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VOC emissions from a LIFE reference: small chamber tests and factorial studies

June 28, 2012

Author(s)

Wenjuan Wei, Sylvester M. Greer, Cynthia H. Reed, Andrew K. Persily, Yinping Zhang

A liquid-inner tube diffusion-film-emission (LIFE) reference was developed to quickly evaluate the performance of a chamber system for furniture/building...

A Glowing Future for Lab on a Chip Testing Standards

June 28, 2012

Author(s)

Samuel M. Stavis

Testing standards are more fundamental from a metrological perspective and less controversial from an industrial perspective than product standards...

Effect of Tin Doping on alpha-Fe2O3 Photoanodes for Water Splitting

June 28, 2012

Author(s)

Christopher C. Bohn, Amit Agrawal, Erich C. Walter, Mark D. Vaudin, Andrew Herzing, Paul M. Haney, Albert A. Talin, Veronika Szalai

Sputtered-deposited films of α-Fe2O3 of thickness 600 nm were investigated as photoanodes for solar water splitting and found to have photocurrents as high as 0...

On spectroscopic models of the O2 A-band and their impact upon atmospheric retrievals

June 27, 2012

Author(s)

David A. Long, Joseph T. Hodges

Highly accurate spectroscopic models for O2 A-band absorption are required in numerous satellite- and ground-based remote sensing measurements of atmospheric...

THE ROLE OF TOOTH ENAMEL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN PRIMATE DIETARY ADAPTATION

June 27, 2012

Author(s)

Paul Constantino, James J. Lee, Yvonne Gerbig, Adam Hartstone-Rose, Mauricio Talebi, Brian R. Lawn, Peter Lucas

Primate teeth adapt to the physical properties of foods in a variety of ways including changes in occlusal morphology, enamel thickness, and overall size. We...

Protein Particles: What We Know and What We Dont Know

June 26, 2012

Author(s)

Dean C. Ripple, Mariana Dimitrova

All therapeutic protein products contain particles formed by the aggregation of protein monomers. There is a growing interest in the understanding of particles...

Formation of large-area GaN nanostructures with controlled geometry and morphology using top-down fabrication scheme.

June 26, 2012

Author(s)

Dipak Paramanik, Abhishek Motayed, Geetha G. Aluri, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov

This paper details the fabrication of GaN nanoscale structures using deep ultraviolet lithography and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) etching techniques. We...

Etch induced microwave losses in titanium nitride superconducting resonators

June 25, 2012

Author(s)

Martin O. Sandberg, Jeffrey S. Kline, Martin P. Weides, David S. Wisbey, David P. Pappas

We have investigated the correlation between the microwave loss and patterning method for coplanar waveguide titanium nitride resonators fabricated on silicon...

Telecommunications-band heralded single photons from a silicon nanophotonic chip

June 25, 2012

Author(s)

Marcelo I. Davanco, Jun Rong Ong, Andrea B. Shehata, Alberto Tosi, Imad I. Agha, Solomon Assefa, Fengnian Xia, William Green, Shayan Mookherjea, Kartik A. Srinivasan

Compressed-liquid densities of two highly polar + non-polar binary systems

June 24, 2012

Author(s)

Stephanie L. Outcalt, Arno R. Laesecke

The binary systems ethanol + 2,2,4-trimethylpentane and 2-butanol + 2,2,4-trimethylpentane were studied as models for blends of gasoline with biofuels. Their...

Metal-Assisted Hydrogen Storage on Pt-Decorated Single-Walled Carbon Nanohorns

June 23, 2012

Author(s)

Yun Liu, Craig M. Brown, Dan A. Neumann, David B. Geohegan, Alexander A. Puretzky, Christopher M. Rouleau, Hui Hu, David Styers-Barnett, Pavel O. Krasnov, Boris I. Yakobson

Current methods to study the spillover effect in hydrogen storage materials typically must compare the results from a separate reference sample. This makes it...

Photo-induced Surface Transformation of Silica Nanocomposites

June 22, 2012

Author(s)

Justin M. Gorham, Tinh Nguyen, Coralie Bernard, Deborah S. Jacobs, Richard D. Holbrook

The physicochemical, UV-induced surface modifications to silica nanoparticle (SiNP) - epoxy composites have been investigated. The silica nanocomposites (SiNCs)...

Electro-Mechanical Properties of Graphene Drumheads

June 22, 2012

Author(s)

Nikolai N. Klimov, Suyong S. Jung, Shuze Zhu, Teng Li, C. Alan Wright, Santiago Solares, David B. Newell, Nikolai B. Zhitenev, Joseph A. Stroscio

The electro-mechanical properties of a suspended graphene layer are determined by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) measurements and...

How nanorough is rough enough?

June 21, 2012

Author(s)

Konrad Rykaczewski, William Osborn, Jeff Chinn, Marlon L. Walker, John Henry Scott, Wanda Jones, Chonglei Hao, Shuhuai Yao, Zuankai Wang

Surfaces which evince superhydrophobic properties during water condensation have a potential to dramatically enhance energy efficiency in power generation and...

Hydrodynamic chromatography

June 21, 2012

Author(s)

Andre M. Striegel, Amandaa Brewer

Hydrodynamic chromatography (HDC) has experienced a resurgence in recent years for particle and polymer characterization due, principally, to its coupling to a...

Optimal Diffusion Coefficient Estimation in Single-Particle Tracking

June 21, 2012

Author(s)

Xavier Michalet, Andrew J. Berglund

Recent results provide new theoretical concepts and practical algorithms for diffusion coefficient estimation in single-particle tracking. We compare two recent...

Experimental and Thermodynamic Assessment of Phase Equilibria in the Co-Mo system

June 20, 2012

Author(s)

Katsunari Oikawa, Ursula Kattner, J. Sato, T. Omori, M. Jang, K. Anzai, Kiyohito Ishida

Phase equilibria of the solid phases in the Co-Mo system were investigated using two-phase alloys and the diffusion couple technique. In addition, systematic...

Controlling Spin Ordering in Frustrated Magnets via Thin Film Heteroepitaxy

June 20, 2012

Author(s)

Jodi M. Iwata-Harms, Franklin J. Wong, Urusa S. Alaan, Brian Kirby, Julie Borchers, Michael F. Toney, Brittany B. Nelson-Cheeseman, Marco Liberati, Elke Arenholz, Yuri Suzuki

In situ stress measurement during electrodeposition of Ni_(x)Pt_(1-x) alloys

June 20, 2012

Author(s)

Jae W. Shin, Carlos M. Hangarter, Ugo Bertocci, Yihua Y. Liu, Thomas P. Moffat, Gery R. Stafford

Stress generation was examined during the electrodeposition of NixPt1-x alloys from 0.5 M NaCl + 3 mM K2PtCl4 + 0.1 M NiCl2 (pH=2.5), using the wafer curvature...

Sample prefractionation for mass spectrometry quantification of low-abundance membrane proteins

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

Illarion V. Turko, Meiyao Wang, Gun-Young Heo, Saida Omarova, Irina A. Pikuleva

Quantitative analysis of low-abundance membrane proteins remains a challenge and requires further optimization of analytical methods developed for their soluble...

Demonstration of Superluminal Images

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

Ryan T. Glasser, Ulrich Vogl, Paul D. Lett

Optical pulse propagation with group velocities larger than the speed of light in vacuum, c, or negative, have been demonstrated theoretically and...

Analysis of Thermal-Conductivity Measurement Data from International Comparison of National Laboratories

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

Bruno Hay, Robert R. Zarr, Clark Stacey, Leonel Lira Cortes, Ulf Hammerschmidt, Nikolay Sokolov, J.T. Zhang, Jean Remy Filtz

For the first time under the auspices of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), seven national metrology institutes (NMIs) participated in an...

Metastable Crystalline AuGe Catalysts Formed During Isothermal Germanium Nanowire Growth

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

Andrew D. Gamalski, Jerry Tersoff, Renu Sharma, Caterina Ducati, Stephan Hofmann

We observe the formation of metastable AuGe phases without quenching, during strictly isothermal nucleation and growth of Ge nanowires, using video-rate lattice...

Ancilla assisted calibration of a measuring apparatus

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

Alan L. Migdall, Giorgio Brida, L. Ciavarella, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Marco Genovese, M. G. Mingolla, M. G. A. Paris, Fabrizio Piacentini, Sergey Polyakov

The rapid development of quantum systems has enabled a wide range of novel and innovative technologies, from quantum information processing to quantum etrology...

A Software for Diffraction Stress Factor Calculations for Textured Materials

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold

A software for the calculation of diffraction elastic constants (DEC) for materials both with and without preferred orientation was developed. All grain...

Hydrocarbon Binary Diffusion Coefficient Measurements for Use in Combustion Modeling

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

William S. McGivern, Jeffrey A. Manion

Recent studies have identified uncertainties in fuel diffusion coefficients as a source of significant uncertainty in combustion modeling. This paper presents...

Investigation of Silica Nanoparticles Accumulated on the Surface of Polymer Nanocomposites Exposed to UV Radiation Using ICP-OES

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

Savelas A. Rabb, Lee L. Yu, Deborah S. Jacobs, Tinh Nguyen

Silica nanoparticles (nanosilica) are being utilized to enhance the mechanical performance of polymeric materials used in many industries. However, cumulative...

A non-statistical atomic model for beam emission and motional Stark effect diagnostics in fusion plasmas

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

Yuri Ralchenko, O. Marchuk, W. Biel, T. Schlummer, David R. Schultz, E. Stambulchik

In this work we analyze magnetic sublevel populations in a neutral beam penetrating a fusion plasma. The collisional-radiative model NOMAD was extended to...

Investigation of Encapsulation of Insulin Biotemplate within C-methylresorcin[4]arenes

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

Harshita Kumari, Steven R. Kline, Jerry L. Atwood

Solution structure of insulin templated C-mehtylrescorcin[4]arene nanocapsules has been investigated using neutron scattering techniques. Insulin biotemplate...

Neutron Diffuse Scattering in Lead-Based Relaxor Ferroelectrics and its Relationship to the Ultra-High Piezoelectricity

June 15, 2012

Author(s)

Peter Gehring

A brief review is presented that summarizes recent neutron diffuse scattering measurements on single crystal PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 (PMN) and PbZn1/3Nb2/3O3 (PZN) doped...

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