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We present a systematical investigation, both analytical and numerical, on the dynamics of two nearly lossless and distortion-free weak nonlinear optical pulses in a cold, lifetime-broadened four-state double-Λ system via electromagnetically induced
Measurements of the flow and the energy content of natural gas rely on equations of state to compute four thermodynamic properties: 1) compressibility factor; 2) critical flow factor; 3) speed of sound; and 4)isentropic exponent. We compare these computed
The calculation of natural gas viscosity has been implemented many different ways including the use of constants. Different methods of calculating natural gas viscosity may produce values with differences as large as 50%. Increasing natural gas prices
Mariona Coll Bau, Lauren H. Miller, Lee J. Richter, Daniel R. Hines, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker
The use of organic molecules to impart electrical surface properties has been a subject of intense research not only from a fundamental perspective but for many technological applications. In particular, organic molecules have been proposed as active
James W. Schmidt, Michael R. Moldover, Eric F. May
We used a quasi-spherical cavity resonator to measure the relative dielectric permittivity ε r of H 2 at frequencies from 2.4 GHz to 7.3 GHz, at pressures up to 6.5 MPa, and at the temperatures 273 K and 293 K. The resonator was calibrated using auxiliary
The use of purge and trap methods for sampling volatile organic compounds prior to chromatographic analysis is a mature technology. Application to low volatility compounds has been far less facile and sensitive. Especially problematic has been applications
Adolfas K. Gaigalas, Lili Wang, Hua-Jun He, Paul C. DeRose
This work describes a procedure for acquiring a spectrum of an analyte over an extended range of wavelengths and validating the wavelength and intensity assignments. To acquire a spectrum over an extended range of wavelengths with a spectrometer with a CCD
Megan C. Wadington , Jane E. Ladner, N V. Stourman, Joel M. Harp, R N. Armstrong
YfcG is one of eight glutathione (GSH) transferase homologues encoded in the Escherichia coli genome. The protein exhibits low or no GSH transferase activity toward a panel of electrophilic substrates. In contrast, it has a very robust disulfidebond
Thomas J. Bruno, Arron Wolk, Alexander Naydich, Marcia L. Huber
We have recently introduced several important improvements in the measurement of distillation curves of complex fluids. The modifications to the classical measurement provide for (1) a composition explicit data channel for each distillate fraction (for
Gregory C. Turk, Heinrich Kipphardt, Ralf Matschat, Jochen Vogl, Tamara Gusarova, Michael Czerwensky, Hans-Joachim Heinrich, Akiharu Hioki, Leonid A. Konopelko, Brad Methven, Tsutomu Miura, Ole Petersen, Gundel Riebe, Ralph Sturgeon, Lee L. Yu
Within the National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) and designated laboratories, an interlaboratory comparison, CCQM-P107, was conducted to verify the degree of international comparability concerning the results of purity analysis. The mass fractions of Ag, Bi
Douglas C. Meier, Baranidharan Raman, Stephen Semancik
Complex analytical problems, such as detecting trace quantities of hazardous chemicals in ambient environments composed of varying levels of humidity and vapors of benign products, require solutions that most effectively extract the relevant information
Christopher D. Zangmeister, Savelas A. Rabb, Du Bingchen, YuYe Tong
Controlled Pt adlayers were deposited on commercial Ru nanoparticles (NPs) using an industrially scalable one-pot ethylene glycol (EG) reduction based method and were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), electrochemical (EC) CO stripping voltammetry
Raymond Cao, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Richard Bindel, Bryan E. Tomlin, Rolf L. Zeisler, Rick L. Paul, Leonid A. Bendersky, Robert G. Downing
Cold neutron prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA) was used to determine the amount of hydrogen in thin film Mg hydrides with varying hydrogenation times. The results suggest that the hydrogenation in the Mg thin films remains unsaturated even after 48
JP-7 is a hydrocarbon-based kerosene fraction with a low volatility and high thermal stability. JP-7 was developed in the 1950s to meet the more stringent requirements necessary for the development of high-altitude reconnaissance planes that fly at speeds
Todd A. Morris, Alexander W. Peterson, Michael J. Tarlov
Glycoanalysis is important in the manufacture and quality control of protein therapeutics. An emerging method for glycoanalysis is the use of lectin arrays. Critical to the performance of these arrays is the immobilization of the lectin molecules
Baranidharan Raman, Joshua L. Hertz, Kurt D. Benkstein, Douglas C. Meier, Casey Mungle, Stephen Semancik
Methods to acquire and analyze rich data streams from sensors are helpful, if not required, to track chemical components within complex gas-phase environments. We describe a MEMS-based microsensor technology that populates multi-element arrays with
Melek Erol, Yun Han, Scott K. Stanley, Christopher Stafford, Henry Du, Svetlana Sukhishvili
In this communication, we report that oxidation of the Ag nanoparticle (Ag NP) surface under ambient conditions has a dramatic effect on the adsorption and SERS detection limit of nitroaromatic molecules in aqueous solutions. We show for the first time
We give a survey of information needed for quantitative surface analyses by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). We describe four terms (the inelastic mean free path, the effective attenuation length, the mean escape depth, and the information depth)
We present low uncertainty measurements of line parameters for fifteen rotation-vibration transitions of water vapor in the wave number range 7170.27 cm^(-1) to 7183.02 cm^(-1). These experiments incorporated frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down
Efforts are underway in the Surface and Microanalysis Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study the vapor transport mechanisms inside explosive trace detection instruments (ETD s) and produce standard test materials to
While the use of ethanol and ethanol blends as motor fuels dates back to the earliest vehicles, ethanol has recently received extraordinary attention as a renewable liquid fuel. In the United States, the application of this fluid is mainly as an additive
A new evaluation of the half-life of 241Pu has been made by developing earlier methods and techniques and employing further measurements of the isotopic ratio of an initially enriched 241Pu material. A correction to the previous value has had to be made
Jennifer M. Lynch, Aurore Guichard, Jennifer Yordy, Michele M. Schantz, John R. Kucklick, Robert R. Swarthout, Brianna K. Carlson
An increasing number of studies use blood obtained non-invasively to monitor organohalogen contaminants. However, blood can be a difficult tissue to analyze for organohalogen pollutants due to interferences from co-extracted proteins. We compared five
Daniel W. Bearden, Mark Viant, Jacob Bundy, Ian Burton, Tim Collette, Drew Ekman, Tobias Karakach, Ching Y. Lin, Simone Rochfort, Jeff de Ropp, Quincy Teng, Ron Tjeerdema, John Walter, Huifeng Wu
Several fundamental requirements must be met so that NMR-based metabolomics can be formally adopted into environmental monitoring and chemical risk assessment. Here we report an intercomparison exercise which has evaluated the accuracy, precision and