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Surface Nanostructures Enhanced Biocompatibility and Osteoinductivity of laser-Additively Manufactured CoCrMo Alloys (open access)

Surface Nanostructures Enhanced Biocompatibility and Osteoinductivity of laser-Additively Manufactured CoCrMo Alloys

Article describes how cobalt–chromium–molybdenum (CoCrMo) alloys are widely used in orthopedic implants due to their excellent corrosion and wear resistance and superior mechanical properties. In this study, the authors prepared CoCrMo alloys with surface nanostructures of various aspect ratios (AR) using laser-directed energy deposition (L-DED) and biocorrosion.
Date: December 6, 2023
Creator: Man, Kun; Mazumder, Sangram; Dahotre, Narendra B. & Yang, Yong
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multimodal and multiscale strengthening mechanisms in Al-Ni-Zr-Ti-Mn alloy processed by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (open access)

Multimodal and multiscale strengthening mechanisms in Al-Ni-Zr-Ti-Mn alloy processed by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing

Article describes how the unique thermokinetics of laser-powder bed fusion additive manufacturing has been exploited for development of a novel high strength Al-Ni-Ti-Zr-Mn alloy. The authors say that the addition of 0.5 wt% Mn leads to extraordinary improvement in ultimate tensile strength (502 MPa) and work hardening due to the activation of two Mn-induced strengthening mechanisms
Date: December 29, 2023
Creator: Dhal, Abhijeet; Thapliyal, Saket; Agrawal, Priyanka; Roy, Ankita; Sharma, Aishani; Mishra, R. S. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mesenchymal stem cells aligned and stretched in self-assembling peptide hydrogels (open access)

Mesenchymal stem cells aligned and stretched in self-assembling peptide hydrogels

Article describes how the presented research highlights a novel approach using fmoc-protected peptide hydrogels for the encapsulation and stretching of mesenchymal stem cells. This study utilized a custom mechanical stretching device with a PDMS chamber to stretch human mesenchymal stem cells encapsulated in Fmoc hydrogels.
Date: December 19, 2023
Creator: Fouladgar, Farzaneh; Moslabeh, Forough G. Z.; Kasani, Yashesh V.; Rogozinski, Nick; Torres, Marc; Ecker, Melanie et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Light Confinement in Twisted Single-Layer 2D+ Moiré Photonic Crystals and Bilayer Moiré Photonic Crystals (open access)

Light Confinement in Twisted Single-Layer 2D+ Moiré Photonic Crystals and Bilayer Moiré Photonic Crystals

Article reporting optical properties of twisted single-layer 2D+ moiré photonic crystals where there is a weak modulation in z direction, and bilayer moiré-overlapping-moiré photonic crystals. This study leads to a potential application of 2D+ moiré photonic crystal in future on-chip optoelectronic integration.
Date: December 25, 2023
Creator: Kamau, Steve; Hurley, Noah; Kaul, Anupama; Cui, Jingbiao & Lin, Yuankun
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
OptiFit: Computer-Vision-Based Smartphone Application to Measure the Foot from Images and 3D Scans (open access)

OptiFit: Computer-Vision-Based Smartphone Application to Measure the Foot from Images and 3D Scans

Article asserts that the foot is a vital organ, as it stabilizes the impact forces between the human skeletal system and the ground. The authors present an instep girth measurement algorithm, and they used a pixel per metric algorithm for measurement; these algorithms were accordingly integrated with the application.
Date: December 6, 2022
Creator: Rafiq, Riyad Bin; Hoque, Kazi Miftahul; Kabir, Muhammad Ashad; Ahmed, Sayed & Laird, Craig
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermo/hydration responsive shape memory polymers with enhanced hydrophilicity for biomedical applications (open access)

Thermo/hydration responsive shape memory polymers with enhanced hydrophilicity for biomedical applications

Article states that thiol-ene/acrylate shape memory polymers (SMPs) have sufficient stiffness for facile insertion and precision placement and soften after exposure to physiological conditions to reduce the mechanical mismatch with body tissue; as a result, they have demonstrated excellent potential as substrates for various flexible bioelectronic devices, such as cochlear implants, nerve cuffs, cortical probes, plexus blankets, and spinal cord stimulators. Here, the authors report a new strategy for designing SMPs with enhanced shape recovery properties and lower moduli than previously reported SMPs under physiological conditions without sacrificing stiffness at room temperature by introducing a hydrophilic monomer.
Date: December 5, 2022
Creator: Suzuki, Yuta; Hu, Qichan; Batchelor, Benjamin; Voit, Walter & Ecker, Melanie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Validation of Diffraction Lithography for Fabrication of Solid Microneedles (open access)

Experimental Validation of Diffraction Lithography for Fabrication of Solid Microneedles

Article states that microneedles are highly sought after for medicinal and cosmetic applications. However, the current manufacturing process for microneedles remains complicated, hindering its applicability to a broader variety of applications. This experimental study enables the shapes and mechanical properties of the microneedles to be predicted in advance for mass production and wide practical use for biomedical or cosmetic applications.
Date: December 14, 2022
Creator: Tan, Jun Ying; Li, Yuanki; Chamani, Faraz; Tharzeen, Aabila; Prakash, Punit; Natarajan, Balasubramaniam et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advancing Reverse Electrowetting-on-Dielectric from Planar to Rough Surface Electrodes for High Power Density Energy Harvesting (open access)

Advancing Reverse Electrowetting-on-Dielectric from Planar to Rough Surface Electrodes for High Power Density Energy Harvesting

Article presenting electrical and multiphysics-based modeling approaches of REWOD energy harvester using structured rough surface electrodes. By enhancing the overall available surface area, an increase in the overall capacitance is achieved.
Date: December 15, 2021
Creator: Adhikari, Pashupati R.; Patwary, Adnan B.; Kakaraparty, Karthik; Gunti, Avinash; Reid, Russell C. & Mahbub, Ifana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of gradient distribution and aggregate structure of fibers on the flexibility and flexural toughness of natural moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) (open access)

Effects of gradient distribution and aggregate structure of fibers on the flexibility and flexural toughness of natural moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis)

Article is a study proposing an original method to quantitatively evaluate the gradient distribution and aggregate structure of fibers on the flexibility and flexural toughness of natural moso (Phyllostachys edulis) bamboo, with a comparison to two other natural woods.
Date: December 24, 2021
Creator: Wei, Xin; Wang, Ge; Smith, Lee M.; Chen, Xiaoyi & Jiang, Huan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vector mosquito image classification using novel RIFS feature selection and machine learning models for disease epidemiology (open access)

Vector mosquito image classification using novel RIFS feature selection and machine learning models for disease epidemiology

Article proposes a Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning based system to detect the presence of two critical disease spreading classes of mosquitoes in order to prevent mosquito-borne infection.
Date: December 21, 2021
Creator: Rustam, Furqan; Reshi, Aijaz Ahmad; Aljedaani, Wajdi; Alhossan, Abdulaziz; Ishaq, Abid; Shafi, Shabana et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correlating work hardening with co-activation of stacking fault strengthening and transformation in a high entropy alloy using in-situ neutron diffraction (open access)

Correlating work hardening with co-activation of stacking fault strengthening and transformation in a high entropy alloy using in-situ neutron diffraction

Article using in-situ neutron diffraction to correlate SF strengthening to work hardening behavior in a low SFE Fe40Mn20Cr15Co20Si5 (at%) high entropy alloy, SFE ~ 6.31 mJ m−2. Cooperative activation of multiple mechanisms was indicated by increases in SF strengthening and γ-f.c.c. → ε-h.c.p. transformation leading to a simultaneous increase in strength and ductility. The present study demonstrates the application of in-situ, neutron or X-ray, diffraction techniques to correlating SF strengthening to work hardening.
Date: December 17, 2020
Creator: Frank, M.; Nene, Saurabh S.; Chen, Y.; Gwalani, B.; Kautz, E. J.; Devaraj, A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insights into the mechanisms controlling the residual corrosion rate of borosilicate glasses (open access)

Insights into the mechanisms controlling the residual corrosion rate of borosilicate glasses

Article examining the glass durability and residual rate of borosilicate glass. The authors focus on the behavior of the soluble elements of the International Simple Glass (B, Na, and Ca) to show that the residual rate is controlled by the behavior of B, a glass former supposed to dissolve instantaneously when in contact with water and thus widely considered as an ideal tracer. The article demonstrates that B release is controlled by multiple processes highly dependent on the pH. A new paradigm, including B as a key element of the system, is proposed to develop a comprehensive model for the corrosion of borosilicate glass.
Date: December 11, 2020
Creator: Gin, Stéphane; Guo, Xiaolei; Delaye, Jean-Marc; Angeli, Frédéric; Damodaran, Kamalesh; Testud, Véronique et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Performance Study of Some Approximation Algorithms for Computing a Small Dominating Set in a Graph (open access)

A Performance Study of Some Approximation Algorithms for Computing a Small Dominating Set in a Graph

Article implements and tests the performances of several approximation algorithms for computing the minimum dominating set of a graph. This article belongs to the Special Issue: Algorithms for Hard Graph Problems.
Date: December 14, 2020
Creator: Shahrokhi, Farhad; Li, Jonathan & Potru, Rohan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sc3N@C80 and La@C82 doped graphene for a new class of optoelectronic devices (open access)

Sc3N@C80 and La@C82 doped graphene for a new class of optoelectronic devices

This is the Author Manuscript version of an article presenting high-performance hybrid graphene photodetectors prepared with endohedral fullerenes deposited on graphene using electrophoretic methods for the first time.
Date: December 19, 2019
Creator: Jayanand, Kishan; Min, Misook; Chugh, Srishti; Kaul, Anupama; Adhikari, Nirmal & Echegoyen, Luis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methylammonium Lead Tri-Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells with Varying Equimolar Concentrations of Perovskite Precursors (open access)

Methylammonium Lead Tri-Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells with Varying Equimolar Concentrations of Perovskite Precursors

Article conducting a systematic study to tune the equimolar precursor ratio of the organic halide (methylammonium iodide; MAI) and metal halide (lead iodide; PbI2) in a fixed solvent mixture of N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF):dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO).
Date: December 9, 2021
Creator: Parashar, Mritunjaya & Kaul, Anupama
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recent advances in processing negation (open access)

Recent advances in processing negation

This article surveys previous work on negation with an emphasis on computational approaches.
Date: December 17, 2021
Creator: Morante, Roser & Blanco, Eduardo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Novel Terahertz Spectroscopy Technology for Crystallinity and Crystal Structure Analysis of Cellulose (open access)

Novel Terahertz Spectroscopy Technology for Crystallinity and Crystal Structure Analysis of Cellulose

This article probes the absorption peak of wood cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, wood nano cellulose, and cotton nano cellulose in the terahertz band to calculate the crystallinity, and the result compared with XRD and FT-IR analysis.
Date: December 22, 2020
Creator: Yang, Rui; Dong, Xianyin; Chen, Gang; Lin, Feng; Huang, Zhenhua; Manzo, Maurizio et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cache-Aided General Linear Function Retrieval (open access)

Cache-Aided General Linear Function Retrieval

This article designs a novel coded caching scheme that outperforms uncoded caching schemes that either use unicast transmissions or let each user recover all files in the library. It extends the scope of the authors’ past work that only considered the class of linear functions that operate element-wise over the files.
Date: December 26, 2020
Creator: Wan, Kai; Sun, Hua; Ji, Mingyue; Tuninetti, Daniela & Caire, Giuseppe
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synchronization of multiple coupled rf-SQUID flux qubits (open access)

Synchronization of multiple coupled rf-SQUID flux qubits

Article demonstrating a practical strategy for synchronizing the properties of compound Josephson junction (CJJ) radio frequency monitored superconducting quantum interference device (rf-SQUID) qubits on a multi-qubit chip.
Date: December 21, 2009
Creator: Harris, R.; Brito, F.; Berkley, A. J.; Johansson, J.; Johnson, M. W.; Lanting, T. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internally shunted sputtered niobium nitride Josephson junctions with a TaNx barrier for nonlatching logic applications (open access)

Internally shunted sputtered niobium nitride Josephson junctions with a TaNx barrier for nonlatching logic applications

This article reports on the growth, fabrication, and device characterization of NbN internally shunted Josephson junctions with a TaNx barrier.
Date: December 28, 2000
Creator: Kaul, Anupama; Whiteley, Stephen R.; Van Duzer, Theodore; Yu, Lei; Newman, Nathan & Rowell, John M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbon Nanomaterials for Optical Absorber Applications (open access)

Carbon Nanomaterials for Optical Absorber Applications

Article describing optical absorbers based on vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), synthesized using electric-field assisted growth that show an ultra-low reflectance, 100X lower compared to the benchmark, a diffuse metal black - Au-black - from wavelength λ ~ 350 nm – 2500 nm.
Date: December 28, 2011
Creator: Kaul, Anupama; Coles, James; Megerian, Krikor; Eastwood, Michael; Green, Robert; Pagano, Thomas et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corrigendum to “Metabolic Syndrome, Inflammation, and Cancer” (open access)

Corrigendum to “Metabolic Syndrome, Inflammation, and Cancer”

Corrigendum to the article titled “Metabolic Syndrome, Inflammation, and Cancer”.
Date: December 21, 2017
Creator: Wu, Yong; Dong, Yunzhou; Duan, Shengzhong; Zhu, Donghui & Deng, Lin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physical and Mechanical Properties of Polymer Composites with High Content of Wastes Including Boron (open access)

Physical and Mechanical Properties of Polymer Composites with High Content of Wastes Including Boron

Article describes study examining the physical and mechanical properties of polymer composite with wastes that incorporate boron.
Date: December 4, 2015
Creator: Uygunoglua, Tayfun; Gunes, Ibrahim & Brostow, Witold, 1934-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Elevated Temperatures on Properties of Blended Cements with Clinoptilolite (open access)

Effect of Elevated Temperatures on Properties of Blended Cements with Clinoptilolite

Article investigates the effect of elevated temperature on properties of clinoptilolite blended cements. Clinoptilolite was used at 5 %, 10 %, 15 % and 20 % replacement by weight for Portland cement while sand and water quantities were kept constant in all mix designs. The mortars with 5 % or 10 % cliniptilolite substitution have compressive strength exceeding 42.5 MPa after being subjected to 400 °C and 500 °C.
Date: December 1, 2016
Creator: Beycioglu, Ahmet; Yılmaz Aruntaș, Hüseyin; Gencel, Osman; Hagg Lobland, Haley E.; Şamandar, Ayhan & Brostow, Witold, 1934-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library