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Dehydrogenation Tuning of Ammine Borohydrides using Double-Metal Cations

March 10, 2011

Author(s)

Yanhui Guo, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Xuebin Yu

The strategy of using double-cation to tune the temperature and purity of dehydrogenation of ammine borohydrides is reported. The first double-cation ammine

Advanced Distillation Curve Analysis on Ethyl Levulinate as a Diesel Fuel Oxygenate and a Hybrid Biodiesel Fuel

March 10, 2011

Author(s)

Bret Windom, Tara Lovestead, Mark Mascal, Edward Nikitin, Thomas J. Bruno

Diminishing petroleum reserves, the potential of supply disruptions, price volatility, as well as environmental considerations resulting from polluting

Persistent Organic Pollutants in Blood Plasma of Satellite-Tracked Adult Male Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta)

March 10, 2011

Author(s)

Jared M. Ragland, Michael D. Arendt, John Kucklick, Jennifer Lynch

Organohalogen contaminant (OHC) threats remain largely a mystery for threatened loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). This study examines regional-scale OHC

Experimental Determination of the Voltage Lead Error in an AC Josephson Voltage Standard

March 10, 2011

Author(s)

Piotr S. Filipski, M. Boecker, Samuel Benz, Charles J. Burroughs

National Research Council Canada (NRC) recently established an AC Josephson Voltage Standard system based on NIST pulse-driven Josephson junction arrays. This

Circuit cavity electromechanics in the strong-coupling regime

March 9, 2011

Author(s)

John Teufel, Dale Li, Michael S. Allman, Katarina Cicak, Adam Sirois, Jed D. Whittaker, Raymond Simmonds

Demonstrating and exploiting the quantum nature of macroscopic mechanical objects would help us to investigate directly the limitations of quantum-based

Geographic Differences in Organic Contaminants and Stable Isotopes (δ13C, δ15N) in Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia) Eggs from Alaska

March 9, 2011

Author(s)

Stacy S. Schuur, Russell D. Day, Paul R. Becker, Rebecca S. Pugh, Michael B. Ellisor, Keith A. Hobson, David G. Roseneau

Thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia) eggs were collected from four Alaskan colonies in 2002. The contents were analyzed for organic contaminants and carbon (δ13C)

Improving Face Recognition Technology

March 9, 2011

Author(s)

P J. Phillips

US-government sponsored evaluations and challenge problems have helped spur over two-orders-of-magnitude improvement in face recognition system performance.

Live, video-rate super-resolution microscopy using structured illumination and rapid GPU-based parallel processing

March 9, 2011

Author(s)

Jonathan A. Lefman, Keana Scott, Javed Khan, Stephan J. Stranick

Structured illumination fluorescence microscopy is a powerful super resolution method that is capable of achieving a resolution below 100 nm. Each super

Multi-laboratory Comparison of Traceable Atomic Force Microscope Measurements of 70 nm Grating Pitch

March 8, 2011

Author(s)

Ronald G. Dixson, Donald Chernoff, Shihua Wang, Theodore V. Vorburger, Siew-Leng Tan, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Joseph Fu

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Advanced Surface Microscopy (ASM), and the National Metrology Centre (NMC) of the Agency for Science

Measurement Traceability and Quality Assurance in a Nanomanufacturing Environment

March 8, 2011

Author(s)

Ndubuisi G. Orji, Ronald G. Dixson, Aaron Cordes, Benjamin Bunday, John Allgair

A key requirement for nano-manufacturing is maintaining acceptable traceability of measurements performed to determine size. Given that properties and

Characterization of Standard Reference Material 2942, Ce-Ion-Doped Glass, Spectral Correction Standard for UV Fluorescence

March 8, 2011

Author(s)

Paul C. DeRose, Melody V. Smith, Klaus Mielenz, Jeffrey R. Anderson, Gary W. Kramer

Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2942 is a cuvette-shaped, Ce-ion-doped glass, recommended for use for relative spectral correction of emission and day-to-day

Up-conversion Single-photon Detector Using Multi-wavelength Sampling Techniques

March 8, 2011

Author(s)

Lijun Ma, Joshua Bienfang, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang

The maximum achievable data-rate of a quantum communication system can be critically limited by the efficiency and temporal resolution of the system s single

Gold cluster formation with phosphine ligands: Etching as a synthetic pathway for size-selective small clusters?

March 7, 2011

Author(s)

John M. Pettibone, Jeffrey W. Hudgens

Triphenylphosphine (PPh3) is commonly used during syntheses of stable closed-shell monolayer protected clusters (MPCs). Models of transition metal (TM) cluster

Analytical Tools for the Dietary Supplement and Food Laboratory

March 7, 2011

Author(s)

Catherine A. Rimmer, Melissa M. Phillips

Comparison of Biomass-Derived Turbine Fuels with the Composition-Explicit Distillation Curve Method

March 6, 2011

Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno, Evgenii Baibourine

In recent years, civilian and military users of aviation kerosene have been interested in expanding the scope of fuel feed stocks to include non-petroleum

High Accuracy Measurements of OH Reaction Rate Constants and IR and UV Absorption Spectra: Ethanol and Partially Fluorinated Ethyl Alcohols.

March 4, 2011

Author(s)

Vladimir L. Orkin, Victor Khamaganov, Larissa E. Martynova, Michael J. Kurylo III

Rate constants for the gas phase reactions of OH radicals with ethanol and three fluorinated ethyl alcohols, CH3CH2OH (k0), CH2FCH2OH (k1), CHF2CH2OH (k2), and

Bethe-Salpeter Equation Calculations of Core Excitation Spectra

March 4, 2011

Author(s)

Eric L. Shirley, Vinson T. John, John J. Rehr, Joshua J. Kas

We present a hybrid approach for GW/Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) calculations of core excitation spectra, including x-ray absorption (XAS), electron energy

A NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE RELEASE AND DISPERSION OF A BUOYANT GAS IN PARTIALLY CONFINED SPACES

March 4, 2011

Author(s)

Kuldeep R. Prasad, William M. Pitts, Jiann C. Yang

Development of the hydrogen economy will require a better understanding of the potential for fires and explosions associated with the unintended release of

A Metal-Organic Framework with Optimized Open Metal Sites and Pore Spaces for High Methane Storage at Room Temperature

March 4, 2011

Author(s)

Zhiyong Guo, Hui Wu, Gadipelli Srinivas, Tengbiao Liao, Yaming Zhou, Shengchang Xiang, Zhenxia Chen, Yongtai Yang, Wei Zhou, Michael O'Keeffe, Banglin Chen

Terahertz, Infrared and Raman Vibrational Assignments of [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Model Compounds

March 3, 2011

Author(s)

Christopher J. Stromberg, Edwin J. Heilweil

Using Raman, Terahertz (THz), and mid-Infrared (IR) spectroscopies, the vibrational spectra of two chromophore models of hydrogen-producing [FeFe]-hydrogenase

Soft Phonons and Structural Phase Transition in Superconducting Ba_0.59K_0.41BiO₃

March 3, 2011

Author(s)

Hye J. Kang, Y. S. Lee, Jeffrey W. Lynn, S. V. Shiryaev, S.N. Barilo

We have observed a softening of phonons and a structural phase transition in a superconducting Ba 0.6K 0.4BiO 3 (Tc = 31 K) single crystal using elastic and

Antibody-Mediated Self-Limiting Self-Assembly for Quantitative Analysis of Nanoparticle Surfaces by Atomic Force Microscopy

March 3, 2011

Author(s)

Carly L. Geronimo, Robert I. MacCuspie

Quantification of very low density molecular coatings on large (60 nm) gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is demonstrated via the use of antibody-mediated self-limiting

Synthesis and characterization of single crystals of the spin- 1⁄2 kagome-lattice antiferromagnets Zn_xCu_4-x(OH)₆Cl₂

March 3, 2011

Author(s)

Tianheng Han, Joel Helton, Andrea Prodi, Deepak Singh, C. Mazzoli, Peter Muller, D. G. Nocera, Shaoyan Chu, Young S. Lee

Time Dependent Acceleration Measurements Through Synthetic Gauge Fields

March 3, 2011

Author(s)

Brandon Anderson, Jacob Taylor, Victor Galitski

We propose an atom interferometry scheme for measuring weak, time- dependent accelerations. Our proposal uses an ensemble of dilute bosons with two internal

A Collaborative Enterprise for Multi-Stakeholder Participation in the Advancement of Quantitative Imaging

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Lisa R. Karam, Andrew Buckler, Hugo J. Aerts, Bernard Bendriem, Claus Bendtsen, Ronald Boellaard, John M. Boone, Linda Bresolin, Deborah Burstein, William Bushnell, Patricia E. Cole, James J. Conklin, Gary S. Dorfman, Pamela S. Douglas, N. R. Dunnick, Willy Eidsaunet, Cathy Elsinger, Richard F. Frank, Constantine Gatsonis, Maryellen L. Giger, David Gustafson, Sandeep N. Gupta, Otto S. Hoekstra, Edward F. Jackson, Gary J. Kelloff, Paul E. Kinahan, Geoffrey McLennan, Colin G. Miller, P D. Mozley, Keith E. Muller, Kevin O'Donnell, Rick Patt, Divid Raunig, Mark Rosen, Heren Rupani, Lawrence H. Schwartz, Barry A. Siegel, A. G. Sorensen, Richard L. Wahl, John C. Waterton, Walter Wolf, Gudrun Zahlmann, Brian E. Zimmerman, Daniel C. Sullivan

Medical imaging has seen significant and rapid technical advances over the last decade, including image acquisition devices, processing and analysis software

Adopting the International System of Units to the 21st century

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Peter J. Mohr, Ian M. Mills, Terry Quinn, Barry N. Taylor, Edwin R. Williams

We review the proposal of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM), currently being considered by the General Conference on Weights and

Black-Body Radiation Correction in the Polarizability of Helium

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Peter J. Mohr, M. Puchalski, Ulrich D. Jentschura

The correction to the polarizability of helium due to black-body radiation is calculated near room temperature. A precise theoretical determination of the black

Temperature Stabilization System with Millikelvin Gradients for Air Refractometry Measurements Below the 10^-8 Level

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Patrick F. Egan, Jack A. Stone Jr.

Refractometry of air is a central problem for interferometer-based dimensional measurements. Refractometry at the 10−9 level is only valid if air temperature

Computational Study on Aerodynamic Mitigation of Wind-Induced, Large-Amplitude Vibrations of Stay Cables With Strakes

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Dong Hun Yeo, Nicholas P. Jones

Modifications of circular cylinder surfaces, such as strakes and helical wires, effectively mitigate Kármán vortex-induced vibrations normal to flow and have

Beyond the Code: Energy, Carbon, and Cost Savings using Conventional Technologies

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel

As states in the U.S. continue to adopt new energy codes, it is important to understand what the benefits are for each state and its building owners. This paper