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Stability of gaseous volatile organic compounds contained in gas cylinders with different internal wall treatments

July 29, 2019
Author(s)
George C. Rhoderick, Christina Cecelski, Walter R. Miller Jr., David Worton, Sergi Moreno, Paul Brewer, Joele Viallon, Faraz Idrees, Philippe Moussay, Yong D. Kim, Dal H. Kim, Sangil Lee, Annarita Baldan, Jianrong Li
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a group of gas-phase compounds present in the atmosphere that affect air quality and Earth's climate. Halocarbons, a subset of this group, are strong greenhouse gases and are linked to stratospheric ozone depletion

Chemical Identification of Interlayer Contaminants within van der Waals Heterostructures

June 24, 2019
Author(s)
Jeffrey Schwartz, ?Hsun-Jen Chuang, Matthew R. Rosenberger, Saujan V. Sivaram, Kathleen M. McCreary, B.T. Jonker, Andrea Centrone
Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) leverage the characteristics of two-dimensional (2D) material building blocks to create a myriad of structures with unique and desirable properties. Several commonly employed fabrication strategies rely on polymeric

pyMCR: A Python Library for Multivariate Curve Resolution Analysis

June 24, 2019
Author(s)
Charles H. Camp
In this work, a new software library is presented for performing multivariate curve resolution (MCR)analysis, a chemometric method for elucidating signatures of analytes ("endmember extraction") and their relative abundance (regression) from a series of

Revealing the distribution of metal carboxylates in oil paint from the micro- to the nanoscale

June 21, 2019
Author(s)
Xiao Ma, Victoria Beltran, Georg Ramer, Georges Pavlidis, dilworth parkinson, Mathieu Thoury, Tyler Meldrum, Andrea Centrone, Barbara H. Berrie
Oil paints comprise pigments, drying oils, and additives that together confer desirable properties, but can react forming metal carboxylates (soaps) that, over time, may damage artworks. Despite substantial research to understand these phenomena, soap

The Art in Science of MicroTAS 2018

June 21, 2019
Author(s)
Gregory A. Cooksey
The 2018 MicroTAS conference (the 22nd International Conference of Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences) took us to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for an inspiring mix of science and culture. The Art in Science competition, sponsored by Lab on a Chip

Diaphragmless Single Pulse Shock Tube for High-Temperature Chemical Kinetics Studies

June 3, 2019
Author(s)
William Sean McGivern, Iftikhar A. Awan, Jeffrey A. Manion
Single pulse shock tubes are effective tools for measuring chemical kinetics at high temperatures, typically (900–1400) K. However, the use of a diaphragm for shock generation leads to significant shock-to- shock inconsistencies in temperature for a

Accelerated Weathering Parameters for Some Aromatic Engineering Thermoplastics

May 24, 2019
Author(s)
Li Piin Sung, James E. Pickett, Olga Kuvshinnikova, Brett Ermi
Samples of polycarbonate (PC), poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT), a PC/PBT blend, and poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN), all containing 3 % TiO2 (by mass), were exposed in the NIST (National Institutes of Standards and Technology) SPHERE (Simulated

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 2 Final Report

May 21, 2019
Author(s)
Charles A. Barber, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Carolyn Q. Burdette, Johanna Camara, Stephen E. Long, Melissa M. Phillips, Benjamin J. Place, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Lee L. Yu
The NIST Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program (HAMQAP) was launched in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) in 2017. HAMQAP was established to enable laboratories to improve the

Practical Guides for X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: First Steps in Planning, Conducting, and Reporting XPS Measurements

May 15, 2019
Author(s)
Cedric J. Powell, Donald R. Baer, Kateryna Artyushkova, Christopher R. Brundle, James E. Castle, Mark Engelhard, Karen Gaskell, John Grant, Richard Haasch, Matthew Linford, Peter Sherwood, Vincent Smentkowski, Alexander Shard
Over the past three decades, the use of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) in research and applications has grown to make XPS the most popular method of surface analysis. There has also been an increase in the number of new or inexperienced users along

Certification of Standard Reference Material 3389 Ginsenoside Calibration Solution

May 10, 2019
Author(s)
Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander, Benjamin J. Place, James H. Yen
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 3389 is intended as a calibration solution for use for the determination of ginsenosides in natural matrix samples. A unit of SRM 3389 consists of two different ampule solutions: (1) four ampules of a six-component mixture

Interlaboratory Comparison of Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry (HDX-MS) MMeasurements of the Fab fragment of NISTmAb

May 2, 2019
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Ioannis L. Karageorgos, Elyssia S. Gallagher, Kyle W. Anderson, James J. Filliben, Richard Y. Huang, Guodong Chen, Michael J. Chalmers, Benjamin T. Walters, Jennifer Zhang, John Venable, Caitlin Steckler, In Hee Park, Ansgar Brock, Xiaojun Lu, Ratnesh Pandey, Arun Chandramohan, Ganesh Srinivasan Anand, Sasidhar N. Nirudodhi, Justin Sperry, Jason C. Rouse, James A. Carroll, Kasper D. Rand, Ulrike Leurs, David D. Weis, Mohammed A. Al-Naqshabandi, Tyler S. Hageman, Patrick Wintrode, John D. Lambris, Sarah Urata, George M. Bou-Assaf, Alfonso Espada
Hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) is an established, powerful tool for investigating protein-ligand interactions, protein folding, and protein dynamics. However, HDX-MS is still an emergent tool for quality control of

A Synchrotron X-ray Micro-Spectroscopy Study of the Explosive Melt Glass Derived From the Trinity Nuclear Test

April 28, 2019
Author(s)
Bruce Ravel, Daniel E. Crean, Daniel J. Bailey, M. C. Stennett, Claire L. Corkhill, Ryan Tappero, N. C. Hyatt
Trinitite, the explosive melt glass derived from the Trinity nuclear test, is of interest as a model material for nuclear forensics investigation. However, there remains uncertainty as to the mechanism of trinitite formation. In this study, new insight is

Review of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Research Program in Trace Contraband Detection

April 14, 2019
Author(s)
J Greg Gillen, Jennifer R. Verkouteren, R. Michael Verkouteren, Marcela Najarro, Edward Sisco, Matthew Staymates, Jessica L. Staymates, Robert A. Fletcher, Jeffrey Lawrence, Elizabeth Robinson, Alexander T. Bulk, Joe Bennett, Shin Muramoto, Thomas Forbes
Current national priorities in homeland security have led to an unprecedented level of utilization of explosives trace detection (ETD) systems for counterterrorism and law enforcement. Despite the widespread deployment of ETD instruments at airports

Examining the Relationships Between Blubber Steroid Hormone and Persistent Organic Pollutant Measurements in Common Bottlenose Dolphins

March 24, 2019
Author(s)
Thomas M. Galligan, Brian C. Balmer, Lori Schwacke, Jennie L. Bolton, Brian M. Quigley, Patricia Rosel, Gina M. Ylitalo, Ashley Russell
In this study, we use remotely collected blubber samples from common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) inhabiting the waters near a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site with high local DDx concentrations, to study the impacts of DDx

SURVEY OF PEPTIDE QUANTIFICATION METHODS AND THEIR REPRODUCIBILITY COMPARISON: A CASE STUDY USING OXYTOCIN

March 20, 2019
Author(s)
Chensheng Li, Sitaram Bhavaraju, Jeremy Melanson, Andreas Blomgren, Torgny Rundlof, Eric L. Kilpatrick, Timothy Rudd, Yves Aubin, Kevin Grant, Edward Saravolac, Tursun Kerim, William Sherman, Yukari Nakagawa, Sergi Pavon, Tim Weel, Arunima Pola, Dinesh Chalasani, Stephen Walfish, Fouad Atouf
USP's peptide reference standards content is typically determined using an HPLC assay against an external standard for which the purity was determined by a mass balance approach. To explore the use of other analyti-cal methods, the USP Biologics Department

interlab: A Python module for analyzing interlaboratory comparison data

March 15, 2019
Author(s)
David A. Sheen
interlab was developed as a software tool to perform consensus analysis on spectral data from interlaboratory studies. It is designed to estimate the spread in the spectral data and to identify possible outliers among both spectral populations and

Lipidomics for wildlife disease etiology and biomarker discovery: a case study of pansteatitis outbreak in South Africa

March 5, 2019
Author(s)
John Bowden, Jeremy P. Koelmel, Candice Z. Ulmer, Susan Fogelson, Hannes Botha, Christina M. Jones, Jackie T. Bangma, Theresa M. Cantu, Matthew P. Guillette, Wilmien Luus-Powell, Joseph Sara, Willem J. Smit, Korin Albert, Harmony Miller, Berkley Olsen, Jason A. Cochran, Timothy J. Garrett, Richard A. Yost
Lipidomics is a promising tool to determine biomarkers and elucidate mechanisms associated with anthropogenic-induced stress in wildlife. Therefore, we examine the application of lipidomics for in situ studies on Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus

COMPOSITION DETERMINATION OF LOW-PRESSURE GAS-PHASE MIXTURES BY 1H NMR SPECTROSCOPY

March 4, 2019
Author(s)
Chris Suiter, Mark O. McLinden, Thomas J. Bruno, Jason A. Widegren
1H NMR spectroscopy was used to analyze vapor-phase mixtures of methane and propane at low to moderate pressures. The mixtures were prepared gravimetrically and had low uncertainty in their composition. The primary mixture used for this work had a methane
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