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Kevin O. Douglass, Zeeshan Ahmed, Douglas A. Olson
We present recent work aimed at creating a standard for the dynamic measurement of pressure. A near-IR laser spectroscopy system is demonstrated for measuring 8 cm-1 in 50 µs with a 4 kHz repetition rate.
Aside from a double helix, DNA folds into non-canonical structures, one of which is the guanine quadruplex. Cationic porphyrins bind guanine quadruplexes, but the effects of ligand binding on the structure of guanine quadruplexes with more than four
Ryan C. Nieuwendaal, Krishna Jayachandrababu, Ross Verploegh, Johannes Leisen, David Sholl, Sankar Nair
Mixed-linker zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are nanoporous materials that exhibit continuous and controllable tunability of properties like effective pore size, hydrophobicity and organophilicity. The structure of mixed-linker ZIFs has been studied
We describe an approach for creating a cost-effective, field deployable dynamic pressure standard based on measurement of fundamental quantum properties of molecular systems. From the linewidth and intensities of ro-vibrational transitions we plan on
Anthony P. Kotula, Angela R. Hight Walker, Kalman D. Migler
We perform Raman spectroscopic measurements on normal alkanes (C nH 2n+2) with 21 {less than or equal to} n {less than or equal to} 60 with a specific focus on the conformational disorder that occurs below the melt temperature. We employ a three-state
Derivatives requiring either anhydrous or aqueous reaction conditions were prepared for robust and reliable gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) characterization of hydroxyl, mercapto, and amino benzoic acids. Methylation and trialkylsilylation
We outline the details of acquiring quantitative 13C cross-polarization magic angle spinning (CPMAS) NMR spectra on the most ubiquitous polymer for organic electronics (OE) applications, poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), despite other groups claims that
Since the discovery of semiconducting monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, a variety of experimental and theoretical studies have been carried out seeking to understand the intrinsic exciton population decay and valley relaxation dynamics. Reports
Douglas C. Meier, Kurt D. Benkstein, Wilbur S. Hurst, Pamela M. Chu
Performance specifications for point chemical vapor detectors are specified in ASTM E2885-13 and ASTM E2933-13. The performance evaluation of the detectors requires the accurate delivery of known concentrations of the chemical target to the system under
Tiffany S. Williams, Nate Orloff, James S. Baker, Sandi G. Miller, Bharath N. Natarajan, Jan Obrzut, Linda S. McCorkle, Marisabel Lebron-Colon, James Gaier, Michael A. Meador, James Alexander Liddle
Carbon nanotube sheets are novel implementation of carbon nanotubes that enable the tailoring of electrical and mechanical properties for applications in the automotive and aerospace industries. Small molecule functionalization and/or post-processing
David A. Long, Adam J. Fleisher, Qingnan Liu, Joseph T. Hodges
A cavity ring-down spectrometer was used to reach the quantum noise limit in the mid-infrared spectral region. Quantum noise was observed not only in the individual ring-down decay events but also in the corresponding ensemble statistics with a magnitude
We discuss the precision of 1D chemical-shift-based 1H spin diffusion NMR experiments as well as straightforward experimental protocols for reducing errors. The 1H spin diffusion NMR experiments described herein are useful on samples that contain
Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Baptiste Gault, Michael Ashton, Susan B. Sinnott, Michael P. Moody, David W. Saxey, D. K. Schreiber
The cold emission of particles from surfaces under intense electric fields is a process which underpins a variety of applications including atom probe tomography (APT), an analytical microscopy technique with near-atomic spatial resolution. Increasingly
Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Thomas L. Boulier, Roger C. Brown, Silvio B. Koller, Jeremy T. Young, Alexey V. Gorshkov, S L. Rolston, James V. Porto
We observe interaction-induced broadening of the two-photon 5s-18s transition in 87Rb atoms trapped in a 3D optical lattice. The measured linewidth increases by nearly two orders of magnitude with increasing atomic density and excitation strength, with
Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Ruiz-Morales Yosadara, Stephen A. Wise
A methodology for the characterization of groups of PAHs using a combination of Normal Phase Liquid Chromatography with Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy (NPLC/UV-vis) and Gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) was used for the identification and
Lee J. Richter, Hyunbok Lee, Christopher McNeil, Eliot Gann, Lars Thomsen, S. Park, J. Jeong, Z. A. Page, Egle Puodziukynaite, Todd Emrick, Alejandro Briseno, John C. Stephenson, Dean M. DeLongchamp
Market demand for ubiquitous, increased functionality products at low cost (the internet of things) is spurring development in additive, solution processing of electronic devices. Performance in thin-film functional devices, be they transistors, diodes, or
Tracey B. Schock, Sheri Strickland, Edna J. Steele, Daniel W. Bearden
Environmental metabolomics studies employing earthworms as sentinels for soil contamination are numerous, but the instability of the metabolite extracts from these organisms has been minimally addressed. This study evaluated the efficacy of adding a heat-
Thao M. Nguyen, John M. Pettibone, Julien Gigault, Vincent A. Hackley
Gold nanorods (GNRs) occupy a unique place in nanotechnology due to the ability to tune the optical properties from the middle visible to near IR spectrum by varying their size and aspect ratio (AR). Although there have been many anisotropic growth
Jeri S. Roth, Paul A. Rudnick, Sanford Markey, Yuri Mirokhin, Xinjian Yan, Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi, Stephen Stein, Nathan J. Edwards, Ratna R. Thangudu, Karen A. Ketchum, Christopher R. Kinsinger, Mehdi Mesri, Henry Rodriguez
The Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) has produced large proteomics datasets from the mass spectrometric interrogation of tumor samples previously studied by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program. The availability of the genomic and
Hideyuki Tatsuno, William B. Doriese, Douglas A. Bennett, Catalina Curceanu, Joseph W. Fowler, Johnathon D. Gard, Fredrick P. Gustafsson, Tadashi Hashimoto, Ryugo S. Hayano, James P. Hays-Wehle, Gene C. Hilton, Mihail Iliescu, Shigeru Ishimoto, Kenta Itahashi, Masashiko Iwasaki, Keisuke Kuwabara, Yue Ma, Johann Marton, Hirofumi Noda, Galen C. O'Neil, Shinji Okada, Haruhiko Outa, Carl D. Reintsema, Masaharu Sato, Daniel R. Schmidt, Hexi Shi, Ken Suzuki, Takatoshi Suzuki, Jens Uhlig, Joel N. Ullom, Eberhard Widmann, Shinya Yamada, Johann Zmeskal, Daniel S. Swetz
A performance evaluation of superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) in the environment of a pion beam line at a particle accelerator is presented. Averaged across the 209 functioning sensors in the array, the achieved energy resolution is 5.2 eV
The spectrum of five-times-ionized zirconium Zr VI was observed from 160 Å to 2000 Å with sliding spark discharges on 10.7-m normal- and grazing-incidence spectrographs. The existing analysis of this spectrum [Khan Z. A. et al. 1985 Phys. Scr. 31 837] was
A cavity ring-down spectrometer and condensation particle counter were used to investigate the limitations in the separation of singly and multiply charged aerosol particles by a tandem differential mobility analyzer (DMA) and aerosol particle mass
Seungwan Ryu, Charles Camp, Ying Jin, Marcus T. Cicerone, Young Jong Lee
Coherent Raman imaging requires high peak power laser pulses to maximize the nonlinear multiphoton signal generation, but accompanying photo-induced sample damage often poses a challenge to microscopic imaging studies. We demonstrate that a beam-scanning
Jungseok Chae, Qingfeng Dong, Jinsong Huang, Andrea Centrone
CH3NH3PbI3-xClx perovskites enable fabrication of highly efficient solar cells. Chloride ions benefit the morphology, carrier diffusion length and stability of perovskite films; however, whether those benefits stem from the presence of Cl- in the precursor