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Harnessing Wrinkle Delamination Mechanics to Measure and Pattern Polymer Coatings

March 21, 2010
Author(s)
Adam J. Nolte, Jun Y. Chung, Christopher Stafford
Compressive stresses in stiff polymer coatings can give rise to surface instabilities in which the coating adopts a sinusoidally wrinkled morphology with a dominant wavelength, d, as displayed in Figure 1a. Such instabilities are generally observed for

Influence of molecular mass on the modulus of thin polystyrene films

March 21, 2010
Author(s)
Jessica M. Torres, Christopher Stafford, Bryan D. Vogt
In this work, we examine the influence of relative molecular mass (Mn, or the number average molecular mass) of PS on the thickness-dependent moduli using a wrinkling based instability of a stiff film on an elastic substrate. This wrinkling based metrology

NIST Handbook 150-24, Personal Body Armor

March 21, 2010
Author(s)
Hazel M. Richmond, Jeffrey Horlick
NIST Handbook 150-24 presents technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Personal Body Armor program. It is intended for information and use by accredited

Direct Measurement of the Magnetocaloric Effect in Gd_5}Si_2}Ge_1.9}Ga_0.1}

March 19, 2010
Author(s)
E. N. Palacios, G. F. Wang, R. Burriel, Virgil Provenzano, Robert D. Shull
Doping with some metals (Fe, Cu, Ga, Mn, Al) reduces or removes the strong thermal hysteresis in the giant magnetocaloric alloys Gd_5}Si_x}Ge_1-x}_4}. We present heat capacity and direct measurements of the isothermal entropy change, ¢ST , and adiabatic

Fundamental constants and tests of theory in Rydberg states of one-electron ions

March 19, 2010
Author(s)
Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter Mohr, Joseph N. Tan
The nature of the theory of circular Rydberg states of hydrogenlike ions allows highly-accurate predictions to be made for energy levels. In particular, uncertainties arising from the problematic nuclear size correction which beset low angular-momentum

Marine Mammal Blubber Reference and Control Materials for Use in the Determination of Halogenated Organic Compounds and Fatty Acids

March 19, 2010
Author(s)
John R. Kucklick, Michele M. Schantz, Rebecca S. Pugh, Barbara J. Porter, Dianne L. Poster, Paul R. Becker, Teresa Rowles, Stefan D. Leigh, Stephen A. Wise
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a diverse collection of control materials derived from marine mammal blubber, fat, and serum. Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1945 Organics in Whale Blubber was recertified for polychlorinated

Benchmarking and Standardization of Intelligent Robotic Systems

March 18, 2010
Author(s)
Rajmohan Madhavan, R Lakaemper, Tamas Kalmar-Nagy
From mundane and repetitive tasks to assisting first responders in saving lives of victims in disaster scenarios, robots are expected to play an important role in our lives in the coming years. Despite recent advances in mobile robotic systems, lack of

Characterization of Soluble Anthradithiophene Derivatives

March 18, 2010
Author(s)
Brad Conrad, Calvin Chan, Marsha A. Loth, John E. Anthony, David J. Gundlach
We will discuss the growth and electrical measurements of a newly developed, partially fluorinated anthradithiophene (F-ADT) derivative with tert-butyldiphenylsilyl (TBDMS) side groups. Single crystals of the material can be readily grown and device hole

Measurement Science Roadmap for Net-Zero Energy Buildings

March 18, 2010
Author(s)
Joan Pellegrino, Arthur H. Fanney, Andrew K. Persily, Piotr A. Domanski, William M. Healy, Steven T. Bushby
Buildings account for nearly a third of the world s energy use today, and this share is expected to rise along with population growth and levels of prosperity. In the United States, residential and commercial buildings consume about 40% of primary energy

NIST Sustainable Infrastructure Material Program

March 17, 2010
Author(s)
Jonathan W. Martin, Xiaohong Gu, Tinh Nguyen, Joannie W. Chin
NIST has initiated a research program for improving the quality of the data input for making economic sustainability assessments of polymeric infrastructure materials through improvements in the measurement science for this data. Sustainability assessments

The mouse ortholog of NEIL3 is a functional DNA glycosylase in vitro and in vivo

March 16, 2010
Author(s)
Minin Liu, Viswanath Bandaru, Jeffrey Bond, Pawel Jaruga, Xiaobei Zhao, Plamen P. Christov, Cynthia Burrows, Carmelo J. Rizzo, Miral M. Dizdar, Susan Wallace
To protect cells from oxidative DNA damage and mutagenesis, organisms possess multiple glycosylases to recognize the damaged bases and to initiate the Base Excision Repair (BER) pathway. Recently, three DNA glycosylases were identified in mammals that are

Toward scalable ion traps for quantum information processing

March 16, 2010
Author(s)
Jason Amini, Hermann Uys, Janus H. Wesenberg, Signe Seidelin, Joseph W. Britton, John J. Bollinger, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Christian Ospelkaus, Aaron Vandevender, David J. Wineland
The basic components for a quantum information processor using trapped ions have been demonstrated in a number of experiments. To perform complex algorithms that are not tractable with classical computers, these components need to be integrated and scaled

An Approximation Algorithm for the Coefficients of the Reliability Polynomial

March 15, 2010
Author(s)
Brian D. Cloteaux, Isabel M. Beichl, F Sullivan
The reliability polynomial gives the probability that a graph remains connected given that each edge in it can fail independently with a probability p. While in general determining the coefficients of this polynomial is #P-complete, we give a randomized
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