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M. Mourigal, W. T. Fuhrman, J. P. Sheckelton, A. Wartelle, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, D. L. Abernathy, T. M. McQueen, Collin L. Broholm
Inelastic neutron scattering at temperatures below 30 K from a powder of LiZn 2Mo 3O 8 demonstrates this triangular-lattice antiferromagnet hosts collective...
Anais E. Espinal, Yonggao Y. Yan, Lichun Zhang, Laura Espinal, Aimee Morey, Barrett O. Wells, Mark Aindow, Steven L. Suib
Resistivity and resistance measurements have been carried out for thin films of cryptomelane-type manganese oxide (OMS-2) grown onto (001), (110) and (111)STO...
The sensitivity of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) using dissipation readout is limited by the noise temperature of the cryogenic amplifier...
Yung-Tsun Lee, Juyeon Lee, Frank H. Riddick, Donald E. Libes, Deogratias Kibira
Manufacturing systems are often costly to develop and operate. Simulation technology has been demonstrated to be an effective tool for improving manufacturing...
Elisabeth Mansfield, Tammy L. Oreskovic, Nikki S. Rentz, Kavita M. Jeerage
In evaluating nanoparticle risks to human health, there is often a disconnect between results obtained from in vitro toxicology studies and in vivo activity...
Purpose: To estimate the bias and variance of radiologists measuring the size of spherical and complex synthetic nodules. Methods: This study did not require...
Ryan C. Nieuwendaal, Chad R. Snyder, Dean M. DeLongchamp
We report on details of molecular packing in high molar mass poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) by solid-state 13C {1H} cross-polarization magic angle spinning...
Catherine C. Cooksey, Li Li, J. A. Dobrowolski, Michael Jacobson
A broadband transmission filter from 400nm to 1100nm was selected for the manufacturing problem contest. The premise of the contest is to test the state of the...
Lauren F. Greenlee, Andrew M. Herring, James L. Horan, Anitha Lingutla, Hui Ren, Mei-Chen Kuo, Sonny Sachdeva, Yuan Yang, Soenke Seifert, Michael A. Yandrasits, Steven J. Hamrock, Matthew H. Frey
Studies of proton transport in novel materials are important to enable a large array of electrochemical devices. In this study, we show that heteropoly acids...
The considered problem concerns simultaneous inference for curve-confined natural parameters of independent, heterogeneous gamma-random variables with known...
Elisabeth Mansfield, Chris M. Poling, Jenifer L. Blacklock, Katherine M. Tyner
The use of nanoparticles in some applications (i.e., nanomedical, nanofiltration or nanoelectronic) requires small-scale samples with well-known purities and...
Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Johannes A. Soons, Theodore V. Vorburger, Jun-Feng Song, Thomas Brian Renegar, Robert M. Thompson
Surface metrology is commonly used to characterize functional engineering surfaces. The technologies developed offer opportunities to improve forensic toolmark...
Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Johannes A. Soons, Theodore V. Vorburger, Jun-Feng Song, Thomas Brian Renegar, Robert M. Thompson
Surface metrology is commonly used to characterize functional engineering surfaces. The technologies developed offer opportunities to improve forensic toolmark...
Christopher W. Petz, Dongyue Yang, Alline Myers, Jeremey Levy, Jerrold Floro
This work examines Si overgrowth to encapsulate 3C-SiC quantum dot arrays epitaxially grown on Si substrates. Using transmission electron microscopy we show how...
Adam A. Creuziger, Lin Hu, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Anthony D. Rollett
This paper considers the crystallographic texture evolution in a 1008 low carbon steel. The texture evolution along uniaxial, plane strain and balanced biaxial...
Brent A. Sperling, William A. Kimes, James E. Maslar
Infrared spectroscopy has been widely used for in situ analysis of the gas phase during chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD). For...
Arvind K. Balijepalli, Jessica H. Benjamini, Andrew T. Cornio, Joseph W. Robertson, Kin P. Cheung, John J. Kasianowicz, Canute I. Vaz
We developed a generalized technique to characterize polymer!nanopore interactions via single channel ionic current measurements. Physical interactions between...
Benjamin B. Parrott, John Bowden, Satomi Kohno, Jessica A. Cloy-McCoy, Jacqueline T. Bangma, Thomas R. Rainwater, Phillip M. Wilkinson, John Kucklick, Louis J. Guillette
Epigenetic modifications are key mediators of the interactions between the environment and an organism's genome. DNA methylation represents the best-studied...
Chiara F. Ferraris, Nicos Martys, William L. George
Rotational rheometers are routinely used for homogeneous materials, but their usage for characterization of a granular fluid like concrete is a relatively new...
Edwin Chan, William Mulhearn, Jung-Hyun Lee, Daeyeon Lee, Christopher Stafford
: Thin film composite membranes can selectively separate mono- and di-valent ions from water via solution-diffusion of each species through a dense but...
Richard B. Ross, John K. Brennan, Kevin A. Frankel, Jonathan D. Moore, Raymond D. Mountain, Joshua D. Moore, Riaz Ahmad, Matthias Thommes, Vincent K. Shen, Nathan E. Schultz, Daniel Siderius, Kenneth D. Smith
The primary goal of the seventh industrial fluid properties simulation challenge was to test the ability of molecular simulation methods to predict the...
Alejandro Duran-Herrera, Jose M. Mendoza-Rangel, Edgar de los Santos Rodriguez, Francisco Vazquez, P Valdez, Dale P. Bentz
In many parts of the world, corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete induced by carbonation of the concrete continues to be a major durability concern. This...
Albert A. Talin, Andrea Centrone, Alexandra C. Ford, Michael E. Foster, Vitalie Stavila, Paul M. Haney, Robert A. Kinney, Veronika Szalai, Farid El Gabaly, Heayoung Yoon, Francois Leonard, Mark Allendorf
We report a strategy for realizing tunable electrical conductivity in MOFs in which the nanopores are infiltrated with redox-active, conjugated guest molecules...
Steve Y. Rhieu, Aaron A. Urbas, Daniel W. Bearden, John P. Marino, Vytautas Reipa, Katrice A. Lippa
Non-invasive and real-time analysis of cellular redox processes has been greatly hampered by lack of suitable measurement techniques. Here we describe an in...
Catherine A. Remley, Jonathan Lu, Henry Bertoni, William F. Young
In this paper, we present computationally efficient models for predicting small-area average path gain for low antennas due to propagation through urban street...
Jame Ging, Raul Tejerina-Anton, Girish Ramakrishnan, Mark Nielsen, Kyle Murphy, Justin Gorham, Tinh Nguyen, Alexander Orlov
Despite the fact that nanomaterials are considered potentially hazardous in a freely dispersed form, they are often considered safe when encapsulated into a...
Andrew Herzing, Justin G. Brons, Karen T. Henry, Ian M. Anderson, Gregory B. Thompson
A series of Fe/Ni and Ti/Nb multilayers with bilayer repeat distances of approximately 4 nm have been sputter-deposited onto n-doped Si [001] substrates. The...
Thomas V. Lafarge, Beatriz Pateiro Lopez, Antonio M. Possolo, Joy P. Dunkers
This work describes the implementation in R of the alpha-shape of a finite set of points in three-dimensional space. This geometric construct generalizes the...