Journals

Understanding the Electronic Structure of Ruthenium Oxides during Redox Cycling with High Energy Resolution X‑ray Absorption Spectroscopy

August 11, 2026

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R. Soyoung Kim, Oscar Parades Mellone, John Vinson, Angel Garcia-Esparza, Mengxin Liu, Ikenna Chris-Okoro, Eric Zhao, Yiming Ding, Haoyi Li, Lei Zhang, Geoffroy Hautier, Tanja Cuk, Jin Suntivich, Dhananjay Kumar, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Junko Yano

Ruthenium oxides are essential catalysts and charge storage materials whose performance across reactions, from the oxygen evolution reaction to the chlor-alkali...

Adhesion Behaviors of Polydimethylsiloxane with Porous Membranes

August 10, 2026

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Meril Moni, Emma Emma Letourneau, Sundus Qureshi, Christina Cabrello, Jason Killgore, Yifu Ding

Multilayer configuration is used in many membrane technologies. Among them, Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)films are often laminated atop porous supports to either...

Revealing statistically robust strain rate effects on mechanical performance of pristine single fiber aramids

August 10, 2026

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Atik Faisal, Alexander Landauer, Walter Adamy, Dumbari Kabari, Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard, Amanda Forster, Amy Engelbrehcht-Wiggans

High-performance synthetic fibers, especially aramid fibers, are widely used for body armor applications for their strength, stiffness, and excellent strength...

Comparative Analysis of Voltage Losses in Perovskite and GaAs Solar Cells at Low Temperatures

August 6, 2026

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Hurriyet Yuce Cakir, Isaac Ogunniranye, Margaret A. Stevens, Matthew P. Lumb, Kenneth J. Schmieder, Susanna Thon, Zhaoning Song, Behrang Hamadani

This study presents a comparative analysis of the open circuit voltage behavior of perovskite vs. gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cells at low temperatures...

Measurement Error Models Enable Accurate Correlation of Nanoscale Properties and Structures

August 6, 2026

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Adam Pintar, Andrew Madison, Craig Copeland, Natalia Farkas, Samuel Stavis

Precise measurement of the Kerr coefficient using phase-sensitive pump-probe hyperspectral imaging

August 5, 2026

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Jared Wahlstrand, Chad Cruz

Phase-sensitive pump-probe hyperspectral imaging is a precise technique for absolute two-beam measurements of the optical Kerr coefficient (n2). The irradiance...

Methods for Estimating Fe Redox in Mesoamerican Jadeite Jade

August 5, 2026

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Edward P. Vicenzi, Thomas Lam, Evan Jahrman, Bruce Ravel, Melinda Dyar, Jamie Weaver

Green jadeite has been selectively mined and used by Mesoamerican Indigenous cultures for centuries, with the green hues resulting from interactions among...

AI-Guided Prediction of Aflatoxin B1 Bioactivation Validated by Toxicity and DNA Adduct Formation in VERO E6 Cells

August 4, 2026

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Bharti Sangwan, Ugochukwu Okoro, Isabella Atteck, Pawel Jaruga, Chinwe Ekenna, Michael Fasullo

VERO cells, derived from the kidney epithelium of the African green monkey, are widely used in virology, but their ability to metabolize xenobiotics is not...

Quantum Wave Atom Transforms

August 3, 2026

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Marianna Podzorova, Yi-Kai Liu

This paper constructs the first efficient implementation of a quantum wavelet packet transform with a 'parabolic scaling' tree structure, sometimes called a...

Absorptivity scaling behaviour during laser powder bed fusion of copper alloys

August 1, 2026

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Sagar Patel, David Deisenroth, Alimehr Peyman, Mihaela Vlasea

Copper (Cu) and its alloys are used in many industries owing to their high thermal and electrical conductivity, alongside their corrosion resistance and...

Challenges and research opportunities in chemical thermodynamics, thermophysics, and material property science

July 31, 2026

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Vladimir Diky, Tausif Altamash, Marc Assael, Ala Bazyleva, Ralf Dohrn, Peter Dvorak, José Fonseca, Johan Jacquemin, Georgios Kontogeorgis, Joerg Krafczyk, Herbert Loria, Demian Riccardi, Bastian Schmid, Vojtěch Štejfa, Jadran Vrabec, Thorsten Windmann

A new web service for sharing unresolved inconsistencies and unexplained anomalies in thermophysical data has been launched. The goals of this service are to...

The development and use of isotope dilution mass spectrometry methods for the quantification of target proteins in certified reference materials

July 29, 2026

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Gavin O'Connor, Christian Arsene, Claudia Swart, Bernd Guttler, Luise Luckau, Milena Quaglia, David Bunk, Karen Phinney, Liesbet Deprez, Guy Auclair, Qinde Liu, Liqing Wu, Vincent Delatour, Amandine Boeuf

Originally developed for small molecules in the late 1990s and early 2000s, isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) also became the "go to" method of...

Experimental Automation for High-Throughput Collection of Phase Behavior and Dynamic Light Scattering Data for Thermally-Responsive Polymers

July 29, 2026

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Paul Salipante, Phillip Pickett, Austin Gallegos, Colin McCarragher, Steven Hudson, Vivek Prabhu

Many responsive polymeric systems, important for pharmaceutical formulations, exhibit complex phase behavior which require both large and precise experimental...

Comprehensive solution NMR characterization of the direct thrombin inhibitor peptide bivalirudin and its process impurities by heteronuclear mapping at natural isotopic abundance.

July 29, 2026

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Subrata Mishra, Anupreet Kaur, Sitaram Bhavaraju

Bivalirudin is a 20-residue synthetic peptide that functions as a bi-valent thrombin inhibitor by simultaneously engaging thrombin's active site and exosite I...

Opioid sensing at point-of-need

July 29, 2026

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Thinh Bui, Edward Sisco, Kyle Chapkin, Wenqi Zhu, Junyeob Song, Dhruv Forma, Anthony Kearsley, Henri Lezec

The opioid epidemic, headlined by synthetic fentanyl, is a growing international concern that has especially garnered great attention in the United States at...

Effects of Roof Age on Asphalt Shingle Performance During High Wind Events

July 28, 2026

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Wesam Mohamed, Rachel Kovar, Franklin Lombardo, Tanya Brown-Giammanco

This manuscript aims to examine whether roof age affects the level of roof cover damage observed under relatively similar hurricane wind speeds. This manuscript...

librla: A library of randomized linear algebra routines

July 27, 2026

Author(s)

Zydrunas Gimbutas, Adrianna Gillman

Randomized linear algebra algorithms have become a vital tool for a variety of areas including fast direct solvers, reduced order modeling, and data science...

Redox-Buffering PEAI-CeOx Passivation Suppresses Thermo-Mechanical Degradation in Perovskite Solar Cells Under Rapid Thermal Cycling

July 27, 2026

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George Asare, Minwoo Lee, Joshua Adu, Juhong Oh, Behrang Hamadani, Jae Sung Yun, Helen Park

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) show critical thermo-mechanical and defect mediated degradation at interfaces, limiting their deployment in terrestrial high...

Loss of Low Temperature Charpy Impact Energy in Additively Manufactured Duplex Stainless Steels

July 27, 2026

Author(s)

Andrew Iams, Todd Palmer

Frequency Comb Behavior from RF Driven Rydberg Dissipative Time Crystals

July 27, 2026

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Dixith Manchaiah, William Watterson, Christopher Holloway

Driven nonlinear oscillators constitute a universal paradigm for understanding synchronization, frequency pulling, and frequency comb formation in...

First international comparison of three different tabletop Kibble balances from 1 mg to 10 g

July 27, 2026

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Johannes Konrad, Kumar Arumugam, Norbert Rogge, Christian Rothleitner, Hugo Gasca-Aragon, Leon Chao, Stephan Schlamminger, Suren Vasilyan, Thomas Fröhlich

An international comparison of three tabletop Kibble balances for the calibration of small mass standards is reported. Two independently manufactured sets of...

The need for standardization and improved open (meta)data practices in metaproteomics

July 26, 2026

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Tim Van Den Bossche, Kay Schallert, Jean Armengaud, Zhibin Ning, Daniel Figeys, Pratik Jagtap, Benoît Kunath, Lucia Grenga, Juan Antonio Vizcaino, Benjamin Neely, Leyuan Li, Drik Benndorf, Nico Jehmlich, Paul Wilmes, Robert Hettich, Jana Seifert, Sergio Uzzau, Mary Lipton, Manuel Kleiner, Magnus Arntzen, Lennart Martens, Robert Heyer

Metaproteomics enables functional insight into microbial communities by identifying and quantifying proteins in complex samples. Yet, heterogeneous analytical...

Illuminating the physics of melting during laser-based manufacturing of IN718 by measuring laser light reflections

July 25, 2026

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David Deisenroth, Haoran Shi, Moritz Wittemer, Nismath Valiyakath Vadakkan Habeeb, Kevin Chou, Wenda Tan, Jordan Weaver, Katrin Wudy

It has been known since the early years of laser welding that measuring of the energy absorbed into, and reflected away from, metallic materials can provide...

Evaluation of almond and hazelnut reference materials for standardizing allergenic protein detection and quantification

July 24, 2026

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Lisa Kilpatrick, David Bunk, Karen Phinney

Almonds and hazelnuts are widely consumed tree nuts; nevertheless, they are recognized by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and regulatory agencies...

Towards interoperable modeling of toehold-mediated strand exchange circuits across DNA nanotechnology and engineering biology

July 23, 2026

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Zoila Jurado Quiroga, Geoffrey Taghon, Samuel Schaffter

Originally developed for DNA nanotechnology, toehold-mediated strand exchange (TMSE) circuits are gaining traction in synthetic biology due to their high...

Site-Specific Glycosylation Profiling of Protein Subunit and Inactivated Virus Vaccines

July 22, 2026

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Zachary Goecker, Meghan Burke Harris, Yi Liu, Yuri Mirokhin, Sergey Sheetlin, Guanghui Wang, Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi, Xiaoyu Yang, Stephen Stein

Background/Objectives: Glycosylation can affect vaccine antigen structure and function, making site-specific glycan characterization relevant to antigen quality...

Supporting molecular detection of A(H5N1) through development and characterization of RNA reference materials

July 22, 2026

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Eileen Moran, Monique Hunter, Jason Kralj, Kristine Gierz, Julia Frederick, Jimma Liddell, Lisa Keong, Bo Shu, John Barnes, Jasmine Chaitram, Marie Kirby, Todd Davis, Stephanie Servetas, Scott Jackson, Peter Vallone, Megan Cleveland

In 2024, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated an interagency...

Development of a Multi-Criteria Indicator for Product Life Cycle Decision-Making

July 21, 2026

Author(s)

Yong Han Kim, Sidi Deng, Thomas Maani, Matthew Triebe, Nehika Mathur, John Sutherland

Maximizing product value and resource efficiency has been widely regarded as a key objective throughout the product life cycle, supported by improved product...

A model of the heat sealing process for multilayer films with molecular detail

July 20, 2026

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Marat Andreev, Chinmay Gangal, Anthony Kotula, Jeffrey Weinhold, Jonathan Moore, Gregory Rutledge

Heat sealing of multilayer polymer films is a critical step in the packaging of food, consumer products, and various other commercial items. Each layer...

Agentic AI-Assisted Coding Offers a Unique Opportunity to Instill Epistemic Grounding during Software Development

July 17, 2026

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Magnus Palmblad, Jared Ragland, Benjamin Neely

The capabilities of AI-assisted coding are progressing at a breakneck speed. Chat-based vibe coding has evolved into fully fledged AI-assisted, agentic software...