Introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Nanomaterials focusing on bulk nanostructured alloys and metals.

This article studies studies the preparation of a series of heat-induced shape memory composites by the hot-melt extrusion and three-dimensional (3D) printing of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) using wood flour (WF) with different contents of EPDM-g-MAH.

Article discusses the effects of various processes on the surface integrity of Sverker 21 and Vanadis 6 steel surfaces.

This article investigates the effect of Ni-content on phase transformation behavior of NiTi-20 at. % Zr high temperature shape memory alloy.

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Eunho Cha presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.

This article describes a new dataset and experiments to determine whether authors of tweets possess the objects they tweet about.

Patent relating to improved methods for utilizing 911 services and for implementing 911 dispatch protocols by accessing mobile phone sensors and applications.

In this article, the pressure-sensitivity of CNT filled cement mortar composites with different concentrations of MWNT and different surfactants is investigated under repeated loading and impulsive loading, respectively. Experimental results indicate that the response of the electrical resistance of composites with NaDDBS to external force is more stable and sensitive than that of composites with SDS. Therefore, NaDDBS has higher efficiency than SDS for the dispersion of MWNT in cement mortar, and it is an effective surfactant for fabricating MWNT filled cement mortar composites with superior pressure-sensitivity.

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, ABM Rezbaul Islam presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.

This article presents a study of the plasmonic interaction that effects the optical properties of light emission from graphene oxide system.

This article employs an advanced factor analysis technique with principal component analysis/absolute principal component scores and positive matrix factorization to apportion the sources influencing the PM₂̣ ₅ levels measured during 2003 through 2005 at a rural coastal site located within the Corpus Christi urban airshed in South Texas.

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Po Hsuen Kuo presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.

Article describes study in which "soft heteroepitaxy” is used to exert precise control over the lattice orientation of three-dimensional liquid crystalline soft crystals, thereby granting the ability to sculpt the grain boundaries between them.

Article proposes a three-dimensional fusion hierarchical reconstruction method that utilizes a multi-view feature combination method and a hierarchical prediction strategy to unify the single view and any number of multiple views 3D reconstructions.

This article studies route recommendation to a group of taxis by minimizing the overall mileage spent without customers.

Article describes study in which the density functional theory (DFT) methods were applied to understand the inferior performance of doped graphene in acid.

Patent relating to methods and devices for enrollment and verification of biometric information in identification documents.

This article investigates the atomic distribution in catalytically active metallic glass alloys using three-dimensional atom probe microscopy.

This article reports the fabrication of nanocrystalline (NC) Al₀.₁CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy and subsequent small-scale plastic deformation behavior via nano-pillar compression tests.

This article presents a strong and ductile non-equiatomic high-entropy alloy obtained after friction stir processing.

This article explores single-layer tungsten disulfides (WS₂) because of their unique tunable bandgap. The authors report the scalable synthesis of uniform single-layer WS2 film by a two-step chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method followed by a laser thinning process.

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Shraddha Piparia presents her research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.

This article provides a review of the state of the art focused on the development of biosensors and chemosensors based on extended-gate field-effect transistor within the field of bioanalytical applications.

This paper presents an approach to extract implicit interpretations from modal constructions.