Publications 2008

Incipient Plasticity and Shear Band Formation in Bulk Metallic Glass Studied Using Indentation A. Puthucode, R. Banerjee, S. Vadlakonda, R. Mirshams, and, M, J, Kaufman, Metall. Mater. Trans. A Volume 39, Number 7 / July, 2008

Early Stages of Crystallization in Phase Separated Amorphous Copper-Niobium Alloy Thin Films A. Puthucode, M. J. Kaufman, and, R. Banerjee, Metall. Mater. Trans. A Volume 39, Number 7 / July, 2008

Surface and Subsurface Characterization of Epoxy-Mesoporous Silica Composites to Clarify Tribological Properties M.C. Romanes, N.A. D'Souza, D. Coutinho, K.J. Balkus, Jr. , and T.W. Scharf, Wear, 265, 88-96 (2008).

S. Samuel, S. Nag, T.W. Scharf, and R. Banerjee, Wear Resistance of Laser- Deposited Boride Reinforced Ti-Nb-Zr-Ta Alloy Composites for Orthopedic Implants, Materials Science and Engineering C: Biomimetic Materials, Sensors and Systems, 28, 414-420 (2008).

Z. Yang and N.A. D'Souza, Magnetorheology of multi-walled carbon nanotube dispersions in mineral oil, Journal of Nano Research, Volume 1, 40-49 (2008).

J.Y. Hwang, A. Neira, T.W. Scharf, J. Tiley, and, R. Banerjee, Laser-deposited Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Nickel Matrix Composites, Scripta Materialia, 59 , 487-490 (2008).

Alshareef, H.N. (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas); Quevedo-Lopez, M.; Wen, H.C.; Huffman, C.; El-Bouanani, M.; Gnade, B.E., Impact of carbon incorporation on the effective work function of WN and TaN metal gate electrodes, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, v 11, n 7, 2008, p H182-H184

Hwang, J.Y. (Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA); Doty, H.W.; Kaufman, M.J., The effects of Mn additions on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Al-Si-Cu casting alloys, Materials Science & Engineering: A (Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing), v 488, n 1-2, 15 Aug. 2008, p 496-504

Brostow, W.; Datashvili, T.; Huang, B.; Tribological Properties of Blends of Melamine-Formaldehyde Resin With Low Density Polyethylene, Polymer Science and Engineering, pp 292-296, 2008.

Witold Brostow, Alisa Buchman, Eli Buchman and Oscar Olea-Mejía. Micro hybrids of metal powder incorporated in polymeric matrices: Friction, mechanical behavior, and microstructure. Polym. Eng. Sci. 2008. 49. 1977-1981

B. P. Gorman, A. Puthucode, D. R. Diercks, M. J. Kaufman, Cross-Correlative TEM and Atom Probe Analysis of Partial Crystallization in NiNbSn Metallic Glasses, Mat. Sci. & Tech., (May 2008) pp. 682-688(7). Invited.

U. Choppali and B. P. Gorman, Preferentially oriented ZnO thin films on basal plane sapphire substrates derived from polymeric precursors, Mat Chem Phys, Volume 112, Issue 3, 20 December 2008, Pages 916-922.

U. Choppali and B. P. Gorman, Effect of annealing on room temperature photoluminescence of polymeric precursor derived ZnO thin films on sapphire substrates, Optical Materials, Volume 31, Issue 2, October-December 2008, Pages 143-148.

U. Choppali and B. P. Gorman, Nanocrystalline ZnO Thin Film Synthesis using Glycerol in Aqueous Polymeric Precursor Processing, J. Am. Ceramic Soc., Volume 91, Number 8, August 2008 , pp. 2553-2558(6).

U. Choppali and B. P. Gorman, Structural and optical properties of nanocrystalline ZnO thin films synthesized by the citrate precursor route, J. Luminescence, Volume 128, Issue 10, October 2008, Pages 1641-1648.

B. P. Gorman, D. R. Diercks, C. Hartfield, G. Amador, N. Salmon, and E. A. Stach, Hardware and Techniques for Cross-correlative TEM and Atom Probe Tomography, Microscopy Today, 16 (4), 42 (2008). Invited.

P. R. Poudel, K. Hossain, J. Li, B. Gorman, A. Neogi, B. Rout, J. L. Duggan, F. D. McDaniel, Characterization and Light Emission of Osmium Silicides Synthesized by Low Energy Ion Implantation, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol 1066, A07-11.

B. P. Gorman, D. R. Diercks, D. L. Jaeger, 3-D Cross-Correlation of Atom Probe and STEM Tomography, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 14 (Suppl 2) 1042 (2008).

T.W. Scharf, M.C. Romanes, K. Mahdak, J.Y. Hwang R. Banerjee, R.D. Evans and G.L. Doll, Atomic-scale Structure and Composition of Tungsten Carbide Reinforced Diamond-like Carbon Films, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 93, Issue 15, 151909 (2008).

L.F. Giraldo, W. Brostow, E. Devaux, B.L. Lopez & L.D. Perez, Scratch and wear resistance of Polyamide 6 reinforced with multiwall carbon nanotubes, J. Nanosci. & Nanotech. 2008, 8, 3176

W. Brostow, M. Estevez, H.E. Hagg Lobland, L. Hoang, J.R. Rodriguez & S. Vargas, Porous hydroxyapatite-based obturation materials for dentistry, J. Mater. Res. 2008, 23, 1587

W. Brostow, T. Holjevac Grguric, O. Olea-Mejia, D. Pietkiewicz & V. Rek, Polypropylene + polystyrene blends with a compatibilizer. 2. Tribological and mechanical properties, e-Polymers, 2008, no. 034