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Further Analysis on Solubility Measurement and Thermodynamic  Modeling of Benzoic Acid in Monosolvents and Binary Mixtures (open access)

Further Analysis on Solubility Measurement and Thermodynamic Modeling of Benzoic Acid in Monosolvents and Binary Mixtures

Article discussing further analyses of the recent report (by Sandeepa et al.) on the solubility of benzoic acid in six monosolvents (i.e. tributyl phosphate, diacetone alcohol, methyl-n-propyl ketone, methyl acetate, amyl acetate, and isooctane) and five binary systems (i.e. ethanol + hexane, isopropyl alcohol + hexane and chloroform + hexane, acetone + hexane, and acetone + water) along with some numerical analyses. The reported calculations have been reanalyzed based on combined nearly ideal binary solvent/Redlich-Kister, the modified Wilson model, general single model, Jouyban–Acree model and Jouyban–Acree–van’t Hoff model. The investigated models provide good estimation of the solubility behavior of benzoic acid in the binary solvent mixtures at various temperatures.
Date: June 30, 2019
Creator: Jouyban, Abolghasem; Rahimpour, Elaheh & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Towards large scale hybrid QM/MM dynamics of complex systems with advanced point dipole polarizable embeddings (open access)

Towards large scale hybrid QM/MM dynamics of complex systems with advanced point dipole polarizable embeddings

Article presents a general route to hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) Molecular Dynamics for complex systems using a polarizable embedding.
Date: June 11, 2019
Creator: Loco, Daniele; Lagardère, Louis; Cisneros, Gerardo Andrés; Scalmani, Giovanni; Frisch, Michael; Lipparini, Filippo et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomic layer deposition of BN as a novel capping barrier for B2O3 (open access)

Atomic layer deposition of BN as a novel capping barrier for B2O3

Article demonstrating in situ deposition of BN by sequential BCl₃/NH₃ reactions at 600 K on two different oxidized boron substrates: (a) B₂O₃ deposited using BCl₃/H₂O ALD on Si at 300 K (“B₂O₃/Si”) and (b) a boron-silicon oxide formed by sequential BCl₃/O₂ reactions at 650 K on SiO₂ followed by annealing to 1000 K (“B-Si-oxide”). The data presented demonstrates that ultrathin BN films deposited by BCl₃/NH₃ ALD are promising candidates for passivation of boron oxide used in shallow doping applications.
Date: June 5, 2019
Creator: Kelber, Jeffry A.; Pilli, Aparna; Jones, Jessica; Chugh, Natasha; Pasquale, Frank & LaVoie, Adrien
System: The UNT Digital Library
Knock-on synthesis of tritopic calix[4]pyrrole host for enhanced anion interactions (open access)

Knock-on synthesis of tritopic calix[4]pyrrole host for enhanced anion interactions

Author Manuscript version of an article reporting interactions of anionic guests with a tritopic peripherally functionalized conjugated calix[4]pyrrole host (1) prepared using a regioselective synthetic method.
Date: June 4, 2019
Creator: Webre, Whitney A.; D'Souza, Francis; Chahal, Mandeep K.; Labuta, Jan; Březina, Václav; Karr, Paul A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Surface Activation and Pretreatments for Biocompatible Metals and Alloys Used in Biomedical Applications (open access)

Surface Activation and Pretreatments for Biocompatible Metals and Alloys Used in Biomedical Applications

Article describes the main surface activation and pretreatment techniques for substrates such as titanium and its alloys, stainless steel, magnesium alloys, and CoCrMo alloys.
Date: June 2, 2019
Creator: Huynh, Vivian; Ngo, Ngan K. & Golden, Teresa Diane, 1963-
System: The UNT Digital Library