Polydimethylsiloxane and polyisoprene-based graphene composites for strain-sensing (open access)

Polydimethylsiloxane and polyisoprene-based graphene composites for strain-sensing

In this article, different composite materials have been developed and characterized for different applications in the health science field and as optoelectromechanical sensors.
Date: March 31, 2017
Creator: Catalan Gonzalez, Jorge Alfredo & Kaul, Anupama
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feasibility Study of Compaction and Sintering of Commercially Pure Titanium using Friction Stir Processing (open access)

Feasibility Study of Compaction and Sintering of Commercially Pure Titanium using Friction Stir Processing

This article explores the possibility of decreasing the number of steps required in the manufacturing of a product using the powder metallurgy technique.
Date: May 22, 2018
Creator: Fortier, Aleksandra; Kumar, Nilesh; Komarasamy, Mageshwari & Mishra, Rajiv
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An investigation on the concrete properties containing colemanite (open access)

An investigation on the concrete properties containing colemanite

This article summarizes the results of an investigation on the effect of the colemanite on physical and mechanical properties of concrete using colemanite as replacement aggregate.
Date: March 31, 2010
Creator: Gencel, Osman; Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Ozel, Cengiz & Filiz, Mümin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Surface Integrity Achieved by Finishing Processes on Sverker 21 and Vanadis 6 Cold Working Tool Steels (open access)

Surface Integrity Achieved by Finishing Processes on Sverker 21 and Vanadis 6 Cold Working Tool Steels

Article discusses the effects of various processes on the surface integrity of Sverker 21 and Vanadis 6 steel surfaces.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Czechowski, K.; Kot, M.; Rusek, P. & Toboła, D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fundamentals of three-dimensional Yb-fiber Nd:YAG laser machining of structural bone (open access)

Fundamentals of three-dimensional Yb-fiber Nd:YAG laser machining of structural bone

This article presents a study that aims to understand the fundamental aspects of the laser-bone interaction in three-dimensional laser machining of the bone through an integrated experimental-computational approach.
Date: June 28, 2019
Creator: Dahotre, Narendra B.; Pantawane, Mangesh V.; Robertson, William B.; Khan, Riaz J. K. & Fick, Daniel P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
First-principles study of diffusion and interactions of hydrogen with silicon, phosphorus, and sulfur impurities in nickel (open access)

First-principles study of diffusion and interactions of hydrogen with silicon, phosphorus, and sulfur impurities in nickel

Article systematically studying the effect of Si, P, and S impurities on the diffusion and binding of an H atom in a face-centered-cubic (FCC) Ni lattice using density functional theory (DFT),
Date: March 26, 2019
Creator: Paranjape, Priyanvada; Gopal, Priya & Srinivasan, S. G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Microlubrication Using a Vegetable Oil-Based Metal Working Fluid during End Milling AISI 1018 Steel (open access)

Analyzing the Effectiveness of Microlubrication Using a Vegetable Oil-Based Metal Working Fluid during End Milling AISI 1018 Steel

This article describes a study in which a vegetable oil-based lubricant was used to conduct wear analysis and to analyze the effectiveness of microlubrication during end milling AISI 1018 steel.
Date: April 15, 2014
Creator: Shaikh, Vasim; Boubekri, Nourredine & Scharf, Thomas W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Waste Materials from Tetra Pak Packages as Reinforcement of Polymer Concrete (open access)

Waste Materials from Tetra Pak Packages as Reinforcement of Polymer Concrete

This article discusses how compressive and flexural strength and modulus of elasticity decrease gradually, when either Tetra Pak particle concentration or particle size is increased.
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Martínez-López, Miguel; Martínez-Barrera, Gonzalo; Barrera-Díaz, Carlos; Ureña-Núñez, Fernando & Brostow, Witold, 1934-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Additive Manufacturing of Metals: A Brief Review of the Characteristic Microstructures and Properties of Steels, Ti-6al-4v and High-Entropy Alloys (open access)

Additive Manufacturing of Metals: A Brief Review of the Characteristic Microstructures and Properties of Steels, Ti-6al-4v and High-Entropy Alloys

This article presents a brief review of the microstructures and mechanical properties of selected metallic alloys processed by additive manufacturing (AM).
Date: March 30, 2017
Creator: Gorsse, Stéphane; Hutchinson, Christopher; Gouné, Mohamed & Banerjee, Rajarshi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Nanocrystal Formation and Tensile Deformation of TiAl Alloy (open access)

Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Nanocrystal Formation and Tensile Deformation of TiAl Alloy

This article provides fundamental understanding of the nanocrystalline formation of undercooling TiAl melt and the deformation mechanisms in the nanocrystalline TiAl at the atomic scale.
Date: September 8, 2017
Creator: Li, Peng-tao; Yang, Yanqing; Xia, Zhenhai; Luo, Xian; Jin, Na; Gao, Yong et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modified embedded atom method study of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube reinforced nickel composites (open access)

Modified embedded atom method study of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube reinforced nickel composites

Article on a modified embedded atom method study of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube reinforced nickel composites.
Date: March 11, 2010
Creator: Uddin, Jamal; Baskes, Michael I.; Srivilliputhur, Srinivasan; Cundari, Thomas R., 1964- & Wilson, Angela K.
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
Microstructural Design for Improving Ductility of An Initially Brittle Refractory High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Microstructural Design for Improving Ductility of An Initially Brittle Refractory High Entropy Alloy

This article presents a novel approach to microstructural engineering of refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) to form an "inverted" BCC+B2 microstructure.
Date: June 11, 2018
Creator: Soni, V.; Senkov, O. N.; Gwalani, B.; Miracle, D. B. & Banerjee, Rajarshi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plasma Treated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) for Epoxy Nanocomposites (open access)

Plasma Treated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) for Epoxy Nanocomposites

This article describes the depositing of plasma nanocoating of allylamine on the surfaces of multi-walled carbon nanotubes to provide desirable functionalities and thus to tailor the surface characteristics of multi-walled carbon nanotubes for improved dispersion and interfacial adhesion in epoxy matrices.
Date: December 19, 2011
Creator: Ritts, Andrew C.; Yu, Qingsong; Li, Hao; Lombardo, Stephen J.; Han, Xu; Xia, Zhenhai et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbon-based electrocatalysts for advanced energy conversion and storage (open access)

Carbon-based electrocatalysts for advanced energy conversion and storage

This article presents a critical review on the recent advances in carbon-based metal-free catalysts for fuel cells and metal-air batteries, and discusses the perspectives and challenges in this rapidly developing field of practical significance.
Date: August 28, 2015
Creator: Zhang, Jintao; Xia, Zhenhai & Dai, Liming
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hybrid Boron Nitride-Natural Fiber Composites for Enhanced Thermal Conductivity (open access)

Hybrid Boron Nitride-Natural Fiber Composites for Enhanced Thermal Conductivity

This article finds that the synergy of natural fiber with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) could significantly improve thermal conductivity, compared with that solely using hBN.
Date: October 5, 2016
Creator: Xia, Changlei; Garcia, Andres C.; Shi, Sheldon Q.; Qiu, Ying; Warner, Nathaniel; Wu, Yingji et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A new combinatorial approach to assess the influence of alloy composition on the oxidation behavior and concurrent oxygen-induced phase transformations for binary Ti–xCr alloys at 650 °C (open access)

A new combinatorial approach to assess the influence of alloy composition on the oxidation behavior and concurrent oxygen-induced phase transformations for binary Ti–xCr alloys at 650 °C

Article describes an experiment in which a combinatorial approach was used to investigate systematically the influence of composition and time on the oxidation of Ti–Cr system.
Date: May 11, 2015
Creator: Samimi, Peyman; Liu, Yue; Ghamarian, Iman; Brice, David A. & Collins, Peter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oxidation behavior and microstructural decomposition of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V-1B sheet (open access)

Oxidation behavior and microstructural decomposition of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V-1B sheet

This article conducts a direct comparison between the oxidation behavior of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V + 1B to elucidate whether the addition of boron to Ti-^Al-4V impacts the oxidation behavior.
Date: August 1, 2016
Creator: Brice, David A.; Samimi, P.; Ghamarian, I.; Liu, Yue; Brice, R. M.; Reidy, Richard F. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uv-Induced Modification of Fused Silica: Insights From ReaxFF-Based Molecular Dynamics Simulations (open access)

Uv-Induced Modification of Fused Silica: Insights From ReaxFF-Based Molecular Dynamics Simulations

This article discusses molecular dynamics simulations performed to present evidence that silica structure in both short and medium ranges is directly modified by UV-induced defects.
Date: September 16, 2016
Creator: Tian, Ye; Du, Jincheng; Zu, Xiaotao; Han, Wei; Yuan, Xiaodong & Zheng, Wanguo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomic Simulations of Twist Grain Boundary Structures and Deofrmation Behaviors in Aluminum (open access)

Atomic Simulations of Twist Grain Boundary Structures and Deofrmation Behaviors in Aluminum

This article investigates twist grain boundaries with molecular dynamic simulations to reveal their atomic structures, energy and interactions with dislocations.
Date: January 30, 2017
Creator: Yin, Qing; Wang, Zhiqiang; Mishra, Rajiv & Xia, Zhenhai
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and application of a novel precession electron diffraction technique to quantify and map deformation structures in highly deformed materials—as applied to ultrafine-grained titanium (open access)

Development and application of a novel precession electron diffraction technique to quantify and map deformation structures in highly deformed materials—as applied to ultrafine-grained titanium

Article describes precession electron diffraction (PED), which makes possible the very accurate and automated quantitative characterization of technically interesting materials that historically have been difficult to analyze due to their dimensions and/or degree of deformation, including specifically ultrafine-grained metallic structures with high dislocation densities.
Date: August 13, 2014
Creator: Ghamarian, Iman; Liu, Yue; Samimi, Peyman & Collins, Peter
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) graft copolymer dense membranes for human mesenchymal stem cell growth (open access)

Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) graft copolymer dense membranes for human mesenchymal stem cell growth

This article discusses the preparation of thermal-remolded membrane scaffolds from poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) grafted with 2-amino-ehtyl methacrylate hydrochloride.
Date: May 25, 2018
Creator: González-Torres, Maykel; Sánchez-Sánchez, Roberto; Solís-Rosales, Silvia G.; Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Reyes-Cervantes, Eric; Gutiérrez-Uribe, Janet Alejandra et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library