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Because of the complexities involved in measuring and modeling the performance and properties of finished fuels, the scientific community must often use...
In part I of this series of papers, we presented an evaluation strategy that can be applied to surrogate mixtures for finished fuels. This strategy uses the...
A set of 209 dwellings that represent 80 % of U.S. housing stock was used to generate frequenc distributions of residential ventilation rates. The set of homes...
David Jacobson, Daniel Hussey, Peng Quan, Ming-Chia Lai, Atul Kumar, Shinichi Hirano
The dynamic process of water transport along the through-plane direction in the membrane electrode assembly of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell was...
Michael Metcalfe, Stephen M. Carr, Andreas Muller, Glenn S. Solomon, John R. Lawall
The dynamic response of InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) to strain is studied by periodically modulating the QDs with a surface acoustic wave (SAW)...
Statistical analyses of companion Bogue (ASTM C150) and quantitative X-ray powder diffraction (QXRD) estimates for cement phases are used to establish the most...
Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer, Christopher J. Blackburn, Steven D. Phillips, Craig M. Shakarji, Ed Morse, Robert Bridges
A working group within the ISO TC 213 committee is developing a draft document [11] for evaluating the performance of laser trackers. The ASME B89.4.19 Standard...
The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) was established in May of 2007 to accelerate innovation in nanotechnology-based commerce. Located in...
Steven Noel, Lingyu Wang, Anoop Singhal, Sushil Jajodia
Today's computer systems face sophisticated attackers who combine multiple vulnerabilities to penetrate networks with devastating impact. The overall security...
Alexander W. Peterson, Michael W. Halter, Alessandro Tona, Kiran Bhadriraju, Anne L. Plant
Details of cellular interaction with a fibronectin coated surface were examined using surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRI). SPRI is a label-free highly...
Kristine A. Bertness, Aric W. Sanders, Devin M. Rourke, Todd E. Harvey, Alexana Roshko, Norman A. Sanford
The location of GaN nanowires was controlled with essentially perfect selectivity using patterned SiNx prior to molecular beam epitaxy growth. Growth was...
The unified strain-and-temperature scaling law underlies the many pinning-force model expressions proposed to parameterize the dependence of the critical...
James C. Booth, Nathan D. Orloff, Joel Cagnon, Jiwei Lu, Susanne Stemmer
We apply broadband measurement techniques to determine the dielectric permittivity of Bi1.5Zn1.0Nb1.5O7 (BZN) thin films over the frequency range 1 kHz to 40...
Daniel G. Friend, Marcia L. Huber, Zhuomin M. Zhang
This is a preface to the special issues of the International Journal of Thermophysics that contains selected papers presented at the 17th Symposium on...
Hiroyoshi Momida, Eric J. Cockayne, Naoto Umezawa, Takahisa Ohno
First-principles calculations were used to compute the dielectric permittivities of hypothetical [La,Sc]2O3 solid solutions in the cubic (bixbyite) and...
Aaron Vandevender, Yves Colombe, Jason Amini, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Integration of fiber optics may play a critical role in the development of quantum information processors based on trapped ions, atoms, and quantum dots. Fibers...
Fan Zhang, Bhagawan Sahu, Hongki Min, Allan H. MacDonald
The ABC-stacked N-layer-graphene family of two-dimensional electron systems is described at low energies by two remarkably flat bands with Bloch states that...
Iftikhar A. Awan, William S. McGivern, Wing Tsang, Jeffrey A. Manion
The decomposition and isomerization reactions of the 5-methylhex-1-yl radical (1-5MeH) have been studied at temperatures of 889 K to 1064 K and pressures of 1.6...
The 2p5-3d1 excited state of the Ti4+ ion in SrTiO3 couples to e_g distortions of the oxygen cage leading to a Jahn-Teller splitting of the degenerate excited...
Particles of tricalcium silicate in water typically exhibit a relatively quiescent period (called Stage II) shortly after wetting, lasting up to several hours...
JiYeon Huh, Angela R. Hight Walker, Hyun W. Ro, Jan Obrzut, Jeffrey Fagan
We present the separation of surfactant encapsulated double wall carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) synthesized by the high pressure carbon monoxide decomposition (HiPco...
Polymer coatings are dependent on strongly bonded buried interfaces to maintain adhesion and protective properties over long application lifetimes. In this work...
Bonghwan Chon, Sung Jun Lim, Wonjung Kim, Hyeong G. Kang, Taiha Joo, Jeeseong C. Hwang, Seung Koo Shin
Blinking of zinc blende CdSe-based core/shell nanocrystals is studied as a function of shell materials and surface ligands. CdSe/ZnS, CdSe/ZnSe/ZnS and CdSe/CdS...
Jeongwon Kang, Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Joe W. Magee, Chris D. Muzny, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Andrei F. Kazakov, Michael D. Frenkel
A quality assessment algorithm for vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data has been developed. The proposed algorithm combines four widely used tests of VLE...
Jeffrey A. Fagan, Erik K. Hobbie, Jun Kono, Thomas Searles, Y Imanaka, T Takamasu, H Ajiki
Through magnetic linear dichroism spectroscopy, the magnetic susceptibility anisotropy of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes has been extracted and found...
Kil-Won Moon, S. -. Kim, Maureen E. Williams, William J. Boettinger, Gery R. Stafford
The effect of current density and Sn methane sulfonate concentration on hillock density, columnar grain size, crystallographic texture, and residual stress of...
Andreas Muller, Edward B. Flagg, John R. Lawall, Glenn S. Solomon
Ultralow loss concave micromirrors with radii of curvature below 60 um were fabricated by laser ablation and reflective coatings. A 10 um long microcavity with...
Illarion V. Turko, Wei-Li Liao, Gun-Young Heo, Nathan G. Dodder, Irina A. Pikuleva
Although 30% of naturally occurring proteins are predicted to be embedded in biological membranes, membrane proteins are traditionally understudied due to...
Fouling of surfaces within the heat exchangers of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems of buildings is an equipment fault that wastes...