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This article reviews the early history of radiation-induced sugar damage in DNA in dedication to Prof. Clemens von Sonntag, who recently passed away. It covers...
Mauro Zammarano, Timothy C. Mauldin, Jeffrey W. Gilman, John R. Shields, Dylan B. Timothy
A new isosorbide-based polyphosphate was synthesized and applied as a flame-retardant for polylactic acid (PLA). The storage modulus and glass transition...
National security depends on the reliable functioning of critical infrastructures. Security mechanisms and controls for critical infrastructure protection aren...
Jessica L. Staymates, Shahram Orandi, Matthew E. Staymates, John G. Gillen
This paper describes a method for combining direct chemical analysis of latent fingerprints with subsequent biometric analysis within a single sample. The...
James I. Basham, Thomas N. Jackson, David J. Gundlach
We employ impedance spectroscopy as a method to predict the current-voltage curve in organic photovoltaics. This technique allows the quantification of the...
Andrew J. Allen, Jan Ilavsky, Pete R. Jemian, Artur Braun
Electrochemical interfaces are key to the direct conversion of fuels to electrical energy and lend energy converters like solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) their...
Small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering have become invaluable tools for probing the nanos- tructure of molecules in solution. It was recently shown that the...
The NIST Firebrand Generator (NIST Dragon) has been used to quantify the vulnerability of structures to ignition by firebrand attack. The Firebrand Generator is...
Kevin L. Silverman, Luis Miaja Avila, Varun B. Verma, Richard P. Mirin, James J. Coleman
We report on the optical gain and loss of waveguides containing lithographically defined quantum dots. Lasing action has previously been demonstrated in a...
Juan C. Collado Gomez, Eduard Rocas, James C. Booth, Jordi Mateu, J. M. O'Callaghan, J. Verdu, A. Hueltes
This paper describes a novel absorptive limiter for frequency selective circuits. The proposed circuit allows the design of absorptive limiters based on a bi...
Christopher L. Holloway, Galen H. Koepke, Dennis G. Camell, William F. Young, Catherine A. Remley
NIST is investigating radio communications problems faced by emergency responders (e.g., firefighters and police) in disaster situation such as collapsed...
This paper presents an overview of the video copy detection benchmark which was run over a period of 4 years (2008-2011) as part of the TREC Video Retrieval...
Yanfei Yang, Lung-I Huang, Yasuhiro Fukuyama, Fan-Hung Liu, Mariano Real, Paola Barbara, Chi-Te Liang, David B. Newell, Randolph Elmquist
Monolayer epitaxial graphene grown on a hexagonal silicon carbide (SiC) substrate is typically found to be heavily n-doped (10e13 cm-2) and in most devices made...
Micelles of metal-seamed C-alkylpyrogallol[4]arene-based (PgC nM) hexamers and dimers in water have been formulated and characterized using in situ scattering...
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Premsagar P. Kavuri
The scanning electron microscope (SEM)has gone through a tremendous evolution to become indispensable for many and diverse scientific and industrial...
Behrang H. Hamadani, John F. Roller, Andrew M. Shore, Brian P. Dougherty, Howard W. Yoon
An irradiance-mode absolute differential spectral response measurement system based on a light emitting diode (LED) array is described. The LEDs are coupled to...
L.M.S. Alves, B.S. de Lima, C.A.M. dos Santos, A. Rabello, S.H. Masunaga, J. J. Neumeier, Juscelino Leao
K 0.05MoO 2 has been studied by x-ray and Neutron diffractometry, electrical resistivity, magnetization, heat cpacity, and thermal expansion measurements. The...
Tao Hong, K. P. Schmidt, K. Coester, F.F. Awwadi, M.M. Turnbull, Yiming Qiu, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, M. Zhu, X. Ke, C.P. Aoyama, Y. Takano, Huibo Cao, W. Tian, J. Ma, R. Custelcean, H.D. Zhou, M. Matsuda
We present specific-heat and neutron-scattering results for the S=1/2 quantum antiferromagnet (dimethylammonium)(3,5-dimethylpyridinim)CuBr 4. The material...
We consider the difference between the two lowest eigenvalues (the fundamental gap) of a Schrodinger operator acting on a class of graph Laplacians. In...
Deanne W. Sammond, John M. Yarbrough, Elisabeth Mansfield, Yannick J. Bomble, Sarah Hobdey, Stephen R. Decker, Larry Taylor, Michael G. Resch, Michael E. Himmel, Todd B. Vinzant, Michael F. Crowley
The loss of digestive activity of cellulase cocktails on biomass is a major challenge, commonly attributed to the binding of certain enzymes to lignin. While...
Hydrazinoboranes of various alkali metals, i.e., NaN 2H 3BH 3 and KN 2H 3BH 3, were synthesized via a liquid approach. The crystal structures of NaN 2H 3BH 3...
Fuyuki Tokumasu, Georgeta Crivat, Hans Ackerman, Jeeseong C. Hwang, Thomas Wellems
Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) infection remodels the human erythrocyte with new membrane systems, including a modified host erythrocyte membrane (EM), a...
Burm Baek, William H. Rippard, Samuel P. Benz, Stephen E. Russek, Paul D. Dresselhaus
The quantum behavior of Josephson junctions is often exploited to produce superconducting devices with outstanding performance. Josephson junctions can also be...
Eric R. Evarts, Ranko R. Heindl, William H. Rippard, Matthew R. Pufall
In a small fraction of magnetic-tunnel-junction-based MRAM devices with in-plane free layers, the write error rates (WERs) are higher than expected on the basis...
Randolph E. Elmquist, Fan-Hung Liu, Lung-I Huang, Yasuhiro Fukuyama, Chi-Te Liang, Yanfei Yang
We study the quantum corrections caused by electron-electron (e-e) interactions and localization to the conductivity in few-layer epitaxial graphene, in which...
Compressed-liquid densities of 3-ethoxy-1,1,1,2,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,6-dodecafluoro-2-trifluoromethyl-hexane (C9F15H5O) have been measured with a vibrating U-tube...
Micro- and nanoscale structuring of electromagnetically susceptible materials underpins many recent advances in biomedical imaging, sensing, and treatment. From...
The Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement gives guidance about how values and uncertainties should be assigned to the input quantities that...
Chenglin Zhang, Leland Harriger, Zhiping Yin, Weicheng Lv, Miaoyin Wang, Guotai Tan, Yu Song, D. L. Abernathy, Wei Tian, Takeshi Egami, Kristjan Haule, Gabriel Kotliar, Pengcheng Dai
We use inelastic neutron scattering to study spin waves in the antiferromagnetic ordered phase of iron pnictide NaFeAs throughout the Brillouin zone. Comparing...
George C. Rhoderick, Franklin R. Guenther, David L. Duewer, Jeongsoon Lee, Jin S. Kim, Bradley Hall, Ray Weiss, Christina Harth, Stefan Reimann, Martin Vollmer
The growing awareness of climate change/global warming and continuing concerns regarding stratospheric ozone depletion will require future measurements and...