a novel sulfur nanocomposite was fabricated based on graphitic mesoporous carbon.the graphitic mesoporous carbon was synthesized using sucrose as carbon precursor, nano caco3 as hard template and nickel nitrate as graphitization catalyst. the structural properties of the prepared material were characterized using powder x-ray diffraction (xrd), n2-adsorption/desorption and scanning electron mic...

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...

Despite considerable efforts to develop accurate template free approaches, template-based protein structure modeling is still the only reliable protein structure modeling method.1 Templatebased modeling involves (1) template identification, usually by threading; (2) construction of the target-template alignment; (3) model generation based on this alignment; and (4) refinement of the template mo...

Highly ordered mesoporous CdS nanowire arrays were synthesized by using mesoporous silica as hard template and cadmium xanthate (CdR(2)) as a single precursor. Upon etching silica, mesoporous CdS nanowire arrays were produced with a yield as high as 93 wt%. The nanowire arrays were characterized by XRD, N(2) adsorption, TEM, and SEM. The results show that the CdS products replicated from the me...

The advances in the programmable hardware has lead to new architectures where the hardware can be dynamically adapted to the application to gain better performance. There are still many challenging problems to solve before any practical general-purpose recon gurable system is built. One fundamental problem is the placement of the modules on the recon gurable functional unit (RFU). Here, we are ...