We report a facile route to selectively deposit and arrange palladium (Pd) nanoparticles on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) having sub 10 nm diameter by using supramolecular self-assembly of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as a soft template.

Crosslinked porous polyimide films were fabricated by a soft-template method using the microphase-separated structure based on template block copolymer. A trifunctional amine, 1,3,5-tris(4-aminophenyl)benzene (TAPB), was used as crosslinkable monomer of poly(amic acid) (PAA) to achieve well-ordered and flexible films. The crosslinking TAPB improved thermal stability nanostructures PAA/polystyre...

Probabilistic soft logic (PSL) is a framework for collective, probabilistic reasoning in relational domains. PSL uses first order logic rules as a template language for graphical models over random variables with soft truth values from the interval [0, 1]. Inference in this setting is a continuous optimization task, which can be solved efficiently. This paper provides an overview of the PSL lan...

This communication demonstrates a simple, soft lithographic approach to the replication and metrology of nanoscale vertical displacements. We patterned test structures with regular patterns that minimize artifacts in measurements by atomic force microscopy. A composite stamp of poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) molded against the original test structure served as a template to generate polyurethane...

• Formation of nanotubular structures by soft template electropolymerization. Benzotrithiophene monomers with different substituents and water content. Densely packed open microspheres obtained a simple phenyl substituent. Influence on surface hydrophobicity. Here, electropolymerization approach (called templateless) is used to prepare extremely ordered porous structures. For the first time, be...

Protein molecules absorb and crystallise on He, N 2 , O CO gas bubbles as soft templates with prompted nucleation gas–liquid–solid interface. Crystals attached bubble form curved crystal surface float in the solution.

Metal nanowires (NWs) have attracted much attention because of their high electron conductivity, optical transmittance, and tunable magnetic properties. Metal NWs have been synthesized using soft templates such as surface stabilizing molecules and polymers, and hard templates such as anodic aluminum oxide, mesoporous oxide, carbon nanotubes. NWs prepared from hard templates are composites of me...

Highly ordered TiO2 nanotube (TNT) arrays were successfully synthesized by the combination of soft and hard templates. In the fabrication of them, anodic aluminum oxide membranes act as the hard template while the self-assembly of polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) (PS-b-PEO) complexed with titanium-tetraisopropoxide (TTIP, the precursor of TiO2) provides the soft template to control the gr...