The Structure of Amorphous and Deeply Supercooled Liquid Alumina (open access)

The Structure of Amorphous and Deeply Supercooled Liquid Alumina

Article describes experiment in which liquid Al2O3 was supercooled more than 500 K below its melting point (Tm = 2,327 K) using aerodynamic levitation and laser heating techniques.
Date: March 19, 2019
Creator: Shi, Caijuan; Alderman, Oliver L.G.; Berman, Diana; Du, Jincheng & Neuefeind, Joerg
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.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Point-by-Point Compositional Analysis for Atom Probe Tomography (open access)

Point-by-Point Compositional Analysis for Atom Probe Tomography

This article demonstrates a new alternate approach to data processing for analyses that traditionally employed grid-based counting methods, as demonstrated using an atom-probe analysis of a Ni-based super-alloy.
Date: March 5, 2014
Creator: Stephenson, Leigh T.; Ceguerra, Anna V.; Li, Tong; Rojhirunsakool, Tanaporn; Nag, Soumya; Banerjee, Rajarshi et al.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library