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William C. Davis, Donna R. Roberts, Scott M. Lindhorst, Cynthia T. Welsh, Mary N. Herring, Adam Braun, Bruce H. Thiers
Objective: The aim of this study was to assess gadolinium deposition in the skin of a patient with normal renal function, based on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) values greater than 59 ml/min/1.73 m2, following exposure to large cumulative
Derivatives requiring either anhydrous or aqueous reaction conditions were prepared for robust and reliable gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) characterization of hydroxyl, mercapto, and amino benzoic acids. Methylation and trialkylsilylation
Jacolin A. Murray, Lane C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise, Christopher M. Reddy
Following an open meeting entitled, Hydrocarbon Chemistry QA/QC, at the 2014 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference in Mobile, Alabama, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) initiated the Hydrocarbon Intercalibration
We outline the details of acquiring quantitative 13C cross-polarization magic angle spinning (CPMAS) NMR spectra on the most ubiquitous polymer for organic electronics (OE) applications, poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), despite other groups claims that
Since the discovery of semiconducting monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, a variety of experimental and theoretical studies have been carried out seeking to understand the intrinsic exciton population decay and valley relaxation dynamics. Reports
Cedric J. Powell, Giorgia Olivieri, Krista Parry, Douglas Tobias, Matthew Brown
Over the past decade, energy-dependent X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has emerged as a powerful analytical probe of the ion spatial distributions at the vapor (vacuum)-aqueous electrolyte interface. These experiments are often paired with
Michele M. Schantz, Danielle Cleveland, N. Alan Heckert, John Kucklick, Stefan D. Leigh, Stephen E. Long, Jennifer Lynch, Karen E. Murphy, Rabia Oflaz, Adam L. Pintar, Barbara J. Porter, Savelas A. Rabb, Stacy Schuur, Stephen Wise, Rolf L. Zeisler
Two new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs), SRM 2786 Fine Particulate Matter ( 4 µm) and SRM 2787 Fine Particulate Matter ( 10 µm) have been developed in support of the US Environmental Protection Agency's National Ambient Air Quality Standards for
Douglas C. Meier, Kurt D. Benkstein, Wilbur S. Hurst, Pamela M. Chu
Performance specifications for point chemical vapor detectors are specified in ASTM E2885-13 and ASTM E2933-13. The performance evaluation of the detectors requires the accurate delivery of known concentrations of the chemical target to the system under
This review presents an overview of size-exclusion chromatographic separation and characterization of noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) and quantum dots (QDs) over the past 25 years. The properties of NPs and QDs that originate from quantum and surface
The Reclamation-NIST Exploratory Research Symposium was held on August 4-5, 2015, at the Reclamation Denver Federal Center facility in Lakewood, CO, and the NIST facility in Boulder, CO. Staff from the Bureau of Reclamation and the National Institute of
Tiffany S. Williams, Nate Orloff, James S. Baker, Sandi G. Miller, Bharath N. Natarajan, Jan Obrzut, Linda S. McCorkle, Marisabel Lebron-Colon, James Gaier, Michael A. Meador, James Alexander Liddle
Carbon nanotube sheets are novel implementation of carbon nanotubes that enable the tailoring of electrical and mechanical properties for applications in the automotive and aerospace industries. Small molecule functionalization and/or post-processing
Ashley S. Boggs-Russell, John Bowden, Louis J. Guillette, John R. Kucklick
The ability to monitor endocrine pathways is often limited by techniques that use indirect measurement or single-hormone/class analysis. As our knowledge of the interconnections of the endocrine system grows, there is a need to develop highly specific
David A. Long, Adam J. Fleisher, Qingnan Liu, Joseph T. Hodges
A cavity ring-down spectrometer was used to reach the quantum noise limit in the mid-infrared spectral region. Quantum noise was observed not only in the individual ring-down decay events but also in the corresponding ensemble statistics with a magnitude
We discuss the precision of 1D chemical-shift-based 1H spin diffusion NMR experiments as well as straightforward experimental protocols for reducing errors. The 1H spin diffusion NMR experiments described herein are useful on samples that contain
Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Baptiste Gault, Michael Ashton, Susan B. Sinnott, Michael P. Moody, David W. Saxey, D. K. Schreiber
The cold emission of particles from surfaces under intense electric fields is a process which underpins a variety of applications including atom probe tomography (APT), an analytical microscopy technique with near-atomic spatial resolution. Increasingly
Kelly H. Telu, Xinjian Yan, William E. Wallace, Stephen Stein, Yamil Simon
The development of increasingly sensitive analytical techniques has renewed interest in global metabolite profiling, i.e., the semi-quantitative monitoring of all the chemical constituents of biological fluids. In this work, global metabolite profiles of
Nalin Katta, Douglas C. Meier, Kurt D. Benkstein, Stephen Semancik, Baranidharan Raman
A number of sensing technologies using a variety of transduction principles have been proposed for the purpose of non-invasive chemical sensing. A fundamental problem common to all sensing technologies is determining what features of the transducer's
Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Ruiz-Morales Yosadara, Stephen A. Wise
A methodology for the characterization of groups of PAHs using a combination of Normal Phase Liquid Chromatography with Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy (NPLC/UV-vis) and Gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) was used for the identification and
Lee J. Richter, Hyunbok Lee, Christopher McNeil, Eliot Gann, Lars Thomsen, S. Park, J. Jeong, Z. A. Page, Egle Puodziukynaite, Todd Emrick, Alejandro Briseno, John C. Stephenson, Dean M. DeLongchamp
Market demand for ubiquitous, increased functionality products at low cost (the internet of things) is spurring development in additive, solution processing of electronic devices. Performance in thin-film functional devices, be they transistors, diodes, or
Nicholas E. Sharp, John D. Fassett, David S. Simons
Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) plays an important role in nuclear forensics through its ability to identify isotopic ratios of particles accurately and precisely from samples obtained by inspectors [1]. As the particle mass can be on the order of
Bhaven Mehta, Kurt D. Benkstein, Stephen Semancik, Mona E. Zaghloul
The motivation behind this work is to study the gas phase chemical sensing characteristics of optical (plasmonic) nano antennas (ONA) and graphene/graphene oxide-covered versions of these structures. ONA are devices that have their resonating frequency in
Tracey B. Schock, Sheri Strickland, Edna J. Steele, Daniel W. Bearden
Environmental metabolomics studies employing earthworms as sentinels for soil contamination are numerous, but the instability of the metabolite extracts from these organisms has been minimally addressed. This study evaluated the efficacy of adding a heat-
Thao M. Nguyen, John M. Pettibone, Julien Gigault, Vincent A. Hackley
Gold nanorods (GNRs) occupy a unique place in nanotechnology due to the ability to tune the optical properties from the middle visible to near IR spectrum by varying their size and aspect ratio (AR). Although there have been many anisotropic growth
Jeri S. Roth, Paul A. Rudnick, Sanford Markey, Yuri Mirokhin, Xinjian Yan, Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi, Stephen Stein, Nathan J. Edwards, Ratna R. Thangudu, Karen A. Ketchum, Christopher R. Kinsinger, Mehdi Mesri, Henry Rodriguez
The Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) has produced large proteomics datasets from the mass spectrometric interrogation of tumor samples previously studied by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program. The availability of the genomic and
Hind El Hadri, Elijah Petersen, Michael R. Winchester
Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are already incorporated into numerous consumer products, and increasing product applications are expected in future years. To enable an understanding of potential risks associated with these products, it is important to