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Journals

Synthesis, Thermal Behaviors and Dehydrogenation Kinetics Studies on Lithiated Ethylenediamine

October 13, 2014

Author(s)

Juner Chen, Guotao Wu, Zhitao Xiong, Hui Wu, Yong Shen Chua, Wei Zhou, Bin Liu, Xiaohua Ju, Ping Chen

The lithiation of ethylenediamine by LiH is a step-wise process forming the partially lithiated intermidiates LiN(H)CH 2CH 2NH 2 and [LiN(H)CH 2CH 2NH 2][LiN(H

Surface Analysis and Materials Characterization for the Study of the Ceramic Tiles HRSI from the Space Shuttle Thermal Protective Systems

October 12, 2014

Author(s)

Hanna Szczepanowska, Thomas Brian Renegar

The orbital thermal management systems fall into two categories, ablative or reusable. The first type was successfully applied on the Apollo missions, the

A Microliter Capillary Rheometer for Characterization of Protein Solutions

October 10, 2014

Author(s)

Steven D Hudson, Prasad S. Sarangapani, Kalman D. Migler, Jai A. Pathak

Rheometry is an important characterization tool for therapeutic protein solutions because it determines syringeability and relates indirectly to solution

Ultrafast THz photoconductivity of photovoltaic polymer-fullerene blends: a comparative study correlated with photovoltaic device performance

October 10, 2014

Author(s)

Edwin J. Heilweil, Jin Zuanming, Dominik Gehrig, Clare Dyer-Smith, Frederic Laquai, Mischa Bonn, Dmitry Turchinovich

Ultrafast photo-induced carrier dynamics in prototypical low band-gap polymer:fullerene photovoltaic blend films PTB7:PC70BM and P3HT:PC70BM is investigated

Dynamic customization, validation and integration of product data models using semantic web tools

October 10, 2014

Author(s)

Allison Barnard Feeney, Sylvere Krima, sebti foufou

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) requires robust solutions for representing and integrating product data models. Product data models enable information

Neutron Scattering Studies of the Ferroelectric Distortion and Spin Dynamics in the Type-1 Multiferroic Perovskite Sr_0.56Ba_0.44MnO₃

October 9, 2014

Author(s)

Daniel K. Pratt, Jeffrey W. Lynn, James Mais, Omar Chmaissem, Dennis E. Brown, Stanislaw Kolesnik, Bogdan Dabrowski

The magnetic order, spin dynamics, and crystal structure of the multiferroic Sr 0.56Ba 0.44MnO 3 have been investigated using neutron and x-ray scattering

Kitaev chains with long-range interactions

October 9, 2014

Author(s)

Davide Vodola, Luca Lepori, Elisa Ercolessi, Alexey Gorshkov, Guido Pupillo

We propose and analyze a generalization of the Kitaev chain for fermions with long-range p-wave pairing, which decays with distance as a power-law with exponent

On Statistical Modeling and Forecasting of Energy Usage in Smart Grid

October 8, 2014

Author(s)

Wei Yu, Dou An, David W. Griffith, Qingyu Yang, Guobin Xu

Developing effective energy resource management in the smart grid is challenging because the entities in both the demand and supply sides experience various

Optimizing Passive Quantum Clocks

October 8, 2014

Author(s)

Michael J. Mullan, Emanuel Knill

We describe protocols for passive atomic clocks based onquantum interrogation of the atoms. Unlike previous techniques, our protocols are adaptive and take

Influence of Chemical Straightening on the Stability of Drugs of Abuse in Hair

October 8, 2014

Author(s)

Jeanita Pritchett, Karen W. Phinney

Chemical straightening, also known as a relaxer, is ubiquitously used among African American women to obtain straighter hair compared with their natural tresses

Modeling of an air-backed diaphragm in dynamic pressure sensors: effects of the air cavity

October 7, 2014

Author(s)

Haijun H. Liu, Douglas A. Olson, Miao Yu

As the key structure of most dynamic pressure sensors, a diaphragm backed by an air cavity plays a critical role in the determination of sensor performance. In

Collapse and revivals for systems of short-range phase coherence

October 7, 2014

Author(s)

Khan W. Mahmud, Lei Jiang, Philip R. Johnson, Eite Tiesinga

We predict the existence of novel collapse and revival oscillations that are a distinctive signature of the short-range off-diagonal coherence associated with

Phase-Sensitive Detection of Spin Pumping via the ac Inverse Spin Hall Effect

October 6, 2014

Author(s)

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

Sources of pure spin currents are a fundamental building block of spintronic devices. In ferromagnet/normal metal heterostructures, spin currents are generated

Comb-calibrated laser ranging for three-dimensional surface profiling with micrometer-level precision at a distance

October 6, 2014

Author(s)

Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury

Non-contact surface mapping at a distance is interesting in diverse applications including industrial metrology, manufacturing, forensics, and artifact

A Homogenization Technique for Obtaining Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions for an Arbitrarily Shaped Coated Wire Grating

October 6, 2014

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Edward Kuester

Using a multiple-scale homogenization method, we derive generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) for an arbitrarily shaped coated wire grating. The

Economic Impact of Improved Service-Life Prediction for Seams in Low-Slope EPDM Roofing

October 5, 2014

Author(s)

Douglas S. Thomas

In the early part of the 1970's built-up-roofing dominated the U.S. membrane roofing industry. It was estimated that 10 to 15 percent of these roofs failed, but

The Economics of Residential Fire Sprinklers and the Potential Impact of Recent Code Changes

October 5, 2014

Author(s)

David T. Butry

Residential fire sprinklers reduce the likelihood of room flashover, improving conditions for occupant egress, and thereby reduce the number of fatalities

Cryogenic Design and Performance of an Apparatus for Magnetically Trapping Ultracold Neutrons

October 5, 2014

Author(s)

Hans P. Mumm

The cryogenic design and performance of an apparatus used to magnetically confine ultracold neutrons (UCN) is presented. The apparatus is part of an effort to

Electromagnetic scattering from randomly-centered parallel single-walled carbon nanotubes embedded in a dielectric slab

October 2, 2014

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi, ahmed hassan

An analytical full wave model of parallel, randomly dispersed carbon nanotubes (CNTs) embedded in a dielectric slab was developed to calculate the

Origin of Surface Canting Within Fe₃O₄ Nanoparticles

October 2, 2014

Author(s)

Kathryn L. Krycka, Julie A. Borchers, R. A. Booth, Y. Ijiri, K. Hasz, J. J. Rhyne, S. A. Majetich

The nature of near-surface spin canting within Fe 3O 4 nanoparticles is highly debated. Here we develop a neutron scattering asymmetry analysis which quantifies

From Membrane-in-the-Middle to Mirror-in-the-Middle with a High-Reflectivity Sub-Wavelength Grating

October 2, 2014

Author(s)

Corey A. Stambaugh, Haitan Xu, Utku Kemiktarak, Jacob M. Taylor, John R. Lawall

We demonstrate a ``membrane-in-the-middle'' optomechanical system using a silicon nitride membrane patterned as a subwavelength grating. The grating has a

Evaluation of the Impact of Peak Description on the Quantitative Capabilities of Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography

October 2, 2014

Author(s)

Benjamin Place, Mallory J. Morris, Melissa M. Phillips, Lane C. Sander, Kate Rimmer

Comprehensive, two-dimensional liquid chromatography (LCxLC) is a powerful technique for the separation of complex mixtures. Most studies using LCxLC are

The Solution Structure of Full-length Dodecameric MCM by SANS and Molecular Modeling

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

Susan Krueger, Jae-Ho Shin, Joseph E. Curtis, Kenneth A. Rubinson, Zvi Kelman

Overview of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Working Groups

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

Rebecca S. Pugh

In 2008, the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) developed a new initiative during its annual meeting to develop Working

Universal scaling law for the flow of non-Newtonian colloidal suspension

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

Nicos Martys, William L. George, Maxime Liard, Pascal Hebraud, Didier Lootens

It has been observed that flow curves (viscosity vs shear-rate) of spherical non-colloidal particles suspended in a non-Newtonian fluid matrix can be rescaled

A pilot interlaboratory comparison of protocols that simulate aging of nanocomposites and detect released fragments

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

Wendel Wohlleben, Deborah Jacobs, Justin Gorham, Li Piin Sung, Tinh Nguyen

The safe use of nanocomposites depends, in part, on a good understanding of the fate of nanofillers throughout the nanocomposite‘s lifecycle. Various

Spectral broadening and shaping of nanosecond pulses: towards shaping of single photons from quantum emitters

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

Imad I. Agha, Serkan Ates, Luca Sapienza, Kartik Srinivasan

EVALUATION OF A LASER SCANNER FOR LARGE VOLUME COORDINATE METROLOGY - A COMPARISON OF RESULTS BEFORE AND AFTER FACTORY CALIBRATION

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

Massimiliano Ferrucci, Bala Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer, Steven D. Phillips, Peter Petrov, Yuri Yakovlev, Andrey Astrelin, Spike Milligan, John Palmateer

Large volume laser scanners are increasingly being used for a variety of dimensional metrology applications. Methods to evaluate the performance of these

X-ray Powder Reference Patterns of the Fe(Sb2+xTe1-x) Skutterudites for Thermoelectric Applications

September 30, 2014

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, James A. Kaduk, Gangjian Tan, Yonggao Yan, Xinfeng Tang

The crystal structure and powder X-ray diffraction patterns for three skutterudite samples, Fe(Sb2+xTe1-x), x = 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, have been determined. These

Reducing the Cognitive Load on Analysts Through Hamming Distance Based Alert Aggregation

September 30, 2014

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell, Richard Harang

Previous work introduced the idea of grouping alerts at a Hamming distance of 1 to achieve alert aggregation; such aggregated meta-alerts were shown to increase

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