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Three-Dimensional Molecular Orientation Imaging of a Semicrystalline Polymer Film under Shear Deformation

March 31, 2022

Author(s)

Young Jong Lee, Shuyu Xu, Chad R. Snyder, Jeremy Rowlette

The 3D molecular orientations of polymer chains are imaged and compared for a quiescent spherulite region and a shear deformed region of a semicrystalline poly...

Polyoxovanadates as Precursors for the Synthesis of Colloidal Multi-Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

March 31, 2022

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Adam Biacchi, Lucas Johnson, Ashley Sweet, Eric Cal, Angela R. Hight Walker, Matthew Buck, Luke Barrante

Colloidal multi-metal oxide nanocrystals that contain the element vanadium are attractive materials for enabling diverse technologies. Few nanocrystal systems...

Chasing perfection: validation and polishing strategies for telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies

March 31, 2022

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Ann Mc Cartney, Kishwar Shafin, Michael Alonge, Justin Zook, Adam Phillippy, Arang Rhie

Advances in long-read sequencing technologies and genome assembly methods have enabled the recent completion of the first telomere-to-telomere human genome...

Effects of Monovalent Salt on Protein-Protein Interactions of Dilute and Concentrated Monoclonal Antibody Formulations

March 31, 2022

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Amy Y. Xu, Nicholas J. Clark, Joseph Pollastrini, Maribel Espinoza, Hyo-Jin Kim, Sekhar Kanapuram, Bruce Kerwin, Michael J. Treuheit, Susan T. Krueger, Arnold McAuley, Joseph E. Curtis

A small-volume microcapillary rheometer

March 30, 2022

Author(s)

Paul Salipante, Steve Kuei, Steven Hudson

We demonstrate a capillary device used to measure the shear rate dependent viscosity of microliter scale volumes. Liquid samples are driven pneumatically to...

SuperMind: A survey of the potential of superconducting electronics for neuromorphic computing

March 30, 2022

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Michael Schneider, Emily Toomey, Graham Rowlands, Jeff Shainline, Paul Tschirhart, Ken Segall

Neuromorphic computing is a broad eld that uses biological inspiration to address computing design. It is being pursued in many hardware technologies both novel...

On the relation between Gegenbauer polynomials and the Ferrers function of the first kind

March 30, 2022

Author(s)

Roberto S. Costas-Santos, Howard Cohl

Using the direct relation between the Gegenbauer polynomials C_n^λ(x) and the Ferrers function of the first kind P_μ^ν(x), we compute interrelations between...

Comprehensive Data via Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics of Chemically Treated Graphene Nanoplatelets

March 30, 2022

Author(s)

Olasunbo Farinre, Hawazin Alghamdi, Mathew Kelley, Adam Biacchi, Albert Davydov, Christina Hacker, Albert Rigosi, Prabhakar Misra

Thermal Noise-Limited Laser Stabilization to an 8 mL Volume Fabry-Perot Reference Cavity with Microfabricated Mirrors

March 29, 2022

Author(s)

Charles McLemore, Naijun Jin, Megan Kelleher, James Hendrie, David Mason, Yizhi Luo, Dahyeon Lee, Peter Rakich, Scott Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan

Lasers stabilized to vacuum-gap Fabry-Perot optical reference cavities display extraordinarily low noise and high stability, with linewidths much less than 1 Hz...

Coherent contributions to population dynamics in a semiconductor microcavity

March 29, 2022

Author(s)

Jagannath Paul, Hendrik Rose, Ethan Swagel, Torsten Meier, Jared Wahlstrand, Alan Bristow

Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy (MDCS) is used to separate coherent and incoherent many-body contributions to the population-time dynamics in a GaAs...

Technology readiness: A global snapshot of 3D concrete printing and the frontiers for development

March 29, 2022

Author(s)

Guowei Ma, Richard Buswell, Wilson Ricardo Leal da Silva, Li Wang, Jie Xu, Scott Jones

Picosecond-resolution single-photon time lens for temporal mode quantum processing

March 28, 2022

Author(s)

Chaitali Joshi, Ben Sparkes, Alessandro Farsi, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Varun Verma, Sven Ramelow, Alex Gaeta

Techniques to control the spectro-temporal properties of quantum states of light at ultrafast time scales are crucial for several applications in quantum...

Reassessing the Significance of Reduced Aggregation and Crystallinity of Naphthalene Diimide-Based Copolymer Acceptors in All-Polymer Solar Cells

March 28, 2022

Author(s)

Eliot Gann, Christopher McNeill, Doan Vu, Martyn Jervic, Chao Wang, Lars Thomsen, Mats Andersson

Terpolymerization is a facile and effective strategy to control the aggregation and crystallinity of semiconducting polymers which has been exploited to improve...

Method of Moment Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes Embedded in A Lossy Dielectric Slab Using A Multilayer Dyadic Green's Function

March 28, 2022

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi, Sumitra Dey, Ahmed Hassan, Deb Chatterjee

Modeling the electromagnetic response of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) reinforced composites is inherently a three dimensional (3D) multi-scale problem that is...

Models for an Ultraviolet-C Research and Development Consortium

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Dianne L. Poster, C Cameron Miller, Yaw S. Obeng, John J. Kasianowicz, Michael T. Postek, Norman Horn, Troy Cowan, Richard Martinello

The development of an international, precompetitive, collaborative, ultraviolet (UV) research consortium is discussed as an opportunity to lay the groundwork...

Digital Control of Superconducting Qubit Using a Josephson Pulse Generator at 3K

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Logan Howe, Manuel Castellanos Beltran, Adam Sirois, David Olaya, John Biesecker, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz, Pete Hopkins

Scaling of quantum computers to fault-tolerant levels relies critically on the integration of energy-efficient, stable, and reproducible qubit control and...

Enabling Traceability in Agri-Food Supply Chains Using an Ontological Approach

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Farhad Ameri, Evan K. Wallace, Reid Yoder, Frank H. Riddick

Traceability of food products to their sources is critical for quick responses to food emergencies. US law now requires stakeholders in the agri-food supply...

Effects of crystalline anisotropy on resonant acoustic loss of torsional quartz viscometers

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Paul Heyliger, Clemens Junker, Karsten Meier, Ward L. Johnson

Vibrational modes of unrestrained elastic cylinders of trigonal crystals are studied using Ritz-based polynomial approximations for displacements formulated in...

Robust Bottom-Up Gold Filling of Deep Trenches and Gratings

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Daniel Josell, William Alexander Osborn, Maureen E. Williams

This work extends application of an extreme variant of superconformal Au electrodeposition to deeper device architectures while exploring factors that constrain...

Erratum: Elastic Rate Coefficients of Li + H_2 collisions in the calibration of a Cold Atom Vacuum Standard

March 24, 2022

Author(s)

Constantinos Makrides, Daniel Barker, James A. Fedchak, Julia Scherschligt, Stephen Eckel, Eite Tiesinga

We found an error in our computation of the thermally averaged total rate coefficients for the collision of a room-temperature hydrogen dimer H$_2$ with an...

Effects of Thermal Aging on Molar Mass of Ultra-High Molar Mass Polyethylene Fibers

March 24, 2022

Author(s)

Zois Tsinas, Sara Orski, Viviana Bentley, Lorelis Gonzalez-Lopez, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, Amanda L. Forster

Ultra-high molar mass polyethylene (UHMMPE) is commonly used for ballistic-resistant body armor applications due to the superior strength of the fibers...

Serum proteomics identifies immune pathways and candidate biomarkers of coronavirus infection in wild vampire bats

March 24, 2022

Author(s)

Daniel Becker, Guang-Sheng Lei, Michael Janech, Alison Bland, Brock Fenton, Ryan Relich, Ben Neely

The apparent ability of bats to harbor many virulent viruses without showing disease is likely driven by distinct immune responses that coevolved with mammalian...

Print Fidelity Metrics for Additive Manufacturing of Cement-based Materials

March 24, 2022

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi, Newell Moser, Joseph Biernacki, Hajar Afarani, Ebrahim Esfahani

Additively manufactured cement-based structures for infrastructure applications suffer from in-construction shape deformations, which are a strong function of...

Transformation of Lipid Vesicles into Micelles by Adding Nonionic Surfactants: Elucidating the Structural Pathway and the Intermediate Structures

March 24, 2022

Author(s)

Igor K. Mkam Tsengam, Marzhana Omarova, Elizabeth Kelley, Alon V. McCormick, Geoffrey D. Bothun, Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Vijay T. John

The phospholipid lecithin (L) and the nonionic surfactant Tween 80 (T) are used together in various contexts, including in drug delivery and oil spill...

Understanding Signatures of Emergent Magnetism in Topological Insulator/Ferrite Bilayers

March 24, 2022

Author(s)

Lauren J. Riddiford, Alexander Grutter, Timothy Pillsbury, Max Stanley, Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey, Peng Li, Nasim Alem, Nitin Samarth, Yuri Suzuki

Magnetic insulator and topological insulator heterostructures have been studied in search of induced magnetism in the topological insulator, but chiral edge...

Influence of Dimensionality on the Charge Density Wave Phase of 2H-TaSe2

March 23, 2022

Author(s)

Sugata Chowdhury, Albert Rigosi, Heather Hill, David Newell, Angela Hight Walker, Francesca Tavazza, Andrew Briggs

Metallic transition metal dichalcogenides like tantalum diselenide (TaSe2) exhibit exciting behaviors at low temperatures including the emergence of charge...

Cotranscriptionally encoded RNA strand displacement circuits

March 23, 2022

Author(s)

Samuel Schaffter, Elizabeth Strychalski

Engineered molecular circuits that process information in biological systems could address emerging human health and biomanufacturing needs. However, such...

Laser-lithographically written micron-wide superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

March 23, 2022

Author(s)

Maximilian Protte, Varun Verma, Jan Philipp Hopker, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Tim Bartley

In this paper, we demonstrate our results on micron-wide tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated by laser lithography...

PrepareForLeap: An automated tool for fast PDB-to-parameter generation

March 23, 2022

Author(s)

Daniel R. Roe, Christina Bergonzo

Setting up molecular dynamics simulations from experimentally determined structures is often complicated by a variety of factors, particularly the inclusion of...

The Irradiance Instrument Subsystem (IRIS) on the Airborne-Lunar Spectral Irradiance (Air-LUSI) Instrument

March 23, 2022

Author(s)

Steven Grantham, Thomas C. Larason, Clarence Zarobila, Stephen Maxwell, John Woodward, Kevin Turpie, S. Andrew Gadsden

The objective of the airborne LUnar Spectral Irradiance (air-LUSI) project is to make low uncertainty, SI-traceable measurements of the lunar spectral...

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