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Flexible polyurethane foam (PUF) is coated by layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly using branched polyethyleneimine (BPEI), poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), and two different...
Ana Trapote-Barreira, Lionel Porcar, Jordi Cama, J. M. Soler, Andrew J. Allen
Flow-through experiments were conducted to study the calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) gel dissolution kinetics under a CO2-free atmosphere at room temperature...
Bonghwan Chon, fuyuki Tokumasu, Ji Youn Lee, David W. Allen, Joseph P. Rice, Jeeseong C. Hwang
We present a procedure to generate digital phantoms with a hyperspectral image projector (HIP) consisting of two liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) spatial light...
Solid phantoms that serve as a proxy for human tissue and provide a convenient test subject for optical medical imaging devices. In order to determine...
William Loh, Adam A. Green, Frederick N. Baynes, Daniel C. Cole, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala, Scott A. Diddams
The tunable narrow-linewidth laser is a revolutionary metrology tool that is critical in precision spectroscopy and the determination of fundamental physical...
Sujitra J. Pookpanratana, Leigh Lydecker, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker
The formation of molecular monolayers on template-stripped cobalt surfaces is reported. The quality of the alkane-based molecular structure was confirmed...
Nathanael D. Olson, Justin M. Zook, Steven P. Lund, Fabiola Rojas-Cornejo, Jim Huggett, Jayne B. Morrow
The Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance established a working group to advance the metrology of microbial identification and quantification. This...
Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Brian E. Zimmerman
Dose calibrator dial settings reported by NIST in 2010 (ARI v. 68, p. 1367) are now known to give erroneously low (by 10 %) activity readings. The original...
Jehoon Yun, YongChae Jeong, David R. Novotny, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri
A wideband coupled transmission line (CTL) cell to measure the operating range of an UHF RFID (ORUR) is presented. Also, an ORUR test system is proposed to...
Sihao Deng, Ying Sun, Hui Wu, Qingzhen Huang, Jun Yan, Kewen Shi, Muhammad Imran Malik, Huiqing Lu, Lei Wang, Rongjin Huang, Laifeng Li, Cong Wang
The antiperovskite Mn 3+xNi 1-xN compounds have been synthesized and characterized by a variety of experimental techniques. After Mn doping at Ni site, both...
Emanuel H. Knill, Scott C. Glancy, Sae Woo Nam, Kevin J. Coakley, Yanbao Zhang
A common experimental strategy for demonstrating non-classical correlations is to show violation of a Bell inequality by measuring a continuously emitted stream...
R. V. Skoryunov, O. A. Babanova, A. V. Soloninin, A. V. Skripov, Kristina Verdal, Terrence J. Udovic
To study the effects of partial halide anion substitution on the reorientational motion of [BH 4] anions in NaBH 4, we have measured the 1H and 11B NMR spectra...
B. G. Christensen, A. Hill, P. G. Kwiat, Emanuel Knill, Sae Woo Nam, Kevin Coakley, Scott Glancy, Krister Shalm, Y. Zhang
We apply a distance-based Bell-test analysis method ["Bell inequalities for continuously emitting sources" E. Knill et al. arXiv:14097732 (2014)] to three...
Lee L. Yu, Rolf L. Zeisler, Rabia Oflaz, Wei Chao, Junting Tong, Haixia Bao, Jun Wang
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing a kelp standard reference material (SRM) in support of dietary supplement measurements. Edible...
Seungjun Shin, Duck B. Kim, Guodong Shao, Alexander Brodsky, David J. Lechevalier
It is difficult to formulate and solve optimization problems for sustainability performance in manufacturing. The main reasons for this are: 1) optimization...
Daniel M Pajerowski, S. E. Conklin, Juscelino Leao, Leland Harriger, D. Phelan
This paper summarizes 0 GPa to 0.6 GPa neutron diffraction measurements of a nickel hexacyanochromate coordination polymer (NiCrPB) that has the face-centered...
James E. Maslar, John J. Hoang, William A. Kimes, Brent A. Sperling
non-dispersive infrared gas analyzer for monitoring the metal alkylamide compound tetrakis(dimethylamido) titanium (TDMAT) that utilizes a mid-infrared light...
Walter J. Lafferty, Jean-Marie Flaud, F. Kwabia Tchana, L. Manceron
Fourier transform spectra of phosgene (Cl2CO) have been recorded in the 11.75 μm and 5.47 μm spectral regions using a Bruker IFS125HR spectrometer at...
Hui Wu, Wan Si NMN Tang, Vitalie Stavila, Wei Zhou, John J. Rush, Terrence J. Udovic
Based on x-ray and neutron powder diffraction, first-principles calculations, and neutron vibrational spectroscopy, Li 2B 10H 10 was found to exhibit atypical...
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, James A. Kaduk, Daniel W. Siderius, Andrew J. Allen, Laura Espinal, Brad Boyerinas, Igor Levin, Matthew Suchomel, Jan Ilavsky, Eric J. Cockayne, Hui Wu
Cu-paddle-wheel-based Cu3(BTC)2 (nicknamed Cu-BTC, where BTC ≡ benzene 1,3,5-tricarboxylate) is a metal organic framework (MOF) compound that adopts a zeolite...
Several previous works have investigated the circumstances under which quantum adiabatic optimization algorithms can tunnel out of local energy minima that trap...
Fuzz Testing, or fuzzing, is a software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random test inputs to the software system under test...
Matthieu C. Picher, Stefano Mazzuccoo, Steven R. Blankenship, Renu Sharma
Here, we present a measurement platform for collecting optical spectroscopy data during high-resolution environmental transmission electron microscopy...
Luke Arbogast, Robert G. Brinson, Catherine A. Mouchahoir, James T. Hoopes, John Marino
Purpose High-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) provides a robust approach for producing unique spectral signatures of protein higher...
X. F. Lu, N. Z. Wang, Hui Wu, Y. P. Wu, D. Zhao, X. Z. Zeng, X. G. Luo, T. Wu, W. Bao, G. H. Zhang, F. Q. Huang, Qingzhen Huang, X. H. Chen
FeSe-derived superconductors show some unique behaviors relative to iron-pnictide superconductors, which are very helpful to understand the mechanism of...
Aaron Hudlemeyer, Daniel S. Sawyer, Christopher J. Blackburn, Vincent Lee, Mark Meuret, Craig M. Shakarji
Interim testing of laser trackers can be problematic due to the lack of high precision, long length artifacts that maintain their calibrated lengths during...
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) represent an important and rapidly growing class of biotherapeutics. Correct folding of a mAb is critical for drug efficacy, while...
Depletion attraction induced by non-adsorbing polymers or small particles in colloidal solutions has been widely used as a model colloidal interaction to...
Rick D. Davis, Yu-Chin Li, Michelle R. Gervasio, Yeon S. Kim
In this manuscript, natural materials were combined into a single pot to produce flexible, highly fire resistant, and bioinspired coatings on flexible...