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Sensitivity Study of Operating Conditions and Liquid Water Transport Behavior in an AEMFC Aided by Modeling and Neutron Radiography

June 1, 2025
Author(s)
Mrittunjoy Sarker, Felipe Mojica, Ami Neyerlin, Bryan Pivovar, Daniel Hussey, Jacob LaManna, David Jacobson, Po-Ya Chuang
Two types of anion exchange ionomers, powder and dispersion, are studied in this work. The gas diffusion electrode (GDE) with the dispersion-type ionomer exhibits strong hydrophobicity, thus not enabling sufficient ionic exchange during the potassium

Application of neutron grating interferometry and tomography to study ancient Korean copper-based coins

April 28, 2025
Author(s)
Youngju Kim, Michael Daugherty, Caitlyn Wolf, Daniel Hussey, Jacob LaManna, David Jacobson, Paul A. Kienzle, Daeseung Kim, Seung Wook Lee, Minsoo Han, Hahn Choo, Jongyul Kim, Taejoo Kim
Distinguishing differences between authentic artifacts and replicas is a significant challenge in the field of cultural heritage. In this study, we explore the application of neutron grating interferometry and tomography techniques to identify ancient

NIST Neutron Source Pre-Conceptual Design

February 10, 2025
Author(s)
David Diamond, Abdullah Weiss, Osman Celikten, Jeremy Cook, Dagistan Sahin, Hubert King, Anil Gurgen, Joy Shen
A pre-conceptual design has been completed for a NIST Neutron Source (NNS). It would replace the existing facility at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) to enable significantly more thermal and cold neutrons to be used in many more experiments

Scattering Insights into Shear-Induced Scission of Rodlike Micelles

January 23, 2025
Author(s)
Guan-Rong Huang, Ryan Murphy, Lionel Porcar, Chi-Huan Tung, Changwoo Do, Wei-Ren Chen
Studying the scission of rodlike micelles under mechanical forces is essential for understanding their stability and behavior in industrial applications. Mechanical stress can fragment these micelles, impacting performance. Investigating this process

Development and performance of a low-cost, solid-state, thermal neutron sensor with a 10B converter

December 5, 2024
Author(s)
Priscila Costa, Jamie Weaver, M Raele, Kevin Pritchard, Juscelino Leao, C Domienikan, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj, F da Silva, W Pereira, Frederico Genezini
This study demonstrates the construction and operation of a portable, solid-state thermal neutron sensor that utilizes a photodiode coated with a thin layer of boron-10 (10B). The boron layer was created using pulsed laser deposition and analyzed through

High-Temperature Carbon Dioxide Capture in a Porous Material with Terminal Zinc Hydride Sites

November 15, 2024
Author(s)
Rachel Rohde, Kurtis Carsch, Matthew Dods, Henry Jiang, Alexandra McIsaac, Ryan Klein, Hyunchul Kwon, Sarah Karstens, Yang Wang, Adrian Huang, Jordan Taylor, Yuto Yabuuchi, Nikolay Tkachenko, Katie Meihaus, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Danielle Yahne, Kaitlyn Engler, Karen Bustillo, Andrew Minor, Jeffrey Reimer, Martin Head-Gordon, Craig Brown, Jeffrey Long
Carbon capture can mitigate point-source carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, but hurdles remain that impede the widespread adoption of amine-based technologies. Capturing CO2 at temperatures closer to those of many industrial exhaust streams (>200°C) is of

Maximally efficient exchange in thin flow cells using density gradients

October 25, 2024
Author(s)
Megan Mitchell, Charles Majkrzak, David Hoogerheide
Flow cells are ubiquitous in laboratories and automated instrumentation and are crucial for ease of sample preparation, analyte addition, and buffer exchange. Often, the assumption that the fluids have exchanged completely in a flow cell is crucial to data

Room-Temperature Solid-State Nitrogen-Based Magneto-Ionics in CoxMn1-xN Films

October 15, 2024
Author(s)
Nicolau Lopez-Pinto, Christopher Jensen, Zhijie Chen, Zhengwei Tan, Zheng Ma, Maciej Liedke, Maik Butterling, Andreas Wagner, Javier Herrero-Martin, Enric Menendez, Josep Nogues, Kai Liu, Jordi Sort
The increasing energy demand in information technologies requires novel low-power procedures to store and process data. Magnetic materials, central to these technologies, are usually controlled through magnetic fields or spin-polarized currents that are

Single-Crystalline Covalent Organic Frameworks with Exceptionally High Specific Surface Areas and Gas Storage Capacities

October 10, 2024
Author(s)
Baoqiu Yu, Yu Tao, Xuan Yao, Yucheng Jin, Shan Liu, Tongtong Xu, Hailong Wang, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Xin Zhou, Xiao Wang, Xu Ding, Xin Xiao, Yue-Biao Zhang, Jianzhuang Jiang
Single-crystalline covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are highly desirable towards understanding their pore chemistry and functions. Herein, two 50100 μm single-crystalline three-dimensional (3D) COFs, TAM-TFPB-COF and TAPB-TFS-COF, were fabricated from

Calibration of a gamma ray Compton camera for radioactivity measurements

September 10, 2024
Author(s)
Heather H. Chen-Mayer, Dagistan Sahin, Bryan Remley, Steven Brown, David Goodman
A dual-plane Compton imaging detector previously developed for prompt gamma imaging has been further tested and calibrated for quantitative radioactivity determination, specifically to assess radioactive debris from a reactor fuel element containing

Measurement of Chloride in Concrete by Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation

September 1, 2024
Author(s)
Richard A. Livingston, Preethi Sridhar, Neal Berke, Amde M. Amde, Heather H. Chen-Mayer
Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA) is an elemental analysis method based on radiative neutron capture that is isotope-specific and has a high sensitivity to chlorine (Cl). To evaluate the feasibility of replacing the conventional wet chemistry method

Flow Activation Energy of High-Concentration Monoclonal Antibody Solutions and Protein-Protein Interactions Influenced by NaCl and Sucrose

August 20, 2024
Author(s)
Guangcui Yuan, Paul Salipante, Steven D. Hudson, Richard Gillilan, Qingqiu Huang, Harold Hatch, Vincent Shen, Alexander Grishaev, Suzette Pabit, Rahul Upadhya, Sudeep Adhikari, Jainik Panchal, Marco Blanco, Yun Liu
The solution viscosity and protein−protein interactions (PPIs) as a function of temperature (4−40 °C) were measured at a series of protein concentrations for a monoclonal antibody (mAb) with different formulation conditions, which include NaCl and sucrose

AutoRefl: Active Learning in Neutron Reflectometry for Fast Data Acquisition

August 1, 2024
Author(s)
David Hoogerheide, Frank N. Heinrich
Neutron reflectometry (NR) is a powerful technique for interrogating the structure of thin films at interfaces. Because NR measurements are slow and instrument availability is limited, measurement efficiency is paramount. One approach to improving

Generation of Neutron Airy Beams

July 28, 2024
Author(s)
Charles W. Clark, Dmitry Pushin, Michael G. Huber, Kirill Zhernenkov, Jonathan White, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt, David Cory, Huseyin Ekinici, Melissa Henderson, Owen Lailey, Dusan Sarenac
The Airy wave packet is a solution to the potential-free Schr¨odinger equation that exhibits remark-able properties such as self-acceleration, non-diffraction, and self-healing. Although Airy beams are now routinely realized with electromagnetic waves and

Spin Echo Small-Angle Neutron Scattering using Superconducting Magnetic Wollaston Prisms

July 17, 2024
Author(s)
Fumiaki Funama, Caitlyn Wolf, Kathleen Weigandt, Jiazhou Shen, Steven Parnell, Fankang Li
We show the implementation of superconducting magnetic Wollaston prisms for spin echo small-angle neutron scattering. Two calibration methods for the spin echo length are presented: one utilizing spin echo modulated small-angle neutron scattering and the

Recoil-Order and Radiative Corrections to the aCORN Experiment

July 8, 2024
Author(s)
Maynard Dewey, Jeffrey Nico, Fred Wietfeldt
The aCORN experiment measures the electron-antineutrino a-coefficient in free neutron decay. We update the previous aCORN results to include radiative and recoil corrections to first order. The corrected combined result is a = -0.10859 +/- 0.00125 (stat) +

Liquid Deuterium Cold Source Concept for the NIST Neutron Source

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
John Jurns, Philipp Arnold, Jeremy Cook, Osman Celikten
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) houses an aging reactor that serves more than 40 % of all cold neutron research needs in the U.S. First critical in 1967, the National Bureau of Standards Reactor

Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of the 1:1 Acetylene:Ammonia Cocrystal Relevant to Titan, Saturn's Moon

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Morgan Kramer, Trump Benjamin, Luke Daemen, Rafael Balderas-Xicohtencatl, Yongqiang Cheng, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Craig Brown, Tomce Runcevski
The surface of Titan, Saturn's icy moon, is believed to be comprised of various molecular minerals with a great diversity in structure and composition. Under the surface conditions, 93 K and 1.45 atm, most small molecules solidify and form minerals

Suppression of Segmental Chain Dynamics on a Particle's Surface in Well-Dispersed Polymer Nanocomposites

June 18, 2024
Author(s)
Jihyuk Kim, Benjamin Thompson, Taiki Tominaga, Takahito Osawa, Takeshi Egami, Stephan Forster, Michael Ohl, Erkan Senses, Antonio Faraone, Norman J. Wagner
The Rouse dynamics of polymer chains in model nanocomposite polyethylene oxide/silica nanoparticles (NPs) was investigated using quasielastic neutron scattering. The apparent Rouse rate of the polymer chains decreases as the particle loading increases

United States Navy Nuclear Accident Dosimetry Program: History and Current Status

June 15, 2024
Author(s)
Alexander Romanyukha, Jessica Saunders, David Boozer, Keith Consani, Jeff Delzer
United States Code of Federal Regulations 10, § 835.1304 requires that installations possessing sufficient quantities of fissile material to potentially constitute a critical mass, such that the excessive exposure of individuals to radiation from a nuclear

Bubbles Enable Volumetric Negative Compressibility in Metastable Elastocapillary Systems

June 13, 2024
Author(s)
Davide Caprini, Francesco Battista, Pawel Zajdel, Giovanni Di Muccio, Carlo Guardiani, Benjamin Trump, Marcus Carter, Andrey Yakovenko, Eder Amayuelas, Luis Bartolome, Simone Meloni, Yaroslav Grosu, Carlo Massimo Casciola, Alberto Giacomello
Although coveted in applications, few materials expand when subject to compression or contract under decompression, i.e., exhibit negative compressibility. A key step to achieve such counterintuitive behaviour is the destabilisations of (meta)stable