Exploring NIR Aza-BODIPY-Based Polarity Sensitive Probes with ON-and-OFF Fluorescence Switching in Pluronic Nanoparticles (open access)

Exploring NIR Aza-BODIPY-Based Polarity Sensitive Probes with ON-and-OFF Fluorescence Switching in Pluronic Nanoparticles

The articles is about a study of the response of six NIR aza-BODIPY-based and structurally similar fluorophores to polarity and viscosity for incorporation inside Pluronic nanoparticles as switchable fluorescent probes (SFPs). Based on their results, all of these fluorophores were moderately to strongly sensitive to the polarity of the microenvironment. They concluded that attaching amine groups to the fluorophore is not necessary for having strong polarity sensitive probes.
Date: March 2, 2020
Creator: Saremi, Bahar; Bandi, Venugopal; Kazemi, Shahrzad; Hong, Yi; D'Souza, Francis & Yuan, Baohong
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Yield and Photosynthate Partitioning in AVP1 Expressing Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Plants (open access)

Improved Yield and Photosynthate Partitioning in AVP1 Expressing Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Plants

Article presents data consistent with the positive effect that the expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana H+-PPase (AVP1) has on reduced carbon partitioning and yield increases in wheat.
Date: March 17, 2020
Creator: Regmi, Kamesh C.; Yogendra, Kalenahalli; Gomes Farias, Júlia; Li, Lin; Kandel, Raju; Yadav, Umesh P. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing gene-environment interactions for rare and/or common variants in sequencing association studies (open access)

Testing gene-environment interactions for rare and/or common variants in sequencing association studies

Article describes study in which novel approaches to test the effects of gene-environment (GE) interactions of rare and/or common risk, and/or protective variants in sequencing association studies were developed.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Zhao, Zihan; Zhang, Jianjun; Sha, Qiuying & Hao, Han
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The genome of jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis): A taxonomically isolated species that directs wax ester accumulation in its seeds (open access)

The genome of jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis): A taxonomically isolated species that directs wax ester accumulation in its seeds

Article describes the high-quality, 887-Mb genome of jojoba assembled into 26 chromosomes with 23,490 protein-coding genes.
Date: March 11, 2020
Creator: Sturtevant, Drew; Lu, Shaoping; Zhou, Zhi-Wei; Shen, Yin; Wang, Shuo; Song, Jia-Ming et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Covalent organic framework nanofluidic membrane as a platform for highly sensitive bionic thermosensation (open access)

Covalent organic framework nanofluidic membrane as a platform for highly sensitive bionic thermosensation

Article reporting a nanofluidic membrane based on an ionic covalent organic framework (COF) that is capable of intelligently monitoring temperature variations and expressing it in the form of continuous potential differences. This article pioneers a way to explore COFs for mimicking the sophisticated signaling system observed in the nature.
Date: March 23, 2021
Creator: Zhang, Pengcheng; Chen, Sifan; Zhu, Changjia; Hou, Linxiao; Xian, Weipeng; Zuo, Xiuhui et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Green synthesis of olefin-linked covalent organic frameworks for hydrogen fuel cell applications (open access)

Green synthesis of olefin-linked covalent organic frameworks for hydrogen fuel cell applications

This article creates a green strategy to fabricate a highly crystalline olefin-linked pyrazine-based covalent organic framework (COF) with high robustness and porosity under solvent-free conditions. This study opens up new possibilities for the green synthesis of advanced materials and provides important guidance for the rational design and synthesis of polymeric materials for proton-exchange membrane fuel cell applications.
Date: March 31, 2021
Creator: Wang, Zhifang; Yang, Yi; Zhao, Zhengfeng; Zhang, Penghui; Zhang, Yushu; Liu, Jinjin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pyrazinacenes exhibit on-surface oxidation-state-dependent conformational and self-assembly behaviours (open access)

Pyrazinacenes exhibit on-surface oxidation-state-dependent conformational and self-assembly behaviours

This article reports pyrazinacenes containing the dihydro-decaazapentacene and dihydro-octaazatetracene chromophores and compares their properties/functions as a model case at an oxidizing metal substrate.
Date: March 10, 2021
Creator: Miklík, David; Mousavi, S. Fatemeh; Burešová, Zuzana; Middleton, Anna; Matsushita, Yoshitaka; Labuta, J. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A window-space-directed assembly strategy for the construction of supertetrahedron-based zeolitic mesoporous metal–organic frameworks with ultramicroporous apertures for selective gas adsorption (open access)

A window-space-directed assembly strategy for the construction of supertetrahedron-based zeolitic mesoporous metal–organic frameworks with ultramicroporous apertures for selective gas adsorption

Article presenting a novel window-space-directed assembly strategy for the synthesis of zeolitic mesoporous MOFs with ultramicroporous apertures based on supertetrahedral building units. This article provides an effective and innovative strategy and paves the way for the future design and synthesis of functional, highly connected materials for various applications.
Date: March 5, 2021
Creator: Zhang, Lei; Li, Fangfang; You, Jianjun; Hua, Nengbin; Wang, Qianting; Si, Junhui et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerated reliability testing of Cu-Al bimetallic contact by a micropattern corrosion testing platform for wire bond device application (open access)

Accelerated reliability testing of Cu-Al bimetallic contact by a micropattern corrosion testing platform for wire bond device application

This article presents a novel method of in-situ investigation of the device corrosion process to capture the real time mechanistic information not obtained in standard reliability testing.
Date: March 26, 2021
Creator: Ashok Kumar, Goutham Isaac; Alptekin, John; Caperton, Joshua; Salunke, Ashish & Chyan, Oliver Ming-Ren
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Arabidopsis Oxalyl-CoA Decarboxylase, AtOXC, Is Important for Oxalate Catabolism in Plants (open access)

An Arabidopsis Oxalyl-CoA Decarboxylase, AtOXC, Is Important for Oxalate Catabolism in Plants

This article identifies, in Arabidopsis, an oxalyl-CoA decarboxylase (AtOXC) that is capable of catalyzing the second step in the proposed pathway of oxalate catabolism.
Date: March 23, 2021
Creator: Foster, Justin; Cheng, Ninghui; Paris, Vincent; Wang, Lingfei; Wang, Jin; Wang, Xiaoqiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data of 13C-Labeled Phospholipids in Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress) Embryos (open access)

Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data of 13C-Labeled Phospholipids in Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress) Embryos

This article uses currently available software and techniques to describe a workflow to analyze ¹³C-labeled isotopologues of the membrane lipid and storage oil lipid intermediate—phosphatidylcholine (PC). Results demonstrated greater ¹³C-isotopic labeling in the cotyledons of developing embryos compared with the embryonic axis.
Date: March 4, 2021
Creator: Romsdahl, Trevor B.; Kambhampati, Shrikaar; Koley, Somnath; Yadav, Umesh P.; Alonso, Ana Paula; Allen, Doug K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining priority areas for an Endangered cold-adapted snake on warming mountaintops (open access)

Determining priority areas for an Endangered cold-adapted snake on warming mountaintops

This article develops a spatial prioritization model based on accurate estimates of remotely-sensed data and maps of threats potentially affecting long-term species persistence to identify priority areas for the conservation of the Endangered Greek meadow viper Vipera graeca, a cold-adapted species inhabiting mountaintops in the Pindos Mountains of Greece and Albania.
Date: March 12, 2020
Creator: Mizsei, Edvárd; Szabolcs, Márton; Szabó, Loránd; Boros, Zoltán; Mersini, Kujtim; Roussos, Stephanos Antonios et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Turning turtle: scaling relationships and self-righting ability in Chelydra serpentina (open access)

Turning turtle: scaling relationships and self-righting ability in Chelydra serpentina

Article investigating how shell morphology, neck length and self-righting biomechanics scale with body mass during ontogeny in Chelydra serpentina, which uses neck-powered self-righting.
Date: March 3, 2021
Creator: Ruhr, Ilan M.; Rose, Kayleigh A. R.; Sellers, William I.; Crossley, Dane A., II & Codd, Jonathan R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theoretical modeling study of the reaction H + CF4 → HF + CF3 (open access)

Theoretical modeling study of the reaction H + CF4 → HF + CF3

This article determines the rate constant of the reaction H + CF₄ → HF + CF₃, characterizing its transition state by quantum-chemical methods.
Date: March 23, 2021
Creator: Cobos, Carlos J.; Knight, Gary; Marshall, Paul & Troe, Jürgen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Flipped and Free: an inverted, active-learning general chemistry course using exclusively OER

Presentation on using a flipped course format and including an open textbook, OpenStax: Chemistry 2e. Flipped courses provide lecture content that is accessible online, and they use class time for active learning activities. It is a part of 2022 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium that was held on March 8, 2022.
Date: March 8, 2022
Creator: Petros, Amy K.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electron Transfer Mediated by Iron Carbonyl Clusters Enhance Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution in Water by Quantum Dots (open access)

Electron Transfer Mediated by Iron Carbonyl Clusters Enhance Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution in Water by Quantum Dots

This article tests an assembly consisting of CdSe quantum dots and [Fe₃Te₂(CO)₉] as a catalytic system for proton reduction in aqueous solution.
Date: March 9, 2020
Creator: Richmond, Michael G.; Li, Chuanshuai; Rahaman, Ahibur; Lin, Weihua; Mourad, Hassan; Meng, Jie et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expression of AtWRI1 and AtDGAT1 during soybean embryo development influences oil and carbohydrate metabolism (open access)

Expression of AtWRI1 and AtDGAT1 during soybean embryo development influences oil and carbohydrate metabolism

Article evaluating the metabolic and transcriptional responses to AtWRI1 and AtDGAT1 expression in soybean seeds.
Date: March 20, 2022
Creator: Arias, Cintia Lucía; Quach, Truyen; Huynh, Tu; Nguyen, Hanh; Moretti, Ademar; Shi, Yu et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solubility of tadalafil in aqueous mixtures of Transcutol® and PEG 400 revisited: correlation, thermodynamics and preferential solvation (open access)

Solubility of tadalafil in aqueous mixtures of Transcutol® and PEG 400 revisited: correlation, thermodynamics and preferential solvation

Article analyzing mole fraction solubilities of tadalafil (3) in aqueous mixtures of Transcutol® and PEG 400 at temperatures from 298.15 to 333.15 K following Hildebrand solubility parameters.
Date: February 16, 2022
Creator: Shakeel, Faiyaz; Alshehri, Sultan; Ghoneim, Mohammed M.; Martínez, Fleming; Peña, María Á.; Jouyban, Abolghasem et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Overexpression of phospholipid: diacylglycerol acyltransferase in Brassica napus results in changes in lipid metabolism and oil accumulation (open access)

Overexpression of phospholipid: diacylglycerol acyltransferase in Brassica napus results in changes in lipid metabolism and oil accumulation

Article studying the regulation of lipid metabolism in oilseeds.
Date: March 31, 2022
Creator: Fenyk, Stepan; Woodfield, Helen K.; Romsdahl, Trevor B.; Wallington, Emma J.; Bates, Ruth E.; Fell, David A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cavity surface residues of PAD4 and SAG101 contribute to EDS1 dimer signaling specificity in plant immunity (open access)

Cavity surface residues of PAD4 and SAG101 contribute to EDS1 dimer signaling specificity in plant immunity

Article investigating whether the EPDs of PAD4 and SAG101 contribute to EDS1 dimer functions.
Date: October 27, 2021
Creator: Dongus, Joram A.; Bhandari, Deepak D.; Penner, Eva; Lapin, Dmitry; Stolze, Sara C.; Harzen, Anne et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heterologous Expression of Secondary Metabolite Genes in Trichoderma reesei for Waste Valorization (open access)

Heterologous Expression of Secondary Metabolite Genes in Trichoderma reesei for Waste Valorization

Article develops Trichoderma reesei (Hypocrea jecorina) as a microbial cell factory for the heterologous expression of fungal secondary metabolites.
Date: March 9, 2022
Creator: Shenouda, Mary L.; Ambilika, Maria; Skellam, Elizabeth & Cox, Russell J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of transcribed sequences from young and mature zebrafish thrombocytes (open access)

Analysis of transcribed sequences from young and mature zebrafish thrombocytes

Article studying thrombocyte function and development in adult zebrafish. The authors performed single-cell RNA sequencing of the young and mature zebrafish thrombocytes and compared the two datasets for young and mature thrombocyte transcripts.
Date: September 19, 2021
Creator: Fallatah, Weam; De, Ronika; Burks, David J.; Azad, Rajeev K. & Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Solubility Correlation Using the Jouyban–Acree Model: Effects of Concentration Units and Error Criteria (open access)

Drug Solubility Correlation Using the Jouyban–Acree Model: Effects of Concentration Units and Error Criteria

Article investigates the unit and error scale expression effects on the accuracy of the Jouyban–Acree model, in the current study, seventy-nine solubility data sets were collected randomly from the published articles and solute and solvent concentrations in the investigated systems were expressed in various units. Mass fraction, mole fraction, and volume fraction were the employed concentration units for the solvent compositions, and mole fraction, molar, and gram/liter were the investigated concentration units for the solutes. The solubility data, with various solute/solvent concentration units, were correlated using the Jouyban–Acree model, and the accuracy of each model for correlating the data was investigated by calculating different error scales and discussed.
Date: February 24, 2022
Creator: Rahimpour, Elaheh; Alvani-Alamdari, Sima; Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Jouyban, Abolghasem
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gene-based association tests using GWAS summary statistics and incorporating eQTL (open access)

Gene-based association tests using GWAS summary statistics and incorporating eQTL

Article proposes a powerful and computationally efficient gene-based association test, called Overall. Using extended Simes procedure, Overall aggregates information from three types of traditional gene-based association tests and also incorporates expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) information into a gene-based association test using GWAS summary statistics. The results show that this newly developed method can identify more significant genes than other methods.
Date: March 3, 2022
Creator: Cao, Xuwei; Wang, Xuexia; Zhang, Shuanglin & Sha, Qiuying
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library