Journals

Recommendations for setting a criterion and assessing commutability of sample materials used in external quality assessment/proficiency testing schemes

November 2, 2023

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Sverre Sandberg, Pernille Fauskanger, Jesper Johansen, Thomas Keller, Jeffrey Budd, Neil Greenberg, robert rej, MAURO PANTEGHINI, VINCENT DELATOUR, Ferruccio Ceriotti, Liesbet Deprez, Johanna Camara, Finlay MacKenzie, Alicia Lyle, Eline van der Hagen, Chris Burns, W. Greg Miller

It is important for external quality assessment materials (EQAMs) to be commutable with clinical samples; i.e., they should behave like clinical samples when...

Synthesis, Structure and Canted Antiferromagnetism of Layered Cobalt Hydroxide Sorbate

November 1, 2023

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Jonathan B. Lefton, Wenhao Liu, Claire Lamberti, Bing Lv, Craig Brown, Ryan Klein, Tom Runcevski

Layered hybrid organic–inorganic compounds of the transition metal hydroxides, in which part of the hydroxide ions are exchanged for organic ligands that act as...

A Review of UTe2 at High Magnetic Fields

November 1, 2023

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Sylvia Lewin, Corey Frank, Sheng Ran, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch

ranium ditelluride (UTe2) is recognized as a host material to unconventional spin-triplet superconductivity, but it also exhibits a wealth of additional unusual...

Superconducting X-ray Sensors for Tomography of Microelectronics

November 1, 2023

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Joseph Fowler, Zachary H. Levine, Paul Szypryt, Daniel Swetz

Tomographic imaging of integrated circuits at scales smaller than 1 micrometer is a challenging x-ray measurement. We describe a research instrument based upon...

Divalent ions as mediators of carbonylation in cardiac myosin binding protein C

November 1, 2023

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Christina Bergonzo, Baikuntha Aryal, Ashutosh Rao

The dosing and efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs can be limited by toxicity caused by off-pathway reactions. One hypothesis for how such toxicity arises is via...

Expression of deuterium-labeled NISTFab fragment in the methylotrophic yeast Komagataella phaffii for NMR studies

October 31, 2023

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Zvi Kelman, John Marino, William Brad O'Dell, Robert Brinson

Deuterium isotope labeling is an essential tool in overcoming size limitations for molecules larger than 30 kilodaltons (kDa) in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR...

A model for partially dependent component damage fragilities in seismic risk analysis

October 31, 2023

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Jack Baker, Edward Almeter, Dustin Cook, ABBIE LIEL, Curt Haselton

This paper proposes a model to quantify dependencies in component damage in the FEMA P-58 seismic performance assessment methodology, and to simulate damage...

Searching the Space of Tower Field Implementation of the F28 Inverter – with Applications to AES, Camellia,and SM4

October 31, 2023

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Zihao Wei, Siwei Sun, Lei Hu, Man Wei, Rene Peralta

The tower field implementation of the GF_2^8} inverter is not only the key technique for compact implementations of the S-boxes of several internationally...

Searching Thermodynamically Stable Materials with Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity by Dual Machine Learning Models

October 31, 2023

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Joshua Ojih, Chen Shen, Uche Onyekpe, Ming Hu, Kamal Choudhary, Hongbin Zhang

Materials with ultralow lattice thermal conductivity (LTC) continue to be of great interest for technologically important applications such as thermal...

High-Pressure Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Measurements of Methane + Water Mixtures by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

October 31, 2023

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Samantha Miller, Chris Suiter, Mark O. McLinden, Jason A. Widegren, Nancy Levinger, Bret Windom, Michael Sartini

Accurate vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data are required to predict the condensation of low-volatility components in natural gas pipelines. Here we apply 1H...

Modeling of hierarchical solidification microstructures in metal additive manufacturing: Challenges and opportunities

October 31, 2023

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Dilip K. Banerjee, Supriyo Ghosh, Julien Zollinger, Miha Zaloznik, Christopher Newman, Raymundo Arroyave

Metal-based additive manufacturing (AM) processes often produce parts with improved properties compared to conventional manufacturing and metal working routes...

Temperature-induced DNA density transition in phage λ capsid revealed with contrast-matching SANS

October 30, 2023

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Jose Villanueva Valencia, Efthymios Tsimtsirakis, Susan N. Krueger, Alex Evilevitch

Structural details of a genome packaged in a viral capsid are essential for understanding how the structural arrangement of a viral genome in a capsid controls...

Implicit solvation models for electrochemical interfaces

October 30, 2023

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Kathleen Schwarz, Ravishankar Sundararaman

Nanosecond time-resolved dual-comb absorption spectroscopy

October 30, 2023

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David Long, Matthew Cich, Carl Mathurin, Garrett Mathews, Adam Heiniger, Augustine Frymire, Gregory Rieker

Frequency combs have revolutionized the field of optical spectroscopy, enabling researchers to probe molecular systems with a multitude of accurate and precise...

Monoclonal Antibodies as SARS-CoV-2 Serology Standards: Experimental Validation and Broader Implications for Correlates of Protection

October 28, 2023

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Lili Wang, Paul Patrone, Anthony Kearsley, Jerilyn Izac, Adolfas Gaigalas, John Prostko, Hang Xie, Linhua Tian, Elzafir Elsheikh, Edward Kwee, Troy Kemp, Simon Jochum, Natalie Thornburg, Clifford McDonald, Adi Gundlapalli, Sheng Lin-Gibson

COVID-19 has highlighted the need for more accurate and reproducible measurements of humoral immunity, including antibody levels and neutralization potential...

Effects of Glycans and Hinge on Dynamics in the IgG1 Fc

October 28, 2023

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Christina Bergonzo, J. Todd Hoopes, Zvi Kelman, David Travis Gallagher

The crystallizable fragment (Fc) domain of immunoglobulin subclass IgG1 antibodies is engineered for a wide variety of pharmaceutical applications. Two...

Enhanced strength of additively manufactured Inconel 718 by means of a simplified heat treatment strategy

October 27, 2023

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Jake Benzing, Nicholas Derimow, Orion Kafka, Nik Hrabe, Philipp Schumacher, Don Godfrey, Chad Beamer, Priya Pathare, Jay Carroll, Ping Lu, Isaiah Trujillo, Frank DelRio

This study simplified the heat treatment route and reduced the post-processing burden for laser powder bed fusion IN718 (a nickel-based superalloy). The...

Construction of Negative Electrostatic Pore Environments in a Scalable, Stable and Low-Cost Metal-Organic Framework for One-Step Ethylene Purification from Ternary Mixtures

October 26, 2023

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Hui-Min Wen, Chenyi Yu, Miaoyu Liu, Chenyan Lin, Beiyu Zhao, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Banglin Chen, Jun Hu

One-step separation of C2H4 from ternary C2mixtures by physisorbents remains a challenge to combine excellent separation performance with high stability, low...

Multi-mode microcavity frequency engineering through a shifted grating in a photonic crystal ring

October 26, 2023

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Xiyuan Lu, Yi Sun, Ashish Chanana, Usman Javid, Marcelo Davanco, Kartik Srinivasan

Frequency engineering of whispering-gallery resonances is essential in microcavity nonlinear optics. The key is to control the frequencies of the cavity modes...

Grating magneto-optical traps with complicated level structures

October 25, 2023

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Daniel Barker, Peter Elgee, Ananya Sitaram, Eric Norrgard, Nikolai Klimov, Gretchen K. Campbell, Stephen Eckel

We study the forces and optical pumping within grating magneto-optical traps (MOTs) operating on transitions with non-trivial level structure. In contrast to...

A framework to characterize WUI firebrand shower exposure using an integrated approach combining 3D particle tracking and machine learning

October 25, 2023

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Nicolas Bouvet, Savannah Wessies, Eric Link, Stephen Fink

Firebrand showers are known for their devastating effects throughout Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) communities threatened by wildfires. In this work, we...

Single-Detector Double-Beam Modulation for High-Sensitivity Infrared Spectroscopy

October 25, 2023

Author(s)

Seongmin Kim, Yow-Ren Chang, Young Jong Lee

Balanced detection based on double beams is widely used to reduce common-mode noises, such as laser intensity fluctuation and irregular wavelength scanning, in...

Breakdown of the drift-diffusion model for transverse spin transport in a disordered Pt film

October 25, 2023

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Kirill Belashchenko, Giovanni G. Baez Flores, Wuzhang Fang, Alexei Kovalev, Mark van Schilfgaarde, Mark Stiles, Paul M. Haney

Spin accumulation and spin current profiles are calculated for a disordered Pt film subjected to an in-plane electric current within the nonequilibrium Green...

A superconducting nanowire single-photon camera with 400,000 pixels

October 25, 2023

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Bakhrom Oripov, Dana Rampini, Jason Allmaras, Matt Shaw, Sae Woo Nam, Boris Korzh, Adam McCaughan

For the past 50 years, superconducting detectors have offered exceptional sensitivity and speed for detecting faint electromagnetic signals in a wide range of...

Rotational magic conditions for ultracold molecules in the presence of Raman and Rayleigh scattering

October 24, 2023

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Svetlana Kotochigova, Qingze Guan, Eite Tiesinga, Vito Scarola, Brian DeMarco, Bryce Gadway

Molecules have vibrational, rotational, spin-orbit and hyperfine degrees of freedom or quantum states, each of which responds in a unique fashion to external...

SARS-CoV-2 infection establishes an enhanced, stable, and age-independent CD8+ T cell response against a dominant nucleocapsid epitope using highly restricted TCRs

October 23, 2023

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Cecily Choy, Joseph Chen, Jiangyuan Li, Jian Lu, Daichao Wu, Ainslee Zou, Humza Hemani, Beverly Baptiste, Emily Wichmann, Qian Yang, Jeffrey Ciffelo, Rui Yin, Julia McKelvy, Denise Melvin, Tonya Wallace, Christopher Dunn, Cuong Nguyen, Chee Chia, Jingshui Fan, Jeannie Ruffolo, Linda Zukley, Guixin Shi, Tomokazu Amano, An Yang, Osorio Meirelles, Wells Wu, Rong-Fong Chen, RICHARD WILLIS, Minoru Ko, Y-T Liu, Supriyo De, Brian Pierce, Luigi Ferrucci, josephine egan, Roy Mariuzza, Nan-ping Weng, David Travis Gallagher

We analyzed circulating CD8+ T cells recognizing six epitopes from the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein in HLA-A2+ unexposed and recovered COVID-19 patients...

Emerging Nontrivial Topology in Ultrathin Films of Rare-Earth Pnictides

October 23, 2023

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Dai Ho, Ruiqi Hu, Quang To, Garnett Bryant, Anderson Janotti

Thin films of semimetals, such as rare-earth monopnictides, are expected to turn into semiconductors due to quantum confinement effect, which lifts the overlap...

Emergent ferromagnetism with superconductivity in Fe(Te,Se) van der Waals Josephson junctions

October 23, 2023

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Gang Qiu, Hung-Yu Hu, Lunhui Hu, Huairuo Zhang, Chi-Yen Chen, Yanfeng Lyu, Christopher Eckberg, Peng Deng, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Ruixing Zhang, Kang Wang

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity are two key ingredients for topological superconductors, which can serve as building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum...

Host Defense Peptide Piscidin and Yeast-derived Glycolipid Exhibit Synergistic Antimicrobial Action through Concerted Interactions with Membranes

October 19, 2023

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Fei Liu, Alexander Greenwood, Yawei Xiong, Rebecca Miceli, Riqiang Fu, Kyle Anderson, Scott McCallum, Ella Mihailescu, Richard Gross, Myriam Cotten

Developing new antimicrobials as alternatives to conventional antibiotics has become an urgent race to eradicate drug-resistant bacteria and save human lives...

Observation of anisotropic superfluid density in an artificial crystal

October 18, 2023

Author(s)

Ian Spielman, Mingshu Zhao, Junhent Tao

We experimentally and theoretically investigate the anisotropic speed of sound of an atomic superfluid (SF) Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D optical lattice...