Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) performance of iron and nitrogen co-doped porous carbon nanoparticles (Fe-NPC) with various physical and (electro) chemical properties have been investigated. Fe-NPC nanoparticles are synthesized via a facile soft-templating procedure by using Iron (III) chloride hexa-hydrate as iron precursor and aminophenol-formaldehyde resin as both carbon and nitrogen precurs...

In tissue engineering, biomaterials play a critical role, act as a 3D template, provide mechanical support, and give artificial extracellular matrix environment (ECM) for neo-tissue formation. Only one type of biomaterials is not enough for both hard and soft tissue engineering. That’s why all types of biomaterials i.e. metals, ceramics, & polymers have their own importance in making tissue eng...

Biometric systems are subjected to a variety of attacks. Stored biometric template attack is very severe compared to all other attacks. Providing security to biometric templates is an important issue in building a reliable personal identification system. Multi biometric systems are more resistive towards spoof attacks compared to unibiometric counterpart. Soft biometric are ancillary informatio...

The bioinspiration is one of the best ways to make a breakthrough in field, and particularly wetting properties. Bioinspired by natural species, such as rose petals gecko foot, previous researches, nanotubular structures are prepared here soft-template electropolymerization organic solvent using an original benzotrithiophene with hydrophilic carboxyl group, monomer. results obtained cyclic volt...

of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Professor Weizhao Zhao. No. of pages in text. (124) Alzheimer‟s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, is a gradually progressive degenerative neurological disorder that is characterized by increasing cognitive impairment, characteristic degenerative pathology and brain atrophy. Studies have shown ...

BACKGROUND Chronic ulcers of the scalp have a variety of underlying pathologies. In case of cancer patients, a second malignancy must be excluded. CASE REPORT A 78-year-old female patient presented to our department with a large soft tissue defect on the frontotemporal left side. The lesion was about 3 cm in diameter with exposed bone and inflammatory soft tissue on the edges of the defect. A...

The design and fabrication of two-dimensional (2D) well-ordered nanostructures by a facile and effective strategy remain a major scientific and technological challenge, hitherto achieved mainly through the aid of interfaces or substrates with an ordered arrangement. Here we introduce a new concept in achieving template-free fabrication of diverse 2D ordered nanostructures by utilizing anisotrop...

We study the binary corrected X-ray light curve of Cygnus X-3 using the RXTE-ASM (All Sky Monitor) data and RXTE-PCA data. We find that the X-ray template derived from the EXOSAT observations adequately explains the binary variations. Using the recently determined quadratic binary ephemeris we correct the RXTE-PCA lightcurve and obtain the power spectrum which shows distinct features of shiftin...

A multi-modality framework for forensic soft-facial reconstruction based on computed tomography CT and magnetic resonance imaging MRI is presented. CT is used to acquire a virtual representation of a skull find and MRI templates provide the desired soft tissue information to produce a facial likeness of a deceased individual. Two main strategies are described. The first is based on a regularize...