Shape selective xylene production is very important in the polymer industry because of its extensive use as raw material for monomer preparation. The acidity associated with the Lewis and Broensted centers present in the pillars interlayered clay and its textural properties allows good catalytic activity and shape selectivity toward p-xylene production. So, in the present study, ultrasonic and ...

representations of guns, knives and bombs. Further, the experiment encouraged color selectivity, but also contained a difficult shape manipulation. Thus, the reduction in selectivity may be a reflection of the objects containing features across two different dimensions, but it is difficult to disentangle the effects each dimension has on this reduction. The current study utilizes a similar para...

That shape is important for perception has been known for almost a thousand years (thanks to Alhazen in 1083) and has been a subject of study ever since by scientists and phylosophers (such as Descartes, Helmholtz or the Gestalt psychologists). Shapes are important object descriptors. If there was any remote doubt regarding the importance of shape, recent experiments have shown that intermediat...

Ventral and dorsal visual pathways perform fundamentally different functions. The former is involved in object recognition, whereas the latter carries out spatial localization of stimuli and visual guidance of motor actions. Despite the association of the dorsal pathway with spatial vision, recent studies have reported shape selectivity in the dorsal stream. We compared shape encoding in anteri...

Hollow triple-shelled Zn/MFI single crystals were designed by Ning Wang and co-workers in their Research Article (e202114786). They exhibit a rather long lifetime as well an enhanced shape selectivity for p-xylene.

The low selectivity of heterogeneous catalysts has been one of the critical obstacles to the wider use of heterogeneous processes in the commercial production of high value chemicals. The limited selectivity is related to a number of issues, including the lack of predictive theories that guide the discovery of the optimal catalytic site, the dearth of strategies to synthesize the targeted sites...

Insect olfactory receptors (ORs) detect chemicals, shape neuronal physiology, and regulate behavior. Although ORs have been categorized as "generalists" and "specialists" based on their ligand spectrum, both electrophysiological studies and recent pharmacological investigations show that ORs specifically recognize non-pheromonal compounds, and that our understanding of odorant-selectivity mirro...

Selective recognition of saccharides by artificial receptors in water is a challenging goal due to their strong hydrophilicities and complex molecular structures with subtle regio- and stereochemical differences. We report the selective and efficient encapsulation of d-sucrose within a coordination-driven molecular capsule from natural saccharide mixtures in water (~100% selectivity, >85% yield...

Principle guided design of glycan processing enzyme inhibitors involves embedding aromatic groups onto charge and shape mimics. Intramolecular azide-alkyne cycloaddition was used as a simple and versatile strategy for the synthesis of novel condensed bicyclic triazoles from carbohydrate derived Perlin aldehydes. These newly synthesised molecules were evaluated for glycosidase inhibition against...