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Heterogeneous Activity Causes A Nonlinear Increase In The Group Energy Use Of Ant Workers Isolated From Queen And Brood, Nolan Ferral, Kyara Holloway, Mingzhong Li, Zhaozheng Yin, Chen Hou Jun 2018

Heterogeneous Activity Causes A Nonlinear Increase In The Group Energy Use Of Ant Workers Isolated From Queen And Brood, Nolan Ferral, Kyara Holloway, Mingzhong Li, Zhaozheng Yin, Chen Hou

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Increasing evidence has shown that the energy use of ant colonies increases sublinearly with colony size so that large colonies consume less per capita energy than small colonies. It has been postulated that social environment (e.g., in the presence of queen and brood) is critical for the sublinear group energetics, and a few studies of ant workers isolated from queens and brood observed linear relationships between group energetics and size. In this paper, we hypothesize that the sublinear energetics arise from the heterogeneity of activity in ant groups, that is, large groups have relatively more inactive members than small groups. …


Dynamic Effects In Electron Momentum Spectroscopy Of Sulfur Hexafluoride, Xing Wang, Shenyue Xu, Chuangang Ning, O. Al-Hagan, Pengfei Hu, Yongtao Zhao, Zhongfen Xu, Jingkang Deng, Enliang Wang, Xueguang Ren, Alexander Dorn, Don H. Madison Jun 2018

Dynamic Effects In Electron Momentum Spectroscopy Of Sulfur Hexafluoride, Xing Wang, Shenyue Xu, Chuangang Ning, O. Al-Hagan, Pengfei Hu, Yongtao Zhao, Zhongfen Xu, Jingkang Deng, Enliang Wang, Xueguang Ren, Alexander Dorn, Don H. Madison

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Electron momentum spectroscopy (EMS) results are presented for the sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) molecule using a high-resolution binary (e, 2e) spectrometer at incident energies (Ei) of 600, 1200, and 2400 eV plus the binding energy. The valence orbital momentum profiles were measured with a binding energy resolution of 0.68 eV and angular resolutions of Δθ = ±0.6⁰, ΔΦ = ±0.85⁰. Whereas the two higher incident energies are in the range where normally EMS measurements do not exhibit an impact-energy dependence, the current experimental data display a dynamic dependence on the impact energies. The measured momentum profiles are compared with predictions from …


Scalable, Hydrophobic And Highly-Stretchable Poly(Isocyanurate-Urethane) Aerogels, Sadeq Malakooti, Saman Rostami, Habel Gitogo Churu, Huiyang Luo, Jenna Clark, Fabiola Casarez, Owen Rettenmaier, Soheil Daryadel, Majid Minary-Jolandan, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, Nicholas Leventis, Hongbing Lu Jun 2018

Scalable, Hydrophobic And Highly-Stretchable Poly(Isocyanurate-Urethane) Aerogels, Sadeq Malakooti, Saman Rostami, Habel Gitogo Churu, Huiyang Luo, Jenna Clark, Fabiola Casarez, Owen Rettenmaier, Soheil Daryadel, Majid Minary-Jolandan, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, Nicholas Leventis, Hongbing Lu

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Scalable, low-density and flexible aerogels offer a unique combination of excellent mechanical properties and scalable manufacturability. Herein, we report the fabrication of a family of low-density, ambient-dried and hydrophobic poly(isocyanurate-urethane) aerogels derived from a triisocyanate precursor. The bulk densities ranged from 0.28 to 0.37 g cm-3 with porosities above 70% v/v. The aerogels exhibit a highly stretchable behavior with a rapid increase in the Young's modulus with bulk density (slope of log-log plot > 6.0). In addition, the aerogels are very compressible (more than 80% compressive strain) with high shape recovery rate (more than 80% recovery in 30 s). Under …


Review Of The Book "Deposition, 1940-1944: A Secret Diary Of Life In Vichy France," By Léon Werth (David Ball, Ed. And Trans.), Shannon Lee Fogg Jun 2018

Review Of The Book "Deposition, 1940-1944: A Secret Diary Of Life In Vichy France," By Léon Werth (David Ball, Ed. And Trans.), Shannon Lee Fogg

History and Political Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

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Overpumping Leads To California Groundwater Arsenic Threat, Ryan G. Smith, Rosemary Knight, Scott Fendorf Jun 2018

Overpumping Leads To California Groundwater Arsenic Threat, Ryan G. Smith, Rosemary Knight, Scott Fendorf

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Water resources are being challenged to meet domestic, agricultural, and industrial needs. To complement finite surface water supplies that are being stressed by changes in precipitation and increased demand, groundwater is increasingly being used. Sustaining groundwater use requires considering both water quantity and quality. A unique challenge for groundwater use, as compared with surface water, is the presence of naturally occurring contaminants within aquifer sediments, which can enter the water supply. Here we find that recent groundwater pumping, observed through land subsidence, results in an increase in aquifer arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley of California. By comparison, historic …


Relativistic And Radiative Corrections To The Dynamic Stark Shift: Gauge Invariance And Transition Currents In The Velocity Gauge, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Chandra M. Adhikari Jun 2018

Relativistic And Radiative Corrections To The Dynamic Stark Shift: Gauge Invariance And Transition Currents In The Velocity Gauge, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Chandra M. Adhikari

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We investigate the gauge invariance of the dynamic (ac) Stark shift under "hybrid" gauge transformations from the "length" (E·r ) to the "velocity" (A-·p ) gauge. By a "hybrid" gauge transformation, we understand a transformation in which the scalar and vector potentials are modified, but the wave function remains unaltered. The gauge invariance of the leading term is well known, while we here show that gauge invariance under perturbations holds only if one takes into account an additional correction to the transition current, which persists only in the velocity gauge. We find a general expression for this current, and apply …


Missouri S&T Magazine Summer 2018, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association Jun 2018

Missouri S&T Magazine Summer 2018, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association

Missouri S&T Magazine

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Many-Body Expansion Dynamics Of A Bose-Fermi Mixture Confined In An Optical Lattice, P. Siegl, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Schmelcher May 2018

Many-Body Expansion Dynamics Of A Bose-Fermi Mixture Confined In An Optical Lattice, P. Siegl, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Schmelcher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Unravel The Correlated Nonequilibrium Dynamics Of A Mass Balanced Bose-Fermi Mixture In A One-Dimensional Optical Lattice Upon Quenching An Imposed Harmonic Trap From Strong To Weak Confinement. Regarding The System's Ground State, The Competition Between The Inter- And Intraspecies Interaction Strength Gives Rise To The Immiscible And Miscible Phases Characterized By Negligible And Complete Overlap Of The Constituting Atomic Clouds, Respectively. The Resulting Dynamical Response Depends Strongly On The Initial Phase And Consists Of An Expansion Of Each Cloud And An Interwell Tunneling Dynamics. For Varying Quench Amplitude And Referring To A Fixed Phase, A Multitude Of Response Regimes …


Hydrogen Bonding In The Mixed Hf/Hci Dimer: Is It Better To Give Or Receive?, Sarah N. Johnson, Gregory S. Tschumper May 2018

Hydrogen Bonding In The Mixed Hf/Hci Dimer: Is It Better To Give Or Receive?, Sarah N. Johnson, Gregory S. Tschumper

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The ClH⋯FH and FH⋯ClH configurations of the mixed HF/HCl dimer (where the donor⋯acceptor notation indicates the directionality of the hydrogen bond) as well as the transition state connecting the two configurations have been optimized using MP2 and CCSD(T) with correlation consistent basis sets as large as aug-cc-pV(5 + d)Z. Harmonic vibrational frequencies confirmed that both configurations correspond to minima and that the transition state has exactly one imaginary frequency. In addition, anharmonic vibrational frequencies computed with second-order vibrational perturbation theory (VPT2) are within 6 cm−1 of the available experimental values and deviate by no more than 4 cm−1 …


Salt-Assisted Ultrasonic Disaggregation Of Nanodiamond, Vadym Mochalin, Kostiantyn Turcheniuk, Caleb Trecazzi May 2018

Salt-Assisted Ultrasonic Disaggregation Of Nanodiamond, Vadym Mochalin, Kostiantyn Turcheniuk, Caleb Trecazzi

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Methods for disaggregating nanodiamond clusters, for example, by using ultrasound to break apart nanodiamond aggregates in a sodium chloride aqueous slurry. Compositions, such as aqueous nanodiamond dispersions and dry particulate compositions that may be produced using these methods.


Coas: The Line Of 3d Demarcation, Daniel J. Campbell, Limin Wang, Chris Eckberg, Dave Graf, Halyna Hodovanets, Johnpierre Paglione May 2018

Coas: The Line Of 3d Demarcation, Daniel J. Campbell, Limin Wang, Chris Eckberg, Dave Graf, Halyna Hodovanets, Johnpierre Paglione

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Transition metal-pnictide compounds have received attention for their tendency to combine magnetism and unconventional superconductivity. Binary CoAs lies on the border of paramagnetism and the more complex behavior seen in isostructural CrAs, MnP, FeAs, and FeP. Here we report the properties of CoAs single crystals grown with two distinct techniques along with density functional theory calculations of its electronic structure and magnetic ground state. While all indications are that CoAs is paramagnetic, both experiment and theory suggest proximity to a ferromagnetic instability. Quantum oscillations are seen in torque measurements up to 31.5 T and support the calculated paramagnetic Fermiology.


The Future Possibility Of Consumer-Grade Quantum Computers, Peter Dolan May 2018

The Future Possibility Of Consumer-Grade Quantum Computers, Peter Dolan

Missouri S&T’s Peer to Peer

Quantum computers are rapidly evolving and are on the edge of becoming useful for the first time. The theoretical limit of computational speed for quantum computers would put even small-scale quantum computers well ahead of any classical computer. With more researchers attempting to build their own, it has become a race to see who can create the first truly useful quantum computer. Once such computers become both useful and prevalent, massive advancements in many fields of science can be achieved, leading to a scientific revolution. Advances in quantum computing lead some researchers and consumers to question whether the technology can …


The Viability Of Quantum Computing, Brennan Michael King May 2018

The Viability Of Quantum Computing, Brennan Michael King

Missouri S&T’s Peer to Peer

Quantum computing is an upcoming computational technology that could be the key to advancing the field and ushering in a new era of innovation. In this paper examines the viability of quantum computing extensively using only highly credible peer-reviewed articles from the last few years. These peer-reviewed articles will provide relevant facts and data from prominent researchers in the field of computer engineering. A growing problem in the field of electronics and computers is the concept of Moore’s law. Moore’s law refers to the doubling of transistors every two years in integrated circuits. Recent research has suggested that electronics may …


The Dangers Of Human-Like Bias In Machine-Learning Algorithms, Daniel James Fuchs May 2018

The Dangers Of Human-Like Bias In Machine-Learning Algorithms, Daniel James Fuchs

Missouri S&T’s Peer to Peer

Machine learning algorithms (MLAGs), frequently used in artificial intelligence (AI), rely on using patterns across sets of data to derive decision-making intelligence. In recent years, as society continues to give increasing authority to ML-driven AIs, these algorithms have demonstrated the ability to take on human-like discriminatory biases. Microsoft's "Tay," for example, a social media-based chatbot, went from resembling a normal teenage girl to displaying racist and sexist attitudes in a mere sixteen hours). Tay and many other ML-driven implementations across a wide variety of fields have replicated numerous human biases. In most cases, these human-like biases originated due to improper …


Nmr Studies Of Loaded Microspheres, Ming Huang, Sisi Chen, Rex E. Gerald Ii, Jie Huang, Klaus Woelk May 2018

Nmr Studies Of Loaded Microspheres, Ming Huang, Sisi Chen, Rex E. Gerald Ii, Jie Huang, Klaus Woelk

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Porous-wall hollow glass microspheres (PWHGMs) are a novel form of glass materials that consist of 1-μm-thick porous silica shells, 20-100 μm in diameter, with a hollow cavity in the center. Utilizing the central cavity for material storage and the porous walls for controlled release is a unique combination that renders PWHGMs a superior vehicle for targeted drug delivery. In this study, NMR spectroscopy was used to characterize PWHGMs for the first time. A vacuum-based loading system was developed to load PWHGMs with various compounds followed by a washing procedure that uses solvents immiscible with the target material. Immiscible binary model …


Analytical Evaluation Of Partial Elements Using A Retarded Taylor Series Expansion Of The Green's Function, Luigi Lombardi, Giulio Antonini, Albert E. Ruehli May 2018

Analytical Evaluation Of Partial Elements Using A Retarded Taylor Series Expansion Of The Green's Function, Luigi Lombardi, Giulio Antonini, Albert E. Ruehli

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The computation of the fundamental magnetic and electric field coupling terms for the full-wave partial element equivalent circuit method is time consuming for large problems. Extensive numerical integration is required for the computation of four-to-six-fold integration of the partial element coefficients. In this paper, we present new full-wave analytical formulas for their computation, which are based on several different Taylor series expansion approaches for the case of rectangular elementary volumes and surfaces.


Biodegradation Of Phenolic Components In Wastewater By Micro Algae: A Review, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan, Faris Hammoodi Al-Ani, Adaf Jadaan Obaied Al-Saned May 2018

Biodegradation Of Phenolic Components In Wastewater By Micro Algae: A Review, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan, Faris Hammoodi Al-Ani, Adaf Jadaan Obaied Al-Saned

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The biodegradation of phenolic contaminant present in wastewater by micro algae has been investigated in the current research. The study focused on algae growth requirements and factors affecting algae growth in contaminated water leading to the best treatment. Different techniques used to functionalize microalgae in the treatment such as batch and continuous operation modes have been further investigated. Mechanisms for microalgae pollutants degradation and microalgae growth kinetics were also highlighted to present the required knowledge in phenol contaminant biodegradation field by microorganisms.


Characteristics Of The Mantle Flow System Beneath The Indochina Peninsula Revealed By Teleseismic Shear Wave Splitting Analysis, Youqiang Yu, Stephen S. Gao, Kelly H. Liu, Ting Yang, Mei Xue, Khanh Phon Le, Jinyao Gao May 2018

Characteristics Of The Mantle Flow System Beneath The Indochina Peninsula Revealed By Teleseismic Shear Wave Splitting Analysis, Youqiang Yu, Stephen S. Gao, Kelly H. Liu, Ting Yang, Mei Xue, Khanh Phon Le, Jinyao Gao

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Numerous geoscientific investigations have been conducted on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas for understanding crustal and mantle deformation associated with the indentation of the Indian Plate into Eurasia. A number of key issues, such as the causes of a sudden change of fast polarization orientations from N-S to almost E-W at approximately 26°N revealed by shear wave splitting (SWS) studies, and the geodynamic implications of the transition still remain enigmatic, partially due to the lack of sufficient SWS measurements on the Indochina Peninsula. Here we employ the SWS technique to systematically illuminate upper mantle anisotropy beneath the Indochina …


Constraints On Cosmic Strings Using Data From The First Advanced Ligo Observing Run, Benjamin P. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. May 2018

Constraints On Cosmic Strings Using Data From The First Advanced Ligo Observing Run, Benjamin P. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Cosmic strings are topological defects which can be formed in grand unified theory scale phase transitions in the early universe. They are also predicted to form in the context of string theory. The main mechanism for a network of Nambu-Goto cosmic strings to lose energy is through the production of loops and the subsequent emission of gravitational waves, thus offering an experimental signature for the existence of cosmic strings. Here we report on the analysis conducted to specifically search for gravitational-wave bursts from cosmic string loops in the data of Advanced LIGO 2015-2016 observing run (O1). No evidence of such …


Full Band All-Sky Search For Periodic Gravitational Waves In The O1 Ligo Data, Benjamin P. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. May 2018

Full Band All-Sky Search For Periodic Gravitational Waves In The O1 Ligo Data, Benjamin P. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We report on a new all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 475-2000 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of [-1.0,+0.1] x 10-8 Hz/s. Potential signals could be produced by a nearby spinning and slightly nonaxisymmetric isolated neutron star in our Galaxy. This search uses the data from Advanced LIGO's first observational run O1. No gravitational-wave signals were observed, and upper limits were placed on their strengths. For completeness, results from the separately published low-frequency search 20-475 Hz are included as well. Our lowest upper limit on worst-case (linearly polarized) strain amplitude …


Search For Tensor, Vector, And Scalar Polarizations In The Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background, Benjamin P. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. May 2018

Search For Tensor, Vector, And Scalar Polarizations In The Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background, Benjamin P. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The detection of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo has enabled novel tests of general relativity, including direct study of the polarization of gravitational waves. While general relativity allows for only two tensor gravitational-wave polarizations, general metric theories can additionally predict two vector and two scalar polarizations. The polarization of gravitational waves is encoded in the spectral shape of the stochastic gravitational-wave background, formed by the superposition of cosmological and individually unresolved astrophysical sources. Using data recorded by Advanced LIGO during its first observing run, we search for a stochastic background of generically polarized gravitational waves. We find …


Program Progress Performance Report #2, Missouri University Of Science And Technology. Inspire - University Transportation Center Apr 2018

Program Progress Performance Report #2, Missouri University Of Science And Technology. Inspire - University Transportation Center

Semi-Annual Progress Reports

No abstract provided.


Dark-Bright Soliton Pairs: Bifurcations And Collisions, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. Prinari, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher Apr 2018

Dark-Bright Soliton Pairs: Bifurcations And Collisions, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. Prinari, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The statics, stability, and dynamical properties of dark-bright soliton pairs are investigated here, motivated by applications in a homogeneous two-component repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. One of the intraspecies interaction coefficients is used as the relevant parameter controlling the deviation from the integrable Manakov limit. Two different families of stationary states are identified consisting of dark-bright solitons that are either antisymmetric (out-of-phase) or asymmetric (mass imbalanced) with respect to their bright soliton. Both of the above dark-bright configurations coexist at the integrable limit of equal intra and interspecies repulsions and are degenerate in that limit. However, they are found to bifurcate …


Model-Assisted Probability Of Detection Of Flaws In Aluminum Blocks Using Polynomial Chaos Expansions, Xiaosong Du, Leifur Leifsson, Robert Grandin, William Meeker, Ronald Roberts, Jiming Song Apr 2018

Model-Assisted Probability Of Detection Of Flaws In Aluminum Blocks Using Polynomial Chaos Expansions, Xiaosong Du, Leifur Leifsson, Robert Grandin, William Meeker, Ronald Roberts, Jiming Song

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Probability of detection (POD) is widely used for measuring reliability of nondestructive testing (NDT) systems. Typically, POD is determined experimentally, while it can be enhanced by utilizing physics-based computational models in combination with model-assisted POD (MAPOD) methods. With the development of advanced physics-based methods, such as ultrasonic NDT testing, the empirical information, needed for POD methods, can be reduced. However, performing accurate numerical simulations can be prohibitively time-consuming, especially as part of stochastic analysis. In this work, stochastic surrogate models for computational physics-based measurement simulations are developed for cost savings of MAPOD methods while simultaneously ensuring sufficient accuracy. The stochastic …


14th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Winners, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Apr 2018

14th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Winners, Missouri University Of Science And Technology

Undergraduate Research Conference at Missouri S&T

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14th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Abstract Book, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Apr 2018

14th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Abstract Book, Missouri University Of Science And Technology

Undergraduate Research Conference at Missouri S&T

No abstract provided.


Reduction Of The Ordered Magnetic Moment And Its Relationship To Kondo Coherence In Ce₁₋ₓlaₓcu₂Ge₂, B. G. Ueland, N. H. Jo, A. Sapkota, W. Tian, M. Masters, Halyna Hodovanets, S. S. Downing, C. Schmidt, R. J. Mcqueeney, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Apr 2018

Reduction Of The Ordered Magnetic Moment And Its Relationship To Kondo Coherence In Ce₁₋ₓlaₓcu₂Ge₂, B. G. Ueland, N. H. Jo, A. Sapkota, W. Tian, M. Masters, Halyna Hodovanets, S. S. Downing, C. Schmidt, R. J. Mcqueeney, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The microscopic details of the suppression of antiferromagnetic order in the Kondo-lattice series Ce1-xLaxCu2Ge2 due to nonmagnetic dilution by La are revealed through neutron diffraction results for x = 0.20, 0.40, 0.75, and 0.85. Magnetic Bragg peaks are found for 0.20 ≤ x ≤ 0.75, and both the Néel temperature TN and the ordered magnetic moment per Ce μ linearly decrease with increasing x. The reduction in μ points to strong hybridization of the increasingly diluted Ce 4f electrons, and we find a remarkable quadratic dependence of μ on the Kondo-coherence temperature. We …


Spectral Analysis Of Surface Waves To Detect Subsurface Voids, Payman Hajiani, Neil Lennart Anderson, J. David Rogers Apr 2018

Spectral Analysis Of Surface Waves To Detect Subsurface Voids, Payman Hajiani, Neil Lennart Anderson, J. David Rogers

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Systems and methods for detecting a subsurface cavity. A source applies a force to ground under inspection and a plurality of sensors coupled to the ground detect resulting surface waves. A processor is configured to extract phase and frequency components of the acquired seismic data, identify a phase shift in surface waves in the ground under inspection based on the extracted phase and frequency components, and determine one or more physical characteristics of a subsurface cavity based on the identified phase shift


Structural Evidence For Rifampicin Monooxygenase Inactivating Rifampicin By Cleaving Its Ansa-Bridge, Li Kai Liu, Yumin Dai, Heba Abdelwahab, Pablo Sobrado, John J. Tanner Apr 2018

Structural Evidence For Rifampicin Monooxygenase Inactivating Rifampicin By Cleaving Its Ansa-Bridge, Li Kai Liu, Yumin Dai, Heba Abdelwahab, Pablo Sobrado, John J. Tanner

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Rifampicin monooxygenase (RIFMO) decreases the potency of rifampicin (RIF) by converting it to oxidative products. Further decomposition of RIF has been observed in bacteria producing RIFMO and contributes to RIFMO-mediated drug resistance. Here we report the first crystal structure of RIFMO in complex with the hydroxylated RIF product. The 2.10 Å resolution structure reveals a breach of the ansa aliphatic chain of RIF between naphthoquinone C2 and amide N1. Our data suggest that RIFMO catalyzes the hydroxylation of RIF at the C2 atom followed by cleavage of the ansa linkage, which leads to inactivation of the antibiotic by preventing key …


Beyond Triplet: Unconventional Superconductivity In A Spin-3/2 Topological Semimetal, Hyunsoo Kim, Kefeng Wang, Yasuyuki Nakajima, Rongwei Hu, Steven Ziemak, Paul Syers, Limin Wang, Halyna Hodovanets, Jonathan D. Denlinger, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Apr 2018

Beyond Triplet: Unconventional Superconductivity In A Spin-3/2 Topological Semimetal, Hyunsoo Kim, Kefeng Wang, Yasuyuki Nakajima, Rongwei Hu, Steven Ziemak, Paul Syers, Limin Wang, Halyna Hodovanets, Jonathan D. Denlinger, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In all known fermionic superfluids, Cooper pairs are composed of spin-1/2 quasi-particles that pair to form either spin-singlet or spin-triplet bound States. The "spin" of a Bloch electron, however, is fixed by the symmetries of the crystal and the atomic orbitals from which it is derived and, in some cases, can behave as if it were a spin-3/2 particle. The superconducting state of such a system allows pairing beyond spin-triplet, with higher spin quasi-particles combining to form quintet or septet pairs. We report evidence of unconventional superconductivity emerging from a spin-3/2 quasi-particle electronic structure in the half-Heusler semimetal YPtBi, a …