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Bret Windom, Tara Lovestead, Mark Mascal, Edward Nikitin, Thomas J. Bruno
Diminishing petroleum reserves, the potential of supply disruptions, price volatility, as well as environmental considerations resulting from polluting emissions, have led to development of alternative liquid fuels and fuel additives produced from
Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Wilbur S. Hurst, James E. Maslar, Sesha S. Srinivasan
An optical cell is described for high-throughput backscattering Raman spectroscopic measurements of hydrogen storage materials at pressures up to 10 MPa and temperatures up to 823 K. High-throughput is obtained by employing a 60 mm diameter x 9 mm thick
Jared M. Ragland, Michael D. Arendt, John Kucklick, Jennifer Lynch
Organohalogen contaminant (OHC) threats remain largely a mystery for threatened loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). This study examines regional-scale OHC differences in blood plasma from adult male C.caretta based on movement patterns. Turtles were
Stacy S. Schuur, Russell D. Day, Paul R. Becker, Rebecca S. Pugh, Michael B. Ellisor, Keith A. Hobson, David G. Roseneau
Thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia) eggs were collected from four Alaskan colonies in 2002. The contents were analyzed for organic contaminants and carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) stable isotopes. Contaminant concentrations in eggs varied from below
In recent years, civilian and military users of aviation kerosene have been interested in expanding the scope of fuel feed stocks to include non-petroleum sources. The most well known examples of such alternative sources of fuel are the Fisher-Tropsch
Vladimir L. Orkin, Victor Khamaganov, Larissa E. Martynova, Michael J. Kurylo III
Rate constants for the gas phase reactions of OH radicals with ethanol and three fluorinated ethyl alcohols, CH3CH2OH (k0), CH2FCH2OH (k1), CHF2CH2OH (k2), and CF3CH2OH (k3) were measured using a flash photolysis resonance-fluorescence technique over the
Using Raman, Terahertz (THz), and mid-Infrared (IR) spectroscopies, the vibrational spectra of two chromophore models of hydrogen-producing [FeFe]-hydrogenase, Fe2(μ-S2C3H6)(CO)6 and Fe2(μ-S2C2H4)(CO)6, have been assigned. The combination of absorption and
Bonds that break in collision-induced dissociation (CID) are often weakened by a nearby proton, which can, in principle, be carried away by either of the product fragments. Since peptide backbone dissociation is commonly charge-directed, relative
Illarion Turko, Casey Charvet, Wei-Li Liao, Gun-Young Heo, Laird James, Salomon G. Robert, Irina A. Pikuleva
Isolevuglandins are highly reactive products of free radical-induced oxidation of arachidonates that modify free amino groups of proteins into pyrrole-derived adducts. These protein adducts provide a "footprint" of oxidative injury and are potential
Hyun M. Kim, Chris A. Michaels, Garnett W. Bryant, Stephan J. Stranick
We experimentally compare the performance and contrast differences between spontaneous and coherent Stokes Raman scattering microscopy. We demonstrate the differences on a series of geometry controlled samples that range in complexity from a point (array
Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Nathan D. Orloff, Jordi Mateu, James C. Booth, Juan M. O'Callaghan, Alberto Padilla
AbstractThis article proposes a mechanism by which third-order intermodulation distortion due to self-heating is generated in transmission lines. The work shows how transmission lines made of several materials whose properties are independent of the
Christopher Szakal, Kedar Narayan, Jing Fu, Jonathan A. Lefman, Sriram Subramaniam
We present progress towards imaging of chemical species within intact mammalian cells using secondary ion mass spectrometry, with simultaneous mapping of subcellular elemental and molecular species along with intrinsic membrane-specific cellular markers
This paper is divided into two parts. In the first part an effective Hamiltonian for a non-rotating diatomic molecule containing only crystal-field and spin-orbit operators is set up to describe the energies of the five spin-orbit components that arise in
Ryan G. Brennan, Melissa M. Phillips, Liang Yueh Ou Yang, Thomas P. Moffat
SPS (bis-(3-sulfopropyl) disulfide) is an essential electrolyte additive used in the fabrication of copper interconnects by electrodeposition. The process is used over length scales ranging from on-chip Damascene wiring to through-silicon-vias for chip
Lee J. Richter, Christine He, David Germack, R Joseph Kline, Dean DeLongchamp, Daniel A. Fischer, Chad R. Snyder, James G. Kushmerick
The nanoscale morphology of the active layer in organic, bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is crucial to device performance. Often a combination of casting conditions and post deposition thermal treatment are used to optimize the morphology. In general
Wei-Li Liao, Gun-Young Heo, Nathan G. Dodder, Rachel Reem, Natalia Mast, Suber Huang, Pier L. DiPatre, Illarion Turko, Irina A. Pikuleva
Improper cholesterol metabolism in the brain causes neurological diseases. Factors affecting cholesterol homeostasis includes cholesterol hydroxylation reactions, which are regulated by cytochrome P450 enzymes. One approach to estimate the total enzymatic
The distillation curve is the only practical measurement used to characterize the vapor/liquid equilibrium (volatility) of a complex mixture. In earlier work, we described an improved method and apparatus for distillation curve measurement at atmospheric
Robert N. Goldberg, Michael J. Selig, Stephen R. Decker, Brian E. Lang
Microcalorimetry and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) have been used to conduct a thermodynamic investigation of the reaction: {methyl ferulate(aq) + H2O(l) = methanol(aq) + ferulic acid(aq), as catlyzed by feruloyl esterase. Values of the
Nathan R. Newbury, Esther Baumann, Ian R. Coddington, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Alexander M. Zolot
We discuss the performance of a coherent dual frequency comb spectrometer in terms of signal-to-noise ratio, resolution, and accuracy based on experimental data in the near and short-wave infrared centered at 1.5 and 3.4 micrometers.