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Fe I Oscillator Strengths for the Gaia-ESO Survey

May 27, 2014

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Matthew Ruffoni, E. A. Den Hartog, James E. Lawler, N. R. Brewer, K. Lind, Gillian Nave, J C. Pickering

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey (GES) is conducting a large-scale study of multielement chemical abundances of some 100; 000 stars in the Milky Way...

A novel solar simulator based on a supercontinuum laser for solar cell device and materials characterization

May 26, 2014

Author(s)

Tasshi Dennis, John B. Schlager, Kristine A. Bertness

The design, operation, and application of a novel solar simulator based on a high-power supercontinuum fiber laser are described. The simulator features a...

Lithiated Primary Amine-A New Material for Hydrogen Storage

May 26, 2014

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Juner Chen, Hui Wu, Guotao Wu, Zhitao Xiong, Ruiming Wang, Hongjun Fan, Wei Zhou, Bin Liu, Yongshen Chua, Xiahua Ju, Ping Chen

A facile method in synthesizing crystalline lithiated amines via ball milling primary amines with LiH unprecedented endothermic dehydrogenation feature in the...

Quantum Mutual Information after One Half of an Entangled State Propagates through a Dispersive Medium

May 25, 2014

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Jeremy B. Clark, Ryan T. Glasser, Quentin C. Glorieux, Ulrich Vogl, Tian Li, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett

The dynamics of quantum states of light propagating through slow-light media have been well- characterized both theoretically and experimentally. The question...

Intermittent contact resonance atomic force microscopy

May 23, 2014

Author(s)

Gheorghe Stan, Richard S. Gates

The intermittent contact resonance atomic force microscopy (ICR-AFM) mode proposed here is a new frequency modulation technique performed in scanning force...

A Binomial Approximation Method for the Ising Model

May 21, 2014

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Isabel M. Beichl, Amanda A. Streib, Noah S. Streib, Francis Sullivan

A large portion of the complexity inherent to the Ising model can be captures with a trivial amount of computation. in this work, we support this claim by...

Advanced designs for non-imaging submillimeter-wave Winston cone concentrators

May 21, 2014

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Andrew O. Nelson, Erich N. Grossman

We describe the design and simulation of several non-imaging concentrators designed to couple submillimeter wavelength radiation from free space into highly...

A portrait of an ISO STEP tolerancing standard as an enabler of smart manufacturing systems

May 21, 2014

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Allison Barnard Feeney, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has just completed a major effort on a new standard ISO 10303-242 titled Managed Model Based 3D...

Sulfonated Polyether Ether Ketone / 3-(Trihydroxysilyl)-1-Propanesulfonic Acid Composite Membranes for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

May 21, 2014

Author(s)

Fan Zhang, Sukhwan Yun, Javier Parrondo , Vijay Ramani

3-(trihydroxysilyl)-1-propanesulfonic acid (TPS) was used as a precursor to prepare sulfonated silica / sulfonated polyether ether ketone (SPEEK) composite...

Highly efficient, broadband coherent surface-mixing-wave generation using amplified surface plasmonic polaritons

May 21, 2014

Author(s)

C. J. Zhu, X Zhao, Guoxiang Huang, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Yan Ren

We show that coherent broadband surface mixing-wave (SMW) by a hyper-Raman process can be efficiently generated near a metallic surface abutting a quasi-three...

An Uncertainty Analysis of Mean Flow Velocity Measurements Used to Quantify Emissions from Stationary Sources

May 20, 2014

Author(s)

Rodney A. Bryant, Olatunde B. Sanni, Elizabeth F. Moore, Matthew F. Bundy, Aaron N. Johnson

Point velocity measurements conducted by traversing a pitot tube across the cross section of a flow conduit continues to be the standard practice for evaluating...

Measurement of pHT Values of Tris Buffers in Artificial Seawater at Varying Mole Ratios of Tris:Tris·HCl

May 20, 2014

Author(s)

Kenneth W. Pratt

Measurements of total pH, pHT, in electrochemical cells without transference are reported for 2 amino-2-hydroxymethyl 1,3-propanediol (Tris) buffers in...

Thermocyclic stability of candidate Seebeck coefficient Standard Reference Materials at high temperature

May 20, 2014

Author(s)

Joshua B. Martin, Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Thierry Caillat, Ichiro Yonenaga, Martin L. Green

The Seebeck coefficient is the most widely measured property specific to thermoelectric materials. Presently, there is no consensus on measurement protocols and...

Optical hyperpolarization and NMR detection of ¹²⁹Xe on a microfluidic chip

May 20, 2014

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Ricardo Jimenez Martinez, Daniel J. Kennedy, Michael Rosenbluh, Elizabeth A. Donley, Svenja A. Knappe, Scott J. Seltzer, Hattie L. Ring, Vikram S. Bajaj, John E. Kitching

We present a microfluidic chip that enables the production of laser-polarized 129Xe gas and its optical detection. Production of polarized 129Xe and its remote...

Flame Inhibition by CF3CHCl2 (HCFC-123)

May 20, 2014

Author(s)

Valeri I. Babushok, Gregory T. Linteris, Oliver Meier, John Pagliaro

A kinetic model is suggested for hydrocarbon-air flame propagation with addition of hydrochloroflurocarbon (HCFC) fire suppressants, encompassing the combined...

2D and 3D Topography Comparisons of Toolmarks Produced from Consecutively Manufactured Chisels and Punches.

May 20, 2014

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Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Johannes A. Soons, Robert M. Thompson, John Villanova, Taher Kakal

A 2009 report by the National Academies [1] recommended strengthening the scientific basis of procedures and criteria employed by the forensic science specialty...

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO INFORMATION MODELING FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN OF PRODUCTS

May 19, 2014

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Paul W. Witherell, Douglas Eddy, Ian Grosse, Sundar Krishnamurty, Jack Wileden, Kemper Lewis

The design of more sustainable products can be best accomplished in a tradeoff-based design process that methodically handles conflicting objectives. Such...

The Case for Delivering the Infrastructure for Digital Building Regulations

May 19, 2014

Author(s)

Mark E. Palmer, James H. Garrett

The building industry uses numerous engineering standards, building codes, specifications and regulations and a diverse set of industry vocabularies to describe...

Geometric Interoperability via Queries

May 19, 2014

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan

The problem of geometric (model and system) interoperability is a non-trivial generalization of the classical problem of part interchangeability in mechanical...

Report from a 2013 ASME Panel on Geometric Interoperability for Advanced Manufacturing

May 19, 2014

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan, Vadim Shapiro

During the Summer of 2013 in a conference organized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at Madison, Wisconsin, a panel of academic...

Ontological Conceptualization Based on Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

May 19, 2014

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Ameri Farhad, Kaikhah Khosrow, Boonserm Kulvatunyou

In this paper, a thesaurus-based methodology is proposed for systematic ontological conceptualization in the manufacturing domain. The methodology has three...

Chemical Imaging of Artificial Fingerprints by Desorption Electro-Flow Focusing Ionization Mass Spectrometry

May 19, 2014

Author(s)

Thomas Forbes, Edward Sisco

Desorption electro-flow focusing ionization (DEFFI) mass spectrometry was used to image chemical distributions of endogenous, e.g., fatty acids, and trace...

Processes Analytics Formalism for Decision Guidance in Sustainable Manufacturing

May 19, 2014

Author(s)

Alexander Brodsky, Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick

This paper introduces National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s Sustainable Process Analytics Formalism (SPAF) to facilitate the use of simulation...

Sample Thickness and Quantitative Concentration Measurements in XANES Spectroscopy

May 16, 2014

Author(s)

Alessandra C. Leri, Bruce Ravel

While XANES spectroscopy is an established tool for quantitative information on chemical structure and speciation, elemental concentrations are generally...

A Model of Phase Stability, Microstructure and Properties During Leaching of Portland Cement Binders

May 15, 2014

Author(s)

Pan Feng, Pan Feng, Jeffrey W. Bullard

A new model of 3D cement paste microstructure development is described and used to simulate the influence of leaching on hydrated cement pastes. In contrast to...

Hydrogen Dynamics in Laves-Phase Hydride YFe₂H_2.6: Inelastic and Quasielastic Neutron Scattering Studies

May 15, 2014

Author(s)

A. V. Skripov, V. Paul-Bancour, Terrence J. Udovic, John J. Rush

The vibrational spectrum of hydrogen and the parameters of H jump motion in the C15-type compound YFe 2H 2.6 have been studied by means of inelastic and...

Single molecule confocal fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy for accurate nanoparticle size determination

May 15, 2014

Author(s)

Bonghwan Chon, Kimberly Briggman, Jeeseong C. Hwang

We report on an experimental procedure in confocal single molecule fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy (FLCS) to determine the range of excitation...

Packing density of rigid aggregates is independent of scale

May 14, 2014

Author(s)

Christopher D. Zangmeister, James G. Radney, Michael R. Zachariah

Large planetary seedlings, comets, microscale pharmaceuticals, and nanoscale soot particles are made from rigid, aggregated subunits that are compacted under...

A Facile Route to the Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanoscale Liposomes Using 3D Microfluidic Hydrodynamic Focusing in a Concentric Capillary Array

May 14, 2014

Author(s)

Wyatt N. Vreeland, Renee R. Hood, Don L. DeVoe, Francisco J. Atencia, Donna M. Omiatek

A novel microscale device has been developed to enable the one-step continuous flow assembly of monodisperse nanoscale liposomes using three-dimensional...

Reference Materials 8096 and 8097 - The MEMS 5-in-1 RMs: Homogeneous and Stable

May 14, 2014

Author(s)

Janet M. Cassard, Jon C. Geist, John A. Kramar

The NIST Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) 5-in-1 Reference Materials (RMs) were developed to assist users in validating their use of five documentary...

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