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Hydrocarbon Separations in a Metal-Organic Framework with Open Iron(II) Coordination Sites

March 30, 2012

Author(s)

Eric D. Bloch, Wendy Queen, Rajamani Krishna, Joseph M. Zadrozny, Craig Brown, Jeffrey R. Long

Elastic Moduli of Composites Containing a Low Concentration of Complex-Shaped Particles Having a General Property Contrast with the Matrix

March 29, 2012

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Edward Garboczi, Jack Douglas

There are diverse material science problems concerned with how the presence of a low concentration of particulate inclusions having mechanical properties...

Force Key Comparison CCM.F-K4.a and CCM.F-K4.b for 4 MN and 2 MN Forces

March 29, 2012

Author(s)

Thomas W. Bartel

This report gives the results for the Comité International des Poids et Mesures (CIPM) key comparisons in force, for the force values of 4 MN and 2 MN...

Statistical analysis of PPTA fiber strengths measured under high strain rate condition

March 29, 2012

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Jae H. Kim, N. Alan Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Richard L. Rhorer, Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes

OOF3D: An Image-Based Finite Element Solver for Materials Science

March 28, 2012

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Valerie R. Coffman, Andrew C. Reid, Stephen A. Langer, Gunay Dogan

Recent advances in experimental techniques (micro CT scans, automated serial sectioning, electron back-scatter diffraction, synchrotron radiation x-rays) have...

Interplay Between the Magnetic and Electric Degrees of Freedom in Multiferroic Co₃TeO₆

March 28, 2012

Author(s)

Wen-Hsien Li, Chin-Wei Wang, Daniel Hsu, Chi-Hung Lee, Chun-Ming Wu, Chih-Chieh Chou, Hung-Duen Yang, Yang Zhao, Sung Chang, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Helmuth Berger

Neutron diffraction, magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and dielectric constant measurements of single crystal Co 3TeO 6 have been measured to study the...

Detection and Speciation of Brominated Flame Retardants in High-Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) Polymers

March 27, 2012

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Richard D. Holbrook, Jeffrey M. Davis, Keana C. Scott, Christopher W. Szakal

The ubiquitous presence of brominated flame retardants in humans, biota, and the environment has caused concerns about their toxicity, transformations, and...

Comment on "Magnetic Structure of Gd₂Ti₂O^d7"

March 27, 2012

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J. R. Stewart, G. Ehlers, A. S. Wills, S.T. Bramwell, Jason S. Gardner

M. W. Long and collaborators [Phys. Rev. B, 83 054422 (2011)] recently proposed solutions to the magnetic structure of gadolinium titanate that differ to those...

Chiral Modulations and Reorientation Effects in MnSi Thin Films

March 27, 2012

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E. A. Karhu, U.K. Robler, A.N. Bogdanov, S. Kahwaji, Brian Kirby, H. Fritzsche, M. D. Robertson, Charles Majkrzak, T. L. Monchesky

Photoiniated wrinkles with controlled morphology from a liquid coating on a rigid substrate: A facile route to tunable, periodic structures

March 27, 2012

Author(s)

Jessica M. Torres, Christopher Stafford, Bryan D. Vogt

Periodic wrinkled surfaces have generated significant interest over the past decade as these structures can be easily fabricated over large areas with minimal...

Measurement of H2O-Broadening of O2 A-band Transitions and Implications for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

March 27, 2012

Author(s)

E. M. Vess, C. J. Wallace, H. M. Campbell, V. E. Awadalla, Joseph T. Hodges, David Long, D. K. Havey

We present laboratory measurements of H2O-broadened 16O2 A-band ( ) absorption spectra acquired with a laser-based photoacoustic spectroscopy method. This...

A Matter of Policy

March 26, 2012

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David F. Ferraiolo, Jeffrey M. Voas, George Hurlburt

This paper discusses system security policies. System policies are the set of rules that when implemented afford a strategy for the protection of information...

Pronounced Microheterogeneity in a Sorbitol-Water Mixture Observed through Variable Temperature Neutron Scattering

March 26, 2012

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Shin G. Chou, Alan K. Soper, Sheila Khodadadi, Joseph E. Curtis, Susan T. Krueger, Marcus T. Cicerone, Andrew N. Fitch, Evgenyi Shalaev

Fourier and Gegenbauer expansions for a fundamental solution of the Laplacian in the hyperboloid model of hyperbolic geometry

March 23, 2012

Author(s)

Howard S. Cohl, Ernie G. Kalnins

Due to the isotropy of d-dimensional hyperbolic space, there exists a spherically symmetric fundamental solution for its corresponding Laplace-Beltrami operator...

Effect of Confinement on Proton Transport Mechanisms in Block Copolymer/Ionic Liquid Membranes

March 23, 2012

Author(s)

Megan L. Hoarfrost, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Rachel A. Segalman, Jeffrey A. Reimer

Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Electrodeposited Pt_(100-x)Ni_(x): Influence of Alloy Composition and Dealloying

March 22, 2012

Author(s)

Yihua Y. Liu, Carlos M. Hangarter, Ugo Bertocci, Thomas P. Moffat

The electrocatalytic activity of electrodeposited Pt_(100-x)Ni_(x) thin films towards the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in perchloric acid was studied for x...

Development of Ballistics Identification - From Image Comparison to Topography Measurement in Surface Metrology-

March 22, 2012

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Jun-Feng Song, Theodore V. Vorburger, Robert M. Thompson, Thomas Brian Renegar, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, James H. Yen, Richard M. Silver, Wei Chu

Fired bullets and ejected cartridge cases have unique ballistics signatures left by the firearm. By analyzing the ballistics signatures, forensic examiners can...

Measuring domain sizes and compositional heterogeneities in P3HT-PCBM bulk heterojunction thin films with 1H spin diffusion NMR spectroscopy

March 21, 2012

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Ryan C. Nieuwendaal, Hyun Wook Ro, David Germack, Regis J. Kline, Calvin Chan, Amit K. Agrawal, David J. Gundlach, David L. VanderHart, Dean M. DeLongchamp

In this manuscript we show that 1H spin diffusion NMR is a valuable method for estimating the domain sizes in thin films of a polymer-fullerene blend for bulk...

Frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy

March 21, 2012

Author(s)

David A. Long, A. Cygan, Roger D. van Zee, Mitchio Okumura, C. E. Miller, D Lisak, Joseph T. Hodges

This Frontiers article describes frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS), an ultraprecise refinement of conventional cw-CRDS. We review the...

Modeling Line Edge Roughness in Lamellar Block Copolymer Systems

March 21, 2012

Author(s)

Paul N. Patrone, Gregg M. Gallatin

Block copolymers offer an appealing alternative to current lithographic techniques with regard to fabrication of the next generation micro- processors. However...

Determining the Location and Cause of Unintentional Quantum Dots in a Nanowire

March 21, 2012

Author(s)

Ted C. Thorbeck, Neil M. Zimmerman

Unintentional quantum dots are a common problem for single electron devices in both silicon and carbon. To determine the cause of these dots it is helpful to...

Effective multibody interactions of harmonically confined ultracold neutral bosons

March 21, 2012

Author(s)

Philip Johnson, W F. Flynn, D Blume, X Y. Yin, Eite Tiesinga

We use renormalized perturbation theory to calculate effective two-, three-, and four-body interactions for N neutral ultracold bosons in the ground state of an...

Unconventional structure-assisted optical manipulation of high-index nanowires in liquid crystals

March 20, 2012

Author(s)

Kristine A. Bertness, David Engstrom, Michael C. Varney, Martin Persson, Rahul P. Trivedi, Mattias Goksor, Ivan I. Smalyukh

Stable optical trapping and manipulation of high-index particles in low-index host media is often impossible due to the dominance of scattering forces over...

Enhanced carrier transport along edges of graphene devices

March 20, 2012

Author(s)

Jungseok Chae, Suyong S. Jung, Sungjong Woo, Hongwoo Baek, Jeonghoon Ha, Young J. Song, Young-Woo Son, Nikolai Zhitenev, Joseph A. Stroscio, Young Kuk

The relation between the macroscopic charge transport properties and the microscopic carrier distribution inside conducting channels is one of the central...

Optimization of Spin-triplet Supercurrent in Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions

March 20, 2012

Author(s)

Benjamin James McMorran, Theresa Ginley, Julie Borchers, Brian Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, John Unguris

In the past year, several groups have observed evidence for long-range spin-triplet, supercurrent in Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic (F) materials...

The immunotoxicity of perfluorinated compounds: Recent developments

March 19, 2012

Author(s)

Jennifer M. Lynch, Jamie DeWitt, M.M. Peden-Adams, Dori Germolec

Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are environmentally widespread, persistent, and bioaccumulative chemicals with multiple toxicities reported in experimental...

A Case Study on the Impact of Local Material Chemistry on the Mechanical Reliability of Packaged Integrated Circuits: Correlation of the Packaging Fallout to the Chemistry of Passivation Dielectrics in an Al-Cu System

March 19, 2012

Author(s)

Chukwudi A. Okoro, Yaw S. Obeng

In this paper, we use a variety of analytical techniques to examine the impact of local chemistry, and the mechanical properties, of the encapsulation...

Extending transmission crystal x-ray spectroscopy to moderate-intensity laser driven sources

March 17, 2012

Author(s)

Lawrence T. Hudson, J. Y. Mao, L. M. Chen, John F. Seely, L. Zhang, Y. Q. Sun, X. X. Lin, J. Zhang

We present spectroscopic measurements of characteristic Kα and Kβ emissions from Mo targets irradiated by a 100 fs, 200 mJ, Ti: sapphire laser with intensity of...

Carbohydrate-Functionalized Surfactant Vesicles for Controlling Glycan Density

March 15, 2012

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Monique A. Makos, Rebecca A. Zangmeister

We report on the development of a method for rapidly characterizing the glycan binding properties of lectins. Catanionic surfactant vesicles were prepared that...

Environmental Metabolomics

March 15, 2012

Author(s)

Daniel W. Bearden

The application of metabolomics in the field of environmental science or ecology, which has developed based substantially on NMR spectroscopic approaches, is a...

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