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Filtering Organized 3D Point Clouds for Bin Picking Applications

January 23, 2024

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Marek Franaszek, Prem Rachakonda, Kamel S. Saidi

In many manufacturing applications, autonomous robot action is guided by a perception system integrated with the robot. The quality of the acquired 3D data must...

Roadmap towards the redefinition of the second

January 22, 2024

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C Rieck, T Ido, M Wouters, Y Hanado, M Fujieda, PO Hedekvist, PE Pottie, J Bartholomew, J Hanssen, A Malimon, N Ashby, P Defraigne, Elizabeth Donley, I Sesia, H Schnatz, P Dube, N Dimarc, F Levi, H Margolis, S Slyusarev, M Yasuda, S Bize, D Calonico, David B. Newell, JP Uzan, M Gertsvolf, C Oates, E Peik, S Weyers, DH Yu, G Mileti, P Tavella, F Meynadier, G Petit, G Panfilo, F Fang, J Lodewyck

This paper outlines the roadmap towards the redefinition of the second recently updated by the CCTF Task Force created by the CCTF in 2020. The main...

Reference Correlations for the Density and Thermal Conductivity, and Review of the Viscosity Measurements, of Liquid Titanium, Zirconium, Hafnium, Vanadium, Niobium, Tantalum, Chromium, Molybdenum, and Tungsten

January 22, 2024

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Eleftheria Ntonti, Sofia Sotiriadou, Marc Assael, Marcia L. Huber, Boris Wilthan, Manabu Watanabe

The available experimental data for the density, thermal conductivity, and viscosity of liquid titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum...

Buyout programme experiences and perspectives of local public officials in eastern North Carolina

January 22, 2024

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Anuradha Mukerji, Kayode Nelson Adeniji, Scott Curtis, Jennifer Helgeson, Jamie Kruse, Meghan Millea

Eastern North Carolina (ENC) has been buffeted by compound coastal water events (CCWEs) making residential buyouts, that seek to move households and communities...

Connecting Molecular Exchange Dynamics to Stress Relaxation in Phase-Separated Dynamic Covalent Networks

January 22, 2024

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Neil Dolinski, Ran Tao, Nicholas Boynton, Anthony Kotula, Charlie Lindberg, Kyle Petersen, Aaron M. Forster, Stuart Rowan

A suite of phase separated dynamic covalent networks based on highly tunable dynamic benzalcyanoacetate (BCA) thia-Michael acceptors are investigated. In situ...

Harmonizing the forensic nomenclature for STR Loci D6S474 and DYS612

January 21, 2024

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Martin Bodner, David Ballard, Lisa Borsuk, Jonathan King, Walther Parson, Christopher Phillips, Katherine Gettings

The autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) locus D6S474 and the Y-chromosomal STR locus DYS612 have been reported multiple ways in the forensic literature, with...

Comprehensively Labeled Weakness and Vulnerability Datasets via Unambiguous Formal Bugs Framework (BF) Specifications

January 20, 2024

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Irena Bojanova

The current state of the art in software security -- describing weaknesses as CWEs, vulnerabilities as CVEs, and labeling CVEs with CWEs -- is not keeping up...

Impact of Additive Manufacturing Materials on Thermal Performance of Silicon Reference Cells

January 20, 2024

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Andrew Shore, Jae Hyun Kim, Behrang Hamadani

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is quickly becoming a widespread manufacturing method offering timely and cost-effective build times for unique part...

Oscillation of interlayer coupling in epitaxial FePd|Ir|FePd(001) perpendicular synthetic antiferromagnet

January 19, 2024

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Jenae Shoup, Daniel Gopman

L10 FePd is a promising candidate material for spin memory devices, especially when paired with Ir as a interlayer coupling layer, leading to significant...

Evolution and Impact of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for the Determining Vitamin D Metabolites

January 18, 2024

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Stephen Wise, Adam Kuszak, Johanna Camara

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements (NIH ODS)...

Driven-dissipative four-mode squeezing of multilevel atoms in an optical cavity

January 17, 2024

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Bhuvanesh Sundar, Diego Barberena, Ana Maria Rey, Asier Pineiro Orioli

Squeezing Multilevel Atoms in Dark States via Cavity Superradiance

January 17, 2024

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Bhuvanesh Sundar, Diego Barberena, Ana Maria Rey, Asier Pineiro Orioli

Autonomous cementitious materials formulation for critical infrastructure repair

January 17, 2024

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Howie Joress, Rachel Cook, Austin McDannald, Mark Kozdras, Jason hattrick-simpers, Aron Newman, Scott Jones

Despite the long history of cement and concrete, there are still large gaps in fundamental knowledge of their properties development. The dire need for improved...

AIRI: Predicting Retention Indices and Their Uncertainties Using Artificial Intelligence

January 17, 2024

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Lewis Geer, Stephen E. Stein, Gary Mallard, Douglas Slotta

The Kováts retention index (RI) is a quantity measured using gas chromatography and is commonly used in the identification of chemical structures. Creating...

Morphological Characterization of Self-Amplifying mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles

January 16, 2024

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Jacob Thelen, Wellington Leite, Volker Urban, Hugh O'Neill, Alexander Grieshaev, Joseph E. Curtis, Susan N. Krueger, Maria M. Castellanos

The mRNA technology has emerged as a rapid modality to develop vaccines during pandemic situations with the potential to protect against endemic diseases. The...

Critical steady states of all-to-all driven-dissipative spin models: An analytic approach

January 16, 2024

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Diego Barberena, Ana Maria Rey

Toward a Standard Data Architecture for Additive Manufacturing

January 16, 2024

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Shengyen Li, Shaw C. Feng, Alexander Kuan, Yan Lu

To advance the additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, R&D projects may evaluate new facilities and different processes that need a scalable data architecture...

AM Bench 2022 Macroscale Tensile Challenge at Different Orientations (CHAL-AMB2022-04-MaTTO) and Summary of Predictions

January 16, 2024

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Newell Moser, Jake Benzing, Orion Kafka, Jordan Weaver, Nicholas Derimow, Ross Rentz, Nik Hrabe

The additive manufacturing benchmarking challenge described in this work was aimed at the prediction of average stress–strain properties for tensile specimens...

Visible to Ultraviolet Frequency Comb Generation in Lithium Niobate Nanophotonic Waveguides

January 15, 2024

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Tsung Han Wu, Luis Ledezma, Connor Fredrick, Pooja Sekhar, Ryoto Sekine, Quishi Guo, Ryan Briggs, Alireza Marandi, Scott Diddams

The introduction of nonlinear nanophotonic devices to the field of optical frequency comb metrology has enabled new opportunities for low-power and chip...

Comprehensive Quantum Calculation of the First Dielectric Virial Coefficient of Water

January 12, 2024

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Giovanni Garberoglio, Chiara Lissoni, Luca Spagnoli, Allan H. Harvey

We present a complete calculation, fully accounting for quantum effects and for molecular flexibility, of the first dielectric virial coefficient of water and...

Direct comparison of two spin-squeezed optical clock ensembles at the 10^-17 level

January 11, 2024

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John M. Robinson, Maya Miklos, Yee Ming Tso, Colin J. Kennedy, Tobias Bothwell, Dhruv Kedar, James K. Thompson, Jun Ye

An automated gradient titration fluorescence methodology for high-resolution identification of aqueous two-polymer phase extraction conditions for single-wall carbon nanotubes

January 11, 2024

Author(s)

Christopher Sims, Jeffrey Fagan

A significant advance in rate and precision of identifying the co-surfactant concentrations leading to differential extraction of specific single-wall carbon...

Morphology of Thin-Film Nafion on Carbon as an Analogue of Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers

January 11, 2024

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Corey Randall, Lianfeng Zou, Howard Wang, Jingshu Hui, Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez, Melodie Chen-Glasser, Joseph A. Dura, Steven DeCaluwe

Species transport in thin-film Nafion heavily influences proton exchange membrane (PEMFC) performance, particularly in low-platinum-loaded cells. Literature...

Multi-code Benchmark on Ti K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectra of Ti-O Compounds

January 11, 2024

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Fanchen Meng, Benedikt Maurer, Fabian Peschel, Sencer Selcuk, Xiaohui Qu, Mark S Hybertsen, Christian Vorwerk, Claudia Draxl, John Vinson, Deyu Lu

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is an element-specific materials characterization technique that is sensitive to structural and electronic properties. First...

Memristive Response and Capacitive Spiking in Aqueous Ion Transport through Two-Dimensional Nanopore Arrays

January 11, 2024

Author(s)

Yechan Noh, Alex Smolyanitsky

In living organisms, information is processed in interconnected symphonies of ionic currents spiking through protein ion channels. As a result of dynamic...

Engineering One Axis Twisting via a Dissipative Berry Phase

January 11, 2024

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Jeremy Young, Edwin Chaparro, Asier Pineiro Orioli, James K. Thompson, Ana Maria Rey

Threshold and Laser Conversion in Nanostructured-Resonator Parametric Oscillators

January 10, 2024

Author(s)

Haixin Liu, Grant Brodnik, Jizhao Zang, David Carlson, Jennifer Black, Scott Papp

We explore optical parametric oscillation (OPO) in nanophotonic resonators, enabling arbitrary, nonlinear phase matching and nearly lossless control of energy...

Calculating Pairwise Similarity of Polymer Ensembles via Earth Mover's Distance

January 10, 2024

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Jiale Shi, Dylan Walsh, Weizhong Zou, Nathan Rebello, Michael Deagen, Katharina Fransen, Xian Gao, Debra Audus, Bradley Olsen

Synthetic polymers, in contrast to small molecules and deterministic biomacromolecules, are typically ensembles composed of polymer chains with varying numbers...

Characterizing Styrene Monomer and Oligomers by SEC/MALS/VISC/DRI

January 10, 2024

Author(s)

Andre Striegel

Worldwide polystyrene (PS) production in 2020 was approximately 27 million metric tons, distributed among many nations, making it one of the most heavily...

Neural network potentials for modeling nonstoichiometric materials: a case of Chromium Sulfides Cr1-xS

January 10, 2024

Author(s)

Akram Ibrahim, Daniel Wines, Can Ataca

The chemical exfoliation of non-van der Waals (vdW) materials to ultrathin nanosheets remains a formidable challenge. This difficulty arises from the strong...