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Optimized Thermal Desorption for Improved Sensitivity in Trace Explosives Detection by Ion Mobility Spectrometry

April 27, 2012

Author(s)

Marcela N. Najarro, Matthew E. Staymates, Robert A. Fletcher, John G. Gillen

In this work we evaluate the influence of thermal desorber temperature on the analytical response of a swipe-based thermal desorption ion mobility spectrometer...

Guidelines for reporting of phase equilibrium measurements (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)

April 27, 2012

Author(s)

Robert D. Chirico, Theodoor W. de Loos, Juergen Gmehling, Anthony R. Goodwin, Sumnesh Gupta, Kenneth N. Marsh, Calvin Spencer, Martin P. Trusler, William M. Haynes, Vicente Rives, Joan F. Brennecke

Recommendations are given for reporting in the primary scientific literature of measurements involving phase equilibrium. The focus is on documentation issues...

Engineered two-dimensional Ising interactions on a trapped-ion quantum simulator with hundreds of spins

April 26, 2012

Author(s)

Joseph W. Britton, Brian C. Sawyer, Adam Keith, C.-C. Joseph Wang, James K. Freericks, Hermann Uys, Michael Biercuk, John J. Bollinger

The presence of long-range quantum spin correlations underlies a variety of physical phenomena in condensed matter systems, potentially including high...

Pro-oxidant Induced DNA Damage in Human Lymphoblastoid Cells: Homeostatic Mechanisms of Genotoxic Tolerance

April 26, 2012

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Bryant C. Nelson, Bryce J. Marquis, Anna L. Seager, Ume K. Shah, Jane M. Mikhail, Shareen H. Doak, George E. Johnson, Paul L. Carmichael, Sharon J. Scott, Andrew D. Scott, Gareth J. Jenkins

Oxidative stress contributes to many disease aetiologies including ageing, neurodegeneration, and cancer, partly through DNA damage induction (genotoxicity)...

Stimulated Generation of Superluminal Light Pulses via Four-wave Mixing

April 26, 2012

Author(s)

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

We report on the four-wave mixing of superluminal pulses, in which both the injected and generated pulses involved in the process propagate with negative group...

Characterizing Heat Release Rate Transients

April 26, 2012

Author(s)

Rodney A. Bryant, Erik L. Johnsson, George W. Mulholland

A series of experiments was performed to characterize the time response of a large-scale open calorimeter to square-wave pulses in terms of peak heat release...

Comment on "Pressure dependence of wall relaxation in polarized He3 gaseous cells"

April 26, 2012

Author(s)

Thomas R. Gentile, B Saam

W. Zheng et al. [Phys. Rev. A 83, 061401(R) (2011)] measure under certain conditions a linear pressure dependence of the wall-induced nuclear relaxation rate of...

Influence of solvent washing on interlayer structure of alkylammonium montmorillonites

April 26, 2012

Author(s)

Wayne L. Elban, John A. Howarter, Mickey C. Richardson, Paul E. Stutzman, Aaron M. Forster, Adam J. Nolte, Gale A. Holmes

Powdered samples of montmorillonite were functionalized with ammonium surfactants of various chain lengths and subjected to two different constant volume...

Preparation and Certification of Standard Reference Material 3278 Tocopherols in Edible Oils

April 25, 2012

Author(s)

Catherine A. Rimmer, Karsten Putzbach, Katherine E. Sharpless, Lane C. Sander

Standard Reference Material 3278 Tocopherols in Edible Oils has been issued for use as an analytical control material and method development tool for the...

Total Scattering Cross Section Measurements Using a Dual Faraday Cup with a 5 Micron Aperture

April 25, 2012

Author(s)

Scott A. Wight, Andrew R. Konicek

Scattering in the variable pressure scanning electron microscope (VPSEM) affects image resolution and the ability to perform quantitative chemical measurements...

Statistical Analysis for Interlaboratory Comparisons with Linear Trends in Multiple Loops

April 24, 2012

Author(s)

Nien F. Zhang

A statistical analysis for interlaboratory comparisons with linear trends in multiple loops is proposed. This approach can be applied to comparisons with...

Pivotal Methods in the Propagation of Distributions

April 24, 2012

Author(s)

Chih-Ming Wang, Jan Hannig, Hariharan K. Iyer

We propose a method for assigning a probability distribution to an input quantity. The distribution is used in the Monte Carlo method for uncertainty evaluation...

Materials Challenges in Carbon Mitigation Technologies

April 24, 2012

Author(s)

Laura Espinal, Bryan D. Morreale

Thermochemical conversion of fossil fuels currently dominates the national and global energy portfolio, with the most notable being the stationary power...

A review of fire blocking technologies for soft furnishings

April 23, 2012

Author(s)

Shonali Nazare, Rick D. Davis

Fire barrier fabrics are expected to play an increasingly important role in complying with existing and proposed soft furnishing flammability regulations. The...

A Proteomics Performance Standard to Support Measurement Quality in Proteomics

April 21, 2012

Author(s)

Ashley B. Green, David M. Bunk, Paul A. Rudnick, Karen W. Phinney, Lisa E. Kilpatrick

The emergence of mass spectrometry-based proteomic platforms as a prominent technology utilized in biochemical and biomedical research has increased the need...

Prediction of the mass loss rate of polymer materials: Impact of residue formation

April 21, 2012

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Bernhard Schartel, Florian Kempel, Stanislav Stoliarov, Richard E. Lyon, Richard N. Walters, Anja Hofmann

Two different numerical simulation tools, Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS) and ThermaKin, are investigated with respect to their capability to predict the mass loss...

Mercury Stable Isotopes in Seabird Eggs Reflect a Gradient from Terrestrial Geogenic to Oceanic Mercury Reservoirs

April 21, 2012

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Russell D. Day, David G. Roseneau, Sylvain Berail, Keith A. Hobson, O.F.X Donard, Stacy S. Schuur, Rebecca S. Pugh, Amanda J. Moors, Stephen E. Long, Paul R. Becker

Elevated mercury concentrations ([Hg]) were found in Alaskan seabird eggs (Uria spp.) from the coastal embayment of Norton Sound relative to insular colonies in...

Automated Clock Comparisons and Time Scale Generation in the SIM Region

April 21, 2012

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi, J. Mauricio Lopez-Romero, Nelida Diaz-Munoz

The second, the base unit of time interval in the International System, is defined in terms of the two hyperfine states of the Cesium atom ground energy level...

Single-photon and photon-number-resolving detectors

April 20, 2012

Author(s)

Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Mark Itzler

Several important advances were reported in single-photon detectors and photon-number-resolving detectors in 2011. New materials with smaller superconducting...

Magic-state distillation with the four-qubit code

April 20, 2012

Author(s)

Adam M. Meier, Bryan K. Eastin, Emanuel H. Knill

The distillation of magic states is an often-cited technique for enabling universal quantum computing once the error rate for a special subset of gates has been...

Graphene Oxide Derived Carbons (GODCs): Synthesis and Gas Adsorption Properties

April 20, 2012

Author(s)

Gadipelli Srinivas, Jacob Burress, Taner Yildirim

We report synthesis of a range of high surface area graphene oxide derived carbons (GODCs) and their applications toward carbon capture and methane storage. We...

Quantum interference between two single photons of different microwave frequencies

April 20, 2012

Author(s)

Francois E. Nguyen, Eva A. Zakka-Bajjani, Jose A. Aumentado, Raymond W. Simmonds

Quantum interference is an important tool for fields such as lithography, metrology and quantum processing. Two identical optical photons (photons with the same...

Matrix-based color measurement corrections of tristimulus colorimeters

April 20, 2012

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, Z. T. Kosztyan, J. D. Schanda

For image taking colorimetry the tristimulus technique is still the best practical method to keep the measurement time within reasonable limits. However, the...

Can We Get 3D CD Metrology Right?

April 19, 2012

Author(s)

Andras Vladar, John S. Villarrubia, Michael T. Postek, Petr Cizmar

Our world is three-dimensional, so are the integrated circuits (ICs), they have always been. In the past, for a long time, weve been very fortunate, because it...

Structure of [C₄mpyr][NTf₂] Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid at Electrified Gold Interfaces

April 19, 2012

Author(s)

Yansen Lauw, Michael D. Horne, Theo Rodopoulos, Vera Lockett, Bulent Akgun, William A. Hamilton, Andrew R. J. Nelson

The structure of l-butyl=l-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([C 4mpyr][NTf 2]) room-temperature ionic liquid at an electrified gold...

The obstruction factor in size-exclusion chromatography. 2. The interparticle, intraparticle, and total obstruction factors

April 17, 2012

Author(s)

Andre M. Striegel, Dustin Richard

Obstruction factor is a generic rubric under which are usually gathered the interparticle, intraparticle, stationary phase, and total obstruction factors...

A Lectin-Based Gold Nanoparticle Assay for Probing Glycosylation of Glycoproteins

April 17, 2012

Author(s)

Germarie Sanchez-Pomales, Todd A. Morris, James Falabella, Michael J. Tarlov, Rebecca A. Zangmeister

We report a glycoanalysis method in which lectins are used to probe the glycans of glycoproteins that are adsorbed on gold nanoparticles. A model mannose...

Magnetoencephalography with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer

April 17, 2012

Author(s)

Svenja A. Knappe, Tillman H. Sander, Jan Preusser, Rahul R. Mhaskar, John E. Kitching, Lutz Trahms

We report on the measurement of somatosensory-evoked and spontaneous magnetoencephalography signals with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer. This uncooled, fiber...

Band-Like Transport in Strongly-Coupled And Doped Quantum Dot Solids: A Route To High-Performance Thin-Film Electronics

April 17, 2012

Author(s)

Ji-Hyuk Choi, Aaron T. Fafarman, Soong J. Oh, Dong-Kyun Ko, David K. Kim, Benjamin T. Diroll, Shinichiro Muramoto, J Greg Gillen, Christopher Murray, Cherie R. Kagan

Artificial solids constructed from colloidal quantum dot (QD) building blocks promise materials with tunable electronic properties. Yet high carrier mobilities...

Char Forming Behavior of Nanofibrillated Cellulose Treated with Glycidyl Phenyl POSS

April 15, 2012

Author(s)

Douglas M. Fox, Jieun Lee, Mauro Zammarano, Dimi Katsoulis, Donald V. Eldred, Luke Haverhals, Paul C. Trulove, Hugh C. De Long, Jeffrey W. Gilman

Cellulose-reinforced composites have received much attention due to their structural reinforcing, light weight, biodegradable, non-toxic, low cost and...

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