Conventional light striping systems capture 3D data by stereo reconstruction and employ encoding systems to solve the correspondence problem. A confounding factor in this overall framework is the interaction of light with surfaces. Light is absorbed by materials and current methods tend to perform poorly for dark objects. We present a new approach to projector-based structured light that uses r...

The Biological sciences produce an enormous research literature every year. Research papers are highly structured documents whose content is not captured using the traditional techniques of information retrieval: keywords and flat text. This is especially true of the Materials & Methods section of experimental papers. A great deal of highly structured information is packed into this section. It...

Mesoporous slit-structured NiO materials were prepared through a simple hydrothermal route with sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS) as an additive. The as-prepared NiO samples presented high specific capacitance of over 1700 F g(-1) in the potential range from 0.10 to 0.56 V (vs. Hg/HgO/6 mol L(-1) KOH) at a constant current of 2 A g(-1), and good capacitance retention of ∼90% after 1000 co...

Electronic legal education involves the use of information, communication and instructional technologies to enhance students learning of the law and to provide law teachers with environments and tools for teaching the law. Since the beginning of the Eighties these types of technologies were introduced in legal education at Law schools and faculties of Law. The first applications in this field w...

Over the last decades, tremendous progress has been made in the control of catalytic materials on the nanometer size scale. This includes tailoring of pore sizes of catalytic materials by different soft and hard templating techniques, size control of catalytically active metal particles by solution phase synthesis of such particles and subsequent deposition on supports, the placement of catalyt...

Conjugated polymer nanoparticles are highly versatile nano-structured materials that can potentially find applications in various areas such as optoelectronics, photonics, bio-imaging, bio-sensing and nanomedicine. Their straightforward synthesis in desired sizes and properties, biocompatibility and non-toxicity make these materials highly attractive for the aforementioned applications. This fe...

A facile single-step method was developed for synthesizing todorokite-type manganese oxide octahedral molecular seieves (OMS-1) and 2 x 4 tunnel structured manganese oxide (OMS-5) materials. Selection of starting materials and initial pH conditions in the syntheses are crucial.

A novel, highly stable, non-carbon support system for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has been discovered in the form of nano-structured (NbxTi1-x)Ns (x = 0.25 and 0.5). Template-free, solid-solid separation synthetic approaches have been used for preparing these materials. The (NbxTi1-x)N materials have high specific surface area and better electronic conductivity than carbon-based supports.

background: it has recently been shown that the particle size of materials used for radiation shielding can affect the magnitude of radiation attenuation. over the past years, application of nano-structured materials in radiation shielding has attracted attention world-wide. the purpose of this study was to investigate the shielding properties of the lead-free shields containing micro and nano-...

BACKGROUND Polymers are attractive materials for both biomedical engineering and cardiovascular applications. Although nano-topography has been found to influence cell behaviour, no established method exists to understand and evaluate the effects of nano-topography on polymer-blood interaction. RESULTS We optimized a micro-fluidic set-up to study the interaction of whole blood with nano-struc...