Sculpted grain boundaries in soft crystals (open access)

Sculpted grain boundaries in soft crystals

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.
Date: November 29, 2019
Creator: Li, Xaio; Martínez-González, José A.; Guzmán, Orlando; Ma, Xuedan; Park, Kangho; Zhou, Chun et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Dense Stereovision System for 3D Body Imaging (open access)

A Dense Stereovision System for 3D Body Imaging

Article presents a 3D body imaging system built upon stereovision technology which utilizes paired, high-resolution single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras to image the front and back body surfaces of a person, and robust and efficient stereo matching algorithms to reconstruct the 3D surface of the body with high-density data clouds.
Date: November 26, 2019
Creator: Yao, Ming & Xu, Bugao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D-FHNet: Three-Dimensional Fusion Hierarchical Reconstruction Method for Any Number of Views (open access)

3D-FHNet: Three-Dimensional Fusion Hierarchical Reconstruction Method for Any Number of Views

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.
Date: November 22, 2019
Creator: Lu, Qiang; Lu, Yiyang; Xiao, Mingjie; Yuan, Xiaohui & Jia, Wei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detrimental Effects and Prevention of Acidic Electrolytes on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalytic Performance of Heteroatom-Doped Graphene Catalysts (open access)

Detrimental Effects and Prevention of Acidic Electrolytes on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalytic Performance of Heteroatom-Doped Graphene Catalysts

Article describes study in which the density functional theory (DFT) methods were applied to understand the inferior performance of doped graphene in acid.
Date: November 21, 2019
Creator: Ma, Jun; Gong, Lele; Shen, Yang; Sun, Defeng; Liu, Bowen; Zhang, Jing et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tribologically induced nanolaminate in a cold-sprayed WC-reinforced Cu matrix composite: a key to high wear resistance (open access)

Tribologically induced nanolaminate in a cold-sprayed WC-reinforced Cu matrix composite: a key to high wear resistance

Article describes an experiment where a self-organized 2D nanolaminate with an average lamella thickness of ~22 nm was formed in the subsurface of a cold-sprayed WC-reinforced metal matrix composite (MMC) Cu-MoS2-WC during oscillatory sliding, resulting in more stable friction and improved wear resistance.
Date: November 15, 2019
Creator: Zhang, Yinyin; Choudhuri, Deep; Scharf, Thomas W.; Descartes, Sylvie & Chromik, Richard R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extracting Possessions from Social Media: Images Complement Language (open access)

Extracting Possessions from Social Media: Images Complement Language

This article describes a new dataset and experiments to determine whether authors of tweets possess the objects they tweet about.
Date: November 2019
Creator: Chinnappa, Dhivya; Murugan, Srikala & Blanco, Eduardo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rational design of efficient transition metal core– shell electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (open access)

Rational design of efficient transition metal core– shell electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions

This article systematically calculates polyicosahedral (plh) Ag₃₂X₆ (X = 3d transition metals) core-shell structures by the density functional theory (DFT) method to predict their electrocatalytic activities for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions.
Date: November 4, 2018
Creator: Zhao, Zhenghang; D'Souza, Jason; Chen, Fuyi & Xia, Zhenhai
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sodium Hydroxide-Free Soy Protein Isolate-Based Films Crosslinked by Pentaerythritol Glycidyl Ether (open access)

Sodium Hydroxide-Free Soy Protein Isolate-Based Films Crosslinked by Pentaerythritol Glycidyl Ether

This article examines the chemical structures of biodegradable films created out of soy protein isolate (SPI), sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (SDBS) and pentaerythritol glycidyl ether (PEGE). The thermal stabilities of the films were also examined by means of the thermo-gravimetric analysis.
Date: October 19, 2018
Creator: Wu, Yingji; Cai, Liping; Wang, Chen; Mei, Changtong & Shi, Sheldon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
EGFET-Based Sensors for Bioanalytical Applications: A Review (open access)

EGFET-Based Sensors for Bioanalytical Applications: A Review

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.
Date: November 20, 2018
Creator: Pullano, Salvatore Andrea; Critello, Costantino Davide; Mahbub, Ifana; Tasneem, Nishat Tarannum; Shamsir, Samira; Islam, Syed Kamrul et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small-Scale Plastic Deformation of Nanocrystalline High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Small-Scale Plastic Deformation of Nanocrystalline High Entropy Alloy

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.
Date: November 20, 2018
Creator: Mridha, Sanghita; Komarasamy, Mageshwari; Bhowmick, Sanjit; Mishra, Rajiv & Mukherjee, Sundeep
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Context-Aware Testing for Android Applications captions transcript

Context-Aware Testing for Android Applications

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.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Piparia, Shraddha
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Less Plugging, More Power: Engineering Next-Generation Batteries Using Nanotechnology captions transcript

Less Plugging, More Power: Engineering Next-Generation Batteries Using Nanotechnology

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.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Cha, Eunho
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safer, Strong and Slim, Solid Electrolyte for the Future Battery captions transcript

Safer, Strong and Slim, Solid Electrolyte for the Future Battery

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.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Kuo, Po Hsuen
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Skin Detection in Image and Video captions transcript

Skin Detection in Image and Video

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.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Islam, A. B. M. Rezbaul
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Taxi Service Planning by Minimizing Cruising Distance Without Passengers (open access)

Dynamic Taxi Service Planning by Minimizing Cruising Distance Without Passengers

This article studies route recommendation to a group of taxis by minimizing the overall mileage spent without customers.
Date: October 30, 2018
Creator: Luo, Zhongwen; Lv, Huimin; Fang, Fang; Zhao, Yishi; Liu, Yuanyuan; Xiang, Xiuqiao et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanical, Thermal, and Shape Memory Properties of Three-Dimensional Printing Biomass Composites (open access)

Mechanical, Thermal, and Shape Memory Properties of Three-Dimensional Printing Biomass Composites

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.
Date: October 4, 2018
Creator: Bi, Hongjie; Xu, Min; Ye, Gaoyuan; Guo, Rui; Cai, Liping & Ren, Zechun
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Permeability Study of Austenitic Stainless Steel Surfaces Produced by Selective Laser Melting (open access)

Permeability Study of Austenitic Stainless Steel Surfaces Produced by Selective Laser Melting

In this article, permeability properties and surface roughness of stainless steel (SS316L) surfaces were evaluated through experimentation with three different laser scanning patterns (chessboard, meander, and stripe), and different sloping angles between the fabricated surface and the laser beam incident on the process. Results showed that for each scanning pattern, the roughness decreased as the sloping angle increased consistently in all experimental trials.
Date: November 24, 2017
Creator: Segura-Cardenas, Emmanuel; Ramírez-Cedillo, Erick; Sandoval-Robles, Jesús Alejandro; Ruiz-Huerta, Leopoldo; Caballero-Ruiz, Alberto & Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhanced Strength and Ductility in a Friction Stir Processing Engineered Dual Phase High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Enhanced Strength and Ductility in a Friction Stir Processing Engineered Dual Phase High Entropy Alloy

This article presents a strong and ductile non-equiatomic high-entropy alloy obtained after friction stir processing.
Date: October 19, 2017
Creator: Nene, Saurabh S.; Liu, Kaimiao; Frank, Michael; Mishra, Rajiv; Brennan, R. E.; Cho, K. C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of uniform single layer tungsten disulfides for tunable photoluminescence (open access)

Synthesis of uniform single layer tungsten disulfides for tunable photoluminescence

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.
Date: November 23, 2017
Creator: Park, Juhong; Kim, Min Su; Cha, Eunho; Kim, Jeongyong & Choi, Wonbong
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Ni-Content on the Transformation Temperatures in NiTi-20 at. % Zr High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys (open access)

Effect of Ni-Content on the Transformation Temperatures in NiTi-20 at. % Zr High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys

This article investigates the effect of Ni-content on phase transformation behavior of NiTi-20 at. % Zr high temperature shape memory alloy.
Date: October 18, 2017
Creator: Carl, Matthew; Smith, Jesse D.; Van Doren, Brian & Young, Marcus L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Security and Privacy in Emerging Wireless Networks (open access)

Security and Privacy in Emerging Wireless Networks

Introduction to a special issue of the journal Security and Communication Networks covering security and privacy in emerging wireless networks.
Date: November 20, 2017
Creator: Yang, Qing; Lu, Rongxing; Challal, Yacine & Laurent, Maryline
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid Synthesis of Nanoporous Conformal Coatings via Plasma-Enhanced Sequential Infiltration of a Polymer Template (open access)

Rapid Synthesis of Nanoporous Conformal Coatings via Plasma-Enhanced Sequential Infiltration of a Polymer Template

This article reports a plasma-enhanced sequential infiltration synthesis (PE SIS) as a new platform toward deposition of nanoporous inorganic films.
Date: September 5, 2017
Creator: She, Yunlong; Lee, Jihyung; Diroll, Benjamin T.; Lee, Byeongdu; Aouadi, Samir; Shevchenko, Elena V. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interfacial Properties of Bamboo Fiber-Reinforced High-Density Polyethylene Composites by Different Methods for Adding Nano Calcium Carbonate (open access)

Interfacial Properties of Bamboo Fiber-Reinforced High-Density Polyethylene Composites by Different Methods for Adding Nano Calcium Carbonate

This article describes a study observing the effect of nano calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) modification methods on bamboo fiber (BF) used in BF-reinforced high-density polyethylene composites manufactured by extrusion molding.
Date: October 11, 2017
Creator: Wang, Cuicui; Xian, Yu; Smith, Lee M.; Wang, Ge; Cheng, Haitao & Zhang, Shuangbao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Competition Between Resonant Plasmonic Coupling and Electrostatic Interaction in Reduced Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots (open access)

Competition Between Resonant Plasmonic Coupling and Electrostatic Interaction in Reduced Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots

This article presents a study of the plasmonic interaction that effects the optical properties of light emission from graphene oxide system.
Date: November 22, 2016
Creator: Karna, Sanjya; Mahat, M.; Choi, Tae-Youl; Shimada, Ryoko; Wang, Zhiming & Neogi, Arup
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library