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Joseph T. Hodges, David A. Long, Mitchio Okumura, Charles E. Miller
Carbon dioxide (CO2) isotopic ratios were measured at 1.6 μm through the use of frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS). We report the highest spectrum signal-to-noise ratios to date for CO2 transitions, with values as high as 28,000:1
Pedro Bueno, Daniel K. Havey, George W. Mulholland, Joseph T. Hodges, Keith A. Gillis, Russell R. Dickerson, Michael R. Zachariah
A quantitative understanding of the absorption and scattering properties of mixed soot and aerosol particles is necessary for evaluating the Earth's energy balance. Uncertainty in the net radiative forcing of atmospheric aerosols is relatively large and
Interest in the domestic production of all fuels, sparked by the high cost of petroleum crude oil, has led to consideration of fluids to replace or extend conventional petroleum-derived fuels. There is particular interest in formulating oxygenated diesel
Thomas J. Bruno, Tara Lovestead, Jennifer Riggs, Erica Jorgensen, Marcia L. Huber
There is a great deal of interest in formulating oxygenated diesel fuels that produce low particulate emissions. The most common oxygenating additives for diesel fuels include the glycol ethers, glycol esters, alcohols, ethers and ketones. It is important
Thomas J. Bruno, Tara M. Lovestead, Marcia L. Huber, Jennifer Riggs
There is a great deal of interest in formulating oxygenated diesel fuels that produce low particulate emissions. The most common oxygenating additives for diesel fuels include the glycol ethers, glycol esters, alcohols, ethers and ketones. It is important
Juan C. Collado Gomez, Eduard Rocas, Jordi Mateu, Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth, Alberto Padillo, Juan Callaghan
This work proposes a procedure to characterize the intrinsic nonlinearities of bulk acoustic wave resonators by performing one port measurements of the second harmonic and second order intermodulation spurious signals. Closed-form expressions have been
Alexander M. Zolot, Ian R. Coddington, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
A coherent dual comb spectrometer spanning much of the near infrared was constructed from broadened erbium fiber lasers. Gas phase water, methane and acetylene spectra were measured and characterized toward establishing new frequency standards.
Chirantha P. Rodrigo, Christian Muller, Nathan Pillsbury, William H. James III, David F. Plusquellic, Timothy Zwier
The vibronic spectroscopy of jet-cooled bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)methane (b4HPM) has been explored using fluorescence excitation (FE), dispersed fluorescence (DFL), UV-UV holeburning (UVHB), UV depletion (UVD), and fluorescence-dip infrared (FDIR)
Viscosity measurements have been carried out with a falling-cylinder instrument in the compressed liquid and supercritical region of the hydrofluorocarbon 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R134a). A highly pure sample was used. The measurement region at
Eyal Gerecht, Kevin O. Douglass, David F. Plusquellic
We report the first demonstration of a broadband trace gas sensor based on chirp-pulse terahertz spectroscopy. The advent of newly developed solid state sources and heterodyne detectors for the terahertz frequency range have made it possible to generate
Douglas C. Meier, Jeffrey M. Davis, Edward P. Vicenzi
Mineral borates, the primary industrial source of boron, are found in a large variety of compositions. One such source, kernite (Na2B4O6(OH)2 3 H2O), offers a panoply of challenges for traditional electron-probe microanalysis (EPMA) it is hygroscopic
Ryan G. Brennan, Therese A. Butler, Michael R. Winchester
A high-performance (HP) technique that was originally developed for inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) has been successfully translated to ion chromatography (IC) to enable analyses with extremely low uncertainty. As an
Biosensors based on electrochemical transduction mechanisms have recently made advances into the field of glycan analysis. These glyco-biosensor assays offer simple, rapid, sensitive and economical approaches to the measurement need for rapid glycan
Jennifer M. Lynch, Juan Alava, Jeanette Wyneken, Larry Crowder, Geoffrey Scott, John R. Kucklick
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are a recognized man-made threat to sea turtle populations, but the uncertainty surrounding exposure and sensitivity of sea turtles to contaminants is great and makes decision making difficult for conservation managers
Frequency combs, like many ground-breaking technologies, are simple in concept; they results from the spectrum of any regular train of optical pulses. What is remarkable is that this simple picture can be actually realized in a number of different
Terrence J. Jach, Fernando D. Vila, W. T. Elam, J. D. Denlinger, John J. Rehr
Non-resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy was used to compare the nitrogen-rich compounds ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, and cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine. They are representative of crystalline and molecular structures of special importance in
Nino G. Todua, Kirill V. Tretyakov, Roman S. Borisov, Dmitry I. Zhilyaev, Vladimir G. Zaikin, Stephen E. Stein, Anzor I. Mikaia
Mono-, di- and trialkyl derivatives of "sulfabenzamide" (N-4-aminophenylsulfonyl-benzamide) are prepared and their EI mass spectra are examined. It is found that the fragmentation of N- alkylsulfabenzamides (Alkyl = CH3 to n-C5H11) proceeds via a very
Stephen A. Montzka, S. Reimannander, Andreas Engel, Kirstin Kruger, O?Doherty Simon, William T. Sturges , Donald R. Blake , Marcel Dorf Dorf, Paul J. Fraser , Lucien Froidevaux , Kenneth Jucks, Karin Kreher, Michael J. Kurylo III, Abdelwahid Mellouki , John Miller , Ole J. Nielsen , Vladimir L. Orkin, Ronald G. Prinn , Robert Rhew , Michelle L. Santee , Andreas Stohl , Daniel P. Verdonik
The present document will be part of the information upon which the Parties to the United Nations Montreal Protocol will base their future decisions regarding protection of the stratospheric ozone layer. OVERVIEW It has been recognized since the 1970s that
Mingdong M. Li, Suvajyoti S. Guha, Rebecca A. Zangmeister, Michael J. Tarlov, Michael R. Zachariah
Electrospray (ES) sources are commonly used to introduce non-volatile materials (e.g. nanoparticles, proteins, etc.) in to the gas phase for characterization by mass spectrometry and ion mobility. Recent studies in our group using electrospray ion mobility
High fuel costs, the need to secure supply chains, and environmental concerns, have all led to an increasing interest in nonpetroleum sources such as natural gas, coal, and biomass, as potential alternatives to petroleum based aviation fuel feedstocks
Santanu S. Kundu, Atul S. Bhangale, William E. Wallace, Kathleen M. Flynn, Charles M. Guttman, Richard Gross, Kathryn L. Beers
Enzymes immobilized on solid supports are increasingly used for chemical transformation because the process is greener and sustainable. Here we use microreactors to study enzyme catalyzed ring opening polymerization of -caprolactone to polycaprolactone. A
The electronic ground-state potential surface of acetylene (H-CC-H) has a minimum at the linear conformation, but the excited electronic states may have potential minima at a variety of nonlinear equilibrium shapes. This work is concerned with the group
Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) has been used for trace analysis of illicit drugs, but it can also provide reliable qualitative analysis of bulk forensic drug items, despite the complexity of these samples. The drug/drug and drug/excipient combinations
Young Jong Lee, Doyoung Moon, Kalman D. Migler, Marcus T. Cicerone
We demonstrate that broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy can be very useful for fast acquisition of quantitative chemical images of multilayer polymer blends. Since a raw CARS signal results from coherent interference of