Journals

Electron beam heating effects during ESEM imaging of water condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Konrad Rykaczewski, John H. Scott, Andrei G. Fedorov

Nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces show promise as promoters of dropwise condensation and may lead to significant efficiency improvements in numerous

The SIM Time Network

March 1, 2011

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Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew N. Novick, J. Mauricio Lopez-Romero, Francisco Jimenez, Eduardo de Carlos Lopez, Jean-Simon Boulanger, Raymond Pelletier, Ricardo de Carvalho, Raul Solis, Harold Sanchez, Carlos A. Quevedo, Gregory Pascoe, Daniel Perez, Eduardo Bances, Leonardo Trigo, Victor Masil, Henry Postigo, Anthony Questelles

The Sistema Interamericano de Metrologia (SIM) is a regional metrology organization (RMO) whose members are the national metrology institutes (NMIs) located in

Thermal Correction to the Molar Polarizability of a Boltzmann Gas (Brief Report)

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Ulrich D. Jentschura, M. Puchalski, Peter Mohr

The metrology of fundamental quantities in atomic physics has been crucial for a number of advanced determinations of fundamental constants. In addition to very

Dynamics of Small-Molecule Glass Formers Confined in Nanopores

March 1, 2011

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T.R. Prisk, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, P.E. Sokol

Acyl-Chain Methyl Distributions of Liquid-Ordered and -Disordered Membranes

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Mihaela Mihailescu, G. Vaswani, Eduardo Jardon-Valadez, Francisco Castro-Roman, J. Alfredo Freites, David Worcester, A. Richard Chamberlin, Douglas Tobias, Stephen H. White

Charge Puddles and Edge Effect in a Graphene Device as Studied by a Scanning Gate Microscope

March 1, 2011

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

Interrelationship among Li+ diffusion, Charge, and Magnetism for 7LiMn2O4 and 7Li1.1Mn1.9O4 -Elastic, inelastic, and quasielastic neutron scattering-

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Kazuya Kamazawa, Hiroshi Nozkai, Masashi Harada, Kazuhiko Mukai, Jun Sugiyama, Yutaka Ikedo, Kazuki Iida, Taku J. Sato, Yiming Qiu, Madhu Sudan Tyagi

Real-time polarization microscopy for probing local distributions of biomolecules

February 28, 2011

Author(s)

Jeeseong Hwang, Ji Y. Lee, John F. Lesoine, Hyeong G. Kang, Matthew L. Clarke, Robert C. Chang

We present real-time, full-field, fluorescence polarization microscopy and its calibration and validation methods to monitor the absorption dipole orientation

Model Checking for Verification of Mandatory Access Control Models and Properties

February 28, 2011

Author(s)

Chung Tong Hu, David R. Kuhn, Tao Xie, J Hwang

Mandatory access control (MAC) mechanisms control which users or processes have access to which resources in a system. MAC policies are increasingly specified

Coupling Thermodynamics and Digital Image Models to Simulate Hydration and Microstructure Development of Portland Cement Pastes

February 28, 2011

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Bullard, Barbara Lothenbach, Paul E. Stutzman, Kenneth A. Snyder

Equilibrium thermodynamic calculations, coupled to a kinetic model for the dissolution rates of clinker phases, have been used in recent years to predict the

Injection-level-dependent internal quantum efficiency and lasing in low-defect GaN nanowires

February 28, 2011

Author(s)

John B. Schlager, Norman A. Sanford, Kristine A. Bertness, Alexana Roshko

Measurements of temperature-dependent and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) on individual GaN nanowires revealed PL lifetimes and values of internal quantum

Photon antibunching from a single lithographically defined InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot

February 28, 2011

Author(s)

Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Kevin L. Silverman, Neville Dias, Akash Garg, James J. Coleman, Richard P. Mirin

We demonstrate photon antibunching from a single lithographically defined quantum dot fabricated by electron beam lithography, wet chemical etching, and

Preparation and Characterization of Physical Gels based on Ionic Liquid and Poly(vinyl alcohol)

February 28, 2011

Author(s)

Joonsung (. Yoon, Hae-Jeong Lee, Christopher Stafford

We report the preparation and characterization of physical gels using mixtures of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVOH) and a high melting ionic liquid (IL), 1

Stable isotope-labeling of DNA repair proteins, and their purification and characterization

February 26, 2011

Author(s)

M Miral Dizdar, Prasad T. Reddy, Pawel Jaruga, Bryant C. Nelson

Reduced DNA repair capacity is associated with increased risk for a variety of disease processes including carcinogenesis. Thus, DNA repair proteins have the

Dispersion Stability of Nanoparticles in Ecotoxicological Investigations: A Comparison of Different Techniques

February 26, 2011

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Ratna Tantra, Shingheng Jing, Siva Kaliyappan, Nicholas Walker, James Noble, Vincent A. Hackley

One of the main challenges in nanoecotoxicological investigations is in the selection of the most suitable measurement methods and protocols for nanoparticle

Effect of interactions on edge property measurements in magnetic multilayers

February 25, 2011

Author(s)

Meng Zhu, Robert D. McMichael

This paper reports effects of inter-film interactions on static and dynamic magnetization behavior at film edges in magnetic trilayer stripe arrays under

Charge States of y Ions in the Collision-Induced Dissociation of Doubly Charged Tryptic Peptide Ions

February 25, 2011

Author(s)

Pedatsur Neta, Stephen E. Stein

Bonds that break in collision-induced dissociation (CID) are often weakened by a nearby proton, which can, in principle, be carried away by either of the

Developing a Diffusive Reference Material for VOC Emissions Testing: Pilot Interlaboratory Study

February 25, 2011

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Cynthia H. Reed, Zhe Liu, Jennifer Benning, Steven Cox, Daniel V. Samarov, Dennis D. Leber, Al Hodgson, Stephany Mason, Doyun Won, John C. Little

In order to improve the reliability of product emissions testing and labeling, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Virginia Tech (VT)

Design, Fabrication and Implementation of Thermally-Driven Outdoor Testing Devices for Building Joint Sealants

February 23, 2011

Author(s)

Christopher C. White, Kar T. Tan, Emmett P. O'Brien, Donald L. Hunston, R. S. Williams

The paper describes the development, implementation and testing of two thermally driven outdoor exposure instruments. These devices are unique in their ability

Thunderstorm characteristics of importance to wind engineering Part II: Profiles, gust factors and other observations

February 23, 2011

Author(s)

Franklin T. Lombardo, Douglas Smith, John Schroeder, Kishor Mehta

The idea that wind is wind allows statistics for wind and pressure collected in wind tunnels to be used in wind load standards. Statistics collected in wind

Thunderstorm characteristics of importance in wind engineering Part I: Temporal scales and turbulence

February 23, 2011

Author(s)

Franklin T. Lombardo, Douglas Smith, John Schroeder, Kishor Mehta

The idea that wind is wind allows statistics for wind and pressure collected in wind tunnels to be used in wind load standards. Statistics collected in wind

Nitrogen Contamination in Elastic Neutron Scattering

February 23, 2011

Author(s)

Song Xue Chi, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Ying Chen, William D. Ratcliff, Benjamin Ueland, Nicholas P. Butch, Shanta R. Saha, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Johnpierre Paglione

Nitrogen gas accidentally sealed in a sample container produces various spurious effects in elastic neutron scattering measurements. These effects are

Limits on Possible New Monopole-Dipole Interactions from the Spin Relaxation Time of Polarized He-3 Gas

February 23, 2011

Author(s)

Changbo Fu, Thomas R. Gentile, William M. Snow

Various theories beyond the Standard Model predict new particles with masses in the sub-eV range with very weak couplings to ordinary matter. A P-odd and T-odd

Adsorption and Conformation of Serum Albumin Protein on Gold Nanoparticles

February 22, 2011

Author(s)

De-Hao D. Tsai, Frank W. DelRio, Athena M. Keene, Katherine M. Tyner, Robert I. MacCuspie, Tae Joon Cho, Michael R. Zachariah, Vincent A. Hackley

Art in Science

February 22, 2011

Author(s)

Michael Gaitan, Laurie E. Locascio

Flexure-induced structural and electronic changes in polymer supported membranes of length purified single-wall carbon nanotubes

February 22, 2011

Author(s)

John M. Harris, Ganjigunte R. Iyer, Daneesh O. Simien, Jeffrey Fagan, JiYeon Huh, Jun Y. Chung, Steven Hudson, Jan Obrzut, Jack F. Douglas, Christopher Stafford, Erik K. Hobbie

Thin membranes of length purified single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are uniaxially compressed by depositing them on prestretched polymer substrates. Upon

Macromolecular Crowding of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein Characterized by Small Angle Neutron Scattering

February 21, 2011

Author(s)

Daniel Johansen, Cy M. Jeffries, Boualem Hammouda, Jill Trewhella, David P. Goldenberg

Fe xvii X-ray Line Ratios for Accurate Astrophysical Plasma Diagnostics

February 20, 2011

Author(s)

John D. Gillaspy, E. H. Silver, L. Tedesco, Joseph N. Tan, Joshua M. Pomeroy, J M. Laming, G.-X. Chen, T. Lin

New laboratory measurements of the Ne-like Fe xvii x-ray lines in the 15-17 Angstrom range are presented, along with new theoretical predictions. These results

Rate Constants for the Reactions between OH and Perfluorinated Alkenes

February 20, 2011

Author(s)

Vladimir L. Orkin, Gregory A. Poskrebyshev, Michael J. Kurylo III

The rate constants for the reactions of OH radicals with fully fluorinated alkenes containing different number of CF3 groups next to olefinic carbon, CF2=CF2

Characterization of Approach Air Distribution for a Finned-Tube Heat Exchanger

February 18, 2011

Author(s)

David A. Yashar, Piotr A. Domanski, Hong H. Cho

The distribution of air flow approaching a finned-tube heat exchanger is one of the predominant factors influencing the heat exchangers performance. This paper