis sativa

October 9, 2024

Author(s)

Walter Brent Wilson, Aaron Urbas, Haley Jensen, Lane C. Sander

Before the passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 more commonly referred to as the 2018 Farm Bill, forensic laboratories were only required to...

Forecasting demand data for critical materials

October 9, 2024

Author(s)

Kyle Foster, Nehika Mathur

Gallium, Indium and Cobalt are critical materials that vital to ramping up the adoption of clean energy technologies such as solar photovoltaics (PVs), electric...

Absence of a Bulk Thermodynamic Phase Transition to a Density Wave Phase in UTe2

October 9, 2024

Author(s)

Florian Theuss, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Luciano Peralta, Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Yun Eo, Alonso Suarez, Andrea Capa Salinas, Ganesh Pokharel, Stephen Wilson, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, B. Ramshaw

Competing and intertwined orders are ubiquitous in strongly correlated electron systems, such as the charge, spin, and superconducting orders in the high-Tc...

Self-diffusion of liquid deuterium hydride and liquid tritium

October 8, 2024

Author(s)

T. Prisk, S. Hanna, Richard Azuah

We present a quasi-elastic neutron scattering study of liquid deuterium hydride carried out using the Disk Chopper Spectrometer at the National Institute of...

The Influence of Reorientational and Vibrational Dynamics on the Mg2+ Conductivity in Mg(BH4)2·CH3NH2

October 8, 2024

Author(s)

Mads Amdisen, Yongqiang Cheng, Niina Jalarvo, Daniel Pajerowski, Craig Brown, Torben R. Jensen, Mikael S. Andersson

Reorientational dynamics in solid electrolytes can significantly enhance the ionic conductivity, and understanding these dynamics can facilitate the rational...

Hidden-State Proofs of Quantumness

October 8, 2024

Author(s)

Carl A. Miller

An experimental cryptographic proof of quantumness — that is, a proof, based only on well-studied cryptographic assumptions, that a physical device is...

Comprehensive Data Evaluation Methods Used in Developing the SWGDRUG Mass Spectral Reference Library for Seized Drug Identification

October 8, 2024

Author(s)

Weihua Ji, William Wallace

The mass spectral library of the Scientific Working Group for the Analysis of Seized Drugs (SWGDRUG) is the most comprehensive free reference database of its...

Gated InAs quantum dots embedded in surface acoustic wave cavities for low-noise optomechanics

October 8, 2024

Author(s)

Zixuan Wang, Ryan DeCrescent, Poolad Imany, Joseph Bush, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman

Self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) are promising optomechanical elements due to their excellent photonic properties and sensitivity to local strain fields...

Gravimetric drop-on-demand inkjet deposition for imaging phantoms with traceable activity

October 7, 2024

Author(s)

Sean Jollota, Denis Bergeron, R. Michael Verkouteren, Svetlana Nour, Ryan Fitzgerald, Ohyun Kwon, Jeffrey Radtke, Bryan Bednarz, Brian Miller, Larry DeWerd

Autoradiography can be an important tool in preclinical investigations with alpha-emitting radionuclides. Precise biodistribution studies establish the...

Visualizing Shockwave Interactions and Sub-Catastrophic Damage in Materials via Mechanophores

October 7, 2024

Author(s)

Polette Centellas, Kyle Mehringer, Andrew Bowman, Katherine Evans, Parth Vagholkar, Travis Thornell, Liping Huang, Sarah Morgan, Christopher Soles, Yoan Simon, Edwin Chan

Understanding the physical and chemical response of materials to impulsive deformation is crucial for applications ranging from soft robotic locomotion to space...

Speed of Sound for Understanding Metals in Extreme Environments

October 7, 2024

Author(s)

Elizabeth Rasmussen, Boris Wilthan

Knowing material behavior is crucial to successful design, especially given the growing number of next-generation energy, defense, and manufacturing systems...

Conversion of a piston--cylinder dimensional dataset to the effective area of a mechanical pressure generator

October 7, 2024

Author(s)

Patrick Egan, Eric S. Stanfield, John R. Stoup, Christopher W. Meyer

Recent developments in diameter metrology at NIST have improved the dimensional characterization of piston–cylinder assemblies (PCAs) to unprecedented precision...

On a conjecture that strengthens Kundu's k-factor Theorem

October 6, 2024

Author(s)

James Shook

Let π = (d1, . . . , dn) be a non-increasing degree sequence with even n. In 1974, Kundu showed that if Dk(π) = (d1 − k, . . . , dn − k) is graphic, then some...

Minimum information for reporting on the TEER (trans-epithelial/endothelial electrical resistance) assay (MIRTA)

October 4, 2024

Author(s)

Monita Sharma, Erin Huber, Emma Arnesdotter, Holger Behring, David Brandwein, Arno Gutleb, Samuel Constant, Rahul Date, Abhay Deshpande, Eric Fabian, Amit Gupta, Robert Gutierrez, Michael Hollings, Victoria Hutter, Annie Jarabek, Yulia Kaluzhny, Robert Landsiedel, Shaun McCullough, Lawrence Milchak, Robert Moyer, Jessica Murray, Kathryn Page, Manish Patel, Stephanie Pearson, Elijah Petersen, Emily Reinke, Nuria Roldan, Clive Roper, Jamie Scaglione, Raja Settivari, Andreas Stucki, Sandra Verstraelen, Jo Wallace, Amy Clippinger

Dynamics of Residential Indoor Gas- and Particle-Phase Water-Soluble Organic Carbon: Measurements During the CASA Experiment

October 4, 2024

Author(s)

Marc Webb, Glenn Morrison, Karsten Baumann, Jienan Li, Jenna Ditto, Han Huynh, Jie Yu, Kathryn Mayer, Marina Vance, Delphine Farmer, Jonathan Abbatt, Dustin Poppendieck, Barbara Turpin

Previous time-integrated (2 h to 4 h) measurements show that total gas-phase water-soluble organic carbon (WSOCg) is 10 to 20 times higher inside homes compared...

Understanding AFM-IR Signal Dependence on Sample Thickness and Laser Excitation: Experimental and Theoretical Insights

October 4, 2024

Author(s)

Devon Jakob, Jeffrey Schwartz, Georges Pavlidis, Karen Grutter, Andrea Centrone

Photothermal induced resonance (PTIR), also known as AFM-IR, enables nanoscale IR absorption spectroscopy by transducing the local photothermal expansion and...

Validated UV-C bidirectional reflectance distribution function measurements with a spectrophotometer directional reflectance module

October 4, 2024

Author(s)

Aaron Goldfain, Grace Waters, Lynn Davis, Heather Patrick, Thomas A. Germer

The efficacy and safety of UV disinfection systems depend on the radiant flux throughout the space being disinfected, which in turn depends on the directional...