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Journals

Computational thermodynamics: Recent developments and future potential and prospects

January 21, 2013

Author(s)

Suzana G. Fries, Tilmann Hickel, Ursula R. Kattner

All of the obtained insights and findings,including a variety of further interesting ideas, have been documented in the five publications printed hereafter...

Does 47 Days of Decay Change Persistent Organic Pollutants in Loggerhead Sea Turtle Eggs?

January 18, 2013

Author(s)

Jennifer M. Lynch

Reptile and bird eggs are priority samples for specimen banking programs that assess spatial and temporal trends of environmental contaminants. From endangered...

Advanced Distillation Curve Analysis of Marine Diesel Fuel

January 17, 2013

Author(s)

Peter Y. Hsieh, Kathryn R. Abel, Thomas J. Bruno

Ocean-going ships burn heavy fuel oil. The combustion of heavy fuel oil in marine diesel engines emits nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and particulates into the...

ELUCIDATING THE SURFACE COMPOSITION OF MECHANICALLY MODULATED COLLAGEN FIBRIL FILMS WITH TOF-SIMS

January 17, 2013

Author(s)

Christopher R. Anderton, Kiran Bhadriraju, Frank W. DelRio, Anne L. Plant

The extracellular matrix (ECM) environment plays a critical role in organism development and disease. Consequently, developing complementary analytical...

Thermal Equilibration of Samples for Neutron Scattering

January 17, 2013

Author(s)

Tobias K Herman, Julia Scherschligt, Sarah Cunegunda Parks

Temperature relaxation and equilibration of samples for neutron scattering was investigated in a selection of samples and sample cells within the range of 5...

Gallium Nitride Nanowires for On-Chip Optical Interconnects on Ex-Situ Substrates

January 16, 2013

Author(s)

Matthew D. Brubaker, Paul T. Blanchard, John B. Schlager, Aric W. Sanders, Alexana Roshko, Shannon M. Duff, Jason Gray, Victor M. Bright, Norman A. Sanford, Kristine A. Bertness

In this letter we report on the fabrication, device characteristics, and optical coupling of a two-nanowire device comprising light-emitting diode and...

Carbon nanotube-based electrical-substitution cryogenic radiometer: initial results

January 15, 2013

Author(s)

Nathan A. Tomlin, John H. Lehman

A carbon nanotube cryogenic radiometer (CNCR) has been fabricated for electrical-substitution optical power measurements. The CNCR employs vertically-aligned...

Segmenting Time-lapse Phase Contrast Images of Adjacent NIH 3T3 Cells

January 15, 2013

Author(s)

Joe Chalfoun, Alden A. Dima, Marcin Kociolek, Michael W. Halter, Antonio Cardone, Adele P. Peskin, Peter Bajcsy, Mary C. Brady

We present a new method for segmenting phase contrast images of NIH 3T3 fibroblast cells that is accurate even when cells are in contact. The problem of...

Submicrometer-Resolution Polychromatic 3D X-Ray Microscopy

January 15, 2013

Author(s)

B C. Larson, Lyle E. Levine

The ability to study the structure, microstructure, and evolution of materials with increasing spatial resolution is fundamental to achieving a full...

Selective Streptavidin Bioconjugation on Si and SiC nanowires for Biosensor Applications.

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Elissa H. Williams, John A. Schreifels, Mulpuri V. Rao, Albert Davydov, Vladimir P. Oleshko, Nancy J. Lin, Kristen L. Steffens, Sergiy Krylyuk, Kristine A. Bertness, Amy Manocchi, Yaroslav Koshka

A functionalization method for the specific and selective immobilization of the streptavidin (SA) protein on semiconductor nanowires (NWs) was developed...

Assessing the Effect of Mode-Stirring Method on Uncertainty in Reverberation-Chamber Measurements

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley, Ryan J. Pirkl, Chih-Ming Wang, Haider Shah

We develop methods for assessing the standard uncertainty arising from various combinations of mode-stirring methods used in reverberation-chamber measurements...

Measuring Topology in a Laser-Coupled Honeycomb Lattice: From Chern Insulators to Topological Semi-Metals

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Ian B. Spielman, Nathan Goldman, Egidijus Anisimovas, Fabrice Gerbier, Patrick Ohberg, Gediminas Juzeliunas

Ultracold fermions trapped in a honeycomb optical lattice constitute a versatile setup to experimentally realize the Haldane model. In this system, a non...

Absolute spectroscopy of N2O near 4.5 um with a comb-calibrated, frequency-swept quantum cascade laser spectrometer

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Kevin O. Knabe, Paul A. Williams, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Michael Radunsky, Chris Armacost, Sam Crivello, Nathan R. Newbury

We present absolute line center frequencies for 24 fundamental nu-3 ro-vibrational P-branch transitions near 4.5 um in N2O with an absolute frequency...

An imaging spectrometer based on high resolution microscopy of fluorescent aluminum oxide

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

James A. Bartz, Cynthia J. Zeissler, V. V. Fomenko, Mark S. Akselrod

Fluorescent Nuclear Track Detector (FNTD) technology was tested as an imaging and spectroscopic tool for radionuclide analysis. This investigation intended to...

Protective performance of environmentally stressed fabrics containing melamine fiber blends

January 12, 2013

Author(s)

Shonali Nazare, Shaun M. Flynn, Rick D. Davis, Joannie W. Chin

In this study, environmentally stressed OS fabrics containing melamine fiber blends were evaluated for thermal and mechanical properties that are critical to...

Reconstruction of the Thermal Environment in the Tall World Trade Center Buildings

January 11, 2013

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann, Anthony P. Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Kuldeep R. Prasad, William M. Pitts, Harold E. Nelson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted an extensive investigation of the collapse of the three tall World Trade Center (WTC)...

Changes in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-4, Secure Hash Standard

January 11, 2013

Author(s)

Quynh H. Dang

This paper describes the changes between FIPS 180-3 and FIPS 180-4. FIPS 180-4 specifies two new secure cryptographic hash algorithms: SHA-512/224 and SHA-512...

Manipulation of graphenes dynamic ripples by local harmonic out-of-plane excitation

January 11, 2013

Author(s)

Alexander Y. Smolyanitsky, Vinod K. Tewary

With use of carefully designed molecular dynamics simulations, we demonstrate tuning of dynamic ripples in free-standing graphene by applying a local out-of...

Putting a spin on LA-ICPMS analysis combined with isotope dilution

January 11, 2013

Author(s)

John L. Molloy, Stephen E. Long, Fanny Claverie, Julian Malherbe, Naomi Bier

The determination of Zn, Sr, Ba and Pb in solid samples has been achieved by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry (LA...

Driving Phase Slips in a Superfluid Atom Circuit with a Rotating Weak Link

January 10, 2013

Author(s)

Kevin C. Wright, William D. Phillips, Gretchen K. Campbell

We have induced well-defined phase slips between quantized persistent current states around a toroidal atomic 23Na Bose-Einstein condensate by rotating a weak...

RF and A/MS Technologies

January 10, 2013

Author(s)

Herbert S. Bennett, John J. Pekarik

Radio frequency (RF), high-frequency (HF) and analog/mixed-signal (A/MS) technologies serve the rapidly growing communications and More than Moore (MtM) markets...

Simulation and Analysis for Sustainable Product Development

January 9, 2013

Author(s)

Mahesh Mani

Purpose: Simulation plays a critical role in the design of products, materials and manufacturing processes. However, there are gaps in the simulation tools used...

Assessing Conformity of Two Laboratories: Formulations as a Statistical Hypothesis Testing Problem

January 9, 2013

Author(s)

Andrew L. Rukhin

A decision problem frequently occurring in metrology is that of compatibility of data obtained by two (or several) different laboratories, methods or...

Band Offset Determination of Atomic-Layer-Deposited Al2O3 and HfO2 on InP by Internal Photoemission and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

January 9, 2013

Author(s)

Kun Xu, Oleg A. Kirillov, David J. Gundlach, Nhan V. Nguyen, Pei D. Ye, Min Xu, Lin Dong, Hong Sio

Band offsets at the interfaces of n- and p-type InP ((100) and (111)A) and atomic-layer-deposited (ALD) Al2O3 were measured with internal photoemission and...

Determination of Cadmium by ICP-MS in Samples Containing High Concentrations of Molybdenum and Tin

January 8, 2013

Author(s)

Steven J. Christopher, R. Q. Thompson

A four-step matrix reduction procedure, beginning with thiourea-based SPE, was developed for the ICP-MS determination of cadmium in difficult sample matrixes...

The relation between trees and human health: evidence from the spread of the emerald ash borer

January 8, 2013

Author(s)

Geoffrey Donovan, David Butry, Yvonne Michael, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Andrew Liebhold, Demetrios Gatziolis, Megan Mao

Background: Exposure to the natural environment may improve human health. However, existing research is limited by the use of cross-sectional study designs...

Nanoscale interfacial friction and adhesion on supported versus suspended monolayer and multilayer graphene

January 8, 2013

Author(s)

Zhao Z. Deng, Nikolai Klimov, Santiago Solares, Teng Li, Hua Xu, Rachel J. Cannara

Using atomic force microscopy (AFM), we study the adhesive, frictional and elastic properties of supported and suspended graphene exfoliated onto pit-patterned...

Size-Dependent Structural Distortions

January 7, 2013

Author(s)

Michael D. Anderson, Colby L. Heideman, Qiyin Lin, Mary Smeller, Robert S. Kokenyesi, Andrew Herzing, Ian M. Anderson, Douglas A. Keszler, Paul Zschack, David C. Johnson

Recently we reported that intergrowth compounds [(MSe)1+y]m(TSe2)n, with M = Pb, Bi Ce} and T = W, Nb, Ta} self assemble from designed precursors. The values of...

Structure and Dynamics Studies of Concentrated Micrometer-Sized Colloidal Suspensions

January 7, 2013

Author(s)

Fan Zhang, Andrew J. Allen, Lyle E. Levine, Jan Ilavsky, Gabrielle G. Long

We present an experimental study of the structural and dynamical properties of concentrated suspensions of a series of different sized polystyrene microspheres...

Characterizing Vaccinium berry Standard Reference Materials using NIST Mass Spectral Libraries

January 6, 2013

Author(s)

Mark S. Lowenthal, Nirina Rabe Andriamaharavo, Stephen E. Stein, Karen W. Phinney

A gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-based (GC-MS) method was developed for qualitative characterization of metabolites found in Vaccinium-fruit (berry)...

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