This collection highlights works by Michigan Tech authors from across the university community that have been made available Open Access, either through a Creative Commons license or other similar copyright agreement with the publisher.

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Submissions from 2025

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First Year to Future Career: Women’s Engagement in Technical Participation Is Associated with Long-Term Retention, Neil A. Lewis, Nicole Russell Pascual, Denise Sekaquaptewa, and Lorelle A. Meadows

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Hourly Sulfur Dioxide Observations Over North America: First Retrieval Results From TEMPO, Can Li, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Joanna Joiner, Simon Carn, Vitali Fioletov, Chris McLinden, Debora Griffin, Xiong Liu, and Heesung Chong

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Understanding Callus Types in Maize by Genetic Mapping and Transcriptional Profiling, Guifang Lin, Yan Liu, Tej Man Tamang, Yang Qin, Mingxia Zhao, Hairong Wei, and et. al.

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Halogenated flame retardants in the sediments of the lower Great Lakes and region-wide discoveries, Tian Lin, Shanshan Zhou, Huan He, Jiehong Guo, Neil C. Sturchio, Karl J. Rockne, John P. Giesy, and An Li

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Understanding the Growth Mechanism of Thiol-Conjugated Au25 Cluster, Chunhui Liu, Haiying He, Ravindra Pandey, and Shashi P. Karna

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Fatigue Life of Pre-Cut Seam Asphalt Mixture Composite Beams: A Combined Study of Fatigue Damage Evolution and Reflective Cracking Extension, Hongfu Liu, Hong Lu, Xun Zhu, Zhengwei Yi, Xin Yu, Dongzhao Jin, Xinghai Peng, and Songtao Lv

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Performance characterization and mechanistic study of dry process WR/SBS composite modified asphalt mixture, Hongfu Liu, Xiangyang Ren, Wenwen Ge, Zhengwei Yi, Dongzhao Jin, Xinghai Peng, and Songtao Lv

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Macro-Meso Characteristics and Damage Mechanism of Cement-Stabilized Macadam Under Freeze–Thaw Cycles and Scouring, Hongfu Liu, Sirui Zhou, Ao Kuang, Dongzhao Jin, Xinghai Peng, and Songtao Lv

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Calcium phosphate formation and deposition in ischemic neurons, Shu Q. Liu, John B. Troy, Jeremy Goldman, and Roger J. Guillory

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Towards Mitigation of Hallucination for LLM-Empowered Agents: Progressive Generalization Bound Exploration and Watchdog Monitor, Siyuan Liu, Wenjing Liu, Zhiwei Xu, Xin Wang, Bo Chen, and Tao Li

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Replicating associative learning of rodents with a neuromorphic robot in an open-field arena, Tianze Liu, Kang Jun Bai, and Hongyu An

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BIMW: Blockchain-Enabled Innocuous Model Watermarking for Secure Ownership Verification, Xinyun Liu and Ronghua Xu

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From Vulnerability to Robustness: A Survey of Patch Attacks and Defenses in Computer Vision, Xinyun Liu and Ronghua Xu

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Recent Advances in Wildland Fire Smoke Dynamics Research in the United States, Yongqiang Liu, Warren E. Heilman, Brian E. Potter, Craig B. Clements, William A. Jackson, Nancy H.F. French, Scott L. Goodrick, Adam K. Kochanski, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Pete W. Lahm, Timothy J. Brown, Joshua P. Schwarz, Sara M. Strachan, and Fengjun Zhao

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The relative importance of wind and hydroclimate drivers in modulating wind-blown dust emissions in Earth system models, Xinzhu Li, Longlei Li, Yan Feng, and Xin Xi

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Generating synthetic images for construction machinery data augmentation utilizing context-aware object placement, Yujie Lu, Bo Liu, Wei Wei, Bo Xiao, Zhangding Liu, and Wensheng Li

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Correlations between hemodynamics and radiomic features in thrombosed intracranial aneurysms, Zonghan Lyu, Andres Gudino, Navami Shenoy, Carlos Dier, Elena Sagues, Jingfeng Jiang, and Edgar A. Samaniego

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Investigating the role of blood models in predicting rupture status of intracranial aneurysms, Zonghan Lyu, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Nan Mu, and Jingfeng Jiang

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Bio-Inspired Highest Lift-to-Drag-Ratio Fin Shape and Angle for Maximum Surfboard Stability: Flow Around Fish Fins, Megan S. MacNeill and Brian Barkdoll

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Scaler Rates from the Pierre Auger Observatory: A New Proxy of Solar Activity, S. Mancuso, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, I. Allekotte, K. Almeida Cheminant, B. Fick, K. Nguyen, D. Nitz, and et al.

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Machine Learning Prediction of Urban Heat Island Severity in the Midwestern United States, Ali Mansouri and Abdolmajid Erfani

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Machine Learning for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Credit Targeting: Project Attributes and Climate Analysis Toward Sustainability, Ali Mansouri, Mohsen Naghdi, and Abdolmajid Erfani

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FINDING ANTIPATTERNS ACROSS LANGUAGES WITH ABSTRACT SYNTAX TREES, Daniel T. Masker

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Enhanced performance of Bi2S3/TiO2 heterostructure composite films for solar cell applications, Saket Mathur, Victoria Bishop, Andrew Swindle, and Wei Wei

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Overcoming Variable Illumination in Photovoltaic Snow Monitoring: A Real-Time Robust Drone-Based Deep Learning Approach, Amna Mazen, Ashraf Saleem, Kamyab Yazdipaz, and Ana Dyreson

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Long-range quantum entanglement in dielectric mu-near-zero metamaterials, Olivia Mello, Larissa Vertchenko, Seth Nelson, Adrien Debacq, Durdu Guney, Eric Mazur, and Michaël Lobet

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Automated Semantic Segmentation of Arctic Surface Water Features with Very-High Resolution Satellite X-Band Radar Imagery and U-Net Deep Learning: Segmentation sémantique automatisée des caractéristiques des eaux de surface de l’Arctique à partir d’images radar satellite en bande X à très haute résolution et à l’aide de l’apprentissage profond U-Net, Michael Allan Merchant, Masoud Mahdianpari, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Ben DeVries, and Aaron Berg

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Cyber-physical framework for smart paint manufacturing: Hybrid integration of PLC and recipe management simulation, Stephen A. Michael, Anas M. Atieh, Emmanuel Nkwocha, and Nathir A. Rawashdeh

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ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES: MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT TO ADDRESS ENERGY BURDENS AND AIR POLLUTION, Nyasha Milanzi

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ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY: DEVELOPMENT OF TISSUE MODELS AND INVESTIGATION OF SHEAR WAVE VARIABILITY, Emily J. Miller

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Characterization of fibrotic liver tissue microstructure for predicting shear wave speed variability: A Machine-learning-based computational study, Emily J. Miller, Yongmei M. Jin, and Jingfeng Jiang

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Remote Sensing of Seismic Signals via Enhanced Moiré-Based Apparatus Integrated with Active Convolved Illumination, Adrian A. Moazzam, Anindya Ghoshroy, Durdu Güney, and Roohollah Askari

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Incorporation of E-Waste Plastics into Asphalt: A Review of the Materials, Methods, and Impacts, Sepehr Mohammadi, Dongzhao Jin, Zhongda Liu, and Zhanping You

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Integrating Recycled Acrylonitrile–Butadiene–Styrene Plastics from Electronic Waste with Carbon Black for Sustainable Asphalt Production, Sepehr Mohammadi, Dongzhao Jin, and Zhanping You

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Perspectives on usability and adoption of a new ACL injury prevention programme for female handball players: a mixed methods approach, Anne Inger Mørtvedt, Tron Krosshaug, and Erich Petushek

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Overview of porous magnesium-based scaffolds: development, properties and biomedical applications, Amir Motaharinia, Jaroslaw Drelich, Safian Sharif, Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, Farid Naeimi, Alexandra G. Glover, Mahshid Ebrahiminejad, and Hamid Reza Bakhsheshi-Rad

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Gene regulatory network prediction using machine learning, deep learning, and hybrid approaches, Sai Teja Mummadi, Md Khairul Islam, Victor Busov, and Hairong Wei

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From Riches to Ruin: An Exploration of the Conglomerate Mining Company's Compressor House, Jill T. Muraski

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"An Ancient Vanished Race:" Industrial Mythistory and the Alternative Archaeology of Lake Superior Copper, Donovan C. Murphy

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A longitudinal analysis of morphological shape variation of spleen in patients with fontan surgery, Varatharajan Nainamalai, Håvard Bjørke Jenssen, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Djinaud Prophete, Jordan Gosnell, Sarah Khan, Marcus Haw, Jingfeng Jiang, and Joseph Vettukattil

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Synthesis of Fe3O4@MIL-101-OH/Chitosan for adsorption and release of doxorubicin, Iman Najafipour, Nafiseh Emami, Pegah Sadeh, Adonis Amoli, Sareh Mosleh-Shirazi, Ali Mohammad Amani, Hesam Kamyab, Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan, Seyed Reza Kasaee, and Ehsan Vafa

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Progressive Insights into 3D Bioprinting for Corneal Tissue Restoration, Ilayda Namli, Deepak Gupta, Yogendra Pratap Singh, Pallab Datta, Muhammad Rizwan, Mehmet Baykara, and Ibrahim T. Ozbolat

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Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory, Rebecca A. Nelson, Lauren L. Sullivan, Erika Hersch-Green, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Pedro M. Tognetti, and et al.

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Reduction-Driven Mobilization of Structural Fe in Clay Minerals with High Fe Content, Anke Neumann, Luiza Notini, W. A.P.Jeewantha Premaratne, Drew E. Latta, and Michelle M. Scherer

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Sustainable management of copper-contaminated soils using vetiver root biochar, Sameer Neve, Dibyendu Sarkar, Zhiming Zhang, and Rupali Datta

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Exploring Italian consumers’ willingness to pay for sustainable fashion: the roles of eco-consciousness and vintage preference, Minh Hoang Nguyen, Minh Phuong Thi Duong, Thien Vu Tran, Hong Hue Thi Nguyen, Tran Thi Mai Anh, and Quan Hoang Vuong

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Innovation Curse: The Wastefulness of Technologies Believed to Mitigate Climate Change, Minh Hoang Nguyen, Valoree Gagnon, Thanh Tu Tran, and Thi Mai Anh Tran

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Quantifying the decay timescale of volcanic sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere, Paul A. Nicknish, Kane Stone, Susan Solomon, and Simon Carn

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Insights on avian life history and physiological traits in Central Africa: ant-following species have young-dominated age ratios in secondary forest, Panagiotis Nikolaou, Billi A. Krochuk, Patricia F. Rodrigues, Kristin E. Brzeski, Susana L. Mufumu, Silvestre E. Malanza, and et. al.

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Feasibility study on large-scale geologic carbon sequestration in Southern Colorado, Yanrui Ning, Ali Tura, David Herman, Jay Bridgeman, and Dana Clark

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Continuous purification of a parvovirus using two aqueous two-phase extraction steps, Natalie Nold, Sheridan Waldack, Grace James, Trisha Colling, Lynn M. Manchester, Taravat Sarvari, Amanda P. Bekkala, Seth Kriz, Madison Baldwin, Emily Agustin-Mazariegos, Michael J. Betenbaugh, and Caryn Heldt

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Origin of the World-Class Eagle, Eagle East, and Tamarack Ni-Cu-PGE Deposits, Robert Nowak, Chad Deering, and Espree Essig

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Using Confidence Scores to Improve Eyes-free Detection of Speech Recognition Errors, Sadia Nowrin and Keith Vertanen

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A Lightweight Microchained Architecture for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Network Reputation Systems, Simeon Ogunbunmi, Ronghua Xu, and Yu Chen

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Regio- and Stereoselective Halogenation by an Iron(II)- and 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Halogenase in the Biosynthesis of Halogenated Nucleosides, Philip M. Palacios, Xiaoyun Li, Simahudeen Bathir Jaber Sathik Rifayee, Haoyu Tang, Tatyana Karabencheva-Christova, Christo Christov, Wei-Chen Chang, and Yisong Guo

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Electronic structure prediction of medium and high entropy alloys across composition space, Shashank Pathrudkar, Stephanie Taylor, Abhishek Keripale, Abhijeet S. Gangan, Ponkrshnan Thiagarajan, Shivang Agarwal, Jaime Marian, Susanta Ghosh, and Amartya S. Banerjee

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Microbial Communities in Glacial Lakes of Glacier National Park, MT, USA, Logan M. Peoples, J Joseph Giersch, Tyler H. Tappenbeck, Joseph W. Vanderwall, John M. Ranieri, Trista J. Vick-Majors, and et. al.

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Effects of chronic metal exposure and metamorphosis on the microbiomes of larval and adult insects and riparian spiders through the aquatic-riparian food web, Brittany G. Perrotta, Karen A. Kidd, Amy Marcarelli, Gordon Paterson, and David M. Walters

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Biopsychosocial profiles following ACL reconstruction: A latent class analysis of barriers to return-to-activity, Erich Petushek, Matthew S. Harkey, Kim Santiago, Alexander Stamm, Shelby Baez, Jed A. Diekfuss, Gregory D. Myer, and Christopher Kuenze

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High-heat transfer lithium-ion batteries: A new era in battery thermal management, Alfred J. Piggott, Jeffrey S. Allen, and Ahmad A. Pesaran

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Preservation of the Bernstein property for sums of independent random variables, Iosif Pinelis

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PLM-DBPs: enhancing plant DNA-binding protein prediction by integrating sequence-based and structure-aware protein language models, Suresh Pokharel, Kepha Barasa, Pawel Pratyush, and Dukka B. Kc

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CaLMPhosKAN: Prediction of general phosphorylation sites in proteins via fusion of codon aware embeddings with amino acid aware embeddings and wavelet-based Kolmogorov-Arnold network, Pawel Pratyush, Callen Carrier, Suresh Pokharel, Hamid D. Ismail, Meenal Chaudhari, and Dukka B. Kc

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Coupled Lake-Atmosphere-Land Physics Uncertainties in a Great Lakes Regional Climate Model, William J. Pringle, Chenfu Huang, Pengfei Xue, Jiali Wang, Khachik Sargsyan, Miraj Kayastha, and et. al.

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Imine Crosslinked, Injectable, and Self-Healing Fucoidan Hydrogel with Immunomodulatory Properties, Asma Talib Qureshi, Shajia Afrin, Saad Asim, and Muhammad Rizwan

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Effect of Aging Duration on the Microstructure and Corrosion Characteristics of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel, G. Narasinga Rao, Subrat Kumar Baral, Y. Madhavi, Sriram Vijayan, and Ravikumar Dumpala

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Biomedically vibrant and cost-effective biocomposite bone plate – development and testing, Asif Mahmud Rayhan, Md Enamul Hoque, and Adib Bin Rashid

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A controlled-source physical model for long period seismic events, Sananda Ray, Gregory P. Waite, and Radwin Askari

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ROTTEN THROUGH THE CORES: WHAT DECOMPOSITION CAN TELL US ABOUT CARBON CYCLING, Eileen C. Reeves

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GENERALIZING MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION TASK WITH EFFICIENT DEEP LEARNING MODELS, Abel A. Reyes-Angulo

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Performance Analysis of Multivariable Control Structures Applied to a Neutral Point Clamped Converter in PV Systems, Renato Santana Ribeiro Junior, Eubis Pereira Machado, Damásio Fernandes Júnior, Tárcio André dos Santos Barros, and Flavio Bezerra Costa

Terminology in ecology and evolutionary biology disproportionately harms marginalized groups, Mallory M. Rice, Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Davila, Marcella D. Baiz, Susan J. Cheng, Kathy Darragh, Cesar O. Estien, J. W. Hammond, Danielle D. Ignace, Lily Khadempour, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Kirby L. Mills, Justine A. Smith, and Alex C. Moore

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Dissolved organic matter composition differs across water types in Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes coastal regions, Jesse Alan Roebuck, Allison N. Myers-Pigg, Peter Regier, Nicholas D. Ward, Matthew J. Cooper, Kenneth M. Kemner, Amy Marcarelli, Elizabeth C. Minor, Michael Philben, Bongkeun Song, Rodrigo Vargas, and Jianqiu Zheng

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Predicting potential postfire debris-flow hazards across California prior to wildfire, Rebecca K. Rossi, Paul W. Richardson, David B. Cavagnaro, Stefani G. Lukashov, Mary E. Miller, and Donald N. Lindsay

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ECOLOGICAL FACTORS THAT DICTATE THE OCCURRENCE OF UNIQUE BIOTA ON GRANITE BEDROCK GLADES, Ryne D. Rutherford

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Research and Education in Robotics: A Comprehensive Review, Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions, Mutaz Ryalat, Natheer Almtireen, Ghaith Al-refai, Hisham Elmoaqet, and Nathir Rawashdeh

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Spatially Continuous Mapping of Pre-fire Fuel Characteristics with Imaging Spectroscopy and Lidar for Fire Emissions Modeling, Clare M. Saiki, Dar A. Roberts, E. Natasha Stavros, Andrew T. Hudak, Nancy H. F. French, Olga Kalashnikova, and et. al.

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The Effects of Green Orientation and Technological Agility on Sustainable Competitive Advantage under Environmental Uncertainty: Organizational agility as a pathway, Sahilali Saiyed, Vimal Kumar, Abdul Waaje, and Adi Prasetyo Tedjakusuma

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Estimating Snow Coverage Percentage on Solar Panels Using Drone Imagery and Machine Learning for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, Ashraf Saleem, Ali Awad, Amna Mazen, Zoe Mazurkiewicz, and Ana Dyreson

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Understanding the Influence of Image Enhancement on Underwater Object Detection: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study, Ashraf Saleem, Ali Awad, Sidike Paheding, Evan Lucas, Timothy C. Havens, and Peter C. Esselman

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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Urban Stormwater Runoff: Insights from a Roadside Rain Garden, Hadeer Saleh, Dibyendu Sarkar, Zhiming Zhang, Michel Boufadel, and Rupali Datta

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Engineering the Immune Response to Biomaterials, Abolfazl Salehi Moghaddam, Mehran Bahrami, Einollah Sarikhani, Rumeysa Tutar, Yavuz Nuri Ertas, Faleh Tamimi, Ali Hedayatnia, Clotilde Jugie, Houman Savoji, Asma Talib Qureshi, Muhammad Rizwan, Chima V. Maduka, and Nureddin Ashammakhi

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Design of Future Scholarly Communication, Michael J. Salvo and John T. Sherrill

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Wind Shear and the Role of Eddy Vapor Transport in Driving Water Convection on Jupiter, Ramanakumar Sankar, Michael H. Wong, Csaba Palotai, and Shawn Brueshaber

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Energy-Aware Optimal Reconfiguration of a Heterogeneous Connected and Automated Vehicle Cohort on a Limited-Access Highway, Pruthwiraj Santhosh, Darrell Robinette, Daniel Knopp, Jeffrey Naber, and Jungyun Bae

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On the Hamilton-Waterloo Problem with a single factor of 6-cycles, Zazil Santizo Huerta and Melissa S. Keranen

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Quality Evaluation for Colored Point Clouds Produced by Autonomous Vehicle Sensor Fusion Systems, Colin Schaefer, Zeid Kootbally, and Vinh Nguyen

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Insights into the construction of the Oruanui magma reservoir from a comparison of zircon hosted in plagioclase and whole-rock, Tyler D. Schlieder, Kari M. Cooper, Adam J.R. Kent, Darren Gravley, Chad Deering, Seth Rubin, and Adelicia Johnson

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Characterizing Surface Waviness of Aluminum Alloy: An Approach to Minimize Post-Processing in Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) Production, Shammas Mahmood Shafi, Anis Fatima, and Nicholas V. Hendrickson

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Performance Properties of Treated Jute Fabric Laminated by Electrospun Recycled PET Nanofibers, Md Abdus Shahid, Md Golam Mortuza Limon, Imam Hossain, Md Tanvir Hossain, Tarikul Islam, and Md Moslem Uddin

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Advances in Conductive Polymer-Based Flexible Electronics for Multifunctional Applications, Md Abdus Shahid, Md Mostafizur Rahman, Md Tanvir Hossain, Imam Hossain, Md Sohan Sheikh, Md Sunjidur Rahman, Nasir Uddin, Scott W. Donne, and Md Ikram Ul Hoque

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Emerging tools in plant genome editing, Shilpi Sharma, Naveen Kumar Saroha, Abhilasha Sehrawat, Guiliang Tang, Deepali Singh, and Sachin Teotia

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Viral Clearance of Cupric-Modified Phyllosilicate Minerals Against Enveloped and Non-Enveloped Viruses, Vaishali Sharma, Sneha Singh, Natalie M. Nold, Supreet Kaur, Bowen Li, and Caryn L. Heldt

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FINE ROOT AND ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNCTIONAL TRAITS OF QUERCUS RUBRA POPULATIONS FROM ACROSS A LATITUDINAL GRADIENT, Emma L. Shedd

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2024, A Landmark Year for Climate Change and Global Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Annual Progress Review, Shangli Shi and Yun Hang Hu

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Machine learning for Parkinson’s disease: a comprehensive review of datasets, algorithms, and challenges, Sahar Shokrpour, Amir Mehdi MoghadamFarid, Sepideh Bazzaz Abkenar, Mostafa Haghi Kashani, Mohammad Akbari, and Mostafa Sarvizadeh

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Linear response of driven non-Hermitian photonic systems, Lucas R. Simonson

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The Neuromarketing: Bridging Neuroscience and Marketing for Enhanced Consumer Engagement, Guo Song, Md Abu Issa Gazi, Abdul Waaje, Md Mustaqim Roshid, Rejaul Karim, and Md Atikur Rahaman

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Seasonal effects of plant functional groups on molecular biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter in porewater of a poor fen, Zhimin Song, Maryam Khaksari, Erik A. Lilleskov, Evan Kane, and Paul V. Doskey

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Reliable Detection of SF6Breakdown Byproducts Using 2D Non-Hexagonal Carbon Allotrope Nanosheets, Pedro Elias Priori Spalenza, Fábio Arthur Leão de Souza, Debora C.M. Rodrigues, Rodrigo G. Amorim, Cesar E.P. Villegas, Wanderlã L. Scopel, and Ravindra Pandey