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Enhanced Dynamics of Confined Polymers near the Immiscible Polymer-Polymer Interface: Neutron Reflectivity Studies

February 18, 2020
Author(s)
Kyoung-Il Jo, Younghoon Oh, Bong June Sung, Tae-Ho Kim, Min Seop Um, Woo Jin Choi, Joona Bang, Guangcui Yuan, Sushil K. Satija, Jaseung Koo
For polymer-blend films, local dynamics in confined polymer domains tend to differ from the bulk due to significant contributions from the polymer-polymer interface. Herein, we investigated the diffusion dynamics of entangled polymer thin films confined

Forensic Handwriting Examination and Human Factors: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach

February 17, 2020
Author(s)
Melissa Taylor, Carolyne Bird, Brett Bishop, Ted Burkes, Michael P. Caligiuri, Bryan Found, Wesley P. Grose, Lauren R. Logan, Kenneth E. Melson, Mara L. Merlino, Larry S. Miller, Linton Mohammed, Jonathan Morris, John Paul Osborn, Nikola Osborne, Brent Ostrum, Christopher P. Saunders, Scott A. Shappell, H. David Sheets, Sargur N. Srihari, Reinoud D. Stoel, Thomas W. Vastrick, Heather E. Waltke, Emily J. Will
For some 6,000 years, humans have made an indelible mark on history through the loops, strokes, and other characters that constitute the written form of language - handwriting. The study of handwriting is also an important part of forensic science. By

Implementing Grain Traceability Standards: CART and Simulation

February 18, 2020
Author(s)
Frank H. Riddick, Evan K. Wallace, Scott Nieman, Joe Tevis, R. A. Ferreyra
To ensure food safety, food manufacturers need the ability to quickly identify and trace food products to all equipment and processes throughout the entire associated food supply, production, and transportation network. Government and industry have

Quasi-two-dimensional magnon identification in antiferromagnetic FePS3 via magneto-Raman spectroscopy

February 18, 2020
Author(s)
Amber D. McCreary, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Thuc T. Mai, Robert D. McMichael, Jason E. Douglas, Nicholas P. Butch, Cindi L. Dennis, Rolando Valdes Aguilar, Angela R. Hight Walker
Recently it was discovered that van der Waals-bonded magnets retain long range magnetic ordering even down to a monolayer thickness, opening many avenues in fundamental physics and potential applications of these fascinating materials. One example is FePS3

HIV-1 gp120-CD4-Induced Antibody Complex Elicits CD4 Binding Site-Specific Antibody Response in Mice

February 17, 2020
Author(s)
Andrey Galkin, Yajing Chen, Sijy O'Dell, Roderico Acevedo, James Steinhardt, Yimeng Wang, Richard Wilson, Chi-I Chiang, Alexander Grishaev, John Mascola, Yuxing Li
Elicitation of broadly neutralizing Ab (bNAb) responses toward the conserved HIV-1 envelope (Env) CD4 binding site (CD4bs) by vaccination is an important goal for vaccine development and yet to be achieved. The outcome of previous immunogenicity studies

Macroscopic degradation behaviors of polyethylene under the influence of UV radiation and temperature

February 17, 2020
Author(s)
Hsiang C. Hsueh, Jae H. Kim, Sara Orski, Andrew Fairbrother, Deborah Jacobs, Donald L. Hunston, Christopher C. White, Li Piin Sung, Lakesha Perry
Accelerated weathering tests were performed to investigate the effects of multiple ultraviolet (UV) light intensities and temperatures on the tensile behavior of high-density polyethylene (HDPE). In the macroscopic degradation behavior of HDPE, tensile

A Benchmark Open-Source Implementation of COSMO-SAC

February 14, 2020
Author(s)
Ian H. Bell, Erik Mickoleit, Chieh-Ming Hsieh, Shiang-Tai Lin, Jadran Vrabec, Cornelia Breitkopf, Andreas J?ger
The COSMO-SAC modeling approach has found wide application in a range of industries due to its good predictive capabilities. While UNIFAC is in general more accurate than COSMO-SAC, the UNIFAC model contains many adjustable parameters and cannot be used if

Extending NIST's CAVP Testing of Cryptographic Hash Function Implementations

February 14, 2020
Author(s)
Nicky W. Mouha, Christopher T. Celi
This paper describes a vulnerability in Apple's CoreCrypto library, which affects 11 out of the 12 implemented hash functions: every implemented hash function except MD2 (Message Digest 2), as well as several higher-level operations such as the Hash-based

Optimization of Confined DART-MS

February 14, 2020
Author(s)
Edward R. Sisco, Matthew E. Staymates, Thomas P. Forbes
The use of direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) is seeing increased use in a number of fields, including forensic science, environmental monitoring, food safety, and healthcare. With the increased use, novel configurations have been

Simplified Ray Tracing for the Millimeter Wave Channel: A Performance Evaluation

February 14, 2020
Author(s)
Mattia Lecci, Paolo Testolina, Marco Giordani, Michele Polese, Tanguy Ropitault, Camillo Gentile, Neeraj Varshney, Michele Zorzi
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the cornerstone innovations of fifth- generation (5G) wireless networks, thanks to the massive bandwidth available in these frequency bands. To correctly assess the performance of such systems, however, it

TMPS: Ticket-Mediated Password Strengthening

February 14, 2020
Author(s)
John M. Kelsey, Dana Dachman-Soled, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Sweta Mishra
We introduce the notion of Ticket-Mediated Password Strengthening (TMPS), a technique for allowing users to derive keys from passwords while imposing a strict limit on the number of guesses of their password any attacker can make, and strongly protecting

Valence Instability Across the Magnetostructural Transition in USb 2

February 14, 2020
Author(s)
Z. E. Brubaker, Y. Xiao, P. Chow, C. Kenney-Benson, J. S. Smith, H. Cynn, C. Reynolds, Nicholas Butch, R. J. Zieve, J. R. Jeffries
We have performed pressure dependent X-ray diffraction and resonant X-ray emission spectroscopy experiments on USb 2 to further characterize the AFM-FM transition occuring near 8 GPa. We have found the magnetic transition coincides with a tetragonal to

Development and Applications of a Four-Volt Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

February 13, 2020
Author(s)
Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Alain Rufenacht, Anna E. Fox, Steven B. Waltman, Robert E. Schwall, Justus A. Brevik, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
We have recently created a 4 V rms cryocooled JAWS (Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer) using 204,960 nearly identical Josephson junctions (JJs) that are embedded in coplanar-wave guides. The JJs are pulse-biased at repetition rates up to 16 × 10 9

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 3 Final Report

February 13, 2020
Author(s)
Charles A. Barber, Carolyn Q. Burdette, Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Lee L. Yu, Shaun P. Kotoski
HAMQAP was launched in collaboration with the NIH ODS in 2017. HAMQAP was established to enable laboratories to improve the accuracy of measurements in samples that represent human intake (e.g., foods, dietary supplements, tobacco) and samples that

High-Throughput Exploration of Lithium-Alloy Protection Layers for High-Performance Lithium-Metal Batteries

February 13, 2020
Author(s)
Jamie L. Weaver, Kedar Manandhar, Yaoyu Ren, Drew Stasak, Huilong Hou, Dylan Kirsch, Suchismita Sarker, Apurva Mehta, Saydul Sardar, Muye Xiao, Carlos Le?n, Gus Hart, Takeshi Sunaoshi, John Lemmon, Ichiro Takeuchi
To realize high specific capacity Li-metal batteries, a protection layer for the Li-metal anode is needed. We are carrying out combinatorial screening of Li-alloy thin films as the protection layer which can undergo significant lithiation with minimum

Outcomes and Conclusions from the 2018 AM-Bench Measurements, Challenge Problems, Modeling Submissions, and Conference

February 13, 2020
Author(s)
Lyle E. Levine, Brandon M. Lane, Jarred C. Heigel, Kalman D. Migler, Mark R. Stoudt, Thien Q. Phan, Richard E. Ricker, Maria Strantza, Michael R. Hill, Fan Zhang, Jonathan E. Seppala, Edward J. Garboczi, Erich D. Bain, Daniel Cole, Andrew J. Allen, Jason C. Fox, Carelyn E. Campbell
The Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series (AM-Bench) was established to provide rigorous measurement test data for validating additive manufacturing (AM) simulations for a broad range of AM technologies and material systems. AM-Bench includes

The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture

February 13, 2020
Author(s)
Robert B. Bohn, Craig A. Lee, Martial Michel
This document presents the NIST Federated Cloud Reference Architecture model. This actor/role- based model used the guiding principles of the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture to develop an eleven component model. This document describes these
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