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LIQUID FLOW METER CALIBRATIONS WITH NIST's 15 kg/s WATER FLOW STANDARD

June 15, 2021
Author(s)
Jodie Gail Pope, Aaron Johnson, James Filla, Vern E. Bean, Michael R. Moldover, Joey Boyd, Christopher J. Crowley, Iosif Isaakovich Shinder, Keith A. Gillis, John D. Wright
… Metrology Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to calibrate liquid flow meters for … the rate of change of the mass of water accumulating in a collection tank. The LFS is a fully automated system …

Tantala Kerr nonlinear integrated photonics

May 26, 2021
Author(s)
Hojoong Jung, Su P. Yu, David Carlson, Tara E. Drake, Travis Briles, Scott Papp
… Integrated photonics plays a central role in modern science and technology, enabling experiments from nonlinear science to … without the cracking challenges that are prevalent in stoichiometric silicon nitride. The tantala resonators …

Sequence-based U.S. population data for 7 X STR loci

April 26, 2021
Author(s)
Lisa Borsuk, Carolyn R. Steffen, Kevin M. Kiesler, Peter Vallone, Katherine Gettings
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) U.S. population sample set of unrelated … for seven X-chromosome short tandem repeat (STR) loci in four linkage groups. DXS7132, DXS7423, DXS8378, DXS10074, … call is affected by the extent of flanking region included in the reported sequence. Six of the seven loci gained …

Implementing a Registry Federation for Materials Science Data Discovery

April 13, 2021
Author(s)
Raymond L. Plante, Chandler Becker, Andrea M. Medina-Smith, Kevin G. Brady, Alden A. Dima, Benjamin J. Long, Laura M. Bartolo, Robert Hanisch
… number of national initiatives, we are seeing rapid growth in the data important to materials science that are available … to bring together materials science and information technology experts to develop an international federation of … By making the collection searchable, it aids scientists in industry, universities, and government labs to discover …

Utilization of NIST SRM: A case study for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in NIST SRM 1957 Organic Contaminants in Non-Fortified Human Serum

March 2, 2021
Author(s)
Alix Rodowa, Jessica Reiner
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) generates and maintains thousands of … One such material, NIST SRM 1957 Organic Contaminants in Non-Fortified Human Serum, was one of the first materials … the Certificate of Analysis and was commercially available in 2009. Since the release of SRM 1957, nearly 400 units have …

Broadband high-energy resolution hard x-ray spectroscopy using transition edge sensors at SPring-8

January 12, 2021
Author(s)
Shinya Yamada, Yuto Ichinohe, Hideyuki Tatsuno, Ryota Hayakawa, Hirotaka Suda, Takaya Ohashi, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Tomoya Uruga, Oki Sekizawa, Kiyofumi Nitta, Yoshio Takahashi, Takaaki Itai, Hiroki Suga, Makoto Nagasawa, Masato Tanaka, Minako Kurisu, Tadashi Hashimoto, Douglas Bennett, Edward V. Denison, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Malcolm Durkin, Joseph Fowler, Galen O'Neil, Kelsey Morgan, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Shinji Okada, Takuma Okumura, Toshiyuki Azuma, Toru Tamagawa, Tadaaki Isobe, Satoshi Kohjiro, Hirofumi Noda, Keigo Tanaka, Akimichi Taguchi, Yuki Imai, Kosuke Sato, Tasuku Hayashi, Teruhiko Kashiwabara, Kohei Sakata
… We have succeeded in operating a transition-edge sensor (TES) spectrometer and … of a 240 pixel National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) TES system, and 220 pixels are operated … pixel−1. The tolerance for high count rates is evaluated in terms of energy resolution and live time fraction, leading …

Kirigami engineering - Nanoscale structures exhibiting a range of controllable 3D configurations

December 22, 2020
Author(s)
Xu Zhang, Lior Medina, Haogang Cai, Vladimir Aksyuk, Horacio Espinosa, Omar D. Lopez
… dimension of the structures. Such sharp transition in the design space is an intrinsic property of structures … triggered by an instability, promise great utility in the creation of micro and nanoscale systems that can … approach the sub-micrometer scale with thickness in the nanoscale, which would be challenging to achieve with …

Certification of Standard Reference Material(R) 1992 / ERM(R)-FD305 Zeta Potential - Colloidal Silica (Nominal Mass Fraction 0.15 %)

November 24, 2020
Author(s)
Yannic Ramaye, Vikram Kestens, J. Charoud-Got, S. Mazoua, G. Auclair, Tae Joon Cho, Blaza Toman, Vincent A. Hackley, T. Linsinger
… of SRM 1992/ERM-FD305, silica particles suspended in a borate buffer, certified for electrophoretic mobility … was produced following ISO 17034:2016 and is certified in accordance with ISO Guide 35:2017. The certified reference … (Belgium) and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg (USA). The CRM was produced …

Towards fast screening of organic solar cell blends

August 5, 2020
Author(s)
Lee Richter, Artem Levistsky, Giovanni M. Matrone, Aditi Khirbat, Ilaria Bargigia, Xiaolei Chu, Oded Nahor, Tamar Segal-Perez, Adam Moule, Carlos Silva, Natalie Stingelin, Gitti L. Frey
… understanding of the structural changes that may occur in the active layer over time. Using the relatively …

Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina Flood: An Interdisciplinary Approach

August 1, 2020
Author(s)
John W. van de Lindt, Walter G. Peacock, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Nathanael Rosenheim, Derya Deniz, Maria Dillard, Tori Tomiczek, Andrew Graettinger, Patrick Crawford, Kenneth W. Harrison, Andre Barbosa, Jennifer Tobin, Jennifer Helgeson, Lori Peek, Mehrdad Memari, Elaina Sutley, Sara Hamideh, Donghwan Gu, Stephen Cauffman, Juan Fung
… In early October 2016, Hurricane Matthew crossed North … with some areas receiving 0.38 m to 0.46 m (15 to 18 in) of rainfall on already saturated soil. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded Center for Risk-Based Community …

Spiking and homogenization of biological matrices for production of reference materials using cryogenic processes

July 29, 2020
Author(s)
Debra L. Ellisor, William C. Davis, Rebecca S. Pugh
… step, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can create a custom material on an … basis and circumvent the time delay inherent in large-batch production, thereby generating a fit-for- … to determine the effectiveness of the amendment technique in a fresh frozen matrix by assessing homogeneity and …

Deterministic Intra-Vehicle Communications: Timing and Synchronization

July 26, 2020
Author(s)
Hamid Gharavi
… As we power through to the future, in-vehicle communications' reliance on speed is becoming a … and cost- effectiveness has been our main motivation in developing a high-speed network architecture that is based … Therefore, as a visible example of an Internet of Vehicles technology, we present a time triggered communication-based …

Selection of an Optimal Abrasion Wheel Type for Nano-Coating Wear Studies under Wet or Dry Abrasion Conditions

July 24, 2020
Author(s)
Li Piin Sung, Hsiang C. Hsueh, Elijah Petersen, Tinh Nguyen, Treye Thomas
… Nanocoatings have numerous potential applications in the indoor environment, such as flooring finishes with … number of particles for accurate quantitative analysis. In this study, we evaluated five different wheels, including … fabricated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), for their application in nanocoating …

NIST Roadmap Toward Criteria for Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives

July 7, 2020
Author(s)
Luis Brandao, Michael S. Davidson, Apostol T. Vassilev
… primitives by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The large diversity of possible threshold schemes, as identified in the NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8214, is structured … multi-party. Each track covers cryptographic primitives in several possible threshold modes. The potential for …

Effect of tempering on the ductile-to-brittle transitional behavior of Ni-Cr-Mo low-alloy steel

July 1, 2020
Author(s)
Frank W. DelRio, May L. Martin, Raymond L. Santoyo, Enrico Lucon
… specimens at the National Institute of Standards and Technology were removed from inventory due to unacceptable variability in absorbed energy, leading to the advent of new methods and … and maintain the prescribed energy levels. Objective: In this paper, we investigated the ductile-to-brittle …

Determination of the isotopic change in nuclear charge radius from extreme-ultraviolet spectroscopy of highly charged ions of Xe

June 16, 2020
Author(s)
Yuri Ralchenko, Roshani Silwal, A. Lapierre, John Gillaspy, Joan M. Dreiling, S A. Blundell, Dipti Goyal, A. Borovik, Jr., G Gwinner, A.C.C. Villari, Endre Takacs
… ion trap (EBIT) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology was employed to measure the isotopic shift of the … accurate atomic-structure calculations, the difference in the mean-square nuclear charge radius of the two xenon … ions is a precise method for measurements of changes in the charge radii of isotopes, and that this method can be …

Radionuclide calibrator responses for 224Ra in solution and adsorbed on calcium carbonate microparticles

June 12, 2020
Author(s)
Denis E. Bergeron, Elisa Napoli, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Leticia S. Pibida, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Gro Hjellum
… dose calculations, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed geometry-specific calibration … Methods: The calibration factors were determined for 224Ra in secular equilibrium with its progeny as 224RaCl2 solutions … and 224Ra adsorbed onto CaCO3 microparticles suspended in water. To evaluate geometry effects (container size and …

Global City Teams Challenge Smart Agriculture and Rural SuperCluster Workshop Report 2020

June 9, 2020
Author(s)
Sokwoo Rhee, Dennis Buckmaster, Jean Rice, Josh Seidemann, Mo Shakouri, Robert Tse, Hongwei Zhang
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established the Global City Teams Challenge … across the world to use as collaboration platform in their pursuit of deploying Internet of Things (IoT) and … February 19, 2020, this SuperCluster conducted a workshop in Phoenix, Arizona to further refine its blueprint for smart …

Passwords Protect My Stuff a Study of Childrens Password Practices

March 10, 2020
Author(s)
Yee-Yin Choong, Mary F. Theofanos, Karen Renaud, Suzanne Prior
… Children use technology from a very young age, and often have to … surveys of 189 3rd to 8th graders from two Midwest schools in the United States (US). We found that children have on …

Engineering Microporous Ethane-Trapping Metal-Organic Frameworks for Boosting Ethane/Ethylene Separation

February 21, 2020
Author(s)
Jiyan Pei, Jia-Xin Wang, Kai Shao, Yu Yang, Yuanjing Cui, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Bin Li, Guodong Qian
… replace the energy-intensive cryogenic distillation technology, is of prime importance in the petrochemical industry. It is still very challenging … enables the control of pore size and functionality in a family of isomorphic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for …

A Review of Social Media Use During Disaster Response and Recovery Phases

January 31, 2020
Author(s)
Camila E. Young, Erica D. Kuligowski, Aashna Pradhan
… Safety Team Act, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted an investigation of the May 22, 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri. The final report concluded with a list … including but not limited to recommendations for action in improved and standardized emergency communications. …

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 3, Use Cases and General Requirements

October 21, 2019
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang, Geoffrey Fox
… Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven … of data is outpacing scientific and technological advances in data analytics. To advance progress in Big Data, the NIST Big Data Public Working Group (NBD-PWG) …

Carbon Monoxide Concentrations and Carboxyhemoglobin Profiles from Portable Generators with a CO Safety Shutoff Operating in a Test House

June 20, 2019
Author(s)
Steven J. Emmerich, Stephen M. Zimmerman, Steven J. Nabinger, Matthew J. Brookman
… of consumers from portable generators that can result in death or serious and/or lasting adverse health effects in exposed individuals. Under an interagency agreement with … (CPSC-I-17-0023), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a series of tests to characterize …
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