High Tensile Ductility and Strength in Dual-phase Bimodal Steel through Stationary Friction Stir Processing (open access)

High Tensile Ductility and Strength in Dual-phase Bimodal Steel through Stationary Friction Stir Processing

This article demonstrates a facile single-step processing route for the development of bimodal grain structure in austenitic stainless steel, SS316L.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Singh Arora, Harpreet; Ayyagari, Aditya; Saini, J.; Selvam, K.; Riyadh, S.; Pole, M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Facile Photochemical Syntheses of Conjoined Nanotwin Gold-Silver Particles within a Biologically-Benign Chitosan Polymer (open access)

Facile Photochemical Syntheses of Conjoined Nanotwin Gold-Silver Particles within a Biologically-Benign Chitosan Polymer

This article developed a simple photochemical method for making conjoined bi-metallic gold-silver (Au/Ag) nanotwins, a new breed of nanoparticles.
Date: March 6, 2019
Creator: Korir, Daniel K.; Gwalani, Bharat; Joseph, Abel; Kamras, Brian; Arvapally, Ravi K.; Omary, Mohammad A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of ordered L1₂ precipitation on strain-rate dependent mechanical behavior in a eutectic high entropy alloy (open access)

Influence of ordered L1₂ precipitation on strain-rate dependent mechanical behavior in a eutectic high entropy alloy

This article focuses on Al0.7CoCrFeNi, a lamellar dual-phase (fcc + B2) precipitation-strengthenable eutectic high entropy alloy. The back-stresses from the coherent L12 precipitate were insufficient to cause improvement in twin nucleation, owing to elevated twinning stress under quasi-static testing. However, under dynamic testing high density of twins were observed.
Date: April 23, 2019
Creator: Gwalani, Bharat; Gangireddy, Sindhura; Zheng, Yufeng; Soni, V.; Mishra, Rajiv & Banerjee, Rajarshi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deformation Induced Hierarchical Twinning Coupled with Omega Transformation in a Metastable β-Ti Alloy (open access)

Deformation Induced Hierarchical Twinning Coupled with Omega Transformation in a Metastable β-Ti Alloy

This article looks at hierarchical twinning in metastable body-centered cubic (bcc) β-titanium alloy on tensile deformation.
Date: August 15, 2015
Creator: Mantri, Srinivas Aditya; Sun, F.; Choudhuri, Deep; Alam, Talukder; Gwalani, Bharat; Prima, Frederic et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corrosion Behavior of Selectively Laser Melted CoCrFeMnNi High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Corrosion Behavior of Selectively Laser Melted CoCrFeMnNi High Entropy Alloy

The article focuses on a study that widens the toolbox to manufacture HEAs with exceptional corrosion resistance by additive manufacturing. CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloys (HEAs) were additively manufactured (AM) by laser powder bed fusion and their corrosion resistance in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution was studied by potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy tests. A systematic study of AM CoCrFeMnNi HEAs’ porosity under a wide range of laser processing parameters was conducted and a processing map was constructed to identify the optimal laser processing window for CoCrFeMnNi HEAs.
Date: September 23, 2019
Creator: Ren, Jie; Mahajan, Chaitanya; Liu, Liang; Follette, David; Chen, Wen & Mukherjee, Sundeep
System: The UNT Digital Library
Activation Volume and Energy for Dislocation Nucleation in Multi-Principal Element Alloys (open access)

Activation Volume and Energy for Dislocation Nucleation in Multi-Principal Element Alloys

Paper describes study evaluating incipient plasticity in multi-principal element alloys, CoCrNi, CoCrFeMnNi, and Al0.1CoCrFeNi by nano-indentation and compared with pure Ni.
Date: February 23, 2019
Creator: Mridha, Sanghita; Sadeghilaridjani, Maryam & Mukherjee, Sundeep
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multi-Fold Enhancement in Compressive Properties of Polystyrene Foam Using Pre-delaminated Stearate Functionalized Layer Double Hydroxides (open access)

Multi-Fold Enhancement in Compressive Properties of Polystyrene Foam Using Pre-delaminated Stearate Functionalized Layer Double Hydroxides

Describes study in developing an environmentally benign styrene foam using supercritical CO2.
Date: December 19, 2019
Creator: Ogunsona, Emmanuel O.; Dagnon, Koffi L. & D'Souza, Nandika Anne, 1967-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structure and Electronic Properties of InSb Nanowires Grown in Flexible Polycarbonate Membranes (open access)

Structure and Electronic Properties of InSb Nanowires Grown in Flexible Polycarbonate Membranes

The article explores the various factors that affect nucleation and nanowire growth. A dense array of vertically aligned indium antimonide (InSb) nanowires with high aspect ratio were grown in the pores of a track-etched polycarbonate membrane via a one-step electrochemical method.
Date: September 5, 2019
Creator: Singh, Abhay; Roccapriore, Kevin M.; Algarni, Zaina; Salloom, Riyadh; Golden, Teresa Diane, 1963- & Philipose, Usha
System: The UNT Digital Library
Composition-dependent apparent activation-energy and sluggish grain-growth in high entropy alloys (open access)

Composition-dependent apparent activation-energy and sluggish grain-growth in high entropy alloys

Article discusses experimental results which reveal that the apparent activation-energy for grain-growth in an fcc-based AlxCoCrFeNi high entropy alloy (HEA) system increases from 179 to 486 kJ/mol when the Al content increases from x = 0.1 to 0.3.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Gwalani, Bharat; Salloom, Riyadh; Alam, Talukder; Valentin, S.G.; Zhou, X.; Thompson, G. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tribologically induced nanolaminate in a cold-sprayed WC-reinforced Cu matrix composite: a key to high wear resistance (open access)

Tribologically induced nanolaminate in a cold-sprayed WC-reinforced Cu matrix composite: a key to high wear resistance

Article describes an experiment where a self-organized 2D nanolaminate with an average lamella thickness of ~22 nm was formed in the subsurface of a cold-sprayed WC-reinforced metal matrix composite (MMC) Cu-MoS2-WC during oscillatory sliding, resulting in more stable friction and improved wear resistance.
Date: November 15, 2019
Creator: Zhang, Yinyin; Choudhuri, Deep; Scharf, Thomas W.; Descartes, Sylvie & Chromik, Richard R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
From mechanics to thermodynamics: A relation between the brittleness and the thermal expansivity for polymers (open access)

From mechanics to thermodynamics: A relation between the brittleness and the thermal expansivity for polymers

Article provides an equation relating the linear isobaric expansivity to the brittleness B for a number of polymers with a large variety of chemical structures and consequently with a large variety of properties.
Date: February 19, 2019
Creator: Brostow, Witold, 1934- & Osmanson, Allison T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal Coordination‐Mediated Functional Grading and Self‐Healing in Mussel Byssus Cuticle (open access)

Metal Coordination‐Mediated Functional Grading and Self‐Healing in Mussel Byssus Cuticle

Article demonstrates direct evidence of Fe3+ and Fe2+ gradient distribution across mussel byssal cuticle threads thickness, which shows more Fe2+ inside the inner cuticle, to support the hypothesis that the cuticle is a functionally graded material with high stiffness, extensibility, and self‐healing capacity.
Date: October 24, 2019
Creator: Xu, Quan; Xu, Meng; Lin, Chun-Yu; Zhao, Qiang; Zhang, Rui; Dong, Xiaoxiao et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro evaluation of gamma radiation-induced PEGylated isoniazid (open access)

Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro evaluation of gamma radiation-induced PEGylated isoniazid

Article describes experiment where researchers synthesized a PEGylated isoniazid (PEG-g-INH or PEG–INH) by gamma radiation-induced polymerization for the first time.
Date: August 6, 2019
Creator: González-Torres, Maykel; Guzmán-Beltrán, Silvia; Mata-Gómez, Marco A.; González-Valdez, José; Leyva-Gómez, Gerardo; Melgarejo-Ramírez, Yaaziel et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Structure of Amorphous and Deeply Supercooled Liquid Alumina (open access)

The Structure of Amorphous and Deeply Supercooled Liquid Alumina

Article describes experiment in which liquid Al2O3 was supercooled more than 500 K below its melting point (Tm = 2,327 K) using aerodynamic levitation and laser heating techniques.
Date: March 19, 2019
Creator: Shi, Caijuan; Alderman, Oliver L.G.; Berman, Diana; Du, Jincheng & Neuefeind, Joerg
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detrimental Effects and Prevention of Acidic Electrolytes on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalytic Performance of Heteroatom-Doped Graphene Catalysts (open access)

Detrimental Effects and Prevention of Acidic Electrolytes on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalytic Performance of Heteroatom-Doped Graphene Catalysts

Article describes study in which the density functional theory (DFT) methods were applied to understand the inferior performance of doped graphene in acid.
Date: November 21, 2019
Creator: Ma, Jun; Gong, Lele; Shen, Yang; Sun, Defeng; Liu, Bowen; Zhang, Jing et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Noble-Metal based Metallic Glasses as Highly Catalytic Materials for Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction in Fuel Cells (open access)

Noble-Metal based Metallic Glasses as Highly Catalytic Materials for Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction in Fuel Cells

Article describes study evaluating the electro-catalytic behavior of recently developed Pt-, Pd-, and Pt/Pd-based metallic glasses using scanning electrochemical microscopy.
Date: August 20, 2019
Creator: Hasannaeimi, Vahid & Mukherjee, Sundeep
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nanoindentation behavior of high entropy alloys with transformation-induced plasticity (open access)

Nanoindentation behavior of high entropy alloys with transformation-induced plasticity

Article describes an experiment where nanoindentation of three metastable dual-phase high entropy alloys (HEAs) was performed to obtain their inherent elastoplastic deformation responses.
Date: April 29, 2019
Creator: Sinha, S.; Mirshams, Reza; Wang, Tianhao; Nene, S. S.; Frank, M.; Liu, K et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nature-Guided Synthesis of Advanced Bio-Lubricants (open access)

Nature-Guided Synthesis of Advanced Bio-Lubricants

Article describes study which finds that Orychophragmus violaceus (Ov) seed oil has superior lubrication properties, based on the unusual structural features of the major lipid species—triacylglycerol (TAG) estolides.
Date: August 12, 2019
Creator: Romsdahl, Trevor; Shirani, Asghar; Minto, Robert E.; Zhang, Chunyu; Cahoon, Edgar B.; Chapman, Kent Dean et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars Dynamics and Enhanced Radio-Frequency Elastomechanical Susceptibility in PNIPAm Hydrogel-KF-doped Barium Titanate Nanoparticle Composites (open access)

Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars Dynamics and Enhanced Radio-Frequency Elastomechanical Susceptibility in PNIPAm Hydrogel-KF-doped Barium Titanate Nanoparticle Composites

Article describes study investigating Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars (MWS) dynamics and electromagnetic radio-frequency (RF) actuation of the volumetric phase change in a hybrid polymer composite consisting of hydrogel suspended with high-k nanoparticles.
Date: December 19, 2019
Creator: Walker, Ezekiel; Akishige, Yukikuni; Cai, Tong; Roberts, James A.; Shepherd, Nigel; Wu, Shijie et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioactive glass coatings on metallic implants for biomedical applications (open access)

Bioactive glass coatings on metallic implants for biomedical applications

Article provides a detailed overview of the benefits and issues of metal alloys when used as biomedical implants and how they are improved by bioactive glass-based coatings for biomedical applications.
Date: October 5, 2019
Creator: Oliver, Joy-anne N.; Su, Yingchao; Lu, Xiaonan; Kuo, Po Hsuen; Du, Jincheng & Zhu, Donghui
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biofunctionalization of metallic implants by calcium phosphate coatings (open access)

Biofunctionalization of metallic implants by calcium phosphate coatings

Article provides a brief summary of state-of-art of surface biofunctionalization on implantable metals by CaP coatings.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Su, Yingchao; Cockerill, Irsalan; Zheng, Yufeng; Tang, Liping; Qin, Yi‐Xian & Zhu, Donghui
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of solution condition on hydroxyapatite formation in evaluating bioactivity of B2O3 containing 45S5 bioactive glasses (open access)

Effect of solution condition on hydroxyapatite formation in evaluating bioactivity of B2O3 containing 45S5 bioactive glasses

Article describes study investigating the effects of testing solutions and conditions on hydroxyapatite (HAp) formation as a means of in vitro bioactivity evaluation of B2O3 containing 45S5 bioactive glasses.
Date: June 5, 2019
Creator: Lu, Xiaonan; Kolzow, Jessica; Chen, Roberto R. & Du, Jincheng
System: The UNT Digital Library
On the evolving nature of c/a ratio in a hexagonal close-packed epsilon martensite phase in transformative high entropy alloys (open access)

On the evolving nature of c/a ratio in a hexagonal close-packed epsilon martensite phase in transformative high entropy alloys

Article describes a study in which c/a ratio and transformation volume change of h.c.p. epsilon martensite phase in transformative high entropy alloys (HEAs) were quantified as functions of alloy chemistry, friction stir processing and tensile deformation.
Date: September 12, 2019
Creator: Sinha, Subhasis; Nene, Saurabh S.; Frank, Michael; Liu, Kaimiao; Agrawal, Priyanka & Mishra, Rajiv
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sculpted grain boundaries in soft crystals (open access)

Sculpted grain boundaries in soft crystals

Article describes study in which "soft heteroepitaxy” is used to exert precise control over the lattice orientation of three-dimensional liquid crystalline soft crystals, thereby granting the ability to sculpt the grain boundaries between them.
Date: November 29, 2019
Creator: Li, Xaio; Martínez-González, José A.; Guzmán, Orlando; Ma, Xuedan; Park, Kangho; Zhou, Chun et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library