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Journals

NIST/TRC SOURCE Data Archival System: the Next-Generation Data Model for Storage of Thermophysical Properties

January 2, 2012

Author(s)

Andrei F. Kazakov, Chris D. Muzny, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Joe W. Magee, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Michael D. Frenkel

A new data model for storage of experimental thermophysical and thermochemical property data was developed and implemented for NIST/TRC SOURCE data archival...

Preparation and Value Assignment of Standard Reference Material 968e Fat-Soluble Vitamins, Carotenoids, and Cholesterol in Human Serum

January 2, 2012

Author(s)

Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, David L. Duewer, Lane C. Sander, Katherine E. Sharpless, Lorna T. Sniegoski, Michael J. Welch, James H. Yen, Mugenya O. Isaac

Standard Reference Material 968e Fat-Soluble Vitamins, Carotenoids, and Cholesterol in Human Serum provides certified values for total retinol, γ- and α...

A Streamlined Hydrolysis Procedure for the LC/MS/MS Analysis of Cocaine in Wastewater Samples

January 2, 2012

Author(s)

Katrice A. Lippa, Kevin Bisceglia, A. Lynn Roberts

We report a streamlined procedure for the routine analysis of cocaine in municipal wastewater. By adding NaOH (to 0.025 M) and incubating wastewater samples at...

Fine Limestone Additions to Regulate Setting in High Volume Fly Ash Mixtures

January 2, 2012

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Taijiro Sato, Igor de la Varga, Jason Weiss

High volume fly ash (HVFA) concrete mixtures are being considered more frequently due to their cost and sustainability advantages. While the long term...

PROBING MATERIAL PROPERTIES WITH SHARP INDENTERS: A REVIEW

January 2, 2012

Author(s)

Brian R. Lawn, Robert F. Cook

A review on the use of sharp, fixed-profile indenters as materials probes is presented. Indentation is proposed as a simple but powerful methodology for...

Towards clean and crackless transfer of graphene

January 2, 2012

Author(s)

Xuelei X. Liang, Brent A. Sperling, Irene G. Calizo, Guangjun Cheng, Christina Hacker, Qin Zhang, Yaw S. Obeng, Kai Yan, Hailin Peng, Qiliang Li, Xiaoxiao Zhu, Hui Yuan, Angela R. Hight Walker, Zhongfan Liu, Lianmao Peng, Curt A. Richter

We present the results of a thorough study of wet chemical methods for transferring chemical vapor deposition grown graphene from the metal growth substrate to...

Density and water content of nanoscale solid C-S-H formed in alkali-activated slag (AAS) paste and implications for chemical shrinkage

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Andrew Allen, Jeffrey J. Thomas, Hamlin M. Jennings

Alkali-activated slag (AAS) paste was analyzed using small-angle neutron scattering. The scattering response indicates that the microstructure consists of a...

The BIOREMA project part 3: International interlaboratory comparison for bio-ethanol test methods

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Michele M. Schantz, Adriaan van der Veen, Hugo Ent, Annaratia Baldan, Valnei Cunha, Romeu Daroda, Manuela Ulberth-Buchgraber, Brian E. Lang, Andrea Held, Ruth Hearn, Richard Brown, Paul Brewer

The main objective of the BIOREMA (Reference Materials for Biofuel Specifications) project is the development of two test materials (one bio-ethanol material...

Wildland Fires within Municipal Jurisdictions

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Douglas S. Thomas, David T. Butry

Each year, wildland fires threaten structures and occupants of the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Currently, wildfire ignition estimates largely exclude...

A robust diffusion-based gradient generator for dynamic cell assays.

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Francisco J. Atencia, Gregory A. Cooksey, Laurie E. Locascio

This manuscript describes a new method to generate purely diffusive chemical gradients that can be modified in time. The device is simple in its design and easy...

Comparison of Sub-Millimeter-Wave Scattering-Parameter Calibrations with Imperfect Electrical Ports

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Dylan F. Williams

We develop a metric to quantify the accuracy with which measured scattering parameters can be cascaded. We use the metric to compare four rectangular-waveguide...

First Variation of the General Curvature-dependent Surface Energy

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Gunay Dogan, Ricardo H. Nochetto

We consider general weighted surface energies, where the energies have the form of weighted integrals over a closed surface and the weight depends on the normal...

Surface Plasmon Polariton Raman Microscopy

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Hae-Wook Yoo, Lee J. Richter, Hee-Tae Jung, Chris A. Michaels

We report surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mediated Raman microscopy on dielectric films in contact with a Ag layer at 785 nm with spatial resolution approaching...

Effect of Charged Lidocaine on Static and Dynamic Properties of Model Bio-Membranes

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Zheng Yi, Michihiro Nagao, Dobrin P. Bossev

The effect of the charged lidocaine on the structure and dynamics of DMPC/DMPG (mass fraction of 95/5}) unilamellar vesicles has been investigated. Changes in...

Accessibility of Pores in Coal to Methane and Carbon Dioxide

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Yuri B. Melnichenko, Lilin He, Richard Sakurovs, Arkady L. Kholodenko, Tomasz Blach, Maria Mastalerz, Andrzej P. Radlinski, Gang Cheng, David F. Mildner

Fluid-solid interactions in natural and engineered porous solids underlie a variety of technological processes, including geological storage of anthropogenic...

Spectroscopic Measurement of the Vapour Pressure of Ice

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Katarzyna E. Bielska, Daniel K. Havey, Gregory E. Scace, D Lisak, Joseph T. Hodges

We present a laser absorption technique to measure the vapor pressure of ice. This method is referenced to the triple point state of water and uses frequency...

Characterizing Metasurfaces/Metafilms: The Connection Between Surface Susceptibilities and Effective Material Properties

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Edward Kuester, Andrew M. Dienstfrey

A metafilm is a type of metasurface---a two-dimensional equivalent of a metamaterial, and is essentially a surface distribution of electrically small scatterers...

Social and Physical Aspects of Seismic Risk

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Carmen D. Gon¿alves, Antonio Possolo

Seismic risk has social and physical aspects: although very different in nature, they are intertwined and share striking similarities. Seismic risk assessment...

Contributions to anelasticity in langasite and langatate

December 30, 2011

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson, Sudook A. Kim, Christine F. Rivenbark, Satoshi Uda

Maximization of the quality factors Q of langasite (LGS) and langatate (LGT) is necessary for optimal performance of acoustic resonators of these materials in...

Oxidatively Induced DNA Damage and Cancer

December 30, 2011

Author(s)

M Miral Dizdar, Pawel Jaruga

Oxidatively induced DNA damage is caused by endogenous and exogenous sources in living organisms. Many resulting DNA lesions are mutagenic and lead to mutations...

A Retrospective Analysis of Lessons Learned in Evaluating Advanced Military Technologies

December 30, 2011

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Brian A. Weiss, Michelle P. Steves

For the past six years, personnel from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have served as the Independent Evaluation Team (IET) for two...

2-Bromo-3,3,3-Trifluoropropene: OH Reaction Rate Constant, IR Absorption Spectrum, Ozone Depletion Potentials and Global Warming Potentials

December 30, 2011

Author(s)

Kenneth O. Patten, Victor Khamaganov, Vladimir L. Orkin, Steven L. Baughcum, Donald J. Wuebbles

The rate constant for the gas phase reaction of OH radicals with BTP (2-Bromo-3,3,3-trifluoropropene, CH2=CBrCF3) was measured using a flash photolysis...

More than Moore or More Moore: a SWOT analysis

December 28, 2011

Author(s)

Herbert S. Bennett, G. D. Hutcheson

Over the last decade, the world of semiconductors has broadened its horizon from More Moore and beyond conventional scaling to More than Moore. Some first...

Spectroscopy of the methane Ņ3 Band with an accurate midinfrared coherent dual-comb spectrometer

December 28, 2011

Author(s)

Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Alexander M. Zolot, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury

We demonstrate a high-accuracy dual-comb spectrometer centered at 3.4 υm. The amplitude and phase spectra of the P,, Q, and partial R branches of the methane Ņ3...

Laser cooling and readout of an LC resonator

December 27, 2011

Author(s)

Jacob M. Taylor, Anders Sorensen, C. M. Marcus, E.S. Polzik

We explore a method for laser cooling and optical detection of excitations in a LC electrical circuit. Our approach uses a nanomechanical oscillator as a...

Mutually Reinforced Multicomponent Polysaccharide Networks

December 25, 2011

Author(s)

Laura L. Hyland, Marc B. Taraban, Boualem Hammouda, Y. Bruce Yu

Mechanisms of Cement Hydration

December 22, 2011

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Bullard, Hamlin M. Jennings, Richard A. Livingston, Andre Nonat, George W. Scherer, Jeffrey S. Schweitzer, Karen L. Scrivener, Jeffrey J. Thomas

Several detailed reviews have been written about the kinetics of cement hydration . In this review, focus is placed on a number of recent advances in...

Copper oxide nanoparticle mediated DNA damage in terrestrial plant models

December 22, 2011

Author(s)

Bryant C. Nelson, Donald H. Atha, Elijah J. Petersen, Huanhua Wang, Danielle Cleveland, Richard D. Holbrook, Pawel Jaruga, M Miral Dizdar, Baoshan Xing

Engineered nanoparticles, due to their unique electrical, mechanical and catalytic properties, are presently found in many commercial products and will be...

M-ary state phase-shift keying discrimination below the homodyne limit

December 22, 2011

Author(s)

Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Jingyun Fan, Gerald Baumgartner, Sergey V. Polyakov, Julius Goldhar, Jonathan Kosloski, Alan L. Migdall

We investigate a strategy for M-ary discrimination of nonorthogonal phase states with error rates below the homodyne limit. This strategy uses feed forward to...

Modeling and Simulation of Cement Hydration Kinetics and Microstructure Development

December 22, 2011

Author(s)

Jeffrey Thomas, Joseph J. Biernacki, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Shashank Bishnoi, Jorge S. Dolado, George W. Scherer, Andreas Luttge

This review endeavors to summarize the past 40 years or so of progress towards the development of mathematical models for understanding and predicting cement...

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