Hydrogenase Biomimetics with Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Electrocatalytic Studies on [Fe₂(CO)₄(κ²-dppn)(µ-edt)] (edt = Ethanedithiolate; dppn = 1,8-bis(Diphenylphosphino)Naphthalene) (open access)

Hydrogenase Biomimetics with Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Electrocatalytic Studies on [Fe₂(CO)₄(κ²-dppn)(µ-edt)] (edt = Ethanedithiolate; dppn = 1,8-bis(Diphenylphosphino)Naphthalene)

This article reports the preparation and characterisation of the simple dppn complex,[Fe2(CO)4(κ2-dppn)(µ-edt)], together with an investigation of its proton-reduction ability.
Date: November 20, 2018
Creator: Ghosh, Shishir; Rana, Shahed; Hollingsworth, Nathan; Richmond, Michael G.; Kabir, Shariff E. & Hogarth, Graeme
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controlling Topological States in Topological/Normal Insulator Heterostructures (open access)

Controlling Topological States in Topological/Normal Insulator Heterostructures

This article contains a systematic investigation of the nature of the nontrivial interface states in topological/normal insulator (TI/NI) heterostructures.
Date: November 26, 2018
Creator: Costa, Marcio; Costa, Antônio T.; Freitas, Walter A.; Schmidt, Tome M.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco & Fazzio, Adalberto
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Mutations in the S-loop of Human Glutathione Synthetase: Links Between Substrate Binding, Active Site Structure and Allostery (open access)

Genetic Mutations in the S-loop of Human Glutathione Synthetase: Links Between Substrate Binding, Active Site Structure and Allostery

This article uses molecular dynamics simulations and experimental point mutations to probe the role of S-loop residues in tertiary structure, substrate binding, and allosteric communication.
Date: November 29, 2018
Creator: Ingle, Brandall L.; Shrestha, Bibesh; De Jesus, Margarita C.; Conrad-Webb, Heather M.; Anderson, Mary E. & Cundari, Thomas R., 1964-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized molecular solvation in non-aqueous solutions by a single parameter implicit solvation scheme (open access)

Generalized molecular solvation in non-aqueous solutions by a single parameter implicit solvation scheme

Article presenting a systematic parametrization protocol for the Self-Consistent Continuum Solvation (SCCS) model resulting in optimized parameters for 67 non-aqueous solvents. The parametrization is based on a collection of ≈6000 experimentally measured partition coefficients, which were collected in the Solv@TUM database presented here. The accuracy of the optimized SCCS model is comparable to the well-known universal continuum solvation model (SMx) family of methods, while relying on only a single fit parameter and thereby largely reducing statistical noise.
Date: August 3, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene); Hille, Christoph; Ringe, Stefan; Deimel, Martin; Kunkel, Christian; Reuter, Karsten et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Apparent Specific Volumes of Sucrose in Different Aqueous Cosolvent Mixtures at 298.2 K (open access)

Apparent Specific Volumes of Sucrose in Different Aqueous Cosolvent Mixtures at 298.2 K

This article explores research to determine the apparent specific volume of sucrose by measuring the density of sucrose in {cosolvent + water} mixtures at 298.2 K. The study finds that a mean apparent specific volume value of 0.632 cm³.g⁻¹ for sucrose in different aqueous-cosolvent mixtures could be adequate for practical purposes in pharmaceutical industries.
Date: December 30, 2018
Creator: Tinjacá, Darío; Muñoz, María M.; Martínez, Fleming; Jouyban, Abolghasem & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solvation Descriptors for Zwitterionic α-Aminoacids; Estimation of Water–Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities, and Hydrogen-Bond Acidity and Hydrogen-Bond Basicity (open access)

Solvation Descriptors for Zwitterionic α-Aminoacids; Estimation of Water–Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities, and Hydrogen-Bond Acidity and Hydrogen-Bond Basicity

This article uses the literature data on solubilities and water–solvent partition coefficients to obtain properties or “Absolv descriptors” for zwitterionic α-aminoacids: glycine, α-alanine (α-aminopropanoic acid), α-aminobutanoic acid, norvaline (α-aminopentanoic acid), norleucine (α-aminohexanoic acid), valine (α-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid), leucine (α-amino-4-methylpentanoic acid), and α-phenylalanine.
Date: February 8, 2019
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Promoting bioanalytical concepts in genetics: A TATA box molecularly imprinted polymer as a small isolated fragment of the DNA damage repairing system (open access)

Promoting bioanalytical concepts in genetics: A TATA box molecularly imprinted polymer as a small isolated fragment of the DNA damage repairing system

Article describes study which demonstrates that a new, stable, artificial TATA (T — thymine, A — adenine) box is recognized by amino acids recognizing the natural TATA box.
Date: February 13, 2019
Creator: Bartold, Katarzyna; Pietrzyk-Le, Agnieszka; Lisowski, Wojciech; Golebiewska, Karolina; Siklitskaya, Alexandra; Borowicz, Pawel et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multimodal switching of a redox-active macrocycle (open access)

Multimodal switching of a redox-active macrocycle

This article looks at molecules that can exist in multiple states with the possibility of toggling between those states based on different stimuli. They have potential for use in molecular switching or sensing applications. The coupling of two different oxidation states with two different charge-transfer states within one macrocyclic scaffold delivers up to five different optical outputs. This molecular switching manifold exploits intramolecular coupling of multiple redox active substituents within a single molecule.
Date: March 1, 2019
Creator: Payne, Daniel T.; Webre, W. A.; Matsushita, Yoshitaka; Zhu, Nianyong; Futera, Zdeněk; Labuta, J. et al.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polarization in electrostatics and circuits: Computing and visualizing surface charge distributions (open access)

Polarization in electrostatics and circuits: Computing and visualizing surface charge distributions

Article describing an algorithm or computing the detailed surface charge distributions in equilibrium electrostatic situations and in steady-state DC circuits, and discuss the results of the computations of surface charge distributions for several systems.
Date: December 14, 2018
Creator: Chabay, Ruth & Sherwood, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generation of transgenic zebrafish with 2 populations of RFP- and GFP-labeled thrombocytes: analysis of their lipids (open access)

Generation of transgenic zebrafish with 2 populations of RFP- and GFP-labeled thrombocytes: analysis of their lipids

Article analyzing the lipids in transgenic zebrafish. Separating RFP+ and GFP+ thrombocytes from the GloFli fish developed here led to the analysis of their lipid composition.DiI-labeled liposomes with similar PE and PC concentrations found in RFP+ thrombocytes explained DiI labeling of thrombocytes.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Fallatah, Weam; De Silva, Imesha W.; Verbeck, Guido F. & Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coordination corrected ab initio formation enthalpies (open access)

Coordination corrected ab initio formation enthalpies

Article proposes the “coordination corrected enthalpies” method (CCE), based on the number of nearest neighbor cation–anion bonds, and also capable of correcting relative stability of polymorphs.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Friedrich, Rico; Usanmaz, Demet; Oses, Corey; Supka, Andrew; Fornari, Marco; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Limiting Diffusion Coefficients for Ions and Nonelectrolytes in Solvents Water, Methanol, Ethanol, Propan-1-ol, Butan-1-ol, Octan-1-ol, Propanone and Acetonitrile at 298 K, Analyzed Using Abraham Descriptors (open access)

Limiting Diffusion Coefficients for Ions and Nonelectrolytes in Solvents Water, Methanol, Ethanol, Propan-1-ol, Butan-1-ol, Octan-1-ol, Propanone and Acetonitrile at 298 K, Analyzed Using Abraham Descriptors

Article describes study demonstrating that solute hydrogen bond acidity, solute hydrogen bond basicity and solute volume all lower the diffusion constants of ions and nonelectrolytes in the various solvents studied.
Date: May 21, 2019
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Surface Activation and Pretreatments for Biocompatible Metals and Alloys Used in Biomedical Applications (open access)

Surface Activation and Pretreatments for Biocompatible Metals and Alloys Used in Biomedical Applications

Article describes the main surface activation and pretreatment techniques for substrates such as titanium and its alloys, stainless steel, magnesium alloys, and CoCrMo alloys.
Date: June 2, 2019
Creator: Huynh, Vivian; Ngo, Ngan K. & Golden, Teresa Diane, 1963-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Knock-on synthesis of tritopic calix[4]pyrrole host for enhanced anion interactions (open access)

Knock-on synthesis of tritopic calix[4]pyrrole host for enhanced anion interactions

Author Manuscript version of an article reporting interactions of anionic guests with a tritopic peripherally functionalized conjugated calix[4]pyrrole host (1) prepared using a regioselective synthetic method.
Date: June 4, 2019
Creator: Webre, Whitney A.; D'Souza, Francis; Chahal, Mandeep K.; Labuta, Jan; Březina, Václav; Karr, Paul A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomic layer deposition of BN as a novel capping barrier for B2O3 (open access)

Atomic layer deposition of BN as a novel capping barrier for B2O3

Article demonstrating in situ deposition of BN by sequential BCl₃/NH₃ reactions at 600 K on two different oxidized boron substrates: (a) B₂O₃ deposited using BCl₃/H₂O ALD on Si at 300 K (“B₂O₃/Si”) and (b) a boron-silicon oxide formed by sequential BCl₃/O₂ reactions at 650 K on SiO₂ followed by annealing to 1000 K (“B-Si-oxide”). The data presented demonstrates that ultrathin BN films deposited by BCl₃/NH₃ ALD are promising candidates for passivation of boron oxide used in shallow doping applications.
Date: June 5, 2019
Creator: Kelber, Jeffry A.; Pilli, Aparna; Jones, Jessica; Chugh, Natasha; Pasquale, Frank & LaVoie, Adrien
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Towards large scale hybrid QM/MM dynamics of complex systems with advanced point dipole polarizable embeddings (open access)

Towards large scale hybrid QM/MM dynamics of complex systems with advanced point dipole polarizable embeddings

Article presents a general route to hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) Molecular Dynamics for complex systems using a polarizable embedding.
Date: June 11, 2019
Creator: Loco, Daniele; Lagardère, Louis; Cisneros, Gerardo Andrés; Scalmani, Giovanni; Frisch, Michael; Lipparini, Filippo et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Further Analysis on Solubility Measurement and Thermodynamic  Modeling of Benzoic Acid in Monosolvents and Binary Mixtures (open access)

Further Analysis on Solubility Measurement and Thermodynamic Modeling of Benzoic Acid in Monosolvents and Binary Mixtures

Article discussing further analyses of the recent report (by Sandeepa et al.) on the solubility of benzoic acid in six monosolvents (i.e. tributyl phosphate, diacetone alcohol, methyl-n-propyl ketone, methyl acetate, amyl acetate, and isooctane) and five binary systems (i.e. ethanol + hexane, isopropyl alcohol + hexane and chloroform + hexane, acetone + hexane, and acetone + water) along with some numerical analyses. The reported calculations have been reanalyzed based on combined nearly ideal binary solvent/Redlich-Kister, the modified Wilson model, general single model, Jouyban–Acree model and Jouyban–Acree–van’t Hoff model. The investigated models provide good estimation of the solubility behavior of benzoic acid in the binary solvent mixtures at various temperatures.
Date: June 30, 2019
Creator: Jouyban, Abolghasem; Rahimpour, Elaheh & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
New molecular architectures containing low-valent cluster centres with di- and trimetalated 2-vinylpyrazine ligands: synthesis and molecular structures of Ru5(CO)15(μ5-C4H2N2CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH)(μ-H)2 and Ru8(CO)24(μ7-C4H2N2CH[double bond, length as m-dash]C)(μ-H)3 (open access)

New molecular architectures containing low-valent cluster centres with di- and trimetalated 2-vinylpyrazine ligands: synthesis and molecular structures of Ru5(CO)15(μ5-C4H2N2CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH)(μ-H)2 and Ru8(CO)24(μ7-C4H2N2CH[double bond, length as m-dash]C)(μ-H)3

Article details the reaction of Ru3(CO)12 with 2-vinylpyrazine, the aim of which was to synthesize clusters in which all of the donor atoms of the 2-vinylpyrazine ligand participate in bonding to the cluster core.
Date: July 4, 2019
Creator: Hossain, Md. Monir; Akter, Nahid; Ghosh, Shishir; Nesterov, Vladimir N.; Richmond, Michael G.; Hogarth, Graeme et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
AFLOW-QHA3P: Robust and automated method to compute thermodynamic properties of solids (open access)

AFLOW-QHA3P: Robust and automated method to compute thermodynamic properties of solids

Article introducing the quasiharmonic approximation three-phonon method to calculate the thermodynamic properties of both nonmetallic and metallic compounds. This study demonstrates that QHA3P is an ideal framework for the high-throughput prediction of finite-temperature material properties, combining the accuracy of QHA with the computational efficiency of SC-QHA.
Date: July 8, 2019
Creator: Nath, Pinku; Usanmaz, Demet; Hicks, David; Oses, Corey; Fornari, Marco; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correlation consistent basis sets designed for density functional theory: Second-row (Al-Ar) (open access)

Correlation consistent basis sets designed for density functional theory: Second-row (Al-Ar)

Article presenting cc-pV(n+d)Z correlation consistent basis sets of double- through quintuple-ζ quality for the atoms Al-Ar that have been modified for use with density functional theory (DFT). These basis set modifications include truncation of high-angular momentum basis functions, recontraction of the s- and p-functions, and reoptimization of basis function exponents with generalized gradient approximation and hybrid-DFT functionals. The effects of basis set truncation, recontraction, and reoptimization are shown to improve convergence behavior in atomic energies as well as dissociation energies and enthalpies of formation.
Date: June 8, 2019
Creator: Mahler, Andrew; Determan, John J. & Wilson, Angela K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occurrence of excited state charge separation in a N-doped graphene–perylenediimide hybrid formed via ‘click’ chemistry (open access)

Occurrence of excited state charge separation in a N-doped graphene–perylenediimide hybrid formed via ‘click’ chemistry

Article describes study in which researchers, using click chemistry, synthesized a donor–acceptor hybrid comprised of N-doped graphene and perylenediimide (PDI), a well-known electron-accepting photosensitizer.
Date: August 30, 2019
Creator: Gobeze, Habtom B.; Arellano, Luis M.; Gutiérrez-Vílchez, Ana María; Gómez-Escalonilla, María J.; Sastre-Santos, Ángela; Fernández-Lázaro, Fernando et al.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revisiting surface core-level shifts for ionic compounds (open access)

Revisiting surface core-level shifts for ionic compounds

Article establishing a theoretical method which is able to relate the binding energy shifts to the electronic structure of a material. In order to establish such a methodology, the CaO(100) surface to bulk core-level binding energy shifts are studied with Hartree-Fock and density-functional theory methods using both cluster and periodic slab models.
Date: September 12, 2019
Creator: Bagus, Paul S.; Nelin, Connie J.; Zhao, Xunhua; Levchenko, Sergey V.; Davis, Earl; Weng, Xuefei et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library