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Sjoerd Roorda, Amelie Lacroix, Stephanie Codsi, Gabrielle Long, Fan Zhang, Steven Weigand, Christina Trautmann
Pure and gold-doped amorphous silicon membranes were irradiated with swift heavy ions (75 MeV Ag or 1.1 GeV Au ions) and studied by small angle X-ray scattering
Purpose. Antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapeutics are an emerging class of biopharmaceuticals to treat and prevent diseases, particularly those involving
Recently the application of far ultraviolet (UVC 200-230nm) optical radiation for disinfection of occupied spaces has seen a growing interest. Filtered excimer
Saleh Allehabi, Samuel Brewer, Vladimir Dzuba, Victor Flambaum, Kyle Beloy
We identify laser-accessible transitions in group 16-like highly charged ions as candidates for high-accuracy optical clocks, including S-, Se-, and Te-like
Venketesh Ranganathan, Saman Bazmi, Stefan Wallin, Yun Liu, Anand Yethiraj
The in-cell environment is crowded with macromolecules, and the consequent reduction in free volume, the hard-sphere paradigm, is central to understanding
Cheng Qian, Wei Yu, Chao Lu, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
Machine learning, as a viable way of conducting data analytics, has been successfully applied to a number of areas. Nonetheless, the lack of sufficient data is
Paul Witherell, Yan Lu, Ying Liu, David W. Rosen, Timothy Simpson, Charlie Wang
Additive manufacturing (AM) is poised to bring a revolution due to its unique production paradigm. It offers the prospect of mass customization, flexible
Megha Rajendran, Maria Queralt-Martin, Philip A. Gurnev, William M. Rosencrans, Amandine Rovini, Daniel Jacobs, Kaitlin Abrantes, David Hoogerheide, Sergey M. Bezrukov, Tatiana Rostovtseva
Involvement of alpha-synuclein (αSyn) in Parkinson's disease (PD) is complicated and difficult to trace on cellular and molecular levels. Recently we
Patrick Quarterman, Yabin Fan, Zhijie Chen, Christopher Jensen, Rajesh Chopdekar, Dustin Gilbert, Megan Holtz, Mark Stiles, Julie A. Borchers, Kai Liu, Luqiao Liu, Alexander Grutter
Lucasz T. Olenginski, Wojciech K. Kasprzak, Christina Bergonzo, Bruce A. Shapiro, Theodore Kwaku Dayie
HBV replication is initiated by the binding of polymerase (P) to epsilon (ε), a 61 nucleotide (nt) cis -acting regulatory stem-loop RNA located at the 5′-end of
Vibhor Pandhare, Marcella Miller, Gregory W. Vogl, Jay Lee
In industrial applications, the mechanical wear on ball screw components can lead to a loss of positioning accuracy that reduces the operational reliability and
Rob Marissen, Jeroen Laros, Josef Rasinger, Madhushri Varunjikar, Ben Neely, Magnus Palmblad
It has long been known that biological species can be identified from mass spectrometry data alone. Ten years ago, we described a method and software tool
Computational screening of adsorbent materials often uses the Henry's law constant ($\KH$) (at a particular temperature) as a first discriminator metric due to
The coaxial stacking of two SWCNTs into a double-wall carbon nanotube (DWCNT), forming a so-called one-dimensional van der Waals structure, leads to synergetic
Alexandra Koegel, Iain Oswald, Chuy Rivera, Samantha L. Miller, M. Fallon, Timothy R. Prisk, Craig Brown, James Neilson
The layered Ruddlesden-Popper derivatives of CH 3NH 3PbI 3 have recently emerged as high-performing materials for photovoltaics with improved stability. The
Ryan DeCrescent, Zixuan Wang, Poolad Imany, Robert Boutelle, Corey McDonald, Travis Autry, John Teufel, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) coupled to quantum dots (QDs), trapped atoms and ions, and point defects have been proposed as quantum transduction platforms, yet
Michal Macha, Sanjin Marion, Mukesh Tripathi, Martina Lihter, Alex Smolyanitsky, Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic
Large-area nanopore drilling is a major bottleneck in state-of-the-art nanoporous 2D membrane fabrication protocols. In addition, high-quality structural and
Carina Hahn, Liansheng Tang, Amy Yates, P. Jonathon Phillips
We evaluated the detailed, behavioral properties of face matching performance in two specialist groups: forensic facial examiners and super-recognizers. Both
Hsin-Yuan Huang, Richard Kueng, Giacomo Torlai, Victor Albert, John Preskill
Classical machine learning (ML) provides a potentially powerful approach to solving challenging quantum many-body problems that arise in physics and chemistry
In recent years there has been considerable interest in using photonic thermometers such as Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and silicon ring resonators as an
Aaron Rowane, Elizabeth Rasmussen, Mark O. McLinden
Difluoromethane (HFC-32, DFM), with a global warming potential (GWP) of 677, is of interest as a pure refrigerant and as a component in low-GWP refrigerant
Kevin Kiesler, Lisa Borsuk, Becky Steffen, Katherine Gettings, Peter Vallone
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sequenced 1036 human DNA samples from four United States population groups (African American
The effect of nanoconfinement on the free radical polymerization of dodecyl methacrylate (DMA) with di-tert-butyl peroxide (DtBP) initiator is investigated over
Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Leticia Pibida, Brian E. Zimmerman
An activity standard for 212Pb in equilibrium with its progeny was realized, based on triple-to-double coincidence ratio (TDCR) liquid scintillation (LS)
Austin McDannald, Howie Joress, Brian DeCost, Avery Baumann, A. Gilad Kusne, Kamal Choudhary, Taner N. Yildirim, Daniel Siderius, Winnie Wong-Ng, Andrew J. Allen, Christopher Stafford, Diana Ortiz-Montalvo
We envision an autonomous sorbent materials foundry (SMF) for rapidly evaluating materials for direct air capture of carbon dioxide ( CO2), specifically
Nathan Mahynski, Bliss Han, Daniel Markiewitz, Vincent K. Shen
We describe a method for deriving surface functionalization patterns for colloidal systems that can induce self-assembly into any chosen periodic symmetry at a
Eric Rus, Eduardo De Lima Correa, Evan Groopman, Todd Williamson, Hussein Hijazi, Leila Kasaei, Leonard Feldman, Cindi L. Dennis, Thomas P. Moffat
Pt1-xNix (x = 0.25 to 0.92) thin films were examined for possible application as temperature sensing magnetic reporters. The alloys were prepared by charge