Self-powered Wireless Sensors and Interfaces for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (open access)

Self-powered Wireless Sensors and Interfaces for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Data management plan for the grant, "Self-powered Wireless Sensors and Interfaces for UAVs." Self-powered wireless sensors acting as nanogenerators can not only harvest ambient environment energy during the flight but also are capable of wirelessly monitoring pressure, temperature and other parameters to make the UAV truly an intelligent transportation system (ITS). This proposal requests the acquisition of a Mask Aligner to pattern such self-powered sensors with nano-antenna structures for wireless communication. The addition of the proposed system will enable researchers to study novel 2D materials as self-powered sensors and actuators. The proposed infrastructure would allow the development of smart, autonomous mobility systems with breakthroughs in intelligent technologies, research and workforce preparation.
Date: 2021-05-05/2022-05-04
Creator: Choi, Wonbong
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermo/hydration responsive shape memory polymers with enhanced hydrophilicity for biomedical applications (open access)

Thermo/hydration responsive shape memory polymers with enhanced hydrophilicity for biomedical applications

Article states that thiol-ene/acrylate shape memory polymers (SMPs) have sufficient stiffness for facile insertion and precision placement and soften after exposure to physiological conditions to reduce the mechanical mismatch with body tissue; as a result, they have demonstrated excellent potential as substrates for various flexible bioelectronic devices, such as cochlear implants, nerve cuffs, cortical probes, plexus blankets, and spinal cord stimulators. Here, the authors report a new strategy for designing SMPs with enhanced shape recovery properties and lower moduli than previously reported SMPs under physiological conditions without sacrificing stiffness at room temperature by introducing a hydrophilic monomer.
Date: December 5, 2022
Creator: Suzuki, Yuta; Hu, Qichan; Batchelor, Benjamin; Voit, Walter & Ecker, Melanie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gas tungsten arc welding of as-cast AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high entropy alloy (open access)

Gas tungsten arc welding of as-cast AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high entropy alloy

Article states that the AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high entropy alloy is of great interest due to its unique mechanical properties combining both high strength and plasticity. This work establishes the potential for using arc-based welding for joining eutectic high entropy alloys.
Date: October 5, 2022
Creator: Shen, Jiajia; Agrawal, Priyanka; Rodrigues, Tiago A.; Lopes, J.G.; Schell, N.; Zeng, Zhi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational Assessment of Thermokinetics and Associated Microstructural Evolution in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Manufacturing of Ti6Al4V Alloy (open access)

Computational Assessment of Thermokinetics and Associated Microstructural Evolution in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Manufacturing of Ti6Al4V Alloy

This article develops a three-dimensional thermokinetic model based on the finite element method to correlate with the microstructure evolved in additively manufactured Ti6Al4V alloy.
Date: May 5, 2020
Creator: Pantawane, Mangesh V.; Ho, Yee-Hsien; Joshi, Sameehan & Dahotre, Narendra B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tribocatalytically-active nickel/cobalt phosphorous films for universal protection in a hydrocarbon-rich environment (open access)

Tribocatalytically-active nickel/cobalt phosphorous films for universal protection in a hydrocarbon-rich environment

Article describes how high-contact stresses generated at the sliding interfaces during their relative movement provide a unique combination of local heating and shear- and load-induced compression conditions. The authors of the article employ the electrodeposition process to design a coating composed of a hard cobalt-phosphorous matrix with the inclusion of tribocatalytically-active nickel clusters.
Date: July 5, 2023
Creator: Shirani, Asghar; Al Sulaimi, Rawan; Macknojia, Ali Zayaan; Eskandari, Mohammad & Berman, Diana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library