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With the lack of standardized validation protocols across the forensic chemistry community, validation of instrumentation can be a challenging and time...
Yuanchi Ma, Robert Ivancic, Jan Obrzut, Debra Audus, Vivek Prabhu
Evidence is shown that cosolvent mixtures control the coacervation of mixtures of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes. Binary and ternary solvent mixtures lead...
Wai Cheong Tam, Fan Linhao, Qi Tong, Fang Hongqiang
This present work utilizes an interpretability model to understand and explain the decisions of deep learning models. The use of DeepLIFT is proposed and...
Juntian Tu, Alessandro Restelli, Tsz-Chun Tsui, Kevin Weber, Ian Spielman, James(Trey) Porto, Steven Rolston, Sarthak Subhankar
The Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) technique is routinely used to stabilize the frequency of a free-running laser to an ultralow expansion (ULE) reference cavity. The...
Molecular biosensors that accurately measure protein concentrations without external equipment are critical for solving numerous problems in diagnostics and...
A digital four-arm bridge for the comparison of resistance with capacitance has been designed and demonstrated. The digital bridge mimics the classical quad...
Matthew Luebbe, Fan Zhang, Jonathan Poplawsky, Jiaqi Duan, Haiming Wen
High entropy alloys (HEAs) demonstrate high strength, thermal stability, and irradiation resistance, making them desirable for applications in nuclear reactors...
The past decade has seen widespread advances in quality control (QC) materials and software tools focused specifically on mass spectrometry–based proteomics...
We present a study of power spectral density (PSD) estimation from data sampled in the time domain. This work was motivated by our recent development of digital...
A method is described to measure the thermal expansion coefficient of fused quartz glass. The measurement principle is to monitor the change in resonance...
Gosia Musial, Demian Riccardi, Chris Suiter, Ethan Sontarp, Samantha Miller, Robert Lirette, Kyle Covington-Rehmeier, Avik Mahata, Chris Muzny, Angela Stelson, Kathleen Schwarz, Jason A. Widegren
The balance between ion solvation and ion pairing in aqueous solutions modulates chemical and physical processes from catalysis to protein folding. Yet, despite...
Samantha Webster, Jihoon Jeong, Rujing Zha, Shuheng Liao, Alberto Castro, Lars Jacquemetton, Darren Beckett, Kornel Ehmann, Jian Cao
In-situ monitoring is critical for developing new control methods, advanced materials, and toolpath planning strategies in laser beam Directed Energy Deposition...
Heather H. Chen-Mayer, Dagistan Sahin, Bryan Remley, Steven Brown, David Goodman
A dual-plane Compton imaging detector previously developed for prompt gamma imaging has been further tested and calibrated for quantitative radioactivity...
Christina Cecelski, Jennifer Carney, Antonio Possolo
The procedures used to assign values to certified reference gas mixtures and to evaluate their associated uncertainties, which are described in ISO 6143, and...
S Norimoto, P See, N Schoinas, I Rungger, Tommy Boykin, Michael Stewart, J. P. Griffiths, C. Chen, D. A. Ritchie, M. Kataoka
Increasing electric current from a single-electron source is a main challenge in an effort to establish the standard of the ampere defined by the fixed value of...
Introduced by Kenneth Pitzer in 1955, the acentric factor (ω) became a standard quantity in chemical thermodynamics, representing a molecule's "shape" effect on...
Brendan Carter, Jonathan Sharp, Maribel I. García-Ibáñez, Ryan J. Woosley, Michael Fong, Marta Álvarez, Leticia Barbero, Simon Clegg, Regina Easley, Andrea Fassbender, Xinyu Li, Katelyn Schockman, Zhaohui Aleck Wang, Andrew Dickson
Seawater carbonate chemistry observations are increasingly necessary to study a broad array of oceanographic challenges such as ocean acidification, carbon...
Automation and machine learning techniques are poised to dramatically accelerate the development of new materials while simultaneously increasing our...
Jizhao Zang, Haixin Liu, Travis Briles, Scott Papp
Soliton microcombs provide a chip-based, octave-spanning source for self-referencing and optical metrology. We use a silicon nitride integrated photonics...
Eric Engels, Soutrik Mandal, Douglas Corley, Christopher Blosser, Allyson Hart, Charles Lynch, Baozhen Qiao, Karen Pawlish, Gregory Haber, Kelly Yu, Ruth Pfeiffer
A previous cancer diagnosis can preclude patients from consideration for solid organ transplantation. Statistical models may improve candidate selection. We...
Chandan Paul, Somesh Roy, Johannes Sailer, Fabian Braennstroem, Mohamed Ahmed, Arnaud Trouve, Hadi Bordbar, Simo Hostikka, Randall J. McDermott
This work reports benchmark data sets for radiative heat transfer in two distinct fire configurations obtained from the Measurement and Computation of Fire...
Augustus Snyder, Eric McElroy, Isaure de Buron, Fabio Casu, Jody Beers
The spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, is a popular game fish in the southeastern USA. It is estimated that nearly 90% of the adult population in South...
Harold Hatch, Christina Bergonzo, Marco Blanco, Guangcui Yuan, Sergei Grudinin, Mikael Lund, Joseph E. Curtis, Alexander Grishaev, Yun Liu, Vincent K. Shen
We develop a multiscale coarse-grain model of the NIST Monoclonal Antibody Reference Material 8671 (NISTmAb) to enable systematic computational investigations...
FEASST is an open-source Monte Carlo software for particle-based simulations. This software, which was released in 2017, has been used to study phase...
Ferro-rotational (FR) materials, renowned for their distinctive material functionalities, present challenges in the growth of homo-FR crystals (i.e., single FR...
Absolute quantity imaging of biomolecules on a single cell level is critical for measurement assurance in biosciences and bioindustries. While infrared (IR)...
Megan Kreiger, Eric Kreiger, Stephan Mansour, Sean Monkman, Mohammad Aghajani Delavar, Petros Sideris, Casey Roberts, Mathew Friedell, Shawn Platt, Scott Jones
Additive Construction has increased dramatically within the United States in the last few years. Efforts to develop acceptance criteria have increased since...
Kamyar Raoufi, Karl Haapala, John Sutherland, Fu Zhao, Andres Clarens, Jeremy Rickli, Zhaoyan Fan, Haihong Huang, Yue Wang, WoJae Lee, Nehika Mathur, Matthew Triebe, Sai Srinivas Desabathina
Advanced manufacturing is challenging engineering perceptions of how to innovate and compete. The need for manufacturers to rapidly respond to changing...
Takeshi Matsui, Po-Hsiang Hung, Han Mei, Xianan Liu, Fangfei Li, John Collins, Weiyi Li, Darach Miller, Neil Wilson, Esteban Toro, Geoffrey Taghon, Gavin Sherlock, Sasha Levy
To reduce the operational friction and scale DNA engineering, we report here an in vivo DNA assembly technology platform called SCRIVENER (Sequential...