Ab Initio Calculations and Kinetic Modeling of Thermal Conversion of Methyl Chloride: Implications for Gasification of Biomass

This article investigates the thermal conversion of CH₃Cl.
Date: November 8, 2017
Creator: Singla, Mellika; Rasmussen, Morten Lund; Hashemi, Hamid; Wu, Hao; Glarborg, Peter; Pelucchi, Matteo et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Apparent Specific Volumes of Sucrose in Different Aqueous Cosolvent Mixtures at 298.2 K (open access)

Apparent Specific Volumes of Sucrose in Different Aqueous Cosolvent Mixtures at 298.2 K

This article explores research to determine the apparent specific volume of sucrose by measuring the density of sucrose in {cosolvent + water} mixtures at 298.2 K. The study finds that a mean apparent specific volume value of 0.632 cm³.g⁻¹ for sucrose in different aqueous-cosolvent mixtures could be adequate for practical purposes in pharmaceutical industries.
Date: December 30, 2018
Creator: Tinjacá, Darío; Muñoz, María M.; Martínez, Fleming; Jouyban, Abolghasem & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of Various Normalization Methods for Microscale Analysis of Tissues Using Direct Analyte Probed Nanoextraction (open access)

Application of Various Normalization Methods for Microscale Analysis of Tissues Using Direct Analyte Probed Nanoextraction

Article describes a study where various normalization techniques were investigated in order to improve the quantitative capabilities of direct analyte probed nanoextraction (DAPNe).
Date: September 27, 2018
Creator: de Jesus, Janella; Bunch, Josephine; Verbeck, Guido F.; Webb, Roger P.; Costa, Catia; Goodwin, Richard J. A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The C₂H₂ + NO₂ Reaction: Implications for High Pressure Oxidation of C₂H₂/NOx Mixtures (open access)

The C₂H₂ + NO₂ Reaction: Implications for High Pressure Oxidation of C₂H₂/NOx Mixtures

Article discussing an experimental and kinetic modeling study of the interaction between C₂H₂ and NOx under flow reactor conditions in the intermediate temperature range (600–900 K), high pressure (50–60 bar), and for stoichiometries ranging from reducing to strongly oxidizing. The results show that presence of NOx serves both to sensitize and inhibit oxidation of C₂H₂.
Date: July 25, 2018
Creator: Marshall, Paul; Leung, Caroline; Lopez, Jorge Gimenez; Rasmussen, Christian T.; Hashemi, Hamid; Glarborg, Peter et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculation of the Surface Tension of Ordinary Organic and Ionic Liquids by Means of a Generally Applicable Computer Algorithm Based on the Group-Additivity Method (open access)

Calculation of the Surface Tension of Ordinary Organic and Ionic Liquids by Means of a Generally Applicable Computer Algorithm Based on the Group-Additivity Method

This article presents the calculation of the surface tension of ordinary organic and ionic liquids, based on a computer algorithm applying a refined group-additivity method.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Naef, Rudolf
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments Concerning “Measurement of the Solubility of the Salt of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole With Cyclohexylamine and Tert-Butylamine in Various Solvents at Low Temperatures: Models and Thermodynamic Parameters” (open access)

Comments Concerning “Measurement of the Solubility of the Salt of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole With Cyclohexylamine and Tert-Butylamine in Various Solvents at Low Temperatures: Models and Thermodynamic Parameters”

This article identifies several errors in the published paper by Wongkaew and coworkers [Fluid Phase Equilibria 434 (2017) 141-151].
Date: February 15, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments Concerning “Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Properties of 1,6-Bis[3-(3,5-Di-Tert-Butyl-4-Hydroxyphenyl) Propionamido]Hexane in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvent Mixtures” (open access)

Comments Concerning “Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Properties of 1,6-Bis[3-(3,5-Di-Tert-Butyl-4-Hydroxyphenyl) Propionamido]Hexane in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvent Mixtures”

This article comments on mathematical errors pertaining to published equation coefficients for the modified Apelblat and for the polynomial equation based on the Combined Jouyban-Acree and modified Apelblat models.
Date: February 16, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on "Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Data of Cefpiramide in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvents" (open access)

Comments on "Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Data of Cefpiramide in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvents"

Abstract: Errors are found in the mathematical correlation based on the combined Jouyban-Acree and Modified Apelblat model for describing the variation in the mole fraction solubility of cefpiramide with temperature and solvent composition for the binary aqueous-ethanol solvent system. The equation coefficents given by Tang and coworkers, when substituted into the model equation, do not yield the authors' calculated mole fraction solubilities of cefpiramide.
Date: January 24, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on “Thermodynamic modeling studies of aqueous solubility of caffeine, gallic acid and their cocrystal in the temperature range of 303 Ke363 K” (open access)

Comments on “Thermodynamic modeling studies of aqueous solubility of caffeine, gallic acid and their cocrystal in the temperature range of 303 Ke363 K”

This article comments on activity coefficients based on a thermodynamic relationship that failed to properly take into account the solid phase transition that both caffeine and gallic acid exhibited prior to melting.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controlling Topological States in Topological/Normal Insulator Heterostructures (open access)

Controlling Topological States in Topological/Normal Insulator Heterostructures

This article contains a systematic investigation of the nature of the nontrivial interface states in topological/normal insulator (TI/NI) heterostructures.
Date: November 26, 2018
Creator: Costa, Marcio; Costa, Antônio T.; Freitas, Walter A.; Schmidt, Tome M.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco & Fazzio, Adalberto
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crystal structure of bis(acetonitrile-𝖪N)(4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine-𝖪²N,N')platinum(II) bis(tetra-fluoridoborate) packing as head-to-head dimers (open access)

Crystal structure of bis(acetonitrile-𝖪N)(4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine-𝖪²N,N')platinum(II) bis(tetra-fluoridoborate) packing as head-to-head dimers

This article describes the crystal structure of a platinum(II) supramolecular building block, [Pt-(dbbpy)NNCCH₃)₂](BF₄)₂ (dbbpy = 4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine, C₁₈H₂₄N₂).
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Joseph, Chris; Nesterov, Vladimir N. & Smucker, Bradley W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crystal structure of bis­(aceto­nitrile-κN)(4,4′-di-tert-butyl-2,2′-bi­pyridine-κ2N,N′)platinum(II) bis­(tetra­fluorido­borate) packing as head-to-head dimers (open access)

Crystal structure of bis­(aceto­nitrile-κN)(4,4′-di-tert-butyl-2,2′-bi­pyridine-κ2N,N′)platinum(II) bis­(tetra­fluorido­borate) packing as head-to-head dimers

Article discusses the crystal structure of a platinum(II) supra­molecular building block, [Pt(dbbpy)(NCCH3)2](BF4)2 (dbbpy = 4,4′-di-tert-butyl-2,2′-bi­pyridine, C18H24N2).
Date: April 24, 2018
Creator: Joseph, Chris; Nesterov, Vladimir N. & Smucker, Bradley W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Descriptors for Cyclooctasulfur: Estimation of Water−Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities in Solvents, and Physicochemical Properties (open access)

Descriptors for Cyclooctasulfur: Estimation of Water−Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities in Solvents, and Physicochemical Properties

This article uses literature data on the solubility of cyclooctasulfur in a number of solvents to drive Abraham descriptors for cyclooctasulfur.
Date: May 21, 2018
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine by Using Organic Semiconductor-Based Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Film (open access)

Determination of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine by Using Organic Semiconductor-Based Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Film

This article describes simple, fast and cheap procedure of Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) determination using a new chemosensor with an artificial recognition unit.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Malyshev, Valerii; Michota-Kamińska, Agnieszka; Shao, Shuai; D'Souza, Francis & Noworyta, K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
N-Doped graphene/C₆₀ covalent hybrid as a new material for energy harvesting applications (open access)

N-Doped graphene/C₆₀ covalent hybrid as a new material for energy harvesting applications

This article systematically investigates the degree of functionalization and the key structural features of the N-G/C₆₀ hybrid by a number of techniques including thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray photoelectron and Raman spectroscopies and transmission electron and atomic force microscopies.
Date: August 26, 2018
Creator: Barrejón, Myriam; Arellano, Luis M.; Gobeze, Habtom B.; Gómez-Escalonilla, María J.; Fierro, Jose Luis G.; D'Souza, Francis et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental and Computational Preference for Phosphine Regioselectivity and Stereoselective Tripodal Rotation in Hos₃(Co)₈(PPh₃)₂(μ-1,2-N,Cη-¹,ᴋ¹-C₇H₄NS) (open access)

Experimental and Computational Preference for Phosphine Regioselectivity and Stereoselective Tripodal Rotation in Hos₃(Co)₈(PPh₃)₂(μ-1,2-N,Cη-¹,ᴋ¹-C₇H₄NS)

This article investigates the site preference for ligand substitution in the benzothiazolate-bridged cluster HOs₃(CO)₁₀(μ-1,2-N,Cη-¹,ᴋ¹-C₇H₄NS) using PPh₃.
Date: September 12, 2018
Creator: Begum, Shahin A.; Chowdhury, Md. Arshad H.; Ghosh, Shishir; Tocher, Derek A.; Richmond, Michael G.; Yang, Li et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental and Computational Studies of the Kinetics of the Reaction of Hydrogen Atoms with Carbon Disulfide (open access)

Experimental and Computational Studies of the Kinetics of the Reaction of Hydrogen Atoms with Carbon Disulfide

Article discussing an investigation of the reaction of H + CS₂ products. The reaction was found to be pressure dependent and in the fall-off region or near the low pressure limit. Transition state theory yields an estimate for the high-pressure limit of addition over 290–300 K of 1.3 × 10−9 exp( −7.2 kJ mol −1 /RT) cm3 molecule −1 s −1. Uncertainties are discussed in the text.
Date: July 7, 2018
Creator: Kerr, Katherine E.; Gao, Yide & Marshall, Paul
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized molecular solvation in non-aqueous solutions by a single parameter implicit solvation scheme (open access)

Generalized molecular solvation in non-aqueous solutions by a single parameter implicit solvation scheme

Article presenting a systematic parametrization protocol for the Self-Consistent Continuum Solvation (SCCS) model resulting in optimized parameters for 67 non-aqueous solvents. The parametrization is based on a collection of ≈6000 experimentally measured partition coefficients, which were collected in the Solv@TUM database presented here. The accuracy of the optimized SCCS model is comparable to the well-known universal continuum solvation model (SMx) family of methods, while relying on only a single fit parameter and thereby largely reducing statistical noise.
Date: August 3, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene); Hille, Christoph; Ringe, Stefan; Deimel, Martin; Kunkel, Christian; Reuter, Karsten et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Mutations in the S-loop of Human Glutathione Synthetase: Links Between Substrate Binding, Active Site Structure and Allostery (open access)

Genetic Mutations in the S-loop of Human Glutathione Synthetase: Links Between Substrate Binding, Active Site Structure and Allostery

This article uses molecular dynamics simulations and experimental point mutations to probe the role of S-loop residues in tertiary structure, substrate binding, and allosteric communication.
Date: November 29, 2018
Creator: Ingle, Brandall L.; Shrestha, Bibesh; De Jesus, Margarita C.; Conrad-Webb, Heather M.; Anderson, Mary E. & Cundari, Thomas R., 1964-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Warming Potential Estimates for the C₁–C₃ Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) Included in the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol (open access)

Global Warming Potential Estimates for the C₁–C₃ Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) Included in the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol

This article reports global warming potentials (GWPs) for all C₁-C₃ hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) based on estimated atmospheric lifetimes and theoretical methods used to calculate infrared absorption spectra.
Date: May 4, 2018
Creator: Papanastasiou, Dimitrios K.; Beltrone, Allison; Marshall, Paul & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogenase Biomimetics with Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Electrocatalytic Studies on [Fe₂(CO)₄(κ²-dppn)(µ-edt)] (edt = Ethanedithiolate; dppn = 1,8-bis(Diphenylphosphino)Naphthalene) (open access)

Hydrogenase Biomimetics with Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Electrocatalytic Studies on [Fe₂(CO)₄(κ²-dppn)(µ-edt)] (edt = Ethanedithiolate; dppn = 1,8-bis(Diphenylphosphino)Naphthalene)

This article reports the preparation and characterisation of the simple dppn complex,[Fe2(CO)4(κ2-dppn)(µ-edt)], together with an investigation of its proton-reduction ability.
Date: November 20, 2018
Creator: Ghosh, Shishir; Rana, Shahed; Hollingsworth, Nathan; Richmond, Michael G.; Kabir, Shariff E. & Hogarth, Graeme
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Reliability and Failure Prevention in Automobile Microelectronics captions transcript

Improving Reliability and Failure Prevention in Automobile Microelectronics

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Muthappan Asokan presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Asokan, Muthappan
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insight into wild-type and T1372E TET2-mediated 5hmC oxidation using ab initio QM/MM calculations (open access)

Insight into wild-type and T1372E TET2-mediated 5hmC oxidation using ab initio QM/MM calculations

This article studies the catalytic mechanism of oxidation of 5hmC to 5fC by WT and T1372E TET2 using an ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) approach.
Date: September 11, 2018
Creator: Torabifard, Hedieh & Cisneros, Gerardo Andrés
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnetic ordering in a vanadium-organic coordination polymer using a pyrrolo[2,3-d:5,4-d0] bis(thiazole)-based ligand (open access)

Magnetic ordering in a vanadium-organic coordination polymer using a pyrrolo[2,3-d:5,4-d0] bis(thiazole)-based ligand

This article presents the synthesis and characterization of a hybrid vanadium-organic coordination polymer with robust magnetic order, a Curie temperature TC of ~110 K, a coercive field of ~5 Oe at 5 K, and a maximum mass magnetization of about half that of the benchmark ferrimagnetic vanadium(tetracyanoethylene)~₂ (V·(TCNE)~₂).
Date: October 11, 2018
Creator: Getmanenko, Yulia A.; Mullins, Christopher S.; Nesterov, Vladimir N.; Lake, Stephanie; Risko, Chad & Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library