Journals

Investigating electromagnetically induced transparency spectral lineshape distortion due to non-uniform fields in Rydberg-atom electrometry

August 25, 2023

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Drew Rotunno, Samuel Berweger, Nik Prajapati, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, MATTHEW SIMONS, chris holloway, Amy Robinson

We investigate the effects of spatially non-uniform radio-frequency electric (E) field amplitudes on the spectral line shapes of electromagnetically induced...

Modification to a testing assembly to enable strain-life measurements in pressurized hydrogen gas

August 25, 2023

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Peter Bradley, May Ling Martin, Matthew Connolly, Robert Amaro, Damian Lauria, Andrew Slifka

Strain-controlled fully-reversed fatigue testing, or strain-life testing, provides critical information on material lifetime and damage response. Strain-life...

Proteomics as a metrological tool to evaluate genome annotation accuracy following de novo genome assembly: a case study using the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

August 25, 2023

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Benjamin Neely, Debra Ellisor, William Davis

The last decade has witnessed dramatic improvements in whole-genome sequencing capabilities coupled to drastically decreased costs, leading to an inundation of...

Assessing Children's Potential Exposures to Harmful Metals in Tire Crumb Rubber by Accelerated Photodegradation Weathering

August 24, 2023

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Lee L. Yu, Li Piin Sung, YuYe Tong, Robyn Winz, Dejun Chen

Whether the use of tire crumb rubber (TCR) playground through the product's service life would expose children to potentially harmful chemicals contained within...

Structural Origin of Recovered Ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 Nanoparticles

August 24, 2023

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Bruce D. Ravel, Trevor Tyson, Han Zhang, Sizhan Liu, SANJIT GHOSE, U.J. Idehenre, Yury Barnakov, S.A. Basun, D.R. Evans

Nanoscale BaTiO3 particles (10 nm) prepared by ball-milling a mixture of oleic acid and heptane have been reported to have an electric polarization several...

Inferring the nominal molecular mass of an analyte from its electron ionization mass spectrum

August 23, 2023

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Arun Moorthy, Anthony J. Kearsley, William Mallard, William E. Wallace, Stephen E. Stein

The performance of three algorithms for predicting nominal molecular mass from an analyte's electron ionization mass spectrum is presented. The Peak...

The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

August 23, 2023

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Arang Rhie, Sergey Nurk, Monika Cechova, Savannah Hoyt, Dylan Taylor, Nathanael David Olson, Justin Zook, Adam Phillippy

The human Y chromosome has been notoriously difficult to sequence and assemble because of its complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem...

Broadband Electromagnetic Properties of Engineered Flexible Absorber Materials

August 23, 2023

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Luckshitha Suriyasena Liyanage, Connor Smith, Jacob Pawlik, Sarah Evans, Angela Stelson, Chris Long, Nate Orloff, David Arnold, Jim Booth

Flexible and stretchable materials have attracted significant interest for applications in wearable electronics and bioengineering fields. Recent developments...

Polymer-Regulated Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 on Ag

August 23, 2023

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Ally Guo, Avery Baumann, Eric Rus, Christopher Stafford, David Raciti

Observations and identifications of extreme ultraviolet spectra of Ca-like to Na-like neodymium ions using an electron beam ion trap

August 23, 2023

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Yang Yang, Dipti Dipti, Chihiro Suzukic, A. C. Gall, R. Silwal, Samuel Sanders, Joseph N. Tan, Aung S. Naing, Endre Takacs, Yuri Ralchenko

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation from M-shell Ca-like, Nd40+, through Nalike, Nd49+, highly charged ions have been measured at an electron beam ion trap...

Effects of mechanical deformation on dislocation density and phase partitioning in 4130 steel

August 22, 2023

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Zachary Buck, Matthew Connolly, May Martin, Damian Lauria, Jason Killgore, Peter Bradley, Yan Chen, Ke An, Andrew Slifka

Interrupted tensile tests were performed on an AISI 4130 pressure vessel steel and investigated by neutron diffraction and scanning microscopy techniques...

Data-Driven Modeling of Noise Time Series with Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks

August 21, 2023

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Adam Wunderlich, Jack Sklar

Random noise arising from physical processes is an inherent characteristic of measurements and a limiting factor for most signal processing and data analysis...

Mid-Infrared, Near-Infrared, and Visible Nanospectroscopy of Hydrogen-Intercalated MoO3

August 21, 2023

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Jeffrey Schwartz, Sergiy Krylyuk, Devon Jakob, Albert Davydov, Andrea Centrone

Control over the local chemical composition and spatial heterogeneities in nanomaterials provides a means to impart new functions and to tailor their properties...

Chemical data evaluation: general considerations and approaches for IUPAC projects and the chemistry community (IUPAC Technical Report)

August 21, 2023

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Joe W. Magee

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has a long tradition of supporting the compilation of chemical data and their evaluation through...

Particle Metrology Approach to Understanding How Storage Condition Affects Long-Term Liposome Stability

August 21, 2023

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Sean Lehman, Kurt D. Benkstein, Thomas Cleveland, Kyle Anderson, Michael J. Carrier, Wyatt N. Vreeland

Lipid nanoparticles are a type of nanomaterial with broad applicability in medicine as drug delivery vehicles. The lipid nanoparticle platform can be loaded...

Inverse design of a polarization demultiplexer for on-chip path-entangled photon-pair sources based on single quantum dots

August 21, 2023

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Emerson Melo, William Eshbaugh, Edward Flagg, Marcelo Davanco

Epitaxial quantum dots can emit polarization-entangled photon pairs. If orthogonal polarizations are converted to independent paths, then the photons will be...

Ergodicity breaking in rapidly rotating C₆₀ fullerenese

August 18, 2023

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Lee R. Liu, Dina Rosenberg, P. Bryan Changala, David Nesbitt, Timur Tscherbul, Jun Ye

Skyrmion-Excited Spin-Wave Fractal Networks

August 18, 2023

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Nan Tang, W. L. N. C. Liyanage, Sergio A. Montoya, Sheena Patel, Lizabeth J. Quigley, Alexander Grutter, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Sunil Sinha, Julie A. Borchers, Eric E. Fullerton, Lisa Debeer-Schmitt, Dustin A. Gilbert

Magnetic skyrmions exhibit unique, technologically relevant pseudo-particle behaviors which arise from their topological protection, including well-defined...

CFD informed design of bench-scale experiments to characterize air entrainment into fuel beds induced by columnar vortices

August 17, 2023

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Giovanni Di Cristina Torres, Rodney Bryant

Recent experiments show that strong vortices, similar to fire whirls, can form far from a fire front in the region of smoldering fuel. These buoyancy-induced...

Ergodicity breaking in rapidly rotating C₆₀ fullerenes

August 17, 2023

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Lee R. Liu, Dina Rosenberg, Bryan Changala, Philip Crowley, David Nesbitt, Norman Yao, Timur Tscherbul, Jun Ye

Fabrication of Specimens for Atom Probe Tomography using a Combined Gallium and Neon Focused Ion Beam Milling Approach

August 16, 2023

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Frances Allen, Paul Blanchard, David Pappas, Russell Lake, Deying Xia, John Notte, Ruopeng Zhang, Andrew Minor, Norman A. Sanford

We demonstrate a new focused ion beam sample preparation method for atom probe tomography. The key aspect of the new method is that we use a neon ion beam for...

Layered Porous Molecular Crystals via Interdigitation-Directed Assembly

August 16, 2023

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Nie Fang, Siquan Zhang, Zhenchuang Xu, Si Chen, Xu Zhang, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Yanchuan Zhao

Building robust porous molecular architectures with van der Waals interactions holds promise for advancements in catalysis, chemosensing, and separation...

MODELLING AND REMOVING DIGITIZER NONLINEARITY FOR ACCURATE DUAL FREQUENCY COMB SPECTROSCOPY

August 15, 2023

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Nathan Malarich, Kevin Cossel, JEAN-DANIEL DESCHENES, Fabrizio Giorgetta, Brian Washburn, Nathan Newbury, Ian Coddington, Jerome Genest

Operation of any dual-comb spectrometer requires digitization of the interference signal before further processing. Nonlinearities in the analog-to-digital...

Measuring the permittivity tensor of anisotropic DyScO3 to 110 GHz

August 14, 2023

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Florian Bergmann, Meagan Papac, Nick Jungwirth, Bryan Bosworth, Tomasz Karpisz, Anna Osella, Lucas Enright, Eric Marksz, Angela Stelson, Chris Long, Nate Orloff

DyScO3 (DSO) is an attractive substrate on which to grow epitaxial thin films with extraordinary materials physics. However, its highly anisotropic permittivity...

Results of German external quality assessment schemes for SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection

August 14, 2023

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Laura Vierbaum, Nathalie Wojtalewicz, Peter Grunert, Anika Zimmerman, Annemarie Scholz, Sabine Goseberg, Patricia Kaiser, Ulf Duehring, Christian Drosten, Victor Max Corman, Daniela Niemeyer, Holger F. Rabenau, Martin Obermeier, Andreas Nitsche, Janine Michel, Jim Huggett, Denise O'Sullivan, Simon Cowen, Peter Vallone, Megan Cleveland, Samreen Falak, Andreas Kummrow, Ingo Schellenberg, Heinz Zeichhardt, Martin Kammel

The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated the important role of diagnostic tests, including lateral flow tests (LFTs), in identifying patients and their contacts to...

Scheduling Real-time Traffic in Wireless Networks: A Network-aided Offline Reinforcement Learning Approach

August 14, 2023

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Tao Zhang, Jialin Wan, Sen Lin, Zhaofeng Zhang, Junshan Zhang

5G and Beyond (B5G) technology promises to offer ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) services, which opens the door for a wide variety of new real...

Reducing Bias and Quantifying Uncertainty in Fluorescence Produced by PCR

August 14, 2023

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Robert De Jaco, Matthew Roberts, Erica Romsos, Peter Vallone, Anthony J. Kearsley

Three-Dimensional Neutron Far-Field Tomography of a Bulk Skyrmion Lattice

August 13, 2023

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Melissa Henderson, Benjamin Heacock, Markus Bleuel, David Cory, Colin Heikes, Michael G. Huber, Jeffery Krzywon, Olivier Nahman-Lévesque, Graeme Luke, M Pula, Dusan Sarenac, Kirill Zhernenkov, Dmitry Pushin

Magnetic skyrmions are localized non-collinear spin textures, characterized by an integer topo-logical charge. Their nanometric size and topological protection...

Accelerator-Based Production of Scandium Radioisotopes for Applications in Prostate Cancer: Toward Building a Pipeline for Rapid Development of Novel Theranostics

August 13, 2023

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Jason Meier, Hannah Zhang, Richard Freifelder, Mohammed Bhuiyan, Phillip Selman, Megan Mendez, Pavithra Kankanamalage, Thomas Brossard, Antonino Pusateri, Hsiu-Ming Tsai, Lara Leoni, Sagada Penano, Kaustab Ghosh, Brittany Broder, Erica Markiewicz, Amy Renne, Walter Stadler, Ralph Weichselbaum, Jerry Nolen, Chien-Min Kao, Satish Chitneni, David Rotsch, Russell Szmulewitz, Chin-Tu Chen

In the field of nuclear medicine, the β+ emitting 43Sc and β- emitting 47Sc are promising candidates in cancer diagnosis and targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT)...

Recommendations for Setting a Criterion for Assessing Commutability of Secondary Calibrator Certified Reference Materials

August 11, 2023

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W. Greg Miller, Thomas Keller, Jeffrey Budd, Jesper Johansen, Mauro Panteghini, Neil Greenberg, Vincent Delatour, Ferruccio Ceriotti, Robert Rej, Johanna Camara, Liesbet Deprez, Finlay MacKenzie, Alicia Lyle, Eline van der Hagen, Chris Burns, Pernille Fauskanger, Sverre Sandberg

A secondary higher-order calibrator is required to be commutable with clinical samples to be suitable for use in the calibration hierarchy of an end-user...