Fabrication of miniaturized devices is usually time-consuming, costly, and the materials commonly used limit the structures that are possible to create. The techniques most often used to make microsystems involve multiple steps, where each step takes considerable time, and if only a few systems are to be made, the price per device becomes excessive. This thesis describes how a simple syringebas...

Sub-micrometer/nanoscale patterned polymer brushes are prepared by employing cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) as a supramolecular recognition motif to assemble functional silica colloids onto Au surfaces as a sacrificial nanopatterning template. By employing CB[8]-mediated host-guest interactions at the interface, it is possible to readily generate nanopatterned materials in aqueous media under ambient ...

Herein we report preparation of polymeric monofunctional nanoparticles (PMNs) through intramolecularly cross-linking the polymer chains sparsely grafted on the surface of sacrificial silica spheres, and a one-to-one coupling reaction between PMNs and linear polymer chains and that between two PMNs.

We report on a versatile approach for preparing on-substrate, self-standing and hollow-wall nanotubes (NTs) of Pt and PtRu-alloys. The method takes advantage of wet chemically processed ZnO-NTs that are used as sacrificial templates for electrodeposition. The electrocatalytic activity of these Pt-based NTs is exemplary demonstrated on the electro-oxidation of methanol.

N,N'-Bis(salicylidene)ethylenediaminecobalt(II) (1) has been investigated as a highly efficient water oxidation precatalyst with a TON of 854 at pH = 9.0, using [Ru(bpy)3](ClO4)2 as a photosensitizer and Na2S2O8 as a sacrificial electron acceptor.

A two dimensionally assembled monolayer of hexagonal convexo-convex β-cobalt hydroxide nanoplates as a self-disposable sacrificial epi-template leads to a highly vertical alignment of zinc oxide nanorods array having a good electrical contact with metal or semiconductor layer on a substrate in a hydrothermal process.

A sacrificial templating process using lithographically printed minimal surface structures allows complex de novo geo-metries of delicate hydrogel materials. The hydrogel scaffolds based on cellulose and chitin nanofibrils show differences in terms of attachment of human mesenchymal stem cells, and allow their differentiation into osteogenic outcomes. The approach here serves as a first example...

Aliphatic terminal alkenes react with pinacolborane at ambient temperature to afford dehydrogenative borylation compounds as the major product when iPr-Foxap is used as the ligand with cationic rhodium(I) in the presence of norbornene, which acts as the sacrificial hydrogen acceptor. The reaction is applied to the one-pot syntheses of aldehydes and homoallylic alcohols from aliphatic terminal a...

The Impact of Company Grade Officer Self-Sacrificial Behavior on Subordinate Assessments of Leader Charisma by Danjel Bout M.A., University of California at Davis, 2006 B.A., California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, 1999 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Dibenzothiophene (DBT) is oxidized to the corresponding sulfoxide and sulfone in an emulsion system (W/O) composed of polyoxometalate anion [C(18)H(37)N(CH(3))3](5)[PV(2)Mo(10)O(40)] as both the surfactant and catalyst, using molecular oxygen as the oxidant and aldehyde as the sacrificial agent under mild conditions.