Discovery via Integration of Experimentation and Modeling: Three Examples for Titanium Alloys (open access)

Discovery via Integration of Experimentation and Modeling: Three Examples for Titanium Alloys

This article uses case studies to describe three examples of critical experiments that have been conducted in an integrated fashion with modeling activities for titanium alloys, providing valuable information in an accelerated manner.
Date: December 2, 2014
Creator: Liu, Yue; Samimi, P.; Ghamarian, I.; Brice, David A.; Huber, D. E.; Wang, Zhiqiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recent Development of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Their Applications (open access)

Recent Development of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Their Applications

This article reviews the recent progress in 2D materials beyond graphene and includes mainly transition metal dichalcogenides.
Date: January 9, 2017
Creator: Choi, Wonbong; Choudhary, Nitin; Han, Gang Hee; Park, Juhong; Akinwande, Deji & Lee, Young Hee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improvement of Scratch and Wear Resistance of Polymers by Fillers Including Nanofillers (open access)

Improvement of Scratch and Wear Resistance of Polymers by Fillers Including Nanofillers

This article reviews approaches for improvement of tribological properties of polymers based on inclusion of fillers.
Date: March 16, 2017
Creator: Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Hagg Lobland, Haley E.; Hnatchuk, Nathalie & Pérez, José M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of Silanization Treatment on Thermomechanical Properties of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes: Poly(methylmethacrylate) Nanocomposites (open access)

Influence of Silanization Treatment on Thermomechanical Properties of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes: Poly(methylmethacrylate) Nanocomposites

This article reports results for functionalized as well as unfunctionalized carbon nanotube polymer composites.
Date: July 30, 2011
Creator: Velasco-Santos, Carlos; Martinez-Hernandez, Ana Laura; Brostow, Witold, 1934- & Castaño, Victor M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomic Distribution in Catalytic Amorphus Metals (open access)

Atomic Distribution in Catalytic Amorphus Metals

This article investigates the atomic distribution in catalytically active metallic glass alloys using three-dimensional atom probe microscopy.
Date: November 24, 2015
Creator: Mridha, Sanghita; Jaeger, David L.; Singh Arora, Harpreet; Banerjee, Rajarshi & Mukherjee, Sundeep
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
Effect of Cr Addition on γ-γ' Cobalt-Based Co-Mo-Al-Ta Class of Superalloys: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study (open access)

Effect of Cr Addition on γ-γ' Cobalt-Based Co-Mo-Al-Ta Class of Superalloys: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study

This article deals with effect of Cr addition (10 at.%) on the partitioning behavior and the consequent effect on mechanical properties for tungsten-free γ-γ' cobalt-based superalloys with base alloy compositions of Co–30Ni–10Al–5Mo–2Ta (2Ta) and Co–30Ni–10Al–5Mo–2Ta–2Ti (2Ta2Ti).
Date: June 12, 2017
Creator: Nithin, B.; Samanta, A.; Makineni, S. K.; Alam, Talukder; Pandey, P.; Singh, Abhishek K. et al.
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
Laser-Assisted Machining (LAM) of Hard Tissues and Bones (open access)

Laser-Assisted Machining (LAM) of Hard Tissues and Bones

Patent relating to a system and methods of machining hard tissues, such as bone.
Date: March 17, 2014
Creator: Dahotre, Narendra B. & Santhanakrishnan, Soundarapandian
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing elevated temperature strength of copper containing aluminum alloys by forming L1₂ Al₃Zr precipitates and nucleating θ" precipitates on them (open access)

Enhancing elevated temperature strength of copper containing aluminum alloys by forming L1₂ Al₃Zr precipitates and nucleating θ" precipitates on them

This article presents a new approach in designing an Al-based alloy through solid state precipitation route.
Date: March 16, 2017
Creator: Makineni, S. K.; Sugathan, Sandeep; Meher, Subhashish; Kumar, Subodh & Chattopadhyay, K.
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
Effect of Ni-Content on the Transformation Temperatures in NiTi-20 at. % Zr High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys (open access)

Effect of Ni-Content on the Transformation Temperatures in NiTi-20 at. % Zr High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys

This article investigates the effect of Ni-content on phase transformation behavior of NiTi-20 at. % Zr high temperature shape memory alloy.
Date: October 18, 2017
Creator: Carl, Matthew; Smith, Jesse D.; Van Doren, Brian & Young, Marcus L.
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
Rapid Synthesis of Nanoporous Conformal Coatings via Plasma-Enhanced Sequential Infiltration of a Polymer Template (open access)

Rapid Synthesis of Nanoporous Conformal Coatings via Plasma-Enhanced Sequential Infiltration of a Polymer Template

This article reports a plasma-enhanced sequential infiltration synthesis (PE SIS) as a new platform toward deposition of nanoporous inorganic films.
Date: September 5, 2017
Creator: She, Yunlong; Lee, Jihyung; Diroll, Benjamin T.; Lee, Byeongdu; Aouadi, Samir; Shevchenko, Elena V. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nanopatterned Graphene Field Effect Transistor Fabricated Using Block Co-polymer Lithography (open access)

Nanopatterned Graphene Field Effect Transistor Fabricated Using Block Co-polymer Lithography

This article demonstrates a successful fabrication of Nanopatterened Graphene (NPG) using a PS-b-P4VP polymer.
Date: January 9, 2014
Creator: Choi, Duyoung; Kuru, Cihan; Choi, Chulmin; Noh, Kunbae; Hong, Soon-Kook; Das, Santanu et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Microstructure on the Deformation Mechanism of Friction Stir-Processed A₁₀.₁CoCrFeNi High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Effect of Microstructure on the Deformation Mechanism of Friction Stir-Processed A₁₀.₁CoCrFeNi High Entropy Alloy

This article reports grain refinement using friction stir processing and a detailed study on the microstructural evolution at various locations in the processed region using scanning electron microscopy, in addition to the effect of grain refinement on the tensile properties and the underlying deformation mechanisms in both coarse-grained and fine-grained materials.
Date: August 7, 2014
Creator: Komarasamy, Mageshwari; Kumar, N.; Tang, Z.; Mishra, Rajiv & Liaw, P.K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhanced Strength and Ductility in a Friction Stir Processing Engineered Dual Phase High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Enhanced Strength and Ductility in a Friction Stir Processing Engineered Dual Phase High Entropy Alloy

This article presents a strong and ductile non-equiatomic high-entropy alloy obtained after friction stir processing.
Date: October 19, 2017
Creator: Nene, Saurabh S.; Liu, Kaimiao; Frank, Michael; Mishra, Rajiv; Brennan, R. E.; Cho, K. C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
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
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
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
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
Strengthening strategy for a ductile metastable β-titanium alloy using low-temperature aging (open access)

Strengthening strategy for a ductile metastable β-titanium alloy using low-temperature aging

This article demonstrates that low-temperature aging (LTA) treatments for short time periods can in fact enhance the yield strength while preserving substantial elongation-to-failure in ω containing β titanium alloys.
Date: July 13, 2017
Creator: Sun, F.; Zhang, J.Y.; Vermaut, P.; Choudhuri, Deep; Alam, Talukder; Mantri, Srinivas Aditya et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library