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Information Theoretic Considerations in the Design of an Intelligent Machine

January 1, 1988

Author(s)

D Orser

A fundamental problem any design for an intelligent machine must address is the following: How will the machine, immersed in a physical environment whose number of states is orders of magnitude larger than it own number of internal (information theoretic

The Architecture of the NBS Factory Automation Research Testbed

April 1, 1987

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Peter Brown

A small batch manufacturing system testbed, currently under construction at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS), is designed to support research in factory automation standards. One of the expressed goals of the NBS Automated Manufacturing Research

Goals of and Charge to the NIST Workshop on Software Measures and Metrics to Reduce Security Vulnerabilities (SwMM-RSV)

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

The Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan seeks to fundamentally alter the dynamics of security, reversing adversaries' asymmetrical advantages. Achieving this reversal is the mid-term goal of the plan, which calls for "sustainably

Highly Charged Ion Studies at the NIST EBIT

January 1, 2001

Author(s)

L P. Ratliff, J R. Roberts

… Published as Chapter 9 of: Trapping Highly Charged Ions: Fundamentals and Applications, ed. J.D. Gillaspy, Nova …

Twin-related grain boundary engineering of additively manufactured 316L stainless steel

December 1, 2025

Author(s)

Chenglu Tang, Jingfan Yang, Fan Zhang, Joseph Aroh, Ernest Porterfield, Barton Prorok, Xiaoyuan Lou

Twin-related grain boundary engineering (GBE) enhances the boundary-related degradation of materials, such as intergranular corrosion by incorporating a high density of twin boundaries. Conventional GBE typically requires one or multiple thermomechanical

Quasi-static and dynamic fracture toughness of 316L stainless steel welds at cryogenic temperatures

November 13, 2025

Author(s)

Jake Benzing, Enrico Lucon, Nicholas Derimow, Ross Rentz, Timothy Weeks

This study investigates the cryogenic fracture toughness of four commercially welded 316L stainless steel plates using Charpy-sized single-edge bend [SE(B)] specimens and standard Charpy impact tests, under quasi-static and dynamic loading at 77 K (liquid

Impact of Additive Manufacturing Materials on Thermal Performance of Silicon Reference Cells

January 20, 2024

Author(s)

Andrew Shore, Jae Hyun Kim, Behrang Hamadani

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is quickly becoming a widespread manufacturing method offering timely and cost-effective build times for unique part geometries with an increasing range of material offerings. One unique use for additive

The causal relationship between melt pool geometry and energy absorption measured in real time during laser-based manufacturing

December 16, 2021

Author(s)

Brian Simonds, Jack R. Tanner, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, Paul A. Williams, Niranjan Parab, Cang Zhao, Tao Sun

During laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing, a protean pool of molten metal governs a complex energy absorption process as it presents as either a highly reflective surface, a deeply absorbing cavity (a keyhole), or some amalgamation thereof. To

Electron Impact Total Ionization Cross Sections of CF 4 , C 2 F^6^ and C 3 F^8^

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

H Nishimura, W M. Huo, Yong Sik Kim, M A. Ali

Both theoretical and experimental electron-impact total ionization cross sections of CF 4, C 2F 6 and C 3F 8 are presented. The experimental cross sections have been measured as a function of incident electron energy T from threshold to 3 keV. A parallel

Towards Absolute Viability Measurements for Bacteria

September 12, 2021

Author(s)

Joy Dunkers, Hariharan K. Iyer, Brynna H. Jones, Charles Camp, Stephan J. Stranick, Nancy Lin

Quantifying viable, vegetative bacteria is a critical measurand in healthcare diagnostics, food safety, and antimicrobial development. Viability determination has traditionally relied on such techniques as plate counting, colorimetric or fluorescent

Improving the Performance of a Roof Top Air-Conditioning Unit by Refrigerant Circuitry Optimization

August 2, 2013

Author(s)

David A. Yashar, Sunil Lee

This study demonstrates the performance improvement of an air-to-air roof top unit (RTU) achieved by optimizing an evaporators refrigerant circuitry using evolutionary algorithms. The subject of this study is a unit with a cooling capacity of 7.5 Tons (26

Reproducibility and Robustness of a Real-Time Microfluidic Cell Toxicity Assay

May 15, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory A. Cooksey, John T. Elliott, Anne L. Plant

… within microfluidic devices and rather insensitive to cell-plating density. Even though proliferation rates between …

Thermal Performance of Fire Resistive Materials III. Fire Test on a Bare Steel Column

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Leonard M. Hanssen, Boris Wilthan

This report is part III in an ongoing series concerning the characterization and modeling of the thermal performance of fire resistive materials (FRMs). In part I, a methodology for characterizing FRMs to provide quantitative material property inputs for

Fracture Modes in Brittle Coatings With Large Interlayer Modulus Mismatch

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Herzl Chai, Brian R. Lawn, S Wuttiphan

Fracture modes in a model glass/polymer coating/substrate system indented with hard spheres are investigated. The large modulus mismatch between the glass and polymer results in distinctive transverse fracture modes in the brittle coating: exaggerated

Charge-state dependent ion condensation near conjugated polymer backbones

November 15, 2025

Author(s)

Dilara Meli, Quentin Thomas, Guillaume Freychet, Lucas Flagg, Iain McCulloch, David Beljonne, Lee Richter, Jonathan Rivnay

… for a range of applications, a deep understanding of the fundamentals of mixed charge transport in these materials, …

Multi-timescale Frequency-Phase Matching for High-Yield Nonlinear Photonics

November 6, 2025

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Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Lida Xu, Gregory Moille, Christopher Flower, Supratik Sarkar, Apurva Padhye, Shao-Chien Ou, Daniel Suarez-Ferero, Mahdi Ghafariasl, Yanne K. Chembo, Kartik Srinivasan, Mohammad Hafezi

Integrated nonlinear photonics struggles to deliver wafer-scale functional device yields: Nanometer-level fabrication variations compromise the strict frequency-phase matching mandated by energy- and momentum-conserving nonlinear processes. We introduce

Improved Partition Functions and Related Thermochemical Quantities for the (16)O2 and H2(16)O Molecules

July 10, 2025

Author(s)

Tibor Furtenbacher, Allan Harvey, Attila G Csaszar

Based on the direct summation technique, improved ideal-gas partition functions and related thermochemical quantities are reported for the parent isotopologues of molecular oxygen and water, (16)O2 and H2(16)O, respectively. The new results update those of

Determining the rates of a-tocopherol movement in DPPC vesicles using small-angle neutron scattering

February 1, 2025

Author(s)

Dominik Dziura, Isabelle Dib, Omotayo Gbadamosi, Stuart R. Castillo, Maksymilian Dziura, Ryan Murphy, Elizabeth Kelley, Drew Marquardt

A Helmholtz Energy Equation of State for 3,3,3-Trifluoroprop-1-ene (R-1243zf)

January 15, 2025

Author(s)

Ryo Akasaka, Eric Lemmon

A new fundamental equation of state expressed as a function of the Helmholtz energy is presented for 3,3,3-trifluoroprop-1-ene (R-1243zf). The equation is valid from the triple point temperature (122.35 K) to 430 K at pressures up to 35 MPa. The expected

Synaptic-Like Plasticity in 2D Nanofluidic Memristor from Competitive Bicationic Transport

November 6, 2024

Author(s)

Yechan Noh, Alex Smolyanitsky

Synaptic plasticity, the dynamic tuning of communication strength between neurons, serves as a fundamental basis for memory and learning in biological organisms. This adaptive nature of synapses is considered one of the key features contributing to the

Effects pf Dilution and Age on Perfume Release from Two Mixed-Surfactant Systems Containing Hydrotropes

November 1, 2024

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Marzieh Mirzamani, Marc Flickinger, Ronald Jones, Kavssery Ananthapadmanabhan, Ed Smith, Harshita Kumari

This study investigates the encapsulation and controlled release of perfume within micellar systems. We explored how perfume‐surfactant interactions and micelle structure influence fragrance delivery. Two mixed‐micelle systems, one with branched‐tail and

Theory and Monte Carlo simulation of the ideal gas with shell particles in the canonical, isothermal-isobaric, grand canonical and Gibbs ensembles

August 22, 2024

Author(s)

Harold Hatch, Vincent K. Shen, David Corti

Theories of small systems play an important role in the fundamental understanding of finite size effects in statistical mechanics, as well as the validation of molecular simulation results as no computer can simulate fluids in the thermodynamic limit

Quantum metrology algorithms for dark matter searches with clocks

June 7, 2024

Author(s)

Muhammad Zaheer, Naleli Matjelo, David Hume, Marianna Safronova, David Leibrandt

Quantum metrology involves improving the sensitivity of a quantum sensor to a signal while circumventing sensitivity to noise using algorithms from quantum information science. Atomic clocks are among the most sensitive quantum sensors, with recent

Metrology for 2D materials: a perspective review from the international roadmap for devices and systems

April 8, 2024

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Albert Davydov, Yaw S. Obeng, Ndubuisi George Orji, Umberto Celano, Daniel Schmidt, Carlos Beitia

The international roadmap of devices and systems (IRDS) projects that 2D materials will be inserted into high-volume manufacturing as channel materials, mostly for low-power applications within the next ten years. While their broader introduction in the

EOS-CG-2021: A Mixture Model for the Calculation of Thermodynamic Properties of CCS Mixtures

November 16, 2023

Author(s)

Tobias Neumann, Stefan Herrig, Ian Bell, Robin Beckmuller, Eric W. Lemmon, Monika Thol, Roland Span

Thermodynamic properties for CCS-relevant mixtures can be calculated with the fundamental equation of state presented in this work over wide ranges of pressure, temperature, and composition for gas, liquid, and supercritical states, as well as phase

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