ONGOING RESEARCH

o      Borate Glasses for Nuclear Waste Immobilization

o      Review of Borate Glasses (Physical, Chemical, and Mechanical Properties)

o      Technologies for the Blind

o      Beykoz Glassware

COMPLETED RESEARCH

o      Disability and Work; Disability and Technology

• M. Bengisu, S. Balta, Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitality Industry, accepted by Journal of Sustainable Tourism (to be published in 2011)
• M. Bengisu, Assistive Technologies for Visually Impaired Individuals in Turkey, accepted by RESNA (Assistive Technology) Journal
• M. Bengisu, G. Izbırak, and A. Mackieh, “Work-Related Challenges for Individuals Who Are Visually Impaired in Turkey”, JVIB (2008)102: 284–294
• M. Bengisu, G. İzbırak, and A. Mackieh, Problems Faced by Visually Impaired People at Work; the Case of Turkey, in Problems and Success Factors in Business: Perpectives from Emerging Markets and Transition Economies III, International Atatürk Alatoo University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sept. 2006 (published in 2007)

o      Forecasting Emerging Technologies

·       M.Bengisu ve R.Nekhili, “Forecasting Emerging Technologies With the Aid of Science and Technology Databases”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 73 [7] 835-844 (2006)

·       M. Bengisu, “Critical and Emerging Technologies in Materials,   Manufacturing, and Industrial Engineering: A study for Priority Setting”, Scientometrics, 58 [3] 473-487 (2003)

o      Business Process Redesign

·       E. Binboğa and M. Bengisu, Business Process Redesign for Improvement of Quality and Efficiency in the Service Sector, Yöneylem Araştırması/Endüstri Mühendisliği Ulusal Kongresi, Haziran 2004, Gaziantep Üniversitesi-Çukurova Üniversitesi, pp.244-246

 o      Properties of  New Borate Glasses

·       M. Bengisu, R. Brow, and A. Wittenauer, “Glasses and Glass-Ceramics in the SrO–TiO₂–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–B₂O₃ System and the Effect of P₂O₅ Additions”, J. Mater. Sci. (2008) 43:3531–3538

·       M. Bengisu, R. K. Brow, E. Yilmaz, A. Mogus-Milankovic and S. T. Reis, “Aluminoborate and Aluminoborosilicate Glasses with High Chemical Durability and the Effect of P₂O₅ Additions on the Properties”, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 352 (2006) 3668–3676

o      Sol-Gel Method for Glasses

·       M. Bengisu, E. Yilmaz, H. Farzad, and S. T. Reis, “Borate, Lithium Borate, and Borophosphate Powders by Sol-Gel Precipitation”,        J Sol-Gel Sci Technol (2008) 45:237–243

·       E. Yilmaz and M. Bengisu, “Drug Entrapment in Silica Microspheres Through a Single Step Sol-Gel Process and In-Vitro Release Behavior”, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part B - Applied Biomaterials 77B (2006) 149-155

o      Research for Technological Applications of Chitosan (A Biopolymer)

·       E. Yilmaz, T. Adali, O. Yilmaz, and M. Bengisu, “Grafting of Poly(Triethylene Glycol Dimethacrylate) onto Chitosan by Ceric Ion Initiation”, Reactive and Functional Polymers, 67 (2007) 10-18

·       M.Bengisu and E.Yilmaz, “Gelcasting of Alumina and Zirconia with Chitosan Gels”, Ceramics International, 28 [4] 431-438 (2002)

·       M.Bengisu and E.Yilmaz, “Oxidation and Pyrolysis of Chitosan as a Route for Carbon Fiber Derivation”, Carbohydrate Polymers, 50 [2] 165-175 (2002)

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o      Biomaterials (Controlled Drug Release, Bioglasses)

·       M. Bengisu and E. Yilmaz, “Chemical Durability of Alumina and Selected Glasses in Simulated Body Fluid - Effect of Composition and Surface Abrasion” Adv.Exp.Med.Biol. 553 (2004) 103-112

o      Lithium Silicate and Aluminosilicate Glass-Ceramics

·       M. Bengisu, R. K. Brow, and J. E. White, “Interfacial Reactions Between Lithium Silicate Glass-Ceramics and Ni-Based Superalloys and the Effect of Heat Treatment at Elevated Temperatures”, J. Mater.Sci., 39 [2] 605-618 (2004)

·       M. Bengisu and R.K. Brow, “Effect of Long-Term Heating and Thermal Cycling on Thermal Expansion, Phase Distribution, and Microhardness of Lithium Aluminosilicate Glass-Ceramics”, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 331 (2003) 137-144

o      Toughening of Ceramics with Whiskers and Particles

·       M.Bengisu and O.T.Inal, “Whisker Toughening of Ceramics: Toughening Mechanisms, Fabrication, and Composite Properties”, Annual Review of Materials Science, Vol.24 (1994) 83-124

·       M.Bengisu, O.T.Inal, and O.Tosyali, “On Whisker Toughening in Ceramic Materials”, Acta Metall., 39 [11] 2509-2517 (1991)

·       M.Bengisu, O.T.Inal, and O.Tosyali, “On Whisker Toughening in Ceramic Materials”, Acta Metall., 39 [11] 2509-2517 (1991)

o      New Sintering Methods for Fine Ceramics

·       M.Bengisu and O.T.Inal, “Sintering of MgO and MgO-TiC Ceramics by Plasma, Microwave, and Conventional Heating”, J.Mater.Sci., 29 [20] 5475-5480 (1994)

·       M.Bengisu and O.T.Inal, “Rapidly Sintered Particulate Ceramic Matrix Composites”, Ceramics International, 17 [3] 187-198 (1991)

o      Joining of Ceramics

·       M. Bengisu and W. G. Fahrenholtz, “Reactive Joining of Alumina by Oxidation of Al Interlayers”, Key Engineering Materials, Vol.264-268, 655-658 (2004)

o      Shock Treatment of Ceramic Powders

·       M.Bengisu and O.T.Inal, “Densification and Mechanical Properties of Shock Treated Alumina and its Composites”, J.Mater.Sci., 29 [18] 4824-4833 (1994)

·       M.Bengisu, O.T.Inal, and J.R.Hellmann, “Effect of Dynamic Compaction on the Retention of Tetragonal Zirconia and Mechanical Properties of Al₂O₃-ZrO₂ Composites”, J.Am.Ceram.Soc., 73 [2] 346-351 (1990)

o      Solid Particle Erosion

·       O.T. Inal, M. Bengisu, B. Morton, and R.H. Richman, "An Apparatus for Conducting Experiments on Solid-Particle Erosion”, Rev. of Sci. Inst., 66 [6] 3649-3652 (1995)