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Neil A. Anderson, Lee J. Richter, John C. Stephenson, Kimberly A. Briggman
The main gel to liquid crystal (LC) phase transition temperature, Tm, of the lipid monolayers in hybrid bilayer membranes (HBMs) was investigated using vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy (VSFS). The unique sensitivity of VSFS to probe order/disorder
We present a portable spectrometer that uses the frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy technique to realize high-precision measurements of trace water vapor concentration. Measuring one of the strongest rovibrational transitions in the 1 + 3
Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) is demonstrated as an effective probe of the polymer thin film materials. A simple modification to a commercially available 1 kHz SFG spectrometer permits acquisition of CARS spectra for polymer thin
Christopher D. Zangmeister, Steven W. Robey, Roger D. van Zee
Photoelectron spectroscopy was used to explore changes in Fermi level alignment, within the p-p* gap, arising from changes in the coupling chemistry of conjugated phenylene ethynlene oligomers to the Au surface. Self-assembled monolayers were formed
John G. Gillen, J Batteas, Chris A. Michaels, P Chi, John A. Small, Eric S. Windsor, Albert J. Fahey, Jennifer R. Verkouteren, W Kim
A C60+ primary ion source has been coupled to an ion microscope SIMS instrument to examine sputtering of silicon with an emphasis on possible application of C60+ depth profiling for high depth resolution SIMS analysis of silicon semiconductor materials
Qian Dong, Andrei F. Kazakov, Chris D. Muzny, Robert D. Chirico, Jason A. Widegren, Vladimir Diky, Joe W. Magee, Kenneth N. Marsh, Michael D. Frenkel
Ionic Liquids Database (ILThermo)is a free web research tool that allow users worldwide to access an up-to-data data collection from the publications on experimental studies of thermodynamic and transport properties of ionic liquids, as well as binary and
We study stable propagation of multiple shape-preserving optical pulses in an inhomogeneously broadened multi-level atomic medium. By analytically solving the Maxwell-Schr¿odinger equations governing the evolution of N coupled optical fields and atomic
Gintaras Valincius, Duncan J. McGillivray, W. Febo-Ayala, David J. Vanderah, John J. Kasianowicz, Mathias Losche
The structural order of tethered lipid bilayers (tBLMs) on solid substrates, investigated with electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and neutron reflectivity (NR), is further characterized by phospholipase activity. Whereas EIS and NR data indicate
Katherine E. Sharpless, D L. Anderson, J. M. Betz, Therese A. Butler, S. G. Capar, J. Cheng, C. Fraser, M. L. Gay, G. Gardner, D W. Howell, T. Ihara, J. W. Lam, Stephen E. Long, M. McCooeye, Elizabeth A. Mackey, W. R. Mindak, S. Mitvalsky, Karen E. Murphy, Karen W. Phinney, A. NguyenPho, Barbara J. Porter, M. C. Roman, Lane C. Sander, Mary B. Satterfield, C. Scriver, R. E. Sturgeon, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Robert D. Vocke Jr., Stephen A. Wise, Laura J. Wood, L. Yang, James H. Yen, G. C. Ziobro
F. B. Williams, Lane C. Sander, Stephen Wise, J. Girard
Several major constituents in St. John s Wort were determined for a homogenized plant sample. Three extraction techniques were evaluated: Soxhlet extraction, pressurized fluid extraction and sonication extraction. Levels of nine constituents (chlorogenic
Lu Deng, M. G. Payne, Guoxiang Huang, kaijun Jiang
We investigate the simultaneous formation and propagation of coupled ultraslow optical soliton pairs in a cold, lifetime-broadened three-state double- atomic system. Starting from the equations of motion of atomic response and two-mode probe-control
David L. Duewer, S L. Ellison, William F. Guthrie, D B. Hibbert, C Jackson, A Kallner, Stefan D. Leigh, Reenie M. Parris, Kenneth W. Pratt, Michele M. Schantz, Katherine E. Sharpless
A recent interlaboratory study that required individual analysts to estimate uncertainty intervals for their results revealed that some experienced chemical analysts have difficulty with measurement uncertainty calculations. To help validate assumptions
In studies of various nonlinear optical phenomena, strong resonant features in the atomic or molecular response to multi-photon driven processes have been used to greatly enhance the visibility of otherwise weak higher- order processes. However, there are
M I. Al-Sheikhly, Dianne L. Poster, Jung-Chul An, Pedatsur Neta, Joseph Silverman, Robert E. Huie
Pulse radiolysis with spectrophotometric and conductometric detection was utilized to study the formation and reactions of radicals from benzene and dienes in aqueous solutions. The benzene OH adduct, C6H6OH, reacts with O2 (k = 3 x 108 L mol-1 s-1) in a
Lane C. Sander, Katherine E. Sharpless, Stephen A. Wise
A new category of Standard Reference Materials based on dietary supplements are under development by NIST, with certified values for organic constituents and selected trace elements. These materials are provided primarily for use in method development and
K D. Ridge, N G. Abdulaev, Xi-Cheng Zhang, T Ngo, D M. Brabazon, John P. Marino
Solution NMR studies of a 15N-labeled G-protein ?-subunit (G?) chimera (15N-ChiT) reconstituted heterotrimer have previously shown that binding of ??-subunits induces a pre-activated conformation in G? that may facilitate interaction with R* and guanine
We investigate the influence of high-order dispersion and nonlinearity on the propagation of ultraslow optical solitons in a lifetime broadened four-state atomic system under a Raman excitation. Using a standard method of multiple-scales we derive a
We investigate a life time broadened and coherently prepared five-state system for multi-wave mixing processes. We show that very efficient wave mixing occurs, producing an unconventional mixing wave that has the characteristics of both conventional four