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Provably efficient machine learning for quantum many-body problems

September 23, 2022

Author(s)

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...

Hysteresis Compensation in Temperature Response of Fiber Bragg Grating Thermometers Using Dynamic Regression

September 23, 2022

Author(s)

Zeeshan Ahmed

In recent years there has been considerable interest in using photonic thermometers such as Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and silicon ring resonators as an...

Liquid-Phase Speed of Sound and Vapor-Phase Density of Difluoromethane

September 23, 2022

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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...

Population data for 94 identity SNPs in four U.S. population groups

September 23, 2022

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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...

Dodecyl Methacrylate Polymerization under Nanoconfinement: Reactivity and Resulting Properties

September 23, 2022

Author(s)

Qian Tian, Sara Orski, Sindee Simon

The effect of nanoconfinement on the free radical polymerization of dodecyl methacrylate (DMA) with di-tert-butyl peroxide (DtBP) initiator is investigated over...

Reproducible Sorbent Materials Foundry for Carbon Capture at Scale

September 22, 2022

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Austin McDannald, Howard Joress, Brian DeCost, Avery Baumann, Aaron Kusne, Kamal Choudhary, Taner N. Yildirim, Daniel Siderius, Winnie Wong-Ng, Andrew 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...

Primary standardization of 212Pb activity by liquid scintillation counting

September 22, 2022

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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)...

Derivable genetic programming for two-dimensional colloidal materials

September 21, 2022

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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...

Magnetic Characterization of Electrodeposited Pt1-xNix Alloy Films: Influence of Deposition Potential and the Presence of Boric Acid

September 21, 2022

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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...

Near-edge x-ray absorption and emission of cyanates and thiocyanates

September 20, 2022

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Karina Bzheumikhova, John Vinson, Yves Kayser, Rainer Unterumsberger, Terrence J. Jach, Burkhard Beckhoff

The comparability and reliability of the analysis of the electronic structure of selected cyanates and thio- cyanates at the nitrogen K edge based on BSE...

Instrument for Measurement of Interfacial Structure-Property Relationships with Decoupled Interfacial Shear and Dilatational Flow: "Quadrotrough"

September 20, 2022

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Y. Tein, Benjamin Thompson, Charles Majkrzak, Brian B. Maranville, Damian Renggli, Jan Vermant, Norman J. Wagner

Understanding the interfacial structure-property relationship of complex fluid-fluid interfaces is increasingly important for guiding the formulation of systems...

SerialTrack: ScalE and Rotation Invariant Augmented Lagrangian Particle Tracking

September 19, 2022

Author(s)

Jin Yang, Yue Yin, Alexander Landauer, Selda Buyukozturk, Jing Zhang, Luke Summey, Alexander McGhee, Matthew Fu, John Dabiri, Christian Franck

We present a new particle tracking algorithm to accurately resolve large deformation and rotational motion fields, which takes advantage of both local and...

Single-particle studies of the effects of RNA–protein interactions on the self-assembly of RNA virus particles

September 19, 2022

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Rees Garmann, Aaron Goldfain, Cheylene Tanimoto, Christian Beren, Fernando Vasquez, Daniel Villarreal, Charles Knobler, William Gelbart, Vinothan Manoharan

Research, Standards & Data Needs for Industrialization of Ceramic Direct Ink Writing

September 19, 2022

Author(s)

Andrew J. Allen, Igor Levin, Russell Maier

Here, we summarize a panel discussion on the direct ink writing (DIW) of ceramics, organized and moderated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Engineering properties and pore structure of lightweight aggregates produced from off-spec fly ash

September 19, 2022

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Edward Garboczi, Mohammad Balapour, Thiha Thway, Grace Hsuan, Yaghoob Farnam, Newell Moser

This study characterizes the engineering properties of lightweight aggregate (LWA) manufactured from low calcium (F-FA) and high calcium (C-FA) waste fly ash...

The potential of microcalorimeter x-ray spectrometers for measurement of relative fluorescence line intensities

September 18, 2022

Author(s)

Joseph Fowler, Luis Miaja Avila, Galen O'Neil, Joel Ullom, Hope Whitelock, Daniel Swetz

We have previously used an array of cryogenic microcalorimeters with 4 eV energy resolution to measure emission-line profiles and energies for the...

Room temperature ferromagnetism in organic molecule-intercalated Fe2.7GeTe2

September 17, 2022

Author(s)

Hector Iturriaga, Luis M. Martinez, Thuc Mai, Mathias Augustin, Angela Hight Walker, Mohamed Sanad, Sreeprasad Sreenivasan, Yu Liu, Elton Santos, Cedomir Petrovic, SRINIVASA RAO SINGAMANENI

Among several well-known transition metal-based compounds, van der Waals (vdW) Fe2.7GeTe2 (FGT) is a strong candidate for use in 2D magnetic devices due to its...

Advancing Discovery with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at NSLS-II

September 16, 2022

Author(s)

Bruce Ravel

With the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) coming online in 2015 as the brightest source in the world, the imminent upgrades at the Advanced Photon...

Mass Spectral Library Methods for Analysis of Site-Specific N-Glycosylation: Application to Human Milk Proteins

September 16, 2022

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Concepcion Remoroza, Meghan Burke Harris, Xiaoyu (Sara) Yang, Sergey Sheetlin, Yuri Mirokhin, Sanford Markey, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Stephen E. Stein

We present a mass-spectral library-based method for analyzing site-specific N-linked protein glycosylation. Its operation and utility are illustrated by...

The Effect of Natural Hazard Damage on Manufacturing Value Added: Spatio-Temporal Variations

September 16, 2022

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Jennifer Helgeson

This study examined the effect of natural hazards on manufacturing industry value added and the sensitivity of the results from changes to spatiotemporal...

Measuring downstream supply chain losses due to power disturbances

September 16, 2022

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Juan Fung

Power outages in the U.S. affect many firms' economic activity and are likely to result in downstream supply chain disruptions. This paper examines the impact...

Degradation of CVD-Grown MoS2 Subjected to DC Electrical Stress

September 16, 2022

Author(s)

Elisabeth Mansfield, David Goggin, Jason Killgore, Taylor Aubry

Devices containing transition metal dichalcogenides are being investigated for next generation electronics. Understanding material properties under typical use...

Dynamically Induced Symmetry Breaking and Out-of-Equilibrium Topology in a 1D Quantum System

September 16, 2022

Author(s)

Ian Spielman, Graham Reid, Alina Pineiro Escalera, Amilson R. Fritsch, Mingwu Lu

Nontrivial topology in lattices is characterized by invariants---such as the Zak phase for one-dimensional (1D) lattices---derived from wave functions covering...

A new approach to electrically detected magnetic resonance: spin dependent transient spectroscopy

September 15, 2022

Author(s)

Kenneth Myers, Patrick Lenahan, James Ashton, Jason Ryan

Electrically detected magnetic resonance (EDMR) is arguably the most sensitive method available to study electrically active point defects in semiconductor...

Improving Ventilation Performance in Response to the Pandemic

September 15, 2022

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Jeffrey Siegel

Fabrication of Lithium Indolide and Derivates for Ion Conduction

September 14, 2022

Author(s)

Jintao Wang, Yang Yu, Anan Wu, Khai Chen Tan, Hui Wu, Teng He, Ping Chen

Alkali-ion batteries have been widely used nowadays. The development of solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) to replace the widely used organic liquid electrolytes...

Protocol for Structure Determination of Unknowns by EI Mass Spectrometry. I. Diagnostic Ions for Acyclic Compounds with up to One Functional Group

September 13, 2022

Author(s)

Anzor I. Mikaia

The review covers wide-ranging electron ionization (EI) dissociation reactions for various acyclic compounds and their derivatives such as alcohols, aldehydes...

Evaluation of the Performance of Modern X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry Systems for the Forensic Analysis of Glass

September 13, 2022

Author(s)

Ruthmara Corzo, Ernst Troy, Joseph Insana, Claudia Martinez-Lopez, Jodi Webb, Emily Haase, Peter Weis, Tatiana Trejos

Understanding Cantilever Transduction Efficiency and Spatial Resolution in Nanoscale Infrared Microscopy

September 13, 2022

Author(s)

Jeffrey Schwartz, Georges Pavlidis, Andrea Centrone

Photothermal induced resonance (PTIR), also known as AFM IR, enables nanoscale infrared (IR) imaging and spectroscopy by using the tip of an atomic force...

Structural and electronic properties of Cu3InSe4

September 11, 2022

Author(s)

Oluwagbemiga Ojo, Winnie Wong-Ng, Teiyan Chang, Yu-Sheng Chen, George S. Nolas

Single crystals of the previously unascertained ternary chalcogenide Cu3InSe4 were obtained by induction melting, allowing for a complete investigation of the...

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