By surface modification of MFI microcrystals with sec-butanol and pre-coating the substrate with a temporary water layer, a convenient process is developed to directly assemble anisotropic MFI microcrystals into highly b-oriented monolayers on various substrates with different surface conditions.

PURPOSE Quantifying phenotypic variation at the level of protein expression (variegation) within populations of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells may be important in the study of pathologies associated with this variation. The lack of quantitative methods for examining single cells, however, and the variable presence of pigment and/or lipofuscin complicate this experimental goal. We have a...

Hydrogen is an efficient energy carrier that can be produced from renewable sources, enabling the transition towards CO2-free energy. stored for a long period in solid-state, with suitable alloys. Ti-rich TiFe0.90 compound exhibits mild activation process first hydrogenation, and Ti(Fe,Mn)0.90 substituted alloys lead to fine tuning of equilibrium pressure as function final application. In this ...

Catalytic fast pyrolysis of waste rice husk was carried out using pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry [Py-GC/MS]. Meso-MFI zeolite [Meso-MFI] was used as the catalyst. In addition, a 0.5-wt.% platinum [Pt] was ion-exchanged into Meso-MFI to examine the effect of Pt addition. Using a catalytic upgrading method, the activities of the catalysts were evaluated in terms of product composi...

The maximized Fisher information (MFI) criterion has been the mainstream of the item selection algorithm in many computerized adaptive test (CAT) programs because of its effectiveness and simplicity. There are still several issues with the MFI criterion, however, that need to be resolved in the field, specifically regarding estimation accuracy at the beginning of CAT administration and item poo...