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Jeremy Brison, Michael A. Robinson, Danielle S. Benoit, Shinichiro Muramoto, Patrick S. Stayton, David G. Castner
In this study, a non-native chemical species, bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), was imaged within single HeLa cells using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry...
Scott Grutzik, Richard S. Gates, Yvonne B. Gerbig, Douglas T. Smith, Robert F. Cook, Alan Zehnder
There are many atomic force microscopy (AFM) applications that rely on quantifying the force between the AFM cantilever tip and the sample. The AFM does not...
Houxun Miao, Lei Chen, Eric Bennett, Nick Adamo, Andrew A. Gomella, Alexa D. Luca, Ajay Patel, Nicole Y. Morgan, Han Wen
X-ray phase-contrast imaging offers a new way to look into the internal structures of objects. At hard x-ray energies the phase shift in some materials is many...
Yonggao Y. Yan, Joshua B. Martin, Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Martin L. Green, Xinfeng Tang
Combinatorial metrology has evolved as a useful approach to rapidly determine the composition-structure-property relationships for solid solution systems in a...
Forensic identification of homemade explosives is critical for determining the origin of the explosive materials and precursors, and formulation procedures...
Although building quality into software is paramount, professionals find that testing is necessary to assure that the system will operate as desired. Developing...
This is an invited perspective article on a paper that will appear in the same issue. The perspective describes imaging energy transfer between cold Rydberg...
Alexander V. Skripov, Olga A. Babanova, Alexei V. Soloninin, Vitalie Stavila, Kristina Verdal, Terrence J. Udovic, John J. Rush
To study the reorientational motion of icosahdral [B 12H 12] 2- anions and the translational diffusion of alkali-metal (A +) cations in A 2^B 12H 12 (A = Na, K...
Sara E. Beck, Roberto A. Rodriguez, Karl G. Linden, Thomas M. Hargy, Thomas C. Larason, Harold B. Wright
Adenovirus is regarded as the most resistant pathogen to ultraviolet (UV) disinfection due to its demonstrated resistance to monochromatic, low-pressure (LP) UV...
This paper describes new capabilities in the Systems Modeling Language that reduce the complexity of specifying systems through componentization, and increase...
John H. Lehman, Evangelos Theocharous, Savva Theocharous
A novel pyroelectric detector consisting of a vertically aligned nanotube array on thin silicon (VANTA/Si) bonded to a 60 μm thick crystal of LiTaO 3 has been...
Matthew Ruffoni, J C. Pickering, C. Allende Prieto, Gillian Nave
We report experimental oscillator strengths for 28 infrared Fe I transitions, for which no previous experimental values exist. These transitions were selected...
Prasad S. Sarangapani, Steven D. Hudson, Kalman D. Migler, Jai A. Pathak
Proteins are complex macromolecules with dynamic conformations and spatially heterogeneous charge distributions but also bear striking similarity to colloids...
Evan M. White, Jonathan Seppala, Parker M. Rushworth, Suraj Sharma, Jason Locklin
A polyacrylamide hydrogel system that can be liquefied by remote activation using UV irradiation was investigated as a degradable adhesive. The linear...
Kyoung-Whan Kim, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung Jin Lee, Mark D. Stiles
Spin-orbit coupling causes many properties that make magnets technologically important as well as properties that interfere with optimal performance. As...
Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Chris D. Muzny, Andrei F. Kazakov, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Joe W. Magee, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Michael D. Frenkel
ThermoData Engine (TDE) is the first full-scale software implementation of the dynamic data evaluation concept, as reported in this journal. The present article...
Current methods of composition measurement lack the ability to produce consistent results from laboratory to laboratory and across companies. NIST has developed...
Robert D. Horansky, Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Barry L. Zink, Joel N. Ullom
Microcalorimeter detectors rely on superconducting components and cryogenic temperatures to provide over an order-of-magnitude improvement in energy resolution...
To statistically quantify the evidence against local realism in an experiment, it is desirable to bound the probability according to local realism of a...
Wen-Yang Gao, Rong Cai, Le Meng, Lukasz Wojtas, Wei Zhou, Taner N. Yildirim, Xiaodong Shi, Shengqian Ma
A strategy for achieving high-connected robust MOFs by linear ligands is exemplified by the construction of MTAF-4, a rare (6, 9)-connected 10 MOF based upon...
Paul D. Kunz, Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts
We demonstrate a variation of pump-probe spectroscopy that is particularly useful for laser frequency stabilization. This polarization enhanced absorption...
Cadmium was quantified at 80.15 ng/g ± 0.86 ng/g in NIST SRM 3280 Multivitamin/Multielement Tablets, using double isotope dilution mass spectrometry. The method...
Yuri Mishin, James A. Warren, Robert F. Sekerka, William J. Boettinger
We develop an irreversible thermodynamics framework for the description of creep deformation in crystalline solids by mechanisms that involve vacancy diffusion...
Walter J. Lafferty, Jean-Marie Flaud, Fridolin Kwabia, A. Perrin, M. Ngom
Seven Fourier transform spectra of the ν3 band of oxirane (ethylene oxide) have been recorded with different pressures and used to derive individual line...
F K. Tchana, M. Ngom, Agnes Perrin, Jean-Marie Flaud, Walter J. Lafferty, S. A. Ndiaye, El. A. Ngum
Absolute individual line intensities of numerous transitions of the fundamental ν2 and ν10 bands of oxirane (ethylene oxide, c-C2H4O) have been measured in the...
Steven J. Christopher, Stephen E. Long, Renata Amais, Joaquim N¿ga
A method is described for quantification of sulfur at low concentrations on the order of 10 µg g-1 in biodiesel and diesel fuels using double isotope dilution...
Anne L. Sallaska, Leticia S. Pibida, Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, Luc Murphy, Christina Ward
The Illicit Trafficking Radiation Assessment Program (ITRAP+10) is an international effort of the Department of Homeland Securitys Domestic Nuclear Detection...
P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Geof H. Givens, Bruce A. Draper, Yui M. Lui, David Bolme
The field of biometric face recognition blends methods from computer science, engineering and statistics, however statistical reasoning has been applied...
B. Carol Johnson, Maritoni Litorja, Joel B. Fowler, Eric Shirley, James J. Butler, Robert A. Barnes
Exo-atmospheric solar irradiance measurements made by the solar irradiance community since 1978 incorporate limiting apertures with diameters measured by a...
Norman A. Sanford, David R. Diercks, Brian Gorman, R Kirchofer, Kristine A. Bertness, Matthew D. Brubaker
The field evaporation behavior of c-axis GaN nanowires was explored in two different laser-pulsed atom probe tomography (APT) instruments. Transmission electron...