Journals

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

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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

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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...

Outdoor-to-Indoor Channel Dispersion and Power-Delay Profile Models for the 700 MHz and 4.9 GHz Bands

July 22, 2015

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley, David W. Matolak, Christopher L. Holloway, Camillo A. Gentile

We present outdoor-to-indoor channel dispersion results based on measurements made in several representative urban environments. Root-mean-square delay spread...

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...

Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy Beyond the Diffraction Limit

July 22, 2015

Author(s)

Andrea Centrone

Progress in nanotechnology is enabled by and dependent on the availability of measurement methods with spatial resolution commensurate with nanomaterials...

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...

Advanced ACTPol Multichroic Polarimeter Array Fabrication Process for 150 mm Wafers

July 22, 2015

Author(s)

Shannon M. Duff, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, James A. Beall, Jason E. Austermann, Daniel T. Becker, Jeffrey L. Van Lanen

Advanced ACTPol is a third generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) receiver, deploying in 2016 on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in the Atacama...

Analysis of the Boundary Conditions of the Spline Filter

July 21, 2015

Author(s)

D Ott, Hao H. Zhang, Daniel B. Ott, Xuezeng Zhao, Jun-Feng Song

The spline filter is a standard linear profile filter recommended by ISO/TS 16610-22 (2006). The primary advantage of the spline filter is that no end-effects...

Controlling the electronic structure of graphene using surface-adsorbate interactions

July 21, 2015

Author(s)

Piotr Matyba, Adra V. Carr, Cong Chen, David L. Miller, Thomas Orlando, Stefan Mathias, Mark W. Keller, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane

Hybridization of atomic orbitals in graphene on Ni(111) opens up a large energy gap of ≈2.8 eV between nonhybridized states at the K point. Here we use alkali...

Perspective: What do we still need to understand to commercialize nanocellulose?

July 20, 2015

Author(s)

Chelsea S. Davis, Danielle L. Grolman, Alamgir Karim, Jeffrey W. Gilman

Cellulosic nanomaterials have the potential to become predominant nanoparticles utilized in materials engineering fields ranging from flexible electronic...

INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE: A REVIEW AND DISCUSSION

July 19, 2015

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich

NIST is developing a planning guide to define strategies to increase community-based resilience in the face of a broad range of natural disasters and other...

Diff use interface methods for modeling drug eluting stent coatings

July 17, 2015

Author(s)

James A. Warren, David Saylor, Christopher Forrey, Changsoo Kim

An overview of diff use interface models specific to drug eluting stent coatings is presented. Microscale heterogeneities, both in the coating and use...

Mathematical and computational science issues in high precision Hylleraas-configuration interaction variational calculations: III. Four-electron integrals

July 17, 2015

Author(s)

James S. Sims, Stanley A. Hagstrom

The four-electron correlated integrals, as well as the X auxiliaryintegral which is new in the four-electron case, arising in Hylleraas-Configuration (Hy-CI)...

Strategies for Potential Age Dating of Fingerprints through the Diffusion of Sebum Molecules on a Non-porous Surface

July 17, 2015

Author(s)

Shinichiro Muramoto, Edward Sisco

Age dating of fingerprints can have a significant impact in forensic science, as it has the potential to facilitate the judicial process by assessing the...

Uncertainty in the number of contributors in the proposed new CODIS set

July 17, 2015

Author(s)

Michael D. Coble, Jo-Anne Bright, John S. Buckleton, James Curran

The probability that multiple contributors are detected within a forensic DNA profile improves as more highly polymorphic loci are analysed. The assignment of...

Impact of recent change in NIST standard for 18F on the relative response of 68Ge-based mock syringe dose calibrator standards

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Brian E. Zimmerman, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna

As a result of a recent change in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) activity standard for 18F, we have determined new relative response...

Quantifying and Improving Clinical-grade Coverage and Accuracy using Augmented Exome Sequencing

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Justin M. Zook, Anil Patwardhan, Marc L. Salit, Carlos Bustamante, Euan Ashley, Michael Snyder, John West, Richard Chen

Exome sequencing is increasingly used for the clinical evaluation of genetic disease, yet accuracy and coverage in medically interpretable parts of the genome...

Direct Observation of Carrier Cooling in Organic Semiconductors

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Edwin J. Heilweil, Paul A. Lane, Paul D. Cunningham, Joseph S. Melinger

Photocurrent in an organic solar cell is generated by a charge transfer reaction between the electron donor and acceptor. The effect of excess excitation energy...

ADAPTING OECD AQUATIC TOXICITY TESTS FOR USE WITH MANUFACTURED NANOMATERIALS: KEY ISSUES, CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS, AND DATA GAPS

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Elijah J. Petersen, Alan Kennedy, Greg Goss, Ho Kay, Jamie Lead, Shannon Hanna, Kerstin Hund-Rinke, Brian Mader, Nicholas Manier, Pascal Pandard, Edward Salinas, Kathrin Schwirn, Doris Voelker

The unique or enhanced properties of manufactured nanomaterials (MNs) suggest that their use in nano-enabled products will continue to increase in the future...

Kinetics of the Reactions of H and CH3 with n-Alkanes: Experiments with n-Butane and a Reevaluation Based on a Combustion Model Reaction Network Analysis

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Manion, David A. Sheen, Iftikhar A. Awan

Presented is a combined experimental and modeling study of the kinetics of the reactions of H and CH3 with n-butane, a representative aliphatic fuel...

Effect of Vapor Cell Geometry on Rydberg Atom-based Radio-frequency Electric Field Measurements

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Joshua A. Gordon

A new approach to detect absolute radio-frequency (RF) electric fields (E-fields) that uses Rydberg atoms at room temperature in vapor cells has recently been...

Formic Acid oxidation on platinum- a simple mechanistic study

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Kathleen A. Schwarz, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Thomas P. Moffat, Thomas C. Allison

The oxidation of organic acids on noble metal sur-faces is of importance for industrial processes and of academic interest, but the basic reaction mechanisms...

Experimental Study of Thermophysical Properties and Nanostructure of Self-Assembled Water/Polyalphaolefin Nanoemulsion Fluids

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Jiajun Xu, Boualem Hammouda, Fangyu Cao, Bao Yang

In this study, the nanostructures and thermophysical properties (thermal conductivity, viscosity and specific heat) of one new type of nanostructured heat...

Mass spectrometry of analytical derivatives. 1. Cyanide cations in the spectra of N-alkyl-N-perfluoroacyl-alpha-amino acids and their methyl esters

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Nino G. Todua, Kirill V. Tretyakov, Anzor I. Mikaia

The central mission for the development of the NIST/NIH/EPA mass spectral library (The Library) is the acquisition of reference GC-MS data for important...

Leveraging the Potential of Cloud Security Service-Level Agreements through Standards

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Jesus Luna, Neeraj Suri, Michaela Iorga, Anil Karmel

This article takes a fresh view on cloud security by analyzing, from the risk management perspective, the specification of security in Cloud Service Level...

Candidate Reference Measurement Procedure for the Determination of 24R,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 in Human Serum using Isotope-Dilution Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

July 14, 2015

Author(s)

Susan Tai, Michael A. Nelson

The two major forms of vitamin D, vitamin D3 and vitamin D2, are metabolized in the liver through hydroxylation to 25-hydroxyvitamin D species, and then further...

SIMULATION-BASED DESIGN CONCEPT EVALUATION FOR AMBULANCE PATIENT COMPARTMENTS

July 14, 2015

Author(s)

Deogratias Kibira, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Jennifer L. Marshall, Allison Barnard Feeney, Larry Avery, Allie Jacobs

To address the inadequacy of existing standards regarding interior layout design, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate...