A water-soluble pillar[9]arene was synthesized. Its pH-responsive host-guest binding to paraquat in water was studied.

Using focused ion beam etching techniques, micropillar cavities were fabricated from a high reflective AlAs/AlGaAs distributed Bragg reflector planar cavity containing self-assembled InP quantum dots in (Al(0.20)Ga(0.80))(0.51)In(0.49)P barrier layers. The mode spectra of pillars with different diameters were investigated using micro-photoluminescence, showing excellent agreement with theory. Q...

Two isostructural transition-metal (TM) triphosphonates decorated with neutral rigid N-containing ligands 1,3,5-tris(1-imidazolyl)benzene (tib), [Zn3(L1)(tib)]·8H2O (1) and [Co3(L1)(tib)]·9H2O (2) (H6L1 = N(CH2PO3H2)3), nitrilotris(methylenephosphonic acid), have been solvothermally prepared and structurally characterized by infrared spectroscopy, elemental analysis, thermogravimetric analysis ...

Deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) is a passive and label-free microfluidic separation technique with a strong potential for biological sample preparation purposes. Numerical and experimental models have been proposed so far to predict the particle behavior in DLD channels. However, they do not take into account the influence of the pillar anisotropy that induces a secondary pressure grad...

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We demonstrate wide-area fabrication of sub-40 nm diameter, 1.5 µm tall, high aspect ratio silicon pillar arrays with straight sidewalls by combining nanoimprint lithography (NIL) and deep reactive ion etching (DRIE). Imprint molds were used to pre-pattern nanopillar positions precisely on a 200 nm square lattice with long range order. The conventional DRIE etching process was modified and opti...

Product software release, delivery, and deployment are complex tasks for software vendors, system managers, and end-users of a software system. This position paper proposes a framework that manages software knowledge during the lifecycle of a software product, with special focus on the release, delivery, and deployment processes of software components. The first pillar of the framework manages ...

In this note we construct a C∞-smooth, LFC (Locally depending on Finitely many Coordinates) bump function, in every separable Banach space admitting a continuous, LFC bump function.

We establish sufficient conditions on the shape of a set A included in the space Lns (X, Y ) of the n-linear symmetric mappings between Banach spaces X and Y , to ensure the existence of a C-smooth mapping f : X −→ Y , with bounded support, and such that f (X) = A, provided that X admits a Csmooth bump with bounded n-th derivative and dens X = densL(X, Y ). For instance, when X is infinite-dime...