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Fabrication with Flip-Chip Lamination , Mariona Coll, DR Hines, CA Richter, CA Hacker, MRSEC surface physics colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, 10-09.
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new reference materials and provides information about their use. In addition, this newsletter contains
We compare experimental and predicted thermophysical properties of two samples of rocket propellant RP-1 obtained from different batches of RP-1 that exhibit compositional variations. One sample is atypical, due to a high olefin content. The effect of the
A highly conserved 35 nucleotide RNA stem-loop, the dimerization initiation site (DIS), in the 5 untranslated region (UTR) of the human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) genome has been identified as the sequence primarily responsible for initiation of
Tinh Nguyen, Aline Granier, Kristen L. Steffens, Hajin Lee, Naomi Eidelman, Jonathan W. Martin
We have developed a novel method to covalently functionalize carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that carry free isocyanate (N=C=O) groups. NCO-functionalized CNTs (NCO-fCNTs) are very desirable, because the NCO group is highly reactive with hydrogen-active groups
Zenkevich G. Igor, Valeri I. Babushok, Peter J. Linstrom, Edward White V, Stephen Stein
The effective use of gas chromatographic retention data presented in the form of reten¬tion indices (RI) requires the development of a compre¬hensive structure-based digital archive of retention parameters. Development of such an archive includes the
The decomposition kinetics of the kerosene-based rocket propellants RP-1 and RP-2 was studied. For RP-2, decomposition reactions were performed at 375, 400, 425, and 450 °C. For RP-1, decomposition reactions were only performed at 450 °C because we had
The thermal decomposition of RP-2 with three potential stabilizing additives was investigated. The additives were 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline (THQ), 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene (tetralin) and the additive package that is used to make JP-8+100 (herein
Gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis (GEMBE) is a recently described technique for electrophoretic separations in short (1 cm 3 cm) capillaries or microchannels. With GEMBE, the electrophoretic migration of analytes is opposed by a bulk
Francis J. Lovas, David F. Plusquellic, Brooks Pate, Justin L. Neill, Matt T. Muckle, Anthony J. Remijan
The microwave spectrum of the sugar alcohol 1,2-propanediol (CH3CHOHCH2OH) has been measured over the frequency range 6.5 GHz to 25.0 GHz with several pulsed-beam Fourier-transform microwave spectrometers. Seven conformers of 1,2-propanediol have been
We examine the perturbations of the modes of an acoustic thermometer caused by circular ducts used either for gas flow or as acoustic waveguides coupled to remote transducers. We calculate the acoustic admittance of circular ducts using a model based on
James W. Schmidt, Michael R. Moldover, Eric F. May
We used a quasi-spherical cavity resonator to measure the relative dielectric permittivity ε r of H 2 at frequencies from 2.4 GHz to 7.3 GHz, at pressures up to 6.5 MPa, and at the temperatures 273 K and 293 K. The resonator was calibrated using auxiliary
F Case, Anne M. Chaka, J Moore, Raymond D. Mountain, J Olson, Richard B. Ross, Martin Schiller, Vincent K. Shen, Eric A. Stahlberg
The fifth industrial fluid properties simulation challenge was held in 2008. In it the contestants were challenged to predict specific, industrially relevant, properties of fluid systems, namely the 1-octanol /water partition coefficient and the infinite
1. Table 23-2-1-(9.32000)-d, Pages d-6376.0 through d-6376.1: New table for cyclic carbonates, C3 to C5, for the condensed phases at one bar, or at equilibrium vapor pressure above the boiling point. 2. Table 14-2-(1.01000)-db, Pages db-290.0 through db
The use of purge and trap methods for sampling volatile organic compounds prior to chromatographic analysis is a mature technology. Application to low volatility compounds has been far less facile and sensitive. Especially problematic has been applications
Standard materials certified using electrochemical techniques include many of the most-used certified reference materials (CRMs). These CRMs provide traceability for some of the most-frequently-performed chemical measurements, including pH, electrolytic
Robert G. Brinson, Kevin Turner, Hye Y. Yi-Brunozzi, Stuart F. Le Grice, Daniele Fabris, John P. Marino
During (-)-strand DNA synthesis in retroviruses and Saccharomyces cerevisiae LTR-retrotransposons, a purine rich region of the RNA template, known as the polypurine tract (PPT) is resistant to RNase H-mediated hydrolysis and subsequently serves as a primer
Azeotrope mixtures are among the most fascinating, and at the same time the most complicated manifestations of phase equilibrium. They are also a critical aspect of many industrial processes and products. Indeed, with the current interest in alcohol
Thomas J. Bruno, Arron Wolk, Alexander Naydich, Marcia L. Huber
We have recently introduced several important improvements in the measurement of distillation curves of complex fluids. The modifications to the classical measurement provide for (1) a composition explicit data channel for each distillate fraction (for
Gregory C. Turk, Heinrich Kipphardt, Ralf Matschat, Jochen Vogl, Tamara Gusarova, Michael Czerwensky, Hans-Joachim Heinrich, Akiharu Hioki, Leonid A. Konopelko, Brad Methven, Tsutomu Miura, Ole Petersen, Gundel Riebe, Ralph Sturgeon, Lee L. Yu
Within the National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) and designated laboratories, an interlaboratory comparison, CCQM-P107, was conducted to verify the degree of international comparability concerning the results of purity analysis. The mass fractions of Ag, Bi
Douglas C. Meier, Baranidharan Raman, Stephen Semancik
Complex analytical problems, such as detecting trace quantities of hazardous chemicals in ambient environments composed of varying levels of humidity and vapors of benign products, require solutions that most effectively extract the relevant information
Christopher D. Zangmeister, Savelas A. Rabb, Du Bingchen, YuYe Tong
Controlled Pt adlayers were deposited on commercial Ru nanoparticles (NPs) using an industrially scalable one-pot ethylene glycol (EG) reduction based method and were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), electrochemical (EC) CO stripping voltammetry
JP-7 is a hydrocarbon-based kerosene fraction with a low volatility and high thermal stability. JP-7 was developed in the 1950s to meet the more stringent requirements necessary for the development of high-altitude reconnaissance planes that fly at speeds