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Journals

Microwave generation with low residual phase noise from a femtosecond fiber laser with an intracavity electro-optic modulator

November 14, 2011

Author(s)

William C. Swann, Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Nathan R. Newbury

Low phase-noise microwave generation has previously been demonstrated using self-referenced frequency combs to divide down a low noise optical reference. We...

Magneto-optical observation of four-wave scattering in a 15 nm Ni₈₁Fe₁₉ film during large angle magnetization precession

November 14, 2011

Author(s)

Hans T. Nembach, Karen Livesey, Michael Kostylev, Patrica Martin-Pimentel, Sebastian Hermsdoerfer, Britta Leven, Juergen Fassbender, Burkard Hillebrands

Large angle magnetization precession induced by a short pulsed magnetic field in a 15 nm thick Ni 81Fe 19 film is observed using a time-resolved magneto-optical...

Manipulating Particle Trajectories with Phase-control in Surface Acoustic Wave Microfluidics

November 14, 2011

Author(s)

Nathan D. Orloff, Jaclyn R. Dennis, Marco Cecchini, Ethan Schonbrun, Eduard Rocas, Yu Y. Wang, David R. Novotny, Raymond W. Simmonds, John M. Moreland, Ichiro Takeuchi, James C. Booth

We present a 91 MHz surface acoustic wave resonator with integrated microfluidics that includes a flow focus, an expansion region, and a binning region. We...

Carbon Nanotube Nucleation Driven by Catalyst Morphology Dynamics

November 14, 2011

Author(s)

Elena Pigos, Evgeni S. Penev, Morgana A. Ribas, Renu Sharma, Boris I. Yakobson, Avetik R. Harutyunyan

In situ observation of carbon nanotube nucleation process accompanied by catalyst particle dynamic morphology reconstruction is considered within a...

Synthesis of Multifunctional Polymer Brushes via Sequential and Orthogonal Thiol-Click Reactions

November 14, 2011

Author(s)

Santosh B. Rahane, Ryan M. Hensarling, Bradley J. Sparks, Christopher Stafford, Derek L. Patton

Fabrication of multifunctional surfaces with complexity approaching that found in nature requires the application of a modular approach to surface engineering...

Estimation and Uncertainty analysis of Dose Response in an inter-laboratory experiment

November 13, 2011

Author(s)

Blaza Toman, Elijah J. Petersen, John T. Elliott

An inter-laboratory experiment for the evaluation of toxic effects of NH2-polystyrene nanoparticles on living cells was performed with five participating...

Modeling the Transmission of Curved Neutron Guides with Non-Perfect Reflectivity

November 11, 2011

Author(s)

David F. Mildner

Analytic expressions for the transmission of a curved neutron guide including reflection losses are contrasted. The expressions are derived by considering the...

Characterization of (1-3,1-6)-β-D-Glucan Side Chain Structure Provides the Basis for a New Model of Fungal Cell Wall Rigidity and Flexibility

November 11, 2011

Author(s)

Daniel W. Bearden, Douglas W. Lowman, Lara J. West, Michael F. Wempe, Trevor D. Power, Harry E. Ensley, Ken Haynes, David L. Williams, Michael D. Kruppa

Glucan is a (1-3)-β-linked glucose polymer with (1-6)-β-linked side chains and a major component of fungal cell walls. Glucans provide structural integrity to...

In situ monitoring of enzyme-catalyzed (co)polymerizations by Raman spectroscopy

November 10, 2011

Author(s)

Matthew T. Hunley, Atul Bhangale, Santanu S. Kundu, Peter M. Johnson, Michael S. Waters, Richard Gross, Kathryn Beers

In situ, fiber optic-based Raman spectroscopy provided real time monitoring of enzyme-catalyzed ring-opening homo- and copolymerizations of ε-caprolactone (ε-CL...

Structure and Properties of Polymer Electrolyte Membranes Containing Phosphonic Acids for Anhydrous Fuel Cells

November 9, 2011

Author(s)

Kirt A. Page, Christopher L. Soles, Huagen H. Peng, Do Y. Yoon, Sung-Il Lee, Myeongsoo Song, Kyung-Hwan Yoon, Wolfgang Meyer

Recently, water-free, proton conducting, polymer electrolytes are attracting attention due to their possible application as fuel cell membranes at intermediate...

Response of Acoustic Phonons to Charge and Orbital order in the 50% Doped Bilayer Manganite LaSr₂Mn₂O₇.

November 9, 2011

Author(s)

F. Weber, S. Rosenkranz, J.-P. Castellan, R. Osborn, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, Y. Chen, Song Xue Chi, Jeffrey W. Lynn, D. Reznik

We report an inelastic neutron scattering study of acoustic phonons in the charge and orbitally ordered bilayer manganite LaSr 2. For excitation energies less...

Site-Specific CO₂ Adsorption and Zero Thermal Expansion in an Anisotropic Pore Network

November 8, 2011

Author(s)

Wendy Queen, Craig M. Brown, David K. Britt, Matthew R. Hudson, Omar M. Yaghi

Detailed neutron powder diffraction (NPD) experiments were carried out on the bare and CO 2 adsorbed Mg-MOF 74. While low-temperature data revealed two CO 2...

Organophosphate and Phthalate Esters in Standard Reference Material 2585 "Organic Contaminants in House Dust"

November 8, 2011

Author(s)

Stephen A. Wise, Caroline Bergh, Giovanna Luongo, Conny Ostman

Twenty-two phthalate diesters and organophosphate triesters have been determined in Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2585 Organic Contaminants in House Dust...

Superatom Orbitals of C60 on Ag(111) : Two Photon Photoemission and Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

November 8, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory J. Dutton, Dan B. Dougherty, W. Jin, Janice E. Reutt-Robey, Steven W. Robey

Two photon photoemission (2PPE) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) were used to investigate C60 layers on Ag(111), focusing on unoccupied level...

Protein characterization of a candidate mechanism SNP for Crohn's disease: the macrophage stimulating protein R689C substitution

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Illarion V. Turko, Natalia Gorlatova, Kinlin L. Chao, Lipika Ray, Rawan Araj, Andrey Galkin, John Moult, Osnat Herzberg

Macrophage Stimulating Protein (MSP) is the ligand of RON receptor tyrosine kinase. MSP binding to RON activates a signaling pathway that plays a dual role in...

On Non-Linear Estimation of a Measurand

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Chih-Ming Wang, Hariharan K. Iyer

We consider an estimation problem described in the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM). The problem is concerned with estimating a...

Authentication of African green monkey cell lines using human short tandem repeat markers

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Jamie L. Almeida, Carolyn R. Steffen, Kenneth D. Cole

A multiplex PCR assay utilizing eight human short tandem repeat (STR) markers was developed for the authentication of vervet monkey cell lines. Labeled forward...

Stirred Reactor Calculations to Understand Unwanted Combustion Enhancement by Potential Halon Replacements

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Viswanath R. Katta, Fumiaki Takahashi, Harsha K. Chelliah, Oliver Meier

Several fire suppressants are under consideration to replace CF3Br for use in suppressing fires in aircraft cargo bays. In an FAA performance test simulating...

Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiments

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Jason D. Averill, Lori Moore-Merrell, Adam M. Barowy, Robert Santos, Richard D. Peacock, Kathy Notarianni, Doug Wissoker

Service expectations placed on the fire service, including Emergency Medical Services (EMS), response to natural disasters, hazardous materials incidents, and...

Predicting the Optimal Dopant Concentration in Gadolinium Doped Ceria: A Kinetic Lattice Monte Carlo Approach

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Pratik Dholabhai, Shahriar Anwar, James B. Adams, Peter A. Crozier, Renu Sharma

Gadolinium doped ceria (GDC) is a promising alternative electrolyte material for solid oxide fuel cells that offers the possibility of operation in the...

Electron Counting Capacitance Standard with an improved five-junction R-pump

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Benedetta Camarota, Hansjoerg Scherer, Sergey Lotkhov, Gerd-Dietmar Willenberg, Franz Josef Ahlers, Mark W. Keller

The Electron Counting Capacitance Standard currently pursued at PTB, aims at the closure of the Quantum Metrological Triangle with a final precision of a few...

Viscoelastic Property Mapping with Contact Resonance Force Microscopy

November 4, 2011

Author(s)

Jason P. Killgore, Donna C. Hurley, Dalia Yablon, Joseph Turner, Philip Yuya, Roger Proksch, Anil Gannepalli, Andy Tsou

We demonstrate accurate nanoscale mapping of loss and storage modulus on a polystyrene-polypropylene blend with contact resonance force microscopy (CR-FM). The...

Mean Value Formulas for Twisted Edwards Curves

November 3, 2011

Author(s)

Dustin Moody

R. Feng and H.Wu recently established a certain mean-value formula for the coordinates of the n-division points on an elliptic curve given inWeierstrass form (A...

An Efficient Target Monitoring Scheme with Controlled Node Mobility for Sensor Networks

November 3, 2011

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Hamid Mahboubi, Ahmadreza Momeni, Amir G. Aghdam

This paper is concerned with target monitoring using a network of collaborative mobile sensors. The objective is to compute (online) the desired sensing and...

The Latest and Greatest NIST PCR-based DNA Profiling Standard: Updates and Status of Candidate Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2391c

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Margaret C. Kline, Carolyn R. Steffen, Jamie L. Almeida, Erica L. Romsos, Michael D. Coble, John M. Butler

Standard Reference Material 2391c (SRM 2391c) PCR-based DNA Profiling Standard is the third renewal of this SRM, originally released in 1995. SRM 2391c consists...

Electrochemical Inactivation of Bacillus Spores in Water Using a Quaternary Oxide Electrode

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Vytautas Reipa, Andrea Giovannozzi, Jamie L. Almeida, Kenneth D. Cole

Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) spores and B. anthracis Sterne (BA) spores were used to investigate the effectiveness of electrochemical disinfection processes...

Innovative Solutions for Shaping and Forming of High Strength Steel, Titanium, and Light Metals

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Mark R. Stoudt, Michael Miles, Mingdong Cai, Paul E. Krajewski

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Multi-Scale Modeling of Deformation

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Mark R. Stoudt, Paul E. Krajewski, John E. Carsley, Michael Miles

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An Information Model Standard for Facility Integration With A Smart Grid

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Steven T. Bushby

The National Electrical Manufacturer's Association (NEMA) and the American Society of Heating Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) are working...

Demand Response and Standards: Enabling a New Role for Buildings in the Smart Grid

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

David G. Holmberg

The role of buildings in the electric grid is steadily being transformed to that of active participant in managing the grid, serving as a key player in...

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