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Cellulose Nanomaterials: Nanocomposite Imaging using FRET

June 19, 2013
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. Gilman, Mauro Zammarano, Iulia A. Sacui, Jeremiah Woodcock
Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer on Earth, found in plants (cotton, hemp, wood), marine animals (Tunicate), algae (Valonia) bacteria (Acetobacter xylium) and even amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum). Critical features of the structural

Cubic Silsesquioxanes as Tunable High Performance Coating Materials

June 19, 2013
Author(s)
Christopher Soles, Hyun W. Ro, Aaron Forster, Dave J. Krug, Vera Popova, Richard M. Laine
In this manuscript a series of cubic silsequioxane monomers with their eight vertices functionalized with different organic ligands terminated with triethoxysilane groups were acid hydrolyzed, spin cast into thin films, and then vitrified into hard

Formation of Disk- and Stacked Disk-Like Self-Assembled Morphologies from Cholesterol Functionalized Aliphatic Polycarbonate Containing Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers

June 10, 2013
Author(s)
Vivek M. Prabhu, Shrinivas Venkataraman, Ashlynn Lee, Yi Yan Yang, James Hedrick, Hareem Maune
In this study, a cholesterol functionalized aliphatic cyclic carbonate monomer, 2-(5-methyl-2-oxo-1,3-dioxane-5-carboxyloyloxy)ethyl carbamate (MTC-Chol) was synthesized. The organo-catalytic ring opening polymerization of MTC-Chol was accomplished by

Hydrated Phases in Blended Cement Systems and Synthetic Saltstone Grouts

June 10, 2013
Author(s)
Kenneth A. Snyder, Paul E. Stutzman
A blended binder system (10 % portland cement, 45 % fly ash, and 45 % slag) is characterized as part of a broader study of its long-term effectiveness in stabilizing treated salt waste at the Savannah River Site. The binder system is reproduced in the

Graphene Epitaxial Growth on SiC(0001) for Resistance Standards

June 3, 2013
Author(s)
Mariano A. Real, Eric Lass, Fan-Hung H. Liu, Tian T. Shen, George R. Jones Jr., Johannes A. Soons, David B. Newell, Albert Davydov, Randolph Elmquist
A well-controlled technique for high-temperature epitaxial growth on 6H-SiC(0001) substrates is shown to allow development of monolayer graphene that exhibits promise for precise metrological applications. Face-to-face (FTF) and face-to-graphite (FTG)

Continuum-based free vibration of circular trigonal and isotropic plates

May 28, 2013
Author(s)
Ward L. Johnson, Paul R. Heyliger
The free vibration behavior of completely unrestrained elastic circular plates with trig- onal and isotropic material symmetry is studied using approximate solutions to the three- dimensional theory of linear elasticity. Of primary interest are 1) the

Use of RF-Based Technique as a Metrology Tool for TSV Reliability Analysis

May 28, 2013
Author(s)
Chukwudi A. Okoro, Yaw S. Obeng, Jan Obrzut, Pavel Kabos, Klaus Hummler
In this work, we used radio frequency (RF) based measurement technique is used as a prognostic tool for the assessment of the effect of thermal cycling on the reliability of through-silicon via (TSV) stacked dies. It was found that RF signal integrity in

Direct Experimental Study of the Effect of Dislocations on the Magnetization Reversal in a Quasi-Two- Dimensional Ferromagnet with Unidirectional Anisotropy

May 15, 2013
Author(s)
V S. Gornakov, Valerian I. Nikitenko, I. V. Shashkov, M. A. Lebyodkin, Robert D. Shull
The effect of dislocations on the elementary acts of the magnetization reversal in the epitaxial heterostructure NiFe/NiO/MgO(001) has been studied using the magneto-optical indicator film technique. It has been found that the edge dislocations grouped

Nanoparticles in Flame-Retardant Coatings for Flexible Polyurethane Foams: Effects on Flammability and Nanoparticle Release

May 15, 2013
Author(s)
Mauro Zammarano, Rick D. Davis, Yeon S. Kim, Richard H. Harris Jr., Marc R. Nyden, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Nasir M. Uddin
Nanoparticles can effectively reduce polymer flammability; however, the impact of nanoparticles on environmental and health safety is still unclear. The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to develop and investigate the effect of nanoparticle-rich

Writing Guidelines to Develop an Memorandum of Understanding for Interoperable Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems

May 14, 2013
Author(s)
Susan M. Ballou, Michael Garris, Anthony Clay, Joi Dickerson, Peter T. Higgins, Lisa Jackson, Joe Morrissey, Beth Owens, Joe Polski, Janet Hoin, Leo Norton, Melissa Taylor
This is one of a series of documents prepared by the Latent Print Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) Interoperability Working Group. The purpose of these documents is to provide guidance and a framework to those involved in the

Structure and Stability of SnO2 Nanocrystals and Surface-Bound Water Species

May 8, 2013
Author(s)
Rick L. Paul, Hsiu-Wen Wang, David J. Wesolowski, Thomas E. Proffen, Lucus Vicek, Wei Wang, Lawrence F. Allard, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Mikhail Feygenson, Lawrence M. Anovitz
The structure of SnO2 nanoparticles (avg. 5 nm diameter) with a few layers of water on the surface has been elucidated by atomic pair distribution function (PDF) methods using in situ neutron total scattering data and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations

Controlling the Competition between Optically Induced Ultrafast Spin-Flip Scattering and Spin Transport in Magnetic Multilayers

May 7, 2013
Author(s)
Justin Shaw, Hans Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Martin Aeschlimann, Claus M. Schneider, Emrah Turgut, Stefan Mathias, Patrik Grychtol, Chan La-O-Vorakiat, Dennis Rudolf, Roman Adam
The study of ultrafast dynamics in magnetic materials provides rich opportunities for greater fundamental understanding of correlated phenomena in solid-state matter, because many of the basic microscopic mechanisms involved are as-yet unclear and are

Influence of Pt spacer thickness on the domain nucleation in ultrathin Co/Pt/Co trilayers

May 1, 2013
Author(s)
Robert D. Shull, Yury Y. Iunin, Y. P. Kabanov, Valerian I. Nikitenko, O. V. Skryabina, C. L. Chien
The effect of varying the interlayer coupling between two 0.6 nm thick Co layers with perpendicular anisotropy on their magnetic ground state and the domain nucleation processes during a field reversal was studied. A surprising transition from out-of-plane

Transmission EBSD in the Scanning Electron Microscope

May 1, 2013
Author(s)
Roy H. Geiss, Katherine P. Rice, Robert R. Keller
A new method for obtaining Kikuchi diffraction patterns from thin specimens in transmission has been developed for use in the SEM, scanning electron microscope, using a conventional electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) detector and with a slight

Writing Guidelines for Requests for Proposals for Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems

April 25, 2013
Author(s)
Susan M. Ballou, Michael Garris, Anthony Clay, Joi Dickerson, Peter T. Higgins, Janet Hoin, Lisa Jackson, Mike Lesko, Joe Morrissey, Leo Norton, Beth Owens, Joe Polski, Melissa Taylor
This is one of a series of documents prepared by the Latent Print Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) Interoperability Working Group. The purpose of these documents is to provide guidance and a framework to those involved in the

The Biological Evidence Preservation Handbook: Best Practices for Evidence Handlers

April 23, 2013
Author(s)
Susan M. Ballou, Margaret C. Kline, Mark D. Stolorow, Melissa Taylor, Shannan Williams, Phylis S. Bamberger, Burney Yvette, Larry Brown, Cynthia E. Jones, Ralph Keaton, William Kiley, Karen Thiessen, Gerry LaPorte, Joseph Latta, Linda E. Ledray, Randy Nagy, Linda Schwind, Stephanie Stoiloff, Brian Ostrom
The report of the Technical Working Group on Biological Evidence Preservation offers guidance for individuals involved in the collection, examination, tracking, packaging, storing, and disposition of biological evidence. This may include crime scene

Development of a Reference Material for the Calibration of Cement Paste Rheometers

April 22, 2013
Author(s)
Chiara F. Ferraris, Paul E. Stutzman, Zhuguo Li, Min-Hong Zhang
Rheometers are usually calibrated using a standard reference oil. On the other hand the calibration of rheometer for paste or concrete cannot be calibrated using an oil as it is a Newtonian fluid, while the rheometers are designed to measure non-Newtonian

Effect of Surface Chemistry on Stem Cell Response in 2-D vs. 3-D Cell Culture Niches

April 19, 2013
Author(s)
Sumona Sarkar, Carl G. Simon Jr., Roberta I. Lock, Joy P. Dunkers
To develop tissue engineered devices for regenerative medicine strategies, key scaffold properties for directing stem cell response must be identified. As focus shifts from 2-D to 3-D culture systems in an attempt to better recapitulate the natural

Determining Mechanical Reliability of Brittle Materials

April 18, 2013
Author(s)
Stephen W. Freiman, Jeffrey Fong
The widespread existence of slow crack growth in most glasses and ceramics due to a stress-enhanced reaction between an external environment and strained bonds at a crack tip greatly complicates the challenge of assuring the reliability of components which

Micro/nano-wear studies on epoxy/silica nanocomposites

April 18, 2013
Author(s)
Zhengzhi Wang, Ping Gu, Xiao-ping Wu, Zhong Zhang, Martin Chiang, Hui Zhang
We proposed a new method for quantifying the micro/nano-scale wear volume (i.e., volume of wear loss) in a test to characterize the wear-resistance of nanocomposites. Effects of wear load and pass (a pattern of scan cycles), and nanoparticle content on the
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