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Journals

Critical thermal-conductivity enhancement in molecular fluids

March 2, 2013

Author(s)

Richard A. Perkins, Jan V. Sengers, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Marcia L. Huber

The available information for the thermal-conductivity enhancement is reviewed. We show that it can be represented by a simplified solution of the mode-coupling...

Standard Reference Material 2366 for Measurement of Human Cytomegalovirus DNA

March 1, 2013

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Ross J. Haynes, Margaret C. Kline, Blaza Toman, Calum Scott, Paul Wallace, John M. Butler, Marcia J. Holden

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of a number of human viruses that are ubiquitous in human populations, generally cause little illness upon infecting healthy...

Gradient Nanofiber Scaffold Libraries for Screening Cell Response to Poly(e-caprolactone)-Calcium Phosphate Composites

March 1, 2013

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Carl G. Simon Jr., Limin Sun, Laurence C. Chow, William Miles, Christopher K. Tison, Kaushik Chatterjee, Marian F. Young, Vinoy Thomas, Murugan Ramalingam

A 2-spinnerette approach has been developed for fabricating nanofiber scaffold gradients for use as 1) scaffold libraries for screening the effect of nanofiber...

Mass and momentum transport in microcavities for diffusion-dominant cell culture applications

March 1, 2013

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Alvin G. Yew, Francisco J. Atencia, Alvin G. Yew, Adam Hsieh, Daniel Pinero

For the informed design of microfluidic devices, it is important to understand transport phenomena at the microscale. This letter outlines an analytically...

Chloride Ion Activity and Susceptibility of Al Alloys 7075-T6 and 5083-H131 to Stress Corrosion Cracking

March 1, 2013

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Richard E. Ricker, Eun Lee, R. Taylor, C. Lei, B. Pregger, E. Lipnickas

The influence of chloride ion activity on the susceptibility of aluminum alloys 5083-H131 and 7075-T6 to stress corrosion cracking was investigated by...

Characterization of the NIST Shellfish Standard Reference Material 4358

March 1, 2013

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Svetlana Nour, Kenneth G. Inn, James J. Filliben, Hank dan der Gaast, Lee Chung Men, M.D. Calmet, P Povinec, Y Takata, M. Wisdom, K. Nakamura, Pia Vesterbacka, Ching-Chung Huang, S M. Vakulovsky

A new Shellfish Standard Reference Material (SRM 4358) was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) via an international...

EXPERIMENTAL DATA VALIDATION AND PROPERTY PREDICTION MODELS IN THERMODYNAMICS

March 1, 2013

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Michael D. Frenkel

The article provides overview of the systems and software tools designed for global validation of the experimental data in the field of thermodynamics, and...

Discussion of Review of Methods to Assess, Design for, and Mitigate Multiple Hazards by Yue Li, Aakash Ahuja, and Jamie E. Padgett (J. Performance of Constructed Facilities, 26 104-117)

March 1, 2013

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Dat Duthinh, Long T. Phan, Emil Simiu

The authors have performed a useful service by providing a broad perspective on multi-hazard engineering. The discussers would like to complement that...

Organosilicate Polymer E-Beam Resists with High Resolution, Sensitivity and Stability

February 28, 2013

Author(s)

Christopher Soles, Richard Kasica, Hae-Jeong Lee, Jae H. Sim, Sung-Il Lee, Ki-Bum Kim, Hyun-Mi Kim, Do Y. Yoon

Hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ) is an attractive electron-beam (e-beam) resist for sub-20 nm lithography due to its high resolution, excellent line-edge-roughness...

Frequency-Modulated Charge Pumping: Defect Measurements with High Gate Leakage

February 28, 2013

Author(s)

Jason T. Ryan, Richard G. Southwick, Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, John S. Suehle, Anthony Oates

Charge pumping is one of the most relied upon techniques used to quantify interface defects in metal-oxide-semiconductor devices. However, conventional charge...

Experimental Study of the Thermal Conductivity of Water +Ammonia Refrigerant Mixtures at Temperatures from 278 K to 356 K and at Pressures up to 20 MPa

February 28, 2013

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F. N. Shamsetdinov, Z. I. Zaripov, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Marcia L. Huber, F. M. Gumerov, F. R. Gabitov, Andrei F. Kazakov

The thermal conductivity of binary water + ammonia mixtures was measured over the temperature range from 278 K to 356 K and at pressures up to 20 MPa using the...

Effect of atomic coherence on "temporal cloaking" in atomic vapors

February 27, 2013

Author(s)

Runbing Li, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Joshua C. Bienfang, M G. Payne, Mo-Lin Ge

We discuss a different scheme to achieve temporal cloaking in warm atomic vapors. Instead of creating a temporal-spatial window in a patched broadband short...

Modification of tethered bilayers by phospholipid exchange with vesicles

February 27, 2013

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David J. Vanderah, Rima Budvytyte, Mindaugas Mickevicius, Gintaras Valincius, Frank Heinrich

Phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol exchange between vesicles and planar tethered bilayer lipid membranes (tBLMs) was demonstrated from electrochemical...

Concentration Dependent Neural Differentiation and Neurite Extension from mouse ESC on Primary Amine-derivatized Surfaces

February 27, 2013

Author(s)

Laura A. Smith Callahan, Yanrui Ma, Christopher Stafford, Matthew L. Becker

We demonstrate a versatile, well controlled, and highly reproducible surface density gradient fabrication strategy that allows for precise control over surface...

Modification of Tethered Bilayers by Phospholipid Exchange with Vesicles

February 27, 2013

Author(s)

Rima Budvytyte, Mindaugas Mickevicius, David J. Vanderah, Frank Heinrich, Gintaras Valincius

Macroscale refrigeration by nanoscale electron transport

February 26, 2013

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Peter J. Lowell, Galen C. O'Neil, Jason M. Underwood, Joel N. Ullom

Nano- and Micro- Electromechanical devices (NEMS & MEMS) have become ubiquitous; examples include automobile accelerometers, inkjet printer heads, infrared...

Advanced Calibration, Adjustment, and Operation of a Density and Sound Speed Analyzer

February 26, 2013

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Tara J. Fortin, Arno D. Laesecke, Malte B. Freund, Stephanie L. Outcalt

Benchtop measurement systems have emerged as powerful tools in the ongoing quest for thermophysical property data. We demonstrate that these instruments can...

Detecting Single Infrared Photons with 93 % System Efficiency

February 25, 2013

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Francesco F. Marsili, Varun B. Verma, Jeffrey A. Stern, Sean D. Harrington, Adriana E. Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Igor Vayshenker, Burm Baek, Matthew D. Shaw, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

Single-photon detectors (SPDs) are nonlinear transducers that respond to the absorption of one or more photons with an electrical signal1. SPDs at near infrared...

Continuous-Film vs. Device-Level Ferromagnetic Resonance in Magnetic Tunnel Junction Thin Films

February 25, 2013

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Eric R. Evarts, Matthew R. Pufall, William H. Rippard

We quantitatively compare film-level ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurements to device-level FMR measurements on magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) thin films...

Modeling flat to slant fracture transition in CTOA specimens using the computational cell methodology

February 23, 2013

Author(s)

Christopher N. McCowan, Jacques Besson, Elizabeth S. Drexler

Macroscopicmode I ductile crack propagation in thin metallic sheets often starts in mode I as a flat triangle whose normal corresponds to the loading direction...

Atom numbers in magneto-optic traps with millimeter scale laser beams

February 22, 2013

Author(s)

Gregory W. Hoth, Elizabeth A. Donley, John E. Kitching

We measure the number of atoms, N, that can be trapped in a conventional vapor cell MOT using beams that have a diameter d in the range 1-5 mm. We show that the...

A Microporous Metal-Organic Framework of a Rare sty Topology for High CH₄ Storage at Room Temperature

February 22, 2013

Author(s)

Xing Duan, Jiancan Yu, Jianfeng Cai, Yabing He, Chuande Wu, Wei Zhou, Taner N. Yildirim, Zhangjing Zhang, Shengchang Xiang, Michael O'Keeffe, Banglin Chen, Guodong Qian

A rare sty type microporous metal-organic framework Cu 2(FDDI) (ZJU-25; H 4FDDI = tetramethyl 5,5'-(9H-fluorene-2,7-diyl)diisophthalate acid) was solvothermally...

Use of the Grand Canonical Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo Method to Model Gas Adsorption in Porous Materials

February 21, 2013

Author(s)

Daniel W. Siderius, Vincent K. Shen

We present grand canonical transition-matrix Monte Carlo (GC-TMMC) as an efficient method for simulating gas adsorption processes, with particular emphasis on...

Cavity-stabilized laser with acceleration sensitivity below 10^-12/g^-1

February 21, 2013

Author(s)

David R. Leibrandt, James C. Bergquist, Till P. Rosenband

We characterize the frequency-sensitivity of a cavity-stabilized laser to inertial forces and temperature fluctuations, and perform real-time feed-forward to...

Discriminating the states of matter in metallic nanoparticle transformations: What are we missing?

February 20, 2013

Author(s)

John M. Pettibone, Julien C. Gigault, Vincent A. Hackley

A limiting factor in assessing the risk of current and emerging nanomaterials in biological and environmental systems is the ability to accurately detect and...

Quantitative measurements of glutathione in yeast cell lysate using 1H NMR

February 20, 2013

Author(s)

Steve Y. Rhieu, Aaron A. Urbas, Katrice Lippa, Vytas Reipa

A method for quantifying the level of glutathione (GSH) in yeast cell lysate is described using 1H NMR analysis. For quantification purposes, the 1H resonances...

New Version: Grasp2K Relativistic Atomic Structure Package

February 19, 2013

Author(s)

P. Jonsson, G. Gaigalas, J Bieron, Charlotte F. Fischer, I. P. Grant

A revised version of Grasp2K [P. Jonsson, X. He, C. Froese Fischer, and I.P. Grant, Comput. Phys. Commun. 177 (2007) 597] is presented. It supports earlier non...

Radiation-suppressed superconducting quantum bit in a planar geometry

February 19, 2013

Author(s)

Martin O. Sandberg, Tomas A. Ohki, Jose A. Aumentado, Martin P. Weides, David P. Pappas

We present a superconducting transmon qubit circuit design based on large, coplanar capacitor plates and a microstrip resonator. The microstrip geometry, with...

Fast standard addition method for LA-ICPMS using a spinning platform

February 19, 2013

Author(s)

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

A method has been developed for the fast and easy determination of Pb, Sr, Ba, Ni, Cu, and Zn, which are of geological and environmental interest, in solid...

Corrections to the classical continuity boundary conditions at the interface of a composite medium

February 19, 2013

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Edward Kuester

Using the multiple-scales homogenization method, we derive generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) for electromagnetic fields at the interface between...

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