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Time for a research round-up! Here are a few of the interesting papers that our faculty and students have published recently (thread):
Rob Davis and students found a way to use DNA bent into orgami-type shapes to help fabricate novel nanostructures made out of gold. A golden opportunity to achieve new functionality on the nanoscale! (Pardon the pun) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00594?ref=pdf
@tbnbyu and @KentLGee and their students measured the noise created by military aircraft to better understand the acoustical properties of the noise in an effort to mitigate the negative effects. https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/10.0001260
@tbnbyu and students also applied machine learning techniques to study underwater sound sources and the seabed. https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/10.0001216
Dennis Della Corte and students used molecular dynamics simulations to study the structure of an important type of protein, finding unexpected complexity and long-range synergy within the molecule. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00045?ref=pdf
@benfrandsen and students used muons to investigate the magnetism in a high-entropy oxide material, finding nearly ideal behavior near the magnetic transition temperature despite large amounts of structural disorder. https://journals.aps.org/prmaterials/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.074405
@JohnColton70 and students devised a new algorithm based on machine learning to determine the temperature of microfluidic devices using the photoluminescence of quantum dots. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.0c00065?ref=pdf
And finally, David Allred studied the properties of uranium and niobium oxides as potential protective layers for uranium applications using x-rays and neutrons. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152356
Enjoy this light reading material!
