Journals

Annual Report on Technology Transfer: Approach and Plans, Fiscal Year 2007 Activities and Achievements

December 31, 2008

Author(s)

Paul R. Zielinski

Foreword. This is the calendar year 2008 edition of a report series summarizing the technology transfer activities and achievements of the Department of...

Spin Correlations in the Geometrically Frustrated Pyrochlore Tb₂Mo₂O₇

December 31, 2008

Author(s)

D. K. Singh, J. S. Helton, S. Chu, T. Han, C. Bonnoit, Sung Chang, Hye J. Kang, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Y. S. Lee

We report neutron scattering studies of the spin correlations of the geometrically frustrated py- rochlore Tb 2Mo 2O 7using single crystal samples. Elastic...

The Role for Engineers in Health Care Information Systems

December 30, 2008

Author(s)

Ram D. Sriram, Steven J. Fenves

Health care informatics deals with all the processes or "software" of the health care enterprise: modeling, design, simulation and implementation of health care...

Integrating methods for phase equilibria and phase property data determination

December 29, 2008

Author(s)

Ursula R. Kattner

Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) integrates computational tools for accelerated materials development, improved optimization processes in...

Variable Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Pentacene Monolayer and Bilayer Phases on Ag(111)

December 25, 2008

Author(s)

Dan B. Dougherty, Jim Wei, William Cullen, Janice Reutt-Robey, Steven W. Robey

Pentacene deposited onto a Ag(111) surface at 300 K is studied using scanning tunneling microscopy at temperatures of 300 K and 50 K. At 300 K, ordered...

Editorial

December 25, 2008

Author(s)

Raymond D. Mountain

Effect of Collagen in Calcium Phosphate Cement on Mechanical and Cellular Properties

December 23, 2008

Author(s)

Jennifer L. Moreau, Michael Weir, Hockin D. Xu

Calcium phosphate cement (CPC) can be molded to conform to complex bone cavities and set in situ to form bioresorbable hydroxyapatite. The aim of this study was...

Adhesion of Amorphous Calcium Phosphate Composites Bonded to Dentin: A Study in Failure Modality

December 23, 2008

Author(s)

Justin N. O'Donnell, Gary E. Schumacher, Joseph M. Antonucci, Drago Skrtic

Aims. The objective of this study was to measure the adhesive strength to dentin, work to fracture, and failure modes of three resin composites (with differing...

Phosphine Polymerization by Nitric Oxide: Experimental Characterization and Theoretical Predictions of Mechanism

December 22, 2008

Author(s)

Yi-Lei Zhao, Jason W. Flora, Stephen Garrison, Carlos A. Gonzalez, K. N. Houk, Manuel Marquez

A yellow solid material [PxHy] has been obtained in the reaction of phosphine (PH3) and nitric oxide (NO) at room temperature, and characterized by TGA-MS and...

Multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock energy levels and transition probabilities for 3d⁵ in Fe IV

December 21, 2008

Author(s)

Charlotte Fischer, R. Rubin, M. Rodriguez

Multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock electric quadrupole (E2) and magnetic dipole (M1) transition probabilities are reported for transitions between levels of...

Calibration of Flat 60-Hz Electric Field Probes

December 21, 2008

Author(s)

Martin Misakian

Fiducial Intervals for the Magnitude of a Complex-Valued Quantity

December 19, 2008

Author(s)

Chih-Ming Wang, Hariharan K. Iyer

This paper discusses a fiducial approach for constructing uncertainty intervals for the distance between k normal means and the origin. When k=2 this distance...

Particle Motion During the Compaction of Granular Matter

December 19, 2008

Author(s)

Steven Slotterback, Masahiro Toiya, Leonard Goff, Jack F. Douglas, Wolfgang Losert

We track particle motions in a granular material subjected to compaction using a laser scattering based imaging method where compaction is achieved through...

Matter-wave self-imaging by atomic center-of-mass motion induced interference

December 18, 2008

Author(s)

Ke Li, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, M.S. Zhan, Marvin G. Payne

We demonstrate matter-wave self-imaging in a stationary light field in the non-Raman-Nath limit. We show that in a non-instantaneous pulsed standing wave...

Neutron-Diffraction Measurements of Magnetic Order and a Structural Transition in the Parent BaFe2As2 Compound of FeAs-Based High-Temperature Superconductors

December 17, 2008

Author(s)

Qingzhen Huang, Yiming Qiu, Wei Bao, Mark Green, Jeffrey Lynn, Y. C. Gasparovic, T. Wu, G. Wu, X. H. Chen

The recent discovery of superconductivity in (Ba,K)Fe2As2, which crystallizes in the ThCr2Si2 (122) structure as compared with the LnFeAsO (Ln is lanthanide)...

Elastic Modulus of Faceted Aluminum Nitride Nanotubes Measured by Contact Resonance Atomic Force Microscopy

December 17, 2008

Author(s)

Gheorghe Stan, C Ciobanu, Timothy Thayer, George Wang, Randall Creighton, Premsagar P. Kavuri, Leonid A. Bendersky, Robert F. Cook

A new methodology for determining the radial elastic modulus of a one-dimensional nanostructure laid on a substrate has been developed. The methodology consists...

Polaron Formation in the Optimarlly Doped Ferromagnetic Maganites La_0.7Sr_0.3MnOd3^ and La^0.7Bx^0.3MnO₃

December 17, 2008

Author(s)

Ying Chen, Benjamin Ueland, Jeffrey W. Lynn, G.L. Bychkov, S.N. Barilo, Y.M. Mukovskii

The nature of the polarons in the optimally doped colossal magnetoresistive (CMR) materials La 0.7Ba 0.3 (LBMO and La 0.7Sr 0.3MnO 3 (LSMO is studied by elastic...

Comments on "Excess molar volumes and excess viscosities for mixtures of N,N-dimethylformamide with methanol, ethanol and 2-propanol at different temperatures" by M. M. H. Bhuiyan and M. H. Uddin, J. Mol. Liquids, 138(2008)1-3, 139 146

December 16, 2008

Author(s)

Arno R. Laesecke

**This is a letter to the editor of the Journal of Molecular Liquids**

Self Assembly of Highly Ordered Nanowires in Biological Suspensions of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

December 16, 2008

Author(s)

Erik K. Hobbie, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Matthew Becker, Steven D. Hudson

We demonstrate the directed self-assembly of highly-ordered nanowires of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in aqueous biological suspensions. Macroscopically...

Synchronization monitoring of I/Q data and pulse carving misalignment for a parallel-type 20-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK transmitter by measuring RF clock tone/low frequency power

December 15, 2008

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Jargon, Xiaoxia Wu, Laurie Christian, Bo Zhang, Wei-Ren Peng, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Lin Zhang, Scott Nuccio, Loukas Paraschis, Alan Willner

We experimentally demonstrate a technique for monitoring the time misalignment of in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) data streams and pulse carver/data in a 20-Gb/s...

Determination of Protein Aggregation with Differential Mobility Analysis: Application to IgG Antibody

December 15, 2008

Author(s)

Leonard F. Pease III, John T. Elliott, De-Hao D. Tsai, Michael R. Zachariah, Michael J. Tarlov

Here we describe the use of electrospray differential mobility analysis (ES-DMA), also known as gas-phase electrophoretic mobility molecular analysis (GEMMA)...

Measurement of formamidopyrimidines in DNA

December 15, 2008

Author(s)

Pawel Jaruga, Guldal Kirkali, Miral M. Dizdar

Formamidopyrimidines, 4,6-diamino-5-formamidopyrimidine (FapyAde) and 2,6-diamino-4-hydroxy-5-formamidopyrimidine (FapyGua), are among major lesions in DNA...

Multiplexed "Detectorless" Electrophoresis

December 14, 2008

Author(s)

David Ross, Jason Kralj

A new microfluidic electrophoresis device and technique is described that is designed specifically for multiplexed, high throughput separations. The device...

Comparison of Nanoscale Measurements of Strain and Stress using Electron Back Scattered Diffraction and Confocal Raman Microscopy

December 12, 2008

Author(s)

Mark D. Vaudin, Yvonne B. Gerbig, Stephan J. Stranick, Robert F. Cook

Strains in Si as small as 104 (corresponding to stresses of 10 MPa) have been measured using electron back scatter diffraction (EBSD), with spatial resolution...

Indentation Fracture of Low Dielectric Constant Films, Part I. Experiments and Observations

December 12, 2008

Author(s)

Dylan Morris, Robert F. Cook

Advanced microelectronic interconnection structures will need dielectrics of low permittivity to reduce capacitive delays and crosstalk; but this reduction in...

Mutually consistent thermodynamic potentials for fluid water, ice and seawater: a new standard for oceanography

December 12, 2008

Author(s)

Rainer Feistel, Daniel G. Wright, Kiyoshi Miyagawa, Allan H. Harvey, Jan Hruby, Trevor J. McDougall, David R. Jackett, Wolfgang Wagner

A new seawater standard for oceanographic and engineering applications has been developed that consists of three independent thermodynamic potential functions...

Quantitative Mass Spectrometry and Polydisperse Materials: Creation of an Absolute Molecular Mass Distribution Polymer Standard

December 12, 2008

Author(s)

Charles M. Guttman, Kathleen M. Flynn, William E. Wallace, Anthony J. Kearsley

The certification of an absolute molecular mass distribution polymer Standard Reference Material is described. SRM 2881 is an n octyl initiated, proton...

Fast Extraction of Resonant Vibrational Response from CARS Spectra with Arbitrary Nonresonant Background

December 12, 2008

Author(s)

Yuexin Liu, Young J. Lee, Marcus T. Cicerone

We describe a new, robust method of numerically extracting equivalent Raman spectra from coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectra. The extraction...

Oxygen Reduction Kinetics on Electrodeposited Pt, Pt_(100-x)Ni_(x) and Pt_(100-x)Co_(x)

December 10, 2008

Author(s)

Thomas P. Moffat, J Mallett, Sun M. Hwang

The kinetics of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on a series of electrodeposited Pt_(100-x)Ni_(x) and Pt_(100-x) Co_(x)alloy films were examined in...

In Situ Stress and Nanogravimetric Measurements During Underpotential Deposition of Pd on (111)-Textured Au.

December 10, 2008

Author(s)

Gery R. Stafford, Ugo Bertocci

The surface stress associated with the electrodeposition of Pd onto (111)-textured Au cantilever electrodes in 0.1 M H2SO4 supporting electrolyte has been...