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Raquel Corniuk, Katherine Shaw, Andrew McWhirter, Harry Lynch, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Jennifer Lynch
Discarded fishing gear (DFG) comprises most of the plastic in the North Pacific Ocean and causes environmental and economic losses. Building evidence on the
Quantum computers based on gate-defined quantum dots (QDs) are expected to scale. However, as the number of qubits increases, the burden of manually calibrating
The reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added feedstock materials, fine chemicals, and fuels represents a crucial approach for meeting contemporary
Amy Xu, Marco Blanco, Maria Castellanos, Curtis Meuse, Kevin Mattison, Ioannis Karageorgos, Harold Hatch, Vincent Shen, Joseph E. Curtis
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) make up a major class of biotherapeutics with a wide range of clinical applications. Their physical stability can be affected by
Anmol Bhardwaj, Jack Chuang, Camillo Gentile, Chiehping Lai
A wireless channel is wide-sense stationary (WSS) when the mean and autocorrelation of its small-scale fading are displacement invariant. This occurs when the
Ryan Cole, Connor Fredrick, Newton Nguyen, Scott Diddams
We report precision atmospheric spectroscopy of CO2 using a laser heterodyne radiometer (LHR) calibrated with an optical frequency comb. Using the comb
Michael Hegetschweiler, Lukas Berger, Raik Hesse, Joachim Beeckmann, Chaimae Bariki, Heinz Pitsch, Gregory T. Linteris
The present work explores data reduction techniques for the measurement of the laminar burning velocities of R32(CH2F2)-air using a constant volume combustion
Raik Hesse, Chaimae Bariki, Michael Hegetschweiler, Gregory T. Linteris, Heinz Pitsch, Joachim Beeckmann
Refrigerants with a low global warming potential (GWP) possess mild flammability. Hence, a fundamental understanding of their combustion characteristics is
Lukas Berger, Raik Hesse, Michael Hegetschweiler, Antonio Attili, Konstantin Kleinheinz, Joachim Beeckmann, Gregory T. Linteris, Heinz Pitsch
Determining laminar flame speeds from spherical flame experiments is dicult for low flame speeds, when the flame shapes quickly become non-spherical due to the
Changmin Shi, Saya Takeuchi, George Alexander, Tanner Hamann, Jonathan O'Neill, Joseph A. Dura, Eric Wachsman
Abstract The cubic‐garnet (Li 7La 3Zr 2O 12, LLZO) lithium–sulfur battery shows great promise in the pursuit of achieving high energy densities. The sulfur used
Yuankun Lin, Noah Hurley, Steve Kamau, Evan Hathaway, Yan Jiang, Roberto Gonzalez Rodriguez, Sinto Varghese, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Yuanxi Wang, Anupama Kaul, Jingbiao Cui
Herein, photoluminescence (PL) and fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) in multilayer MoSe2 are studied. Strain-activated stimulated emission via defect levels
Negar Mohammadgholibeyki, Maria Jose Echeverria, Amir Safiey, Dustin Cook, Maria Koliou, ABBIE LIEL
Damage from past earthquakes has significantly impeded post-earthquake building function, threatening community resilience, and motivating consideration of
Thinh Bui, Mark-Alexander Henn, Weston L. Tew, Megan Catterton, Solomon I. Woods
Advances in instrumentation and tracer materials are still required to enable sensitive and accurate 3D temperature monitoring by magnetic particle imaging. We
G2Aero is a Python package for the design and deformation of discrete planar curves and tubular surfaces using a geometric data-driven approach. G2Aero utilizes
Luke Summey, Jing Zhang, Alexander Landauer, Jamie Sergay, Jin Yang, Annalise Daul, Jialiang Tao, Jessica Park, Christian Franck
Background: Intermediate-strain-rate mechanical testing of soft and biological materials is important when designing, measuring, predicting, or manipulating an
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction is a powerful characterization technique that enables the determination of atomic arrangements in crystalline materials
Debra Ellisor, Amanda Bayless, William Davis, Tracey Johnston, Benjamin Trey Knott, John Seghers, Hanne Leys, Hakan Emteborg
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has prepared four seafood reference materials (RMs) for use in food safety and nutrition studies: wild
Over 5 years, multiple hurricanes and a pandemic impacted small businesses in Charleston, South Carolina. In order to better understand the impacts of disasters
Dipanjan Saha, Dacen Waters, Ching-Chen Yeh, Swapnil Mhatre, Ngoc Thanh Mai Tran, Heather Hill, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Matthew Yankowitz, David B. Newell, Albert Rigosi
Mehdi Hashemi-Tilehnoee, Nikolay Tsirin, Victor Stoudenets, Yuriy Bushuev, Miroslaw Chorazewski, Mian Li, Dan Li, Juscelino Leao, Markus Bleuel, Pawel Zajdel, Elena Palomo Del Barrio, Yaroslav Grosu
Liquid piston is a method for pressure transmission used in a wide range of technologies. Currently, liquid piston is a passive element solely used to apply
Daniel Sunday, Adam Burns, Tyler Martin, Alice Chang, Robert Grubbs
Developing an understanding of the relationships between structure and conformation in complex macromolecular architectures is key for designing materials with
Alain Bernard, Jean-Pierre Kruth, Jian Cao, Gisela Lanza, Stefania Bruschi, Marion Merklein, Tom Vaneker, Michael Schmidt, John Sutherland, Alkan Donmez, Eraldo da Silva
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is one of the disruptive technologies to fabricate components, parts, assemblies or tools in various fields of application due to
Dennis Kim, Valeri I. Babushok, Michael Hegetschweiler, Gregory T. Linteris
Laminar burning velocity measurements have been made using a constant volume experiment with dry air and the refrigerant R152a (CH3CHF2), pure and blended with
Ariela Zycherman, Jennifer Helgeson, Claudia Nierenberg
At the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate and Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) Program and the
Katrin Loeschner, Monique Johnson, Antonio Montoro Bustos
Due to enhanced properties at the nanoscale, nanomaterials (NMs) have been incorporated into foods, food additives, and food packaging materials. Knowledge gaps
Developing hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) that combine functional sites, size control, and storage capability for targeting gas molecule capture is a
Nayantara Joseph, Trever Schwichtenberg, Dunping Cao, Gerrad Jones, Alix Rodowa, Joe Charbonnet, Christopher Higgins, Damian Helbling, Jennifer Field
This study elucidates per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) fingerprints for specific PFAS source types. Ninety-two samples were collected from aqueous film