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A program is introduced that calculates diffraction elastic constants for the models according to Reuss, Hill, Kröner and inverse Kröner. For materials with
Jenni R. Popp, Justine Roberts, Douglas V. Gallagher, Kristi S. Anseth, Stephanie Bryant, Timothy P. Quinn
Mechanical stimulation is essential for chondrocyte metabolism and cartilage matrix deposition. In vitro, mechanical stimulation is accomplished via culture in
Rick L. Paul, Adrien Couet, Arthur Motta, Robert Comstock
We propose a novel use of a non-destructive technique to quantitatively assess hydrogen concentration in zirconium alloys. The technique, called Cold Neutron
John D. Wright, Thiago Cobu, Robert F. Berg, Michael R. Moldover
We calibrated three models of commercially-manufactured, laminar flow meters (LFMs) at four pressures (100 kPa, 200 kPa, 300 kPa, and 400 kPa) with five gases
Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Frederick E. Pinkerton, Terrence J. Udovic, Taner Yildirim, John J. Rush
The first example of metal hydrazinoborane, LiN 2H 3BH 3, and its hydrazine borane adduct LiN 2H 3BH 32N 2H 4BH 3 were synthezised with their crystal structures
Kathryn L. Krycka, WangChun Chen, Julie A. Borchers, Brian B. Maranville, Shannon Watson
Pol-Corr is a free computer software program that corrects for the neutron polorization inefficiencies associated with a static neutron polarizer, a neutron
Kathryn L. Krycka, Julie A. Borchers, Yumi Ijiri, Ryan Booth, Sara Majetich
SANS with longitudinal polarization analysis is a powerful technique to study magnetic morphology and domain interactions with directional sensitivity on the
Stefan T. Koev, Amit K. Agrawal, Henri J. Lezec, Vladimir A. Aksyuk
We report the design, fabrication and characterization of a periodic grating of shallow rectangular grooves in a metallic film with the goal of maximizing the
Najib Cheggour, Arend Nijhuis, H J. Krooshoop, Xifeng Lu, Jolene D. Splett, Theodore C. Stauffer, Loren F. Goodrich, Matthew C. Jewell, Arnaud Devred, Y Nabara
A benchmarking experiment was conducted to compare strain measurement facilities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University
As infrastructure nears the end of its service life, society is facing an unprecedented maintenance crisis. A new technique that may be able to help address
Elissa H. Williams, Albert Davydov, John A. Schreifels, Mulpuri V. Rao, Abhishek Motayed, Siddarth Sundaresan, Peter Bocchini, Lee J. Richter, Gheorghe Stan, Kristen L. Steffens, Rebecca A. Zangmeister
(0001) 4H-SiC was functionalized with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) and subsequently biotinylated for the immobilization of streptavidin. Atomic force
Michael Feinholz, Stephanie J. Flora, Steven W. Brown, Yuqin Zong, Keith R. Lykke, Mark A. Yarbrough, B. Carol Johnson, D. K. Clark
An algorithm is developed to correct a multi-channel fiber-coupled spectrograph for stray or scattered light within the system. The efficacy of the algorithm is
Nadine Gergel-Hackett, Joseph L. Tedesco, Curt A. Richter
In addition to the potential for memristors to be used in logic, memory, smart interconnects, and biologically-inspired architectures that could transform
Jonathan Nickels, Joseph E. Curtis, Hugh O'Neill, Alexei P. Sokolov
Early life was based on RNA and while RNA based catalytic molecules still function in biology to this day, studies have discovered a strong difference between
In an effort to develop a whole building LCA tool, NIST is transforming new bottom-up BEES data into a hybrid database in which the strengths of both bottom-up
Jeeseong Hwang, J. C. Ramella-Roman, Robert J. Nordstrom
The editors introduce the Biomedical Optics Express feature issue on "Phantoms for the Performance Evaluation and Validation of Optical Medical Imaging Devices
Lawrence T. Hudson, Fred B. Bateman, Paul M. Bergstrom, Frank Cerra, Jack L. Glover, Ronaldo Minniti, Stephen M. Seltzer, Ronald E. Tosh
Due to the ease of assembly and leveraged disruptive effect, the improvised explosive device (IED) is the method of choice of todays terrorist. With more than
M Miral Dizdar, Prasad T. Reddy, Guldal Kirkali, Gamze Tuna, Bryant C. Nelson, Pawel Jaruga
Oxidatively induced DNA damage is implicated in disease, unless it is repaired by DNA repair. DNA repair proteins may be used as early detection and therapeutic
A method of measuring biaxial stress-strain curved for sheet metal samples subjected to large plastic strains is described for one example aluminum alloy (AA
Karina K. Jimenez Garcia, Lindsay J. LeBlanc, Ross A. Williams, Matthew C. Beeler, Abigail R. Perry, Ian B. Spielman
Artificial gauge fields open new possibilities to realize quantum many-body systems with ultracold atoms, by constructing Hamiltonians usually associated with
Craig D. McGray, Richard J. Kasica, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Ronald G. Dixson, Michael W. Cresswell, Richard A. Allen, Jon C. Geist
A robust technique is presented for auto-aligning nanostructures to slow-etching crystallographic planes in materials with diamond cubic structure. Lithographic
S. E. Dissanayake, C. Chan, S. Ji, J. Lee, Yiming Qiu, K. C. Rule, B. Lake, Mark Green, M. Hagihala, X. G. Zheng, T. K. Ng, S.-H. Lee
Using elastic and inelastic neutron scattering techniques with and without application of an external magnetic field H, the magnetic ground states of Zn xCo 4-x
Kristine A. Bertness, Joseph J. Brown, Alicia I. Baca, Victor M. Bright
Effects of design and materials on the dielectrophoretic self-assembly of individual gallium nitride nanowires (GaN NWs) onto microfabricated electrodes have
Alessandro Restelli, Joshua C. Bienfang, Alan L. Migdall
We experimentally investigate afterpulsing in an InGaAs single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) operating in the biasing and sensing regime of periodic-gating
Brian C. Sawyer, Joseph W. Britton, Adam Keith, C.-C Joseph Wang, James K. Freericks, Hermann Uys, Michael Biercuk, John J. Bollinger
We demonstrate a method of sensitive detection and thermometry of individual modes in cold ( sim1 mK), planar one-component ion plasmas. Exploiting precise
Gregory J. Hardy, Rahul Nayak, S. Munir Alam, Joseph G. Shapter, Frank N. Heinrich, Stefan Zauscher
In this study, we present a technique to create a complex, high cholesterol-containing SLB using α-helical (AH) peptide-induced vesicle fusion. Vesicles
Identifying sources of ground water pollution, and deblurring astronomical galaxy images, are two important applications generating growing interest in the