Terahertz spectroscopy of MOFs reveals dynamic structure and contact free ultrafast photoconductivity (open access)

Terahertz spectroscopy of MOFs reveals dynamic structure and contact free ultrafast photoconductivity

Article describes how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline materials, and their large pores make them particularly interesting for membranes, gas separation, and gas storage. The authors discuss how gas-MOF interactions alter the MOFs' spectral fingerprints.
Date: January 10, 2024
Creator: Hamilton, Kendra & Neu, Jens
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of Tools and Cutting Strategy on Milling Conditions and Quality of Horizontal Thin-Wall Structures of Titanium Alloy Ti6Al4V (open access)

Influence of Tools and Cutting Strategy on Milling Conditions and Quality of Horizontal Thin-Wall Structures of Titanium Alloy Ti6Al4V

Article describes how titanium and nickel alloys are used in the creation of components exposed to harsh and variable operating conditions. The authors state that a search is underway for cutting parameters that will minimize the vibration while meeting the quality requirements.
Date: December 18, 2023
Creator: Kurpiel, Szymon; Cudok, Bartosz; Zagórski, Krzysztof; Cieślik, Jacek; Skrzypkowski, Krzysztof & Brostow, Witold, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The refractive index of a single atom experienced by a single photon (open access)

The refractive index of a single atom experienced by a single photon

Article describes how the refractive index of a system is often viewed as the collective response of a medium to an electromagnetic field. By studying the propagation of a single photon interacting with a two-level atom, the authors examine the dispersion behavior, calculate the phase and group velocity of the photon wave packet, and further analyze the dispersion experienced by the photon.
Date: October 25, 2023
Creator: Rostovtsev, Yuri V.; Emerick, Jacob & Patnaik, Anil K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dominant Role of Hole Transport Pathway in Achieving Record High Photoconductivity in Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Frameworks (open access)

Dominant Role of Hole Transport Pathway in Achieving Record High Photoconductivity in Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Frameworks

Article describes how metal-organic frameworks with mobile charges have attracted significant attention due to their potential application in photoelectric devices, chemical resistance sensors, and catalysis. The authors report the mechanisms of photoinduced charge transport and electron dynamics in the conductive 2D M−HHTP MOFs and their correlation with photoconductivity using the combination of time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy, optical transient absorption spectroscopy, X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy, and density functional theory calculations.
Date: October 23, 2023
Creator: Wang, Denan; Ostresh, Sarah; Streater, Daniel; He, Peilei; Nyakuchena, James; Ma, Qiushi et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The formation channels of multiphase gas in nearby early-type galaxies (open access)

The formation channels of multiphase gas in nearby early-type galaxies

Article describes how the processes responsible for the assembly of cold and warm gas in early-type galaxies (ETGs) are not well understood. The authors report on the multiwavelength properties of 15 non-central, nearby ETGs primary through Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) and Chandra X-ray observations, to address the origin of their multiphase gas.
Date: October 21, 2023
Creator: Eskenasy, Ryan; Olivares, Valeria; Su, Yuanyuan & Li, Yuan
System: The UNT Digital Library
ARKENSTONE – I. A novel method for robustly capturing high specific energy outflows in cosmological simulations (open access)

ARKENSTONE – I. A novel method for robustly capturing high specific energy outflows in cosmological simulations

Article describes how ARKENSTONE is a new model for multiphase, stellar feedback-driven galactic winds designed for inclusion in coarse resolution cosmological simulations. In this first paper of a series, the authors describe the features that allow ARKENSTONE to properly treat high specific energy wind components and demonstrate them using idealized non-cosmological simulations of a galaxy with a realistic circumgalactic medium (CGM) using the AREPO code.
Date: October 17, 2023
Creator: Smith, Matthew C.; Fielding, Drummond B.; Bryan, Greg L.; Kim, Chang-Goo; Ostriker, Eve C.; Somerville, Rachel S. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biophotons: New Experimental Data and Analysis (open access)

Biophotons: New Experimental Data and Analysis

Article describes how biophotons are an ultra-weak emission of photons in the visible energy range from living matter. The authors study the emission from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity.
Date: October 10, 2023
Creator: Benfatto, Maurizio; Pace, Elisabetta; Davoli, Ivan; Francini, Roberto; Matteis, Fabio De; Scordo, Alessandro et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complexity Synchronization of Organ Networks (open access)

Complexity Synchronization of Organ Networks

Article describes how the transdisciplinary nature of science as a whole became evident as the necessity for the complex nature of phenomena to explain social and life science, along with the physical sciences, blossomed into complexity theory and most recently into complexitysynchronization. The authors use the scaling of empirical datasets from the brain, cardiovascular and respiratory networks to support the hypothesis that complexity synchronization occurs between scaling indices or equivalently with the matching of the time dependencies of the networks' multifractal dimensions.
Date: September 28, 2023
Creator: West, Bruce J.; Grigolini, Paolo; Kerick, Scott E.; Franaszczuk, Piotr J. & Mahmoodi, Korosh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhanced Photoluminescence and Prolonged Carrier Lifetime through Laser Radiation Hardening and Self-Healing in Aged MAPbBr3 Perovskites Encapsulated in NiO Nanotubes (open access)

Enhanced Photoluminescence and Prolonged Carrier Lifetime through Laser Radiation Hardening and Self-Healing in Aged MAPbBr3 Perovskites Encapsulated in NiO Nanotubes

Article describes how organic-inorganic perovskites hold great promise as optoelectronic semiconductors for pure color light emitting and photovoltaic devices. This paper investigates the laser radiation hardening and self-healing-induced properties of aged MAPbBr3 perovskites encapsulated in NiO nanotubes (MAPbBr3@NiO) using photoluminescence (PL) and fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM). After deliberately subjecting the MAPbBr3@ NiO to atmospheric conditions for two years, the sample remains remarkably stable.
Date: August 31, 2023
Creator: Kamau, Steve; Rodriguez, Roberto Gonzalez; Jiang, Yan; Mondragon, Araceli Herrera; Varghese, Sinto; Hurley, Noah et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A brief guide to polymer characterization: structure (IUPAC Technical Report) (open access)

A brief guide to polymer characterization: structure (IUPAC Technical Report)

Article states that to bolster the series of Brief Guides released by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the authors introduce the first Brief Guide to Polymer Characterization. This article provides a concise overview of characterization methods for teachers, students, non-specialists, and newcomers to polymer science as well as being a useful manual for researchers and technicians.
Date: August 16, 2023
Creator: Topham, Paul D.; Boucher, Raymond J.; Chang, Taihyun; Smrčková, Miroslava D.; Farrell, Wesley S.; He, Jiasong et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uncoupling system and environment simulation cells for fast-scaling modeling of complex continuum embeddings (open access)

Uncoupling system and environment simulation cells for fast-scaling modeling of complex continuum embeddings

Article describes how continuum solvation models are becoming increasingly relevant in condensed matter simulations, allowing to characterize materials interfaces in the presence of wet electrified environments at a reduced computational cost with respect to all atomistic simulations. However, some challenges with the implementation of these models in plane-wave simulation packages still persists, and to address these challenges, the authors present the implementation of a double-cell formalism, in which the simulation cell used for the continuum environment is uncoupled from the one used for the electronic-structure simulation of the quantum-mechanical system.
Date: August 1, 2023
Creator: Medrano, G.; Bainglass, E. & Andreussi, O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optical Pump Terahertz Probe (OPTP) and Time Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy (TRTS) of emerging solar materials Editor’s Pick (open access)

Optical Pump Terahertz Probe (OPTP) and Time Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy (TRTS) of emerging solar materials Editor’s Pick

Article describes how photoconductivity is the crucial benchmark to assess the potential of any emerging material for future solar applications. This tutorial aims to familiarize the reader with the main THz techniques used to explore emerging materials.
Date: July 19, 2023
Creator: Neu, Jens
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complexity synchronization: a measure of interaction between the brain, heart and lungs (open access)

Complexity synchronization: a measure of interaction between the brain, heart and lungs

Authors of the article address the measurable consequences of the network effect (NE) on time series generated by different parts of the brain, heart, and lung organ-networks (ONs), which are directly related to their inter-network and intra-network interactions. The authors assert that these same physiologic ONs have been shown to generate crucial event (CE) time series, and herein are shown ,using modified diffusion entropy analysis (MDEA) to have scaling indices with quasiperiodic changes in complexity, as measured by scaling indices, over time.
Date: July 15, 2023
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; Kerick, Scott E.; Grigolini, Paolo; Franaszczuk, Piotr J. & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of the Vibration Signal during Milling Vertical Thin-Walled Structures from Aerospace Materials (open access)

Evaluation of the Vibration Signal during Milling Vertical Thin-Walled Structures from Aerospace Materials

Article describes how the main functions of thin-walled structures are to reduce the weight of the finished product and to increase the rigidity of the structure. The authors compared the vibration signal for different approaches to machining thin walled-components with vertical walls made of Ti6AI4V titanium alloy and Inconel 625 nickel alloy.
Date: July 14, 2023
Creator: Kurpiel, Szymon; Zagrórski, Krzysztof; Skryzpkowski, Krzysztof & Brostow, Witold, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Code Comparison in Galaxy-scale Simulations with Resolved Supernova Feedback: Lagrangian versus Eulerian Methods (open access)

Code Comparison in Galaxy-scale Simulations with Resolved Supernova Feedback: Lagrangian versus Eulerian Methods

Authors of the article present a suite of high-resolution simulations of an isolated dwarf galaxy using four different hydrodynamical codes: Gizmo, Arepo, Gadget, and Ramses. They find reasonable agreement on the time-averaged star formation rates as well as the joint density–temperature distributions between all codes.
Date: June 16, 2023
Creator: Hu, Chia-Yu; Smith, Matthew C.; Teyssier, Romain; Bryan, Greg L.; Verbeke, Robbert; Emerick, Andrew et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph–Distant Quasar Survey: Augmented Spectroscopic Catalog and a Prescription for Correcting UV-based Quasar Redshifts (open access)

Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph–Distant Quasar Survey: Augmented Spectroscopic Catalog and a Prescription for Correcting UV-based Quasar Redshifts

Article describes how quasars at z ≳ 1 most often have redshifts measured from rest-frame ultraviolet emission lines. One of the most common such lines, C ivλ1549, shows blueshifts up to ≈5000 km s−1 and in rare cases even higher. The authors present spectroscopic measurements for 260 sources at 1.55 ≲ z ≲ 3.50 having −28.0 ≲ Mi ≲ − 30.0 mag from the Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph–Distant Quasar Survey (GNIRS-DQS) catalog, augmenting the previous iteration, which contained 226 of the 260 sources whose measurements are improved upon in this work.
Date: June 13, 2023
Creator: Matthews, Brandon M.; Dix, Cooper; Shemmer, Ohad; Brotherton, Michael S.; Myers, Adam D.; Andruchow, I. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph–Distant Quasar Survey: Prescriptions for Calibrating UV-based Estimates of Supermassive Black Hole Masses in High-redshift Quasars (open access)

Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph–Distant Quasar Survey: Prescriptions for Calibrating UV-based Estimates of Supermassive Black Hole Masses in High-redshift Quasars

Article describes how the most reliable single-epoch supermassive black hole mass (MBH) estimates in quasars are obtained by using the velocity widths of low-ionization emission lines, typically the Hβλ4861 line. The authors find that utilizing both emission lines, where available, reduces the scatter of UV-based MBH estimates by ∼15% when compared to previous studies.
Date: June 13, 2023
Creator: Dix, Cooper; Matthews, Brandon; Shemmer, Ohad; Brotherton, Michael S.; Myers, Adam D.; Andruchow, I. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holographic Fabrication of 3D Moiré Photonic Crystals Using Circularly Polarized Laser Beams and a Spatial Light Modulator (open access)

Holographic Fabrication of 3D Moiré Photonic Crystals Using Circularly Polarized Laser Beams and a Spatial Light Modulator

The authors of the article state that holographic fabrication of a 3D moiré photonic crystal is very difficult due to the coexistence of the bright and dark regions, where the exposure threshold is suitable for one region but not for the other. In this paper, the authors study the holographic fabrication of 3D moiré photonic crystals using an integrated system of a single reflective optical element (ROE) and a spatial light modulator (SLM) where nine beams (four inner beams + four outer beams + central beam) are overlapped.
Date: June 9, 2023
Creator: Hurley, Noah; Kamau, Steve; Cui, Jingbiao & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temporal complexity measure of reaction time series: Operational versus event time (open access)

Temporal complexity measure of reaction time series: Operational versus event time

Article describes how detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a well-established method to evaluate scaling indices of time series, which categorize the dynamics of complex systems. The authors propose treating each reaction time as a duration time that changes the representation from operational (trial number) time n to event (temporal) time t, or X(t).
Date: May 23, 2023
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; Kerick, Scott E.; Grigolini, Paolo; Franaszczuk, Pitor J. & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-Ray Unveiling Events in a z ≈ 1.6 Active Galactic Nucleus in the 7 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (open access)

X-Ray Unveiling Events in a z ≈ 1.6 Active Galactic Nucleus in the 7 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South

Authors of the article explain that they investigated the extreme X-ray variability of a z = 1.608 active galactic nucleus in the 7 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (XID 403), which showed two significant X-ray brightening events.
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: Yu, Li-Ming; Luo, Bin; Brandt, William Nielsen; Bauer, Franz E.; De Cicco, D.; Fabian, Andrew C. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The universal shape of the X-ray variability power spectrum of AGN up to z ∼ 3 (open access)

The universal shape of the X-ray variability power spectrum of AGN up to z ∼ 3

Authors of the article assert that they studied the ensemble X-ray variability properties of active galactic nuclei (AGN) over large ranges of timescale (20 ks ≤ T ≤ 14 yr), redshift (0 ≤ z ≲ 3), luminosity (1040 erg s−1 ≤ LX ≤ 1046 erg s−1), and black hole (BH) mass (106 ≤ M⊙ ≤ 109). The authors show that the data collected from archival observations and previous literature studies are fully consistent with a universal PSD form, which does not show any evidence for systematic evolution of shape or amplitude with redshift or luminosity, even if there may be differences between individual AGN at a given redshift or luminosity.
Date: May 8, 2023
Creator: Paolillo, Maurizio; Papadakis, I.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Bauer, Franz E.; Lanzuisi, G.; Allevato, V. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shedding New Light on Weak Emission-Line Quasars in the CIV-Hβ Parameter Space (open access)

Shedding New Light on Weak Emission-Line Quasars in the CIV-Hβ Parameter Space

Article describes how weak emission-line quasars (WLQs) are a subset of Type 1 quasars that exhibit extremely weak Lyα+N V λ1240 and/or C IV λ1549 emission lines. The authors investigate the relationship between emission-line properties and accretion rate for a sample of 230 `ordinary' Type 1 quasars and 18 WLQs at z<0.5 and 1.5<z<3.5 that have rest-frame ultraviolet and optical spectral measurements.
Date: April 10, 2023
Creator: Ha, Trung; Dix, Cooper; Matthews, Brandon M.; Shemmer, Ohad; Brotherton, Michael S.; Myers, Adam D. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automated Approach to In Vitro Image-Guided Photothermal Therapy with Top-Down and Bottom-Up-Synthesized Graphene Quantum Dots (open access)

Automated Approach to In Vitro Image-Guided Photothermal Therapy with Top-Down and Bottom-Up-Synthesized Graphene Quantum Dots

Article discusses how, based on recent studies, graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are expected to possess advantageous photothermal properties and facilitate fluorescence image-tracking in the visible and near-infrared (NIR), while surpassing other graphene-based materials in their biocompatibility. The combination of the photothermal and imaging modalities tested in vitro makes the GQDs developed in this work prospective agents for cancer theragnostics.
Date: February 22, 2023
Creator: Lee, Bong; Stokes, Gretel A.; Valimukhametova, Alina; Nguyen, Steven; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Roberto; Bhaloo, Adam et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyzing the Bolometric Performance of Vanadium Oxide Thin Films Modified by Carbon Nanotube Dispersions (open access)

Analyzing the Bolometric Performance of Vanadium Oxide Thin Films Modified by Carbon Nanotube Dispersions

Article investigates the influence of carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions on the electrical properties and noise signal amplitude of 𝑉𝑂𝑥 films. The results presented in this work provide a better understanding of 𝑉𝑂𝑥-based composites, thereby enabling the development of new, versatile and functional materials for device applications.
Date: February 12, 2023
Creator: Philipose, Usha; Littler, Chris; Jiang, Yan; Naciri, Alia; Harcrow, Michael & Syllaios, A. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library