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We determined the outgassing rate of vacuum chambers constructed from common 304 stainless steel vacuum components. The vacuum components were assembled into identical vacuum chambers and subjected to either a medium temperature vacuum bake or a medium
Charles A. Little, Nathan D. Orloff, Christian J. Long, James C. Booth
Complex impedance measurements of fluids provide unique electrical information with important applications for chemical and pharmacological synthesis, and medical diagnostics. Many relevant fluids are ionic. During electrical measurement, ions in the fluid
Walter Wilson, Hugh Hayes, Lane Sander, Andres Campiglia, Stephen Wise
A normal-phase liquid chromatography (NPLC) fractionation procedure was developed for the characterization of a complex mixture of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from a coal tar sample (Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1597a). Using a semi
Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Lane C. Sander, Walter Brent Wilson, Stephen Wise
The relationship of reversed-phase liquid chromatography retention on a polymeric C18 stationary phase and the shape of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was investigated for three-ring to seven-ring cata-condensed isomers. We report the first
Jessica A. Cloy-McCoy, Jacqueline T. Bangma, Jessica L. Reiner, John Bowden, John Schnorr, Michael Slowey, Tom O'Leary, Louis J. Guillette, Benjamin B. Parrott
Endocrine disrupting contaminants, in combination with other environmental variables, are associated with altered reproductive health. Assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures offer valuable opportunities to explore the connections between
Lee L. Yu, Rolf L. Zeisler, Rachel C. Stanoyevitch
Kelp is a dietary supplement that contains significant amount of arsenic. Accurate assessment of dietary safety of kelp requires the determination of the arsenic species therein. A procedure was developed to extract the hydrophilic fraction of arsenicals
Walter Wilson, Hugh Hayes, Lane Sander, Andres D. Campiglia, Stephen Wise
Retention indices for 124 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and 62 methyl-substituted (Me-) PAHs were determined using normal-phase liquid chromatography (NPLC) on a aminopropyl (NH2) stationary phase. PAH retention behavior on the NH2 phase is
Fabio Casu, Aaron Watson, Justin Yost, John Leffler, Gibson Gaylord, Frederic Barrows, Paul A. Sandifer, Dan Bearden, Michael R. Denson
In this study we investigated the metabolic effects of four different commercial soy-based protein products on red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) using NMR-based metabolomics along with unsupervised principal component analysis (PCA) to evaluate metabolic
Partial ionization cross sections are the absolute yields of specific ions from an electron- molecule collision. They are necessary for modeling plasmas and for determining the sensitivity of mass spectrometers, among other applications. One mass
The specific refractive index increment (dn/dc) is an essential datum for the accurate quantitation of molar mass averages and distributions (inter alia) of macromolecules when refractometry, static light scattering, and/or viscometry detection are coupled
XiaoJuan Feng, Jintao Zhang, Michael R. Moldover, Inseok Yang, Mark Plimmer, H. Lin
This article describes the accurate determination of the molar mass of a sample of argon gas used for a determination of the Boltzmann constant. The method due to one of the authors [Moldover et al., J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. 93, 85-144 (1988)] uses the
Sharlyn Mazur, Elyssia S. Gallagher, Subrata Debnath, Stewart R. Durell, Kyle Anderson, Lisa M. Jenkins, Ettore Appella, Jeffrey W. Hudgens
PPM serine/threonine protein phosphatases function in signaling pathways and require millimolar concentrations of Mn2+ or Mg2+ ions for activity. Whereas the crystal structure of human PP2Cα displayed two tightly bound Mn2+ ions in the active site, recent
Thomas P. Forbes, Edward R. Sisco, Matthew E. Staymates, John G. Gillen
An ambient mass spectrometry (AMS) platform coupling Joule heating thermal desorption (JHTD) and direct analysis in real time (DART) was developed, generating discretely pulsed rapid heating ramps and elevated temperatures for the detection of inorganic
In this paper we examine the two-dimensional tunneling formalism used previously to fit the hydrogen-transfer and internal-rotation splittings in the microwave spectrum of 2 methylmalonaldehyde in an effort to determine the origin of various
Rian You, James Radney, Christopher D. Zangmeister, Michael R. Zachariah
Particles from smoldering biomass burning (BB) represent a major source of carbonaceous aerosol in the terrestrial atmosphere. In this study, mass specific absorption spectra of laboratory- generated smoldering wood particles (SWP) from 3 hardwood and 3
The effective attenuation length (EAL) is normally used in place of the inelastic mean free path (IMFP) to account for elastic-scattering effects when describing the attenuation of Auger electrons and photoelectrons from a planar substrate by an overlayer
Evgheni Strelcov, Qingfeng Dong, Tao Li, Jungseok Chae, Yuchuan Shao, Yehao Deng, Alexei Gruveman, Jinsong Huang, Andrea Centrone
Ferrolectricity has been proposed as a plausible meachanism to explain the high photovoltaic conversion efficiency in organic-inorganic perovskites; however, convincing experimental evidence in support to this hypothesis is still missing. Identifying and
Anthony P. Kotula, Chad R. Snyder, Kalman D. Migler
The Raman spectra of polycaprolactones have been measured over a temperature range of 20 °C to 160 °C to distinguish ordered chain conformers in the melt state and determine the quantitative crystalline bands. Principal component analysis of the spectra in
Meghan C. Burke, Yuri A. Mirokhin, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Sanford P. Markey, Stephen E. Stein, Jenny Heidbrink Thompson, Christopher Larkin
We present a mass spectral library based method to identify tandem mass spectra of peptides that contain unanticipated modifications and amino acid variants. We describe this as a hybrid method since it combines matching both ion m/z and mass losses. The
William E. Wallace, Weihua Ji, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Karen W. Phinney, Stephen E. Stein
A method to discover and correct errors in mass spectral libraries is described. Comparing across a set of highly curated reference libraries compounds that have the same chemical structure quickly identifies entries that are outliers. In cases where three
John L. Molloy, Swarna Lakshmi, Tin L. Wong, Heather Neu, Sarah Michel, Eric A. Toth
3-hydroxyanthranilate 3,4-dioxygenase (3HAO) is an enzyme in the microglial branch of the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan degradation. 3HAO is a non-heme iron-containing, ring-cleaving extradiol dioxygenase that catalyzes addition of both atoms of O2 to
Edward R. Sisco, Marcela N. Najarro, Daniel V. Samarov, Jeffrey A. Lawrence
This work investigates the stability of trace deposits of six explosives (ETN, PETN, RDX, HMX, TNT, and Tetryl) to determine environmental stabilities and lifetimes. Explosives were inkjet printed directly onto PTFE coated fiberglass substrates and exposed
Moving-window (MW) approaches to two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2D-COS) make it possible to characterize spectral changes occurring in a narrow range of perturbation variable (e.g., time, temperature, and concentration). Despite the wide range