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Claudette M. Rosado-Reyes, Jeffrey A. Manion, Wing Tsang
The reaction of propene(CH3CH=CH2) with hydrogen atoms has been investigated in a heated single-pulsed shock tube at temperature between 929K-1212K and...
Miaoyin Wang, Huiqian Luo, Meng Wang, Song Xue Chi, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Deepak Singh, Sung Chang, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Pengcheng Dai
We use neutron scattering to study the magnetic field effect on the static antiferromagnetic (AF) order and low-energy spin excitations in the underdoped iron...
Young Jong Lee, Doyoung Moon, Kalman D. Migler, Marcus T. Cicerone
We demonstrate that broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy can be very useful for fast acquisition of quantitative chemical images of...
Kenton R. Brown, Christian Ospelkaus, Yves Colombe, Andrew C. Wilson, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
The harmonic oscillator is one of the simplest physical systems but also one of the most fundamental. It is ubiquitous in nature, often serving as an...
Alan L. Migdall, Sergey V. Polyakov, Jingyun Fan, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Jessica Cheung
This special issue accompanies the 4th international conference on single-photon technologies held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Wilbur S. Hurst, James E. Maslar, Sesha S. Srinivasan
An optical cell is described for high-throughput backscattering Raman spectroscopic measurements of hydrogen storage materials at pressures up to 10 MPa and...
The strategy of using double-cation to tune the temperature and purity of dehydrogenation of ammine borohydrides is reported. The first double-cation ammine...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
US-government sponsored evaluations and challenge problems have helped spur over two-orders-of-magnitude improvement in face recognition system performance.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Triphenylphosphine (PPh3) is commonly used during syntheses of stable closed-shell monolayer protected clusters (MPCs). Models of transition metal (TM) cluster...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Using Raman, Terahertz (THz), and mid-Infrared (IR) spectroscopies, the vibrational spectra of two chromophore models of hydrogen-producing [FeFe]-hydrogenase...
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...
Quantification of very low density molecular coatings on large (60 nm) gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is demonstrated via the use of antibody-mediated self-limiting...