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Understanding Superionic Conductivity in Lithium and Sodium Salts of Weakly Coordinating Closo-Hexahalocarbaborate Anions

February 25, 2020
Author(s)
Mathias Jorgensen, Patrick T. Shea, Anton W. Tomich, Joel B. Varley, Marnik Bercx, Sergio Lovera, Radovan Cerny, Wei Zhou, Terrence J. Udovic, Vincent Lavallo, Torben R. Jensen, Brandon C. Wood, Vitalie Stavila
Solid-state ion conductors based on closo-polyborate anions combine high ionic conductivity with a rich array of tunable properties. Cation mobility in these systems is intimately related to the strength of the interaction with the neighboring anionic

Molecular Insight into Fluorocarbon Adsorption in Pore Expanded Metal-Organic Framework Analogs

February 12, 2020
Author(s)
Jian Zheng, Dushyant Barpaga, Benjamin Trump, Manish Shetty, Yanzhong Fan, Papri Bhattacharya, Jeromy J. Jenks, Cheng-Yong Su, Craig Brown, Guillaume Maurin, B. Peter McGrail, Radha Kishan Motkuri
The rapid growth in the global energy demand for space cooling requires the development of more efficient environmental chillers for which adsorption-based cooling systems can be utilized. Here in this contribution, we explore sorbents for chiller use via

Optimum lithium loading of a liquid scintillator for neutron and neutrino detection

February 11, 2020
Author(s)
Hans Pieter Mumm, Denis E. Bergeron, Mark Tyra, Jerome LaRosa, Svetlana Nour, T.J. Langford, Dimitry A. Pushin
Neutral particle detection in high-background environments is greatly aided by the ability to easily load 6Li into liquid scintillators. We describe a readily available and inexpensive liquid scintillation cocktail stably loaded with up to 1 % Li by mass

Transverse Lipid Organization Dictates Bending Fluctuations in Model Plasma Membranes

January 21, 2020
Author(s)
Brett W. Rickeard, Michael H. Nguyen, Mitchell DiPasquale, Caesar G. Yip, Hamilton Baker, Frederick A. Heberle, Xiaobing Zuo, Elizabeth Kelley, Michihiro Nagao, Drew Marquardt
Bending fluctuation is one of the most important dynamic modes of lipid membranes. These fluctuations play a vital role in many biological processes, most notoriously, contributing to the regulation of membrane protein activity. We investigated the bending

Structural and Reorientational Dynamics of Tetrahydroborate (BH 4 -) and Tetrahydrofuran (THF) in a Mg(BH 4 ) 2 &#82263THF Adduct: Neutron-Scattering Characterization

January 7, 2020
Author(s)
Mirjana NMN Dimitrievska, Marina Chong, Mark E. Bowden, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Iffat Nayyar, Bojana Ginovska, Thomas Gennett, Tom Autrey, Craig M. Jensen, Terrence J. Udovic
Metal borohydrides are considered as promising materials for hydrogen storage applications due to their high volumetric and gravimetric hydrogen densities. Recently, different solvents have been complexed with Mg(BH 4) 2 in efforts to improve its

6 LiF:ZnS(Ag) Neutron Detector Performance Optimized using Waveform Recordings and ROC Curves

January 1, 2020
Author(s)
Kevin N. Pritchard, A. Osovizky, Jeffrey B. Ziegler, Louis E. Binkley, Peter NMN Tsai, Nancy Hadad, M. Jackson, C. Hurlbut, George M. Baltic, Charles Majkrzak, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj
We used data analysis and pattern recognition techniques to optimize the neutron sensitivity and selectivity of an ultrathin 6LiF:ZnS(Ag) scintillator based neutron detector paired with a Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM). We recorded waveforms from the

Characterization of an Extensive Interface on Vitronectin for Binding to Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1: Adoption of Structure in an Intrinsically Disordered Region

December 24, 2019
Author(s)
Letitia O. Puster, Christopher B. Stanley, Vladmir N. Uversky, Joseph E. Curtis, Susan T. Krueger, Yuzhuo Chu, Cynthia B. Peterson
Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements were used to characterize vitronectin, a protein found in human plasma and tissues that functions in regulating cell adhesion and migration, as well as proteolytic cascades that affect blood coagulation

Application of INAA methods for KRISS infant forumla CRM analysis: Standardization of INAA at KRISS

November 15, 2019
Author(s)
Hana Cho, Kishore B. Dasari, Radojko Ja?imovi?, Rolf L. Zeisler, Nicholas Sharp, Sun-Ha Kim, Gwang Min Sun, Yong-Hyeon Yim
We have established an instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) method, including k0- based INAA, at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) for the certification of reference materials. As part of establishing INAA

Elusive Valence Transition in Mixed-Valence Sesquioxide Cs 4 O 6

November 4, 2019
Author(s)
Ross H. Colman, H. Esma Okur, Winfried Kockelmann, Craig Brown, Annette Sans, Claudia Felser, Martin Jansen, Kosmas Prassides
Cs 4O 6 is a mixed valence molecular oxide with a cubic structure, comprising valency-delocalized O 2 4/3- units and with properties highly sensitive to cooling protocols. Here we use neutron powder diffraction to authenticate that, while upon deep

Realization of Interlayer Ferromagnetic Interaction in MnSb 2 Te 4 toward the Magnetic Weyl Semimetal State

November 4, 2019
Author(s)
Taito Murakami, Yusuke Nambu, Takashi Koretsune, Gu Xiangyu, Takafumi Yamamoto, Craig Brown, Hiroshi Kageyama
Magnetism in the newly synthesized topological magnet Sb 2MnTe 4 is examined. Magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and neutron diffraction measurements reveal a ferrimagnetic transition below 25 K, in contradiction to previous theoretical calculations

Structure and Dynamics of Spherical and Rodlike Alkyl Ethoxylate Surfactant Micelles Investigated using NMR Relaxation and Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations

October 29, 2019
Author(s)
Allison Talley Edwards, Abdolreza Javidialesaadi, Kathleen Weigandt, George Stan, Charles D. Eads
Predicting and controlling the properties of amphiphile aggregate mixtures requires understanding the arrangements and dynamics of the constituent molecules. To explore these topics, we study molecular arrangements and dynamics in alkyl ethoxylate nonionic

Clusters of Nanoscale Liposomes Modulate the Release of Encapsulated Species and Mimic the Compartmentalization Intrinsic in Cell Structures

October 23, 2019
Author(s)
Igor Kevin Mkam Tsengam, Marzhana Omarova, Lauren Shepherd, Nicholas Sandoval, Jibao He, Elizabeth Kelley, Vijay John
We report the ability to place a high concentration of liposomes in a confined volume as a multicompartment cluster that mimics biological cells and allows for the modulation of release of encapsulated species. The formation of these coated

Generation and Detection of Spin-Orbit Coupled Neutron Beams

October 8, 2019
Author(s)
Dusan Sarenac, Connor Kapahi, Wangchun Chen, Charles W. Clark, David G. Cory, Michael G. Huber, Ivar Taminiau, Kirill Zhernenkov, Dmitry A. Pushin
Spin-orbit coupling of light has come to the fore in nano-optics and plasmonics, and is a key ingredient of topological photonics and chiral quantum optics. We demonstrate a basic tool for incorporating analogous effects into neutron optics: the generation

Field-Tunable Quantum Disordered Ground State in the Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnet NaYbO 2

October 1, 2019
Author(s)
Mitchell M. Bordelon, Eric Kenney, Chunxiao Liu, Tom Hogan, Lorenzo Posthuma, Marzieh Kavand, Yuangqi Lyu, Mark Sherwin, Nicholas Butch, Craig Brown, M. J. Graf, Leon Balents, Stephen D. Wilson
One of the simplest routes to pursuing magnets with strong quantum fluctuations that quench conventional order is via decorating a triangular lattice with antiferromagnetically coupled S=1/2 moments. As disorder and anisotropies inherent in materials

ROTDIF-web and ALTENS: GenApp-based Science Gateways for Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Data Analysis and Structure Modeling

September 23, 2019
Author(s)
Yuexi Chen, Cheol Jeong, Alexey Savelyev, Susan T. Krueger, Joseph E. Curtis, Emre H. Brookes, David Fushman
Proteins and nucleic acids participate in essentially every biochemical process in living organisms, and the elucidation of their structure and motions is essential for our understanding how these molecular machines perform their function. Nuclear Magnetic
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