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Jeremy Schultz, Sergiy Krylyuk, Jeffrey Schwartz, Albert Davydov, Andrea Centrone
Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs), hybrids of light and lattice vibrations in polar dielectric crystals, empower nano-photonic applications by enabling the confinement and manipulation of light at the nanoscale. Molybdenum trioxide (α-MoO3) is a
Michael Nelson, Jerome Mulloor, Brian Lang, Blaza Toman, Antonio Possolo, William Perry, Alicia Lyle
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1595a Tripalmitin is a high purity chemical substance having a certified value for purity, expressed as a mass fraction. It is intended for use in preparing calibrants for measurement of total glyceride in clinical samples
Nicholas Drachman, Paul Patrone, Gregory A. Cooksey
Accuracy and temporal resolution of flow meters are often unacceptable below the microliter per minute scale, limiting their ability to evaluate the real-time performance of many microfluidic devices. For conventional flow meters, this problem arises from
Bradley Sutliff, Shailja Goyal, Tyler Martin, Peter Beaucage, Debra Audus, Sara Orski
The industry standard for sorting plastic wastes is near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, which offers rapid and nondestructive identification of various plastics. However, NIR does not provide insights into the chain composition, conformation, and topology of
Analysis of ignitable liquids in fire debris samples can be a time-consuming process, from extraction of volatile compounds to instrumental analysis. Rapid gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is a screening technique that can be utilized prior to
Tracey Schock, Jonathan Mosley, Chris Beecher, Warwick Dunn, Julia Kuligowski, Matthew Lewis, Georgios Theodoridis, Candice Ulmer, Dajana Vuckovic, Ian Wilson, Krista Zanetti
Background: Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) practices are key tenets that facilitate study and data quality across all applications of untargeted metabolomics. Such important practices will strengthen this field and accelerate its success
Michael Fong, Yuichiro Takeshita, Regina Easley, Jason Waters
Accurate spectrophotometric pH measurements in seawater are critical to documenting long-term changes in ocean acidity and carbon chemistry, and for calibration of autonomous pH sensors. The recent development of purified indicator dyes greatly improved
Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Melannie Bachman, Steven J. Christopher, Debra Ellisor, Michael Ellisor, Jennifer Hoguet, Samuel Huntington, Caleb Luvonga, Amanda Moors, Dhayaalini Nadarajan, Tomohiro Narukawa, Jennifer Ness, Rebecca Pugh, James H. Yen, Lee L. Yu
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2983 Inorganics in Geoduck Clam Tissue (Panopea generosa) is intended to be used for the evaluation of methods for the determination of elements, arsenic species, and proximates in this and similar matrices. A unit of SRM
Jacqueline Bangma, Kitrina Barry, Christine Fisher (ODonnell), Susan Genualdi, Theresa Guillette, Carin Huset, James McCord, Brian Ng, Benjamin Place, Jessica Reiner, Anna Robuck, Alix Rodowa
Xiaojun Wei, Dumei Ma, Junlin Ou, Ge Song, Jiawei Guo, Joseph Robertson, Yi Wang, Qian Wang, Chang Liu
Nanopores have demonstrated remarkable sensitivity as biosensors, enabling the sequencing of DNA and RNA at the single-molecule level. The rapid progress in this field has sparked interest in using nanopores for protein sequencing, although current
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements (NIH ODS), introduced the first Standard Reference Material® (SRM) for determining vitamin D metabolites in
Andrew Maizel, Andre Thompson, Meghanne Tighe, Samuel Escobar Veras, Alix Rodowa, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Bruce A. Benner Jr., Kathleen Hoffman, Michelle K. Donnelly, Olivia Hernandez, Nadine Wetzler, Trung Ngu, Jessica Reiner, Benjamin Place, John Kucklick, Kate Rimmer, Rick D. Davis
Textiles used in the construction of structural firefighter turnout gear jackets and pants have been found to contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as well as fluoropolymer membranes and treatments containing fluorinated polymers. Additionally
Worldwide polystyrene (PS) production in 2020 was approximately 27 million metric tons, distributed among many nations, making it one of the most heavily imported and exported chemicals. Commercially produced PS usually possesses a broad molar mass
The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill has led to an estimated value of $824M for hemp production in the United States (US) in 2021 with an approximately 76% of it focused on floral hemp that is used to produce hemp-derived finished products such as smokable
The realm of analytical chemistry continues to struggle with defining and evaluating the limit of detection in analytical methods in the sense that a multitude of definitions, criteria, caveats, and...
Brendan Carter, Jonathan Sharp, Andrew Dickson, Marta Alvarez, Michael Fong, Maribel Garcia-Ibanez, Ryan Woosley, Takeshita Yuichiro, Leticia Barbero, Robert Byrne, Wei-Jun Cai, Melissa Chierici, Simon Clegg, Regina Easley, Andrea Fassbender, Kalla Fleger, Xinyu Li, Macarena Martin-Mayor, Katelyn Schockman, Aleck Wang Zhaohui
The ocean carbonate system is critical to monitor because it plays a major role in regulating Earth's climate and marine ecosystems. It is monitored using a variety of measurements, and it is commonly understood that all major components of the seawater
Tracey Schock, Amanda Bayless, Goncalo Gouveia, Robert Powers, Valerie Copie, John Cort, Hamid R. Eghbalnia, Wimal Pathmasiri, David S Wishart, Erik Andersson, Robert Brua, Leo Cheng, Chaevien Clendinen, Darcy Cochran, Alexandra Crook, Michah Jeppesen, Amith Maroli, Matthew Merritt, Heidi Roth, Isin Sakallioglu, Saurav Sarma, Lloyd Sumner, Panteleimon Takis, Mario Uchimiya
A literature survey was conducted to identify current practices used by NMR metabolomics investigators. A total of 463 papers from 2020 and 80 papers from 2010 were selected from PubMed. The papers were manually analyzed by a team of investigators to
Clay Davis, Corey Broeckling, Richard Beger, Cheng Leo, Raquel Cumeras, Daniel Cuthbertson, Surendra Dasari, Warwick Dunn, Anne Evans, Alvaro Fernandez-Ochoa, Kelli Goodman, Helen Gika, Roy Goodacre, Jennifer Kirwan, Kodra Dritan, Julia Kuligowski, Maria Monge, Jonathan Mosley, Sindhu Nair, Nichole Reisdorph, Stacy Sherrod, Georgios Theodoridis, Candice Ulmer Holland, Dajana Vuckovic, Bo Zhang, Goncalo Gouveia
Untargeted metabolomics is an analytical approach with numerous applications, serving as an effective metabolic phenotyping platform to characterize the small molecules within a biological system. Data quality can be challenging to evaluate and demonstrate
Tracey Schock, Daniel Bearden, Fabio Casu, Michael Edwards, Annie Jacob, Edward Johnson, Amanda Bayless, Elena Legrand
Bivalves stand out as an ideal ecological indicator and have been the basis of NOAA's Mussel Watch Program to monitor environmental health. In this study, we aimed to investigate the health of the Dreissenid mussel in the Maumee River. In addition to the
Tracey Schock, Warwick Dunn, Julia Kuligowski, Jonathan Mosley, Candice Ulmer Holland, Dajana Vuckovic
Introduction: The Metabolomics Quality Assurance and Quality Control Consortium (mQACC) organized a workshop during the Metabolomics 2022 conference. Objectives: The goal of the workshop was to disseminate recent findings from mQACC community-engagement
Chromatographic separations at subzero temperature significantly improve the precision of back-exchange corrected hydrogen−deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) determinations. Our previously reported dual-enzyme HDX-MS analysis instrument used
Sverre Sandberg, Pernille Fauskanger, Jesper Johansen, Thomas Keller, Jeffrey Budd, Neil Greenberg, robert rej, MAURO PANTEGHINI, VINCENT DELATOUR, Ferruccio Ceriotti, Liesbet Deprez, Johanna Camara, Finlay MacKenzie, Alicia Lyle, Eline van der Hagen, Chris Burns, W. Greg Miller
It is important for external quality assessment materials (EQAMs) to be commutable with clinical samples; i.e., they should behave like clinical samples when measured using end-user clinical laboratory in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVD-MDs). Using
Balanced detection based on double beams is widely used to reduce common-mode noises, such as laser intensity fluctuation and irregular wavelength scanning, in absorption spectroscopy. However, employing an additional detector can increase the total system