Ultra-high Photoresponsivity in Suspended Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Mesoscopic Multilayer MoS₂ Broadband Detector from UV-to-IR with Low Schottky Barrier Contacts (open access)

Ultra-high Photoresponsivity in Suspended Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Mesoscopic Multilayer MoS₂ Broadband Detector from UV-to-IR with Low Schottky Barrier Contacts

This article describes the performance of a multifaceted investigation comprising of atomic force microscopy (AFM0, photoluminescence (PL) and Raman spectroscopy to analyze the structural and chemical characteristics to help shed insights on the origins of the superior optoelectronic device performance.
Date: February 23, 2017
Creator: Saenz, Gustavo A.; Karapetrov, Goran; Curtis, James & Kaul, Anupama
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
In Situ Fabrication of a Graphene-Coated Threedimensional Nickel Oxide Anode for High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries (open access)

In Situ Fabrication of a Graphene-Coated Threedimensional Nickel Oxide Anode for High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries

This article discusses the development of an in situ fabrication of a graphene-coated, three-dimensional (3D) NiO-Ni structure by simple chemical vapor deposition (CVD).
Date: October 5, 2017
Creator: Kang, Chiwon; Cha, Eunho; Lee, Sang Hyub & Choi, Wonbong
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operando tribochemical formation of onion-likecarbon leads to macroscale superlubricity (open access)

Operando tribochemical formation of onion-likecarbon leads to macroscale superlubricity

This article demonstrates that tribochemical reactions occur even in dry conditions when hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (H-DLC) surface is slid against two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide along with nanodiamonds in dry nitrogen atmosphere.
Date: February 3, 2017
Creator: Berman, Diana; Narayanan, Badri; Cherukara, Mathew J.; Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K.R.S.; Erdemir, Ali; Zinovev, Alexander et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis and Ionic Conductivity of Siloxane Based Polymer Electrolytes With Pendant Propyl Acetoacetate Groups (open access)

Synthesis and Ionic Conductivity of Siloxane Based Polymer Electrolytes With Pendant Propyl Acetoacetate Groups

This paper discusses decision to develop solid polyelectrolyte membrances on the basis of new siloxane matrices.
Date: April 13, 2018
Creator: Mukbaniani, Omai; Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Aneli, Jimsher; Tatrishvili, Tamara; Markarashvili, Eliza; Chigvinadze, Maia et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extremely High Strength and Work Hardening Ability in a Metastable High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Extremely High Strength and Work Hardening Ability in a Metastable High Entropy Alloy

This article studies the design of a transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) assisted high entropy alloy (HEA) with enhanced strength using two strands of motiviation.
Date: July 2, 2018
Creator: Nene, Saurabh S.; Frank, Michael; Liu, Kaimiao; Mishra, Rajiv; McWilliams, B. A. & Cho, K. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hexagonal MoTe₂ with Amorphous BN Passivation Layer for Improved Oxidation Resistance and Endurance of 2D Field Effect Transistors (open access)

Hexagonal MoTe₂ with Amorphous BN Passivation Layer for Improved Oxidation Resistance and Endurance of 2D Field Effect Transistors

This article demonstrates the effectiveness of an a-BN capping layer in preserving few-layer MoTe₂ material quality and controlling its conductivity type at elevated temperatures in an atmospheric environment.
Date: June 6, 2018
Creator: Sirota, Benjamin; Glavin, Nicholas; Krylyuk, Sergiy; Davydov, Albert V. & Voevodin, Andrey A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamics of self-reorganization explains passivation of silicate glasses (open access)

Dynamics of self-reorganization explains passivation of silicate glasses

This article demonstrates that gel reorganization involving high exchange rate of oxygen and low exchange rate of silicon is the key mechanism accounting for extremely low apparent water diffusivity.
Date: June 4, 2018
Creator: Gin, Stéphane; Collin, Marie; Jollivet, Patrick; Fournier, Maxime; Minet, Yves; Dupuy, Laurent et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rational design of efficient transition metal core– shell electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (open access)

Rational design of efficient transition metal core– shell electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions

This article systematically calculates polyicosahedral (plh) Ag₃₂X₆ (X = 3d transition metals) core-shell structures by the density functional theory (DFT) method to predict their electrocatalytic activities for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions.
Date: November 4, 2018
Creator: Zhao, Zhenghang; D'Souza, Jason; Chen, Fuyi & Xia, Zhenhai
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermo-mechanical response of single-phase face-centered-cubic AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy microcrystals (open access)

Thermo-mechanical response of single-phase face-centered-cubic AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy microcrystals

Article describes the response of [100]-oriented single-crystal face-centered-cubic Al0.1CoCrFeNi and Al0.3CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy (HEA) microcrystals tested from 293 to 573 K by means of in situ micro-compression.
Date: March 13, 2018
Creator: Jiao, Quan; Sim, Gi-Dong; Komarasamy, Mageshwari; Mishra, Rajiv; Liaw, Peter K. & El-Awady, Jaafar A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crystallographically degenerate B2 precipitation in a plastically deformed fcc-based complex concentrated alloy (open access)

Crystallographically degenerate B2 precipitation in a plastically deformed fcc-based complex concentrated alloy

Article describes the development of bcc-ordered B2 and fcc phases manifested in three different orientation relationships (ORs) in the same microstructure: Kurdjumov–Sachs, Nishiyama–Wasserman and Pitsch.
Date: January 22, 2018
Creator: Choudhuri, Deep; Shukla, Shivakant; Green, Whitley; Gwalani, Bharat; Ageh, Victor; Banerjee, Rajarshi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hierarchical features infused heterogeneous grain structure for extraordinary strength-ductility synergy (open access)

Hierarchical features infused heterogeneous grain structure for extraordinary strength-ductility synergy

Article describes experiment in which a synergistic balance of strength and ductility was achieved in a prototypical fcc-based Al0.3CoCrFeNi complex concentrated alloy by incorporating hierarchical microstructural features into heterogeneous grain structure.
Date: October 27, 2018
Creator: Shukla, Shivakant; Choudhuri, Deep; Wang, Tianhao; Liu, Kaimiao; Robert Wheeler; Williams, Sarah et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deformation induced intermediate metastable lattice structures facilitate ordered B2 nucleation in a fcc-based high entropy alloy (open access)

Deformation induced intermediate metastable lattice structures facilitate ordered B2 nucleation in a fcc-based high entropy alloy

This article reports a novel mixed-mode coupled displacive-diffusional transformation resulting in homogeneously distributed intra-granular B2 precipitates within the fcc matrix.
Date: December 5, 2018
Creator: Choudhuri, Deep; Shukla, Shivakant; Gwalani, Bharat; Banerjee, Rajarshi & Mishra, R. S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corrosion, Erosion andWear Behavior of Complex Concentrated Alloys: A Review (open access)

Corrosion, Erosion andWear Behavior of Complex Concentrated Alloys: A Review

This article presents a comprehensive view on corrosion, erosion, and wear behavior of complex concentrated alloys.
Date: August 3, 2018
Creator: Ayyagari, Aditya; Hasannaeimi, Vahid; Singh Grewal, Harpeet; Singh Arora, Harpreet & Mukherjee, Sundeep
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Substrate Support on Dynamic Graphene/Metal Electrical Contacts (open access)

Effect of Substrate Support on Dynamic Graphene/Metal Electrical Contacts

This article investigates the stability of dynamic electrical contacts at a graphene/metal interface using atomic force microscopy (AFM), under static conditions with variable normal loads and under sliding conditions with variable speeds.
Date: March 22, 2018
Creator: Lee, Jihyung; Hu, Xiaoli; Voevodin, Andrey A.; Martini, Ashlie & Berman, Diana
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
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
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
Small-Scale Plastic Deformation of Nanocrystalline High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Small-Scale Plastic Deformation of Nanocrystalline High Entropy Alloy

This article reports the fabrication of nanocrystalline (NC) Al₀.₁CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy and subsequent small-scale plastic deformation behavior via nano-pillar compression tests.
Date: November 20, 2018
Creator: Mridha, Sanghita; Komarasamy, Mageshwari; Bhowmick, Sanjit; Mishra, Rajiv & Mukherjee, Sundeep
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Length, Diameter, Chirality, Deformation, and Strain on Contact Thermal Conductance Between Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (open access)

Effect of Length, Diameter, Chirality, Deformation, and Strain on Contact Thermal Conductance Between Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

This article explores the role of various geometrical and structural (length, diameter, chirality) as well as external (deformation and strain) carbon nanotube (CNT) parameters to estimate total as well as area-normalized thermal conductance across cross-contact interconnects.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Varshney, Vikas; Lee, Jonghoon; Brown, Joshua S.; Farmer, Barry L.; Voevodin, Andrey A. & Roy, Ajit
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-entropy alloy strengthened by in situ formation of entropy-stabilized nano-dispersoids (open access)

High-entropy alloy strengthened by in situ formation of entropy-stabilized nano-dispersoids

This article focuses on the effect of introducing Y₂O₃ in the Al₀.₃CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloys, fabricated using mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering.
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gwalani, B.; Pohan, Rizaldy M.; Lee, Junho; Lee, Bin; Banerjee, Rajarshi; Ryu, Ho Jin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of Cr Substitution and Temperature on Hierarchical Phase Decomposition in the AlCoFeNi High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Influence of Cr Substitution and Temperature on Hierarchical Phase Decomposition in the AlCoFeNi High Entropy Alloy

This article investigates the length scale of the decomposition into a two-phase mixture of ordered B22 and disordered BCC solid solution as determined by the combination of composition and annealing temperature.
Date: October 22, 2018
Creator: Chaudhary, V.; Gwalani, Bharat; Soni, V.; Ramanujan, R. V. & Banerjee, Rajarshi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrochemical and Friction Characteristics of Metallic Glass Composites at the Microstructural Length-scales (open access)

Electrochemical and Friction Characteristics of Metallic Glass Composites at the Microstructural Length-scales

This article evaluates the phase-specific electrochemical and friction characteristics of a Zr-based mtallic glass composite, which comprised roughly of 40% by volume crystalline dendrites in an amorphous matrix.
Date: November 1, 2017
Creator: Ayyagari, Aditya; Hasannaeimi, Vahid; Singh Arora, Harpreet & Mukherjee, Sundeep
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Thermal Treatment With Water, H₂So₄ and Naoh Aqueous Solution on Color, Cell Wall and Chemical Structure of Poplar Wood (open access)

Effect of Thermal Treatment With Water, H₂So₄ and Naoh Aqueous Solution on Color, Cell Wall and Chemical Structure of Poplar Wood

This article describes a study to observe and quantify the changes of color on wood surface and microstructure of cell walls after the thermal treatment with water, dilute acid and alkali, and to describe the changes of chemical structure on wood surface after those pretreatments.
Date: March 3, 2018
Creator: Shi, Jiangtao; Lu, Yu; Zhang, Yaoli; Cai, Liping & Shi, Sheldon Q.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Composites Containing Bamboo With Different Binders (open access)

Composites Containing Bamboo With Different Binders

This paper discusses the formation of primary chemical bonds between bamboo surface active groups and the binders.
Date: March 29, 2018
Creator: Mukbaniani, Omai; Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Hagg Lobland, Haley E.; Aneli, Jimsher; Tatrishvili, Tamara; Markarashvili, Eliza et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library