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Johanna Camara, Mark S. Lowenthal, Karen W. Phinney
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a wide variety of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) to support measurements of...
Junghyun Lee, Jun Y. Chung, Edwin Chan, Christopher Stafford
Understanding the degradation of polyamide-based (PA) thin-film composite membranes by chlorine is imperative to develop chlorine-resistant membranes, an...
Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel S. Swetz, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom
The transition between the superconducting and normal states is of extreme practical importance because the very sharp onset of resistance in voltage biased...
In recent years, we have developed and deployed the capability to make and use tunnel junctions sensors (TJS) as extremely sensitive tools for the measurement...
Dale Li, Jason Austermann, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Anna E. Fox, Nils Halverson, Jason Henning, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey L. Van Lanen, John P. Nibarger, Michael D. Niemack, Kent D. Irwin
Dielectric loss in low-temperature superconducting integrated circuits can cause lower overall efficiency, particularly in the 90 to 220 GHz regime. We present...
Jennifer Hoguet, Jessica Reiner, Jennifer Lynch, John Kucklick, Charles Barber, Amanda Moors, Rebecca Pugh, Paul R. Becker
Remote locations, such as the Arctic, are often sinks for persistent contaminants which can ultimately bioaccumulate in local wildlife. Assessing temporal...
Dan Bearden, Jianyuan Zhang, Fuhrer Tim, Wujun Fu, Tianming Zuo, Liaosa Xu, Harry C. Dorn
In recent decades, the trimetallic nitride template endohedral metallofullerenes (TNT-EMFs),1 which consist of a trimetallic nitride cluster and a fullerene...
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease characterized by changes in the levels and activities of important cellular proteins, including oncogenes and tumor...
Shmuel Barzilai, Francesca M. Tavazza, Lyle E. Levine
The conductance and mechanical properties of contaminated gold nanowires were studied using first principle calculations. Nanowires containing internal...
Aquesous solutions of poly9ethylene glycol) (PEG) exhibit some remarkable properties, among which is the small changes in water activity compared to the volumes...
Ronald E. Tosh, S Picard, D T. Burns, P Roger, Fred B. Bateman, Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer
A comparison of the dosimetry for accelerator photon beams was carried out between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Bureau...
Thomas J. Bruno, Jessica L. Burger, Raina V. Gough
The use of supercritical fuel blends with low cetane numbers and high volatility, such as natural gas and gasoline with diesel fuel, may aid in efforts to...
Ruth L. Jacobsen, Karl K. Irikura, Russell D. Johnson III, Raghu N. Kacker
Anharmonic calculations using vibrational perturbation theory are known to provide near-spectroscopic accuracy when combined with high-level ab initio potential...
Edward R. Sisco, Leonard Demovanville, John G. Gillen
The feasibility of using C60 Cluster Primary Ion Bombardment Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (C60 SIMS) for the analysis of the chemical composition of...
Sherrie R. Elzey, De-Hao D. Tsai, Lee L. Yu, Michael R. Winchester, Michael E. Kelley, Vincent A. Hackley
We report the development of a hyphenated instrument with the capacity to quantitatively characterize aqueous suspended gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) based on a...
Michael D. Coble, V Ramallo, R Biso-Machado, C Bravi, F M Salzano, T Hunemeier, MC Bortolini
Native Americans are characterized by specific and unique patterns of genetic and cultural/linguistic diversities, and this information has been used to...
Harward Ian, Yan Nie, Daming Chen, Josh Baptist, Justin Shaw, Eva J. Liskova, Stefan Visnovsky, Petr Siroky, Michal Lesnak, Jaromir Pistora, Zbigniew Celinski
We developed the thin film microwave magnetic material, M-type barium hexagonal ferrite (BaM) doped with Al, for signal processing devices operating above 40...
We develop an interferometric technique for measuring quadrature operators of nonequilibrium states of ultracold atoms in optical lattices. The technique...
All of the obtained insights and findings,including a variety of further interesting ideas, have been documented in the five publications printed hereafter...
The ability to organize nanostructures of disparate types and materials such as metal nanoparticles and semiconductor quantum dots is challenging but...
Yanrui Ma, Jukuan Zheng, Emily F. Amond, Christopher Stafford, Matthew L. Becker
Peptides, proteins and extracellular matrix act in concert to influence cellular function at the biotic-synthetic interface. However identifying the individual...
Reptile and bird eggs are priority samples for specimen banking programs that assess spatial and temporal trends of environmental contaminants. From endangered...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A carbon nanotube cryogenic radiometer (CNCR) has been fabricated for electrical-substitution optical power measurements. The CNCR employs vertically-aligned...
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...
The ability to study the structure, microstructure, and evolution of materials with increasing spatial resolution is fundamental to achieving a full...
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...