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A Comparison of Measurement Methods for Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers

February 26, 2021
Author(s)
Mary Bedner, Jacolin Murray, Aaron A. Urbas, William A. MacCrehan, Walter Brent Wilson
The production and demand for hand sanitizers have increased dramatically during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) health emergency. To be deemed effective and safe, hand sanitizers should contain at least 60 % alcohol (typically ethanol) as well as

Optimizing Flame Retardancy and Durability of Melamine-Formaldehyde/Solid-Urban-Waste Composite Panels

February 26, 2021
Author(s)
Mauro Zammarano, Carola Esposito Corcione, Francesca Ferrari, Raffaella Striani, Laura J. Dubrulle, Paolo Visconti, Antonio Greco
In our previous study, an innovative method for sterilization, inertization, and valorization of organic fraction of the municipal solid waste (OFMSW), to be recycled in the production of composite panels, had been developed. In this follow-up work, the

Simulations of Flow Over an Axisymmetric Hill

February 26, 2021
Author(s)
Rikhi Bose, DongHun Yeo
In this report, high-Reynolds number turbulent flow around an axisymmetric hill is studied using large eddy and unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes simulations and the results are extensively validated against experiment. The boundary-layer thickness

Towards Deep Transfer Learning in Industrial Internet of Things

February 26, 2021
Author(s)
Xing Liu, Wei Yu, Fan Liang, David Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
In this paper, we propose a general framework to adopt transfer learning in IIoT systems. Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that fully uses the knowledge from pre- trained models to reduce the computing requirements for the training process

AWS-3 LTE Impacts on Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry

February 25, 2021
Author(s)
William F. Young, Duncan McGillivray, Adam Wunderlich, Mark Krangle, Jack Sklar, Aric Sanders, Keith Forsyth, Mark A. Lofquist, Dan Kuester
This technical report details an effort to design, demonstrate, and validate a test methodology to measure the impacts of Long Term Evolution (LTE) User Equipment (UE) emissions in the advanced wireless services 3 (AWS-3) band on aeronautical mobile

Compact and Tunable Forward Coupler Based on High-Impedance Superconducting Nanowires

February 25, 2021
Author(s)
Marco Colangelo, Di Zhu, Daniel F. Santavicca, Brenden Butters, Joshua Bienfang, Karl K. Berggren
Developing compact, low-dissipation, cryogenic-compatible microwave electronics is essential for scaling up low-temperature quantum computing systems. In this paper, we demonstrate an ultracompact microwave directional forward coupler based on high

Interplay between the Reorientational Dynamics of the B 3 H 8 - Anion and the Structure in KB 3 H 8

February 25, 2021
Author(s)
M. S. Andersson, Jakob Grinderslev, X.-M. Chen, X. Chen, Ulrich Haussermann, Wei Zhou, T. R. Jensen, M. Karlsson, Terrence J. Udovic
The local structure and reorientational dynamics of KB 3H 8 were studied using quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering, Raman spectroscopy, first-principles calculations and differential scanning calorimetry. The results reveal the existence of a

Manufacturing USA 2019/2020 Highlights Report

February 25, 2021
Author(s)
Frank W. Gayle, Michael Molnar, John Roth, Zahraha Brunner
Manufacturing USA® is a network of public-private partnerships united to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing through large scale collaboration on technology, supply chain, and workforce development. The network includes the U.S

Topological Control of Magnetic Textures

February 25, 2021
Author(s)
Hanu Arava, Frank P. Barrows, Mark D. Stiles, Amanda K. Petford-Long
A micromagnetic study is carried out on the role of using topology to stabilize different magnetic textures, such as a vortex or an anti-vortex state, in a magnetic heterostructure consisting of a Permalloy disk coupled to a set of nanomagnetic bars. The

Transient heating in fixed length optical cavities for use as temperature and pressure standards

February 25, 2021
Author(s)
Jacob Edmond Ricker, Kevin O. Douglass, Jay H. Hendricks, Jack Stone, Sergei Syssoev, Sefer Avdiaj
Optical refractometry techniques can enable realization of both pressure and temperature directly from properties of the gas. For achieving the highest possible accuracy, temperature uniformity across the refractometer must be less than 1 mK. However, the

A simple low-latency real-time certifiable quantum random number generator

February 24, 2021
Author(s)
Yanbao Zhang, Hsin-Pin Lo, Alan Mink, Takuya Ikuta, Toshimori Honjo, Hiroki Takesue, William Munro
Quantum random numbers distinguish themselves from others by their intrinsic unpredictability arising from the principles of quantum mechanics. As such they are extremely useful in many scientific and real-world applications with considerable efforts going

Topological surface states of MnBi2Te4 at finite temperatures and at domain walls

February 24, 2021
Author(s)
Kevin F. Garrity, Sugata Chowdhury, Francesca Tavazza
MnBi2Te4 has recently been the subject of intensive study, due to the prediction of axion insulator, Weyl semimetal, and quantum anomalous Hall insulator phases, depending on the structure and magnetic ordering. Experimental results have con firmed some

Failure mechanisms in DNA self-assembly: Barriers to single fold yield

February 23, 2021
Author(s)
Jacob Majikes, Paul Patrone, Anthony J. Kearsley, Michael P. Zwolak, James Liddle
Understanding the folding process of DNA origami is a critical steppingstone to the broader implementation of nucleic acid nanofabrication technology but is notably non-trivial. Origami are formed by several hundred cooperative hybridization events – folds

Maternal Food and Beverage Behaviors and Discrepant Phthalate Exposure by Race

February 23, 2021
Author(s)
John Kucklick, Michael S. Bloom, Abby G. Wenzel, Rebecca J. Wineland, Elizabeth R. Unal, John W. Brock, Roger B. Newman, Erica Jamro, Kelly Garcia, Mary Sterrett
Widespread human phthalate exposure occurs from food and water, leached from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics, food packaging, and skin absorption from personal care products. Multiple phthalates are known as antiandrogenic endocrine disruptors, raising

Integrated Sensor Data Processing for Occupancy Detection in Residential Buildings

February 22, 2021
Author(s)
Chenli Wang, Jun Jiang, Thomas Roth, Cuong Nguyen, Yuhong Liu, Hohyun Lee
Based on the data from U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the total annual energy consumed by buildings in the United States has increased by 325% over the past 70 years. Many commercial buildings utilize a building management system (BMS) and

Report of the 2019 NIST-FDA Workshop on Standards for Next Generation Sequencing Detection of Viral Adventitious Agents in Biologics and Biomanufacturing

February 22, 2021
Author(s)
Megan Cleveland, Bharathi Anekella, Mike Brewer, Pei-Ju Chin, Heather Couch, Eric Delwart, Jim Huggett, Scott Jackson, Javier Martin, Serge Monpoeho, Tom Morrison, Siemon Ng, David Ussery, Arifa Khan
Adventitious virus testing assures product safety by demonstrating the absence of viruses that may have been unintentionally introduced during the manufacturing process. The capabilities of next-generation or high-throughput sequencing (NGS/HTS) for broad

Tailoring electrode-electrolyte-interfaces in lithium-ion batteries using molecularly engineered functional polymers

February 22, 2021
Author(s)
Laisuo Su, Jamie Weaver, Mitchell C. Groenenboom, Nathan Nakamura, Eric Rus, Priyanka Anand, Shikhar Krishn Jha, Joseph Okasinski, Joseph Dura, B Reeja-Jayan
Electrode−electrolyte interfaces (EEIs) affect the rate capability, cycling stability, and thermal safety of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Designing stable EEIs with fast Li+ transport is crucial for developing advanced LIBs. Here, we study Li+ kinetics at
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