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Electron Irradiation-Based Cleaning of the Scanning Electron Microscope and its Samples

May 21, 2025

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Andras Vladar, David Hoyle, Hosoya Kotaro

Deposition of carbonaceous material under electron beam irradiation is an old and persistent problem of scanning electron microscopy. It is an impediment to...

Derivation of particle number concentration from the size distribution: theory and applications

May 16, 2025

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Natalia Farkas, John A. Kramar, Antonio Montoro Bustos, George Caceres, Monique Johnson, Matthias Roesslein, Elijah Petersen

The particle number concentration (PNC) in a suspension is a key measurand in nanotechnology. A common approach for deriving PNC is to divide the total mass...

Controlling Impact Mitigation via Stimuli-Responsive Bouligand Nanostructures

May 16, 2025

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Sujin Lee, Katherine Evans, Jeremiah Woodcock, Jan Obrzut, Liping Huang, Christopher Soles, Edwin Chan

Critical to their survival, natural organisms have developed exoskeletons that can withstand and inflict damage over their lifetime. The Bouligand structure of...

Scattering Insights into Shear-Induced Scission of Rod-like Micelles

May 15, 2025

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Guan-Rong Huang, Ryan Murphy, Lionel Porcar, Chi-Huan Tung, Changwoo Do, Wei-Ren Chen

Hypothesis: Understanding the scission of rod-like micelles under mechanical forces is crucial for optimizing their stability and behavior in industrial...

Multi-color solitons and frequency combs in microresonators

May 15, 2025

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Curtis Menyuk, Pradyoth Shandilya, Logan Courtright, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan

Multi-color solitons that are parametrically created in dual-pumped microresonators generate interleaved frequency combs that be used to obtain combs at new...

Handle-free conjugation of small molecules generates tunable emissive defects on carbon nanotubes

May 15, 2025

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Ming Zheng, Xiaojia Jin, Daniel Heller, Stanislav Piletsky, Erin Keblish, Alec Goffin, Mijin Kim

Multi-Scale Phase Separation in Poly(D,L-Lactide-co-glycolide) and Palmitic Acid Blends using Neutron and X-ray Scattering

May 14, 2025

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Caitlyn M. Wolf, Robert Dalgliesh, Liliana de Campo, Gregory N. Smith, Kathleen Weigandt

In this work neutron and X-ray scattering are used to quantitatively characterize multi-scale phase separation in a model blend of poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide...

Electrolytes that reduce electro-osmotic drag improve fast charging of lithium-ion batteries

May 13, 2025

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Chang-Xin Zhao, Zeyi Wang, David Jacobson, Yue Li, Boris Khaykovich, Sean Fayfar, Jacob LaManna, Daniel Hussey, Lei Zheng, Gabriel Veith, Fu Chen, Chunsheng Wang

Fast charging (at rates greater than 4 C) is essential for high-energy lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles yet remains challenging owing to a lack of...

On-Chip Parametric Synchronization of a Cavity Soliton Microcomb

May 13, 2025

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Gregory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Miro Erkintalo, Curtis Menyuk, Kartik Srinivasan

Synchronization of oscillators is ubiquitous in nature. Often, the synchronized oscillators couple directly, yet in some cases synchronization can arise from...

Selecting longitudinal community outcomes for resilience indicator validation

May 13, 2025

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Donghwan Gu, Maria Dillard, Michael Gerst, Jarrod Loerzel

Assessing community resilience is a long-sought goal in multiple fields of study and practice. Community resilience frameworks have been designed to estimate...

An accurate thermodynamic model to characterise dissociating N2O4 at vapour-liquid equilibrium states

May 10, 2025

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Samukov Konstantin, David Vega-Maza, Eric Lemmon, Vladimir Diky, Silvia Lasala

A new thermodynamic model is presented, capable of accurately representing the vapour-liquid equilibrium pressures and densities of dissociating dinitrogen...

A Historical Review of Cryogenic Mechanical Testing in Type 304 Stainless Steels – State of the Art and Current Outlooks

May 8, 2025

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Nicholas Derimow, Jake Benzing, Timothy Weeks

Of the austenitic stainless steels, Type 304 has become ubiquitous throughout industry. While our inclinations as a metallurgical community may be to assume...

Reconfigurable All-Nitride Magneto-Ionics

May 7, 2025

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Zhijie Chen, Christopher Jensen, Chen Liu, Yijing Liu, Christy Kinane, Andrew Caruana, Alexander Grutter, Julie Borchers, Xixiang Zhang, Kai Liu

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has significantly increased the demand for both energy and data storage. Voltage control of...

Sterilizable Vertical n-Type Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Skin-conformal ECG Monitoring

May 6, 2025

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Ji Hwan Kim, Inho Lee, Won-June Lee, Dongjoon Shin, Hyeongbeom Lee, Lucas Flagg, Jagrity Chaudhary, Liyan You, Keehoon Kang, Jianguo Mei, Sungjun Park

The development of stable, high-performance epidermal biosignal monitoring devices is critical for advancing wearable healthcare technologies. Here, we present...

Time-resolved pairing gap spectroscopy in a quantum simulator of fermionic superfluidity inside an optical cavity

May 6, 2025

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Dylan Young, Eric Song, Anjun Chu, Diego Barberena, Zhijing Niu, Vera Schafer, Ana Rey Ayala, James Thompson

Diffusive to Barrier-Limited Transition in the Aqueous Ion Transport through Nanoporous 2D Materials

May 6, 2025

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Yechan Noh, Alexander Smolyanitsky

The interplay of interactions between aqueous ions and the confinement of subnanoscale pores in solid 2D membranes causes a range of barrier-limited phenomena...

Top-Down Scoring of Spectral Fitness by Image Analysis for Protein Structure Validation

May 6, 2025

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Benjamin Harding, Barry DeZonia, Rajat Garg, Ziling Hu, Frank Delaglio, Tim Grant, Chad Rienstra

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for protein structure determination, but traditional approaches require extensive manual...

CHIPS-FF: Evaluating Universal Machine Learning Force Fields for Material Properties

May 5, 2025

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Daniel Wines, Kamal Choudhary

We introduce CHIPS-FF (Computational High-Performance Infrastructure for Predictive Simulation-based Force Fields), an open-source benchmarking platform for...

Evaluating the impact of probabilistic and data-driven inference models on uncertainties of fiber-coupled NV-diamond thermometers

May 5, 2025

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Shraddha Rajpal, Zeeshan Ahmed, Tyrus Berry

We conduct cw-Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance (ODMR) measurements using a fiber-coupled NV sensor to infer temperature. Our approach leverages a...

Broadband Optoelectronic Mixer for Terahertz Frequency-Comb Measurements

May 5, 2025

Author(s)

Jizhao Zang, Jesse Morgan, Andreas Beling, Scott Papp

We demonstrate ultra-broadband optoelectronic mixing of frequency combs that provides phase-coherent detection of a repetition frequency up to 500 GHz, using a...

Dynamics of single photon emission from a quantum dot emitting photons at a telecom wavelength

May 4, 2025

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Ivan Burenkov, Lijun Ma, Sergey Polyakov, Daehyun Ahn, Mohamed Benyoucef, Donghan Lee

We investigate the dynamics of single-photon emission from a near C-band quantum dot using a time-resolved Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment. Our measurements...

Lumped-Parameter Models Comparison for Natural Ventilation Analyses in Buildings at Urban Scale

May 3, 2025

Author(s)

Yasemin Usta, Lisa Ng, SILVIA SANTANTONIO, Guglielmina Mutani

This study validates a three-zone lumped-parameter airflow model for Urban Building Energy Modeling, focusing on its accuracy in estimating air change rates...

High-Precision Optical Time and Frequency Transfer

May 2, 2025

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Emily Caldwell, Theodora Triano, Laura Sinclair

High-precision optical time and frequency transfer is accomplished by a collection of laser-based techniques that achieve time dissemination with sub-picosecond...

Delicate Tuning of Reaction Thermodynamics via Formation of Bimetal Phenoxide: Synthesis, Structure, and Hydrogen Storage Performance

May 2, 2025

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Nor I. Nordin, Khai C. Tan, Hong Wen, Xiaohua Ju, Wei Zhou, Hui Wu, Teng He, Ping Chen, Yong Chua

Arene-cycloalkane pairs are promising for hydrogen storage but often encounter unfavorable thermodynamic and kinetic issues in hydrogenation and dehydrogenation...

On the chemomechanics of bubble growth in hydrogen attack of plain carbon steels

May 2, 2025

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May Martin, Kshitij Vijayvargia, T Nguyen, Mohsen Dadfarnia, Aleksandar Staykov, Petros Sofronis, Masanobu Kubota, John Pugh

High temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA) is a form of degradation of carbon steels exposed to high temperature and high-pressure hydrogen whereby internal...

A review of Disassembly Systems for Circular Product Design

May 1, 2025

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Giovanni Formentini, Joao Paulo Jacomini Prioli, Junwon Ko, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Vincenzo Ferrero, Fazleena Badurdeen, Jeremy Rickli, Devarajan Ramanujan

Circular Economy (CE) is described as a means for maintaining products and materials in circulation while regenerating nature. This shift requires considering...

Coherent evolution of superexchange interaction in seconds long optical clock spectroscopy

May 1, 2025

Author(s)

William Milner, Stefan Lannig, Mikhail Mamaev, linfeng yan, Anjun Chu, Ben Lewis, Max Frankel, Ross Hutson, Ana Rey Ayala, Jun Ye

The Role of Cu+3 in Oxygen Evolution Activity of Copper-Oxides

May 1, 2025

Author(s)

Pooja Basera, Yang Zhao, Angel Garcia-Esparza, Finn Babbe, Neha Bothra, John Vinson, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Junko Yano, Shannon Boettcher, Michal Bajdich

Cu-based oxides and hydroxides represent an important class of materials from a catalytic and corrosion perspective. In this study, we investigate the formation...

Manipulating Martensitic Transformation and Residual Stress Development in Stress Superposed Incremental Forming of SS304

May 1, 2025

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Elizabeth Mamros, Fabian MaaB, Thomas Gnaupel-Herold, A. E. Tekkaya, Brad L. Kinsey, Jinjin Ha

Stress superposition is one of the strategies used in metal deformation processes to increase the material formability, decrease the required forming forces, an...

NIST Research Grade Test Materials: A New Collaborative Effort to Address Measurement Challenges

May 1, 2025

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Peter Vallone, Lisa Borsuk, Carolyn Steffen, Sarah Riman, Kevin Kiesler, Erica Romsos

As DNA typing technologies have advanced and sensitivity improved, measurement and interpretation issues related to low template, degraded, and complex DNA...

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