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De-Hao D. Tsai, Sherrie R. Elzey, Frank W. DelRio, Robert I. MacCuspie, Suvajyoti S. Guha, Michael R. Zachariah, Athena M. Keene, Jeffrey D. Clogston, Vincent A. Hackley
We report on a systematic investigation of molecular conjugation of tumor necrosis factor protein-α (TNF) onto gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and the subsequent...
Antonio Faraone, Kunlun Hong, Larry Kneller, Michael Ohl, John R. Copley
The coherent dynamics of a typical fragil glass former, meta-toluidine, was investigated at the molecular level using QuasiElastic Neutron Scattering, with Time...
Inorganic nanomembranes, analogues to graphene, are expected to impact a wide range of device concepts including thin film- or flexible platforms. Size...
Suvajyoti S. Guha, Joshua R. Wayment, Michael J. Tarlov, Michael R. Zachariah
The biopharmaceutical industry characterizes and quantifies aggregation of protein therapeutics using multiple analytical techniques to cross validate results...
Heather J. Patrick, Leonard M. Hanssen, Jinan Zeng, Thomas A. Germer
We have measured angle- and polarization-resolved, hemispherical bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) for two types of graphite used in the...
Jun-Feng Song, Theodore V. Vorburger, Susan M. Ballou, Robert M. Thompson, James H. Yen, Thomas Brian Renegar, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Richard M. Silver, Martin Ols
In response to the guidelines issued by the ASCLD/LAB-International (American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board) to establish...
Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Craig D. McGray, John E. Bonevich, Jon C. Geist
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a multifaceted program in atomic force microscope (AFM) dimensional metrology. One component of...
The structure of finite-area topological defects in graphene is described in terms of both the direct honeycomb lattice and its dual triangular lattice. Such...
Sajjad H. Maruf, Dae U. Ahn, John Pellegrino, Jason Killgore, Alan R. Greenberg, Yifu Ding
Thin film composite (TFC) reverse osmosis (RO) membranes play a significant role in addressing rapidly expanding global needs for potable water. A well-known...
Eric N. Dattoli, Albert Davydov, Kurt D. Benkstein
The selectivity of a chemiresistive gas sensor comprising an aligned array of single-crystalline tin oxide nanowires (NWs) is shown to be greatly enhanced by...
For high precision applications of optical microscopes, it is critical to achieve symmetrical angular illumination intensity at the sample plane, in addition to...
V. Thampy, J. Kang, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, W. Bao, A. T. Savici, J. Hu, T. J. Liu, B. Qian, D. Fobes, Z. Q. Mao, C. B. Fu, Wangchun Chen, Q. Ye, Ross Erwin, Thomas R. Gentile, Z. Tesanovic, Collin L. Broholm
Using polarized and unpolarized neutron scattering we show that interstital Fe in superconducting Fe 1=yTe 1-xSe x induces a magnetic Friedel-like oscillation...
Gabriel G. Ycas, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Scott A. Diddams, Steve Osterman, Chad F. Bender, Brandon Botzer, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Ryan Terrien, Suvrath Mahadevan, Stephen L. Redman
We describe and characterize a 25 GHz laser frequency comb based on a cavity-filtered erbium fiber mode-locked laser that provides a uniform array of optical...
Brian E. Zimmerman, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna
An international Key Comparison of 177Lu has recently been carried out. Twelve laboratories performed assays for radioactivity content on aliquots of a common...
Pragya R. Shrestha, Adaku Ochia, Kin P. Cheung, Jason P. Campbell, Helmut Baumgart, Gary Harris
Accurate capture of the Set/Reset characteristics is a necessary but challenging task for the development of memristive switches. Here we describe and...
The recent move toward physics-based elastohydrodynamics promises to yield advances in understanding of the mechanisms of friction and film generation not...
Qin Zhang, Guangle Zhou, Huili G. Xing, Alan C. Seabaugh, Kun Xu, Sio Hong, Oleg A. Kirillov, Curt A. Richter, Nhan Van Nguyen
The electron energy band alignment of a metal-oxide-semiconductor tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) heterojunction, W/Al2O3/InGaAs/InAs/InP is determined by...
Yvonne B. Gerbig, Chris A. Michaels, Aaron M. Forster, Robert F. Cook
Indentation-induced phase transformation processes were studied by in situ Raman microspectroscopy of the deformed contact region of silicon on sapphire samples...
K. J. Alvine, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Craig Brown, Terrence J. Udovic, T. Jenkins, S. G. Pitman
Hydrogen is known to damage or degrade piezoelectric materials, at low pressure for ferroelectric random access memory applications, and at high pressure for...
Denis E. Bergeron, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Brian E. Zimmerman, Jeffrey T. Cessna
In the triple-to-double coincidence ratio (TDCR) method of liquid scintillation counting, unaccounted or improperly accounted impurities can result in lower...
Russell D. Day, David G. Roseneau, Stacy S. Schuur, Keith A. Hobson, O.F.X Donard, Rebecca S. Pugh, Amanda J. Moors, Paul R. Becker
Mercury concentration ([Hg]), δ15N, and δ13C were measured in eggs from common murres (Uria aalge), thick-billed murres (U. lomvia), glaucous gulls (Larus...
Lisa R. Karam, Marios J. Anagnostakis, Arunas Gudelis, Pujadi Marsoem, Alexander Mauring, Gatot Wurdiyanto, Ulku Yucel
The Scientific Committee of the ICRM decided, for the 2011 Conference, to present laboratories that are at a key developmental stage in establishing, expanding...
K Kossert, R. Broda, P Cassette, G Ratel, Brian E. Zimmerman
Liquid scintillation (LS) counting is a very powerful technique for the activity determination of a number of radionuclides. In radionuclide metrology, the TDCR...
A new data analysis procedure is presented for the evaluation of comparisons of reference materials individually prepared and value-assigned by different...
We performed dynamic light scattering measurements on commercially available liquid scintillation (LS) cocktails over a range of aqueous and acid contents. In...
Yuqin Zong, Steven W. Brown, George P. Eppeldauer, Keith R. Lykke, Yoshihiro Ohno
Continuous-wave (CW) tunable lasers have been used for detector calibrations, especially for spectral irradiance and radiance responsivity, for many years at...