glycerol mono-oleate (gmo) was produced by direct esterification reaction with amberlyst 16 resin catalysts with the efficiency of 86% and was used as a surfactant for synthesis of cofe2o4 nano-particles by surfactant-assisted microwave method. fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir), x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscopy (sem) were used to consider the structural and...

Arsenic poisoning from drinking water has been an important global issue in recent years. Because of the high level toxicity of arsenic to human health, an easy, inexpensive, low level and highly selective detection technique is of great importance to take any early precautions. This study reports the synthesis of Ag doped hollow CdS/ZnS bi-layer (Ag-h-CdS/ZnS) nanoparticles for the easy fluoro...

Sacrificial layer electrophoretic deposition (SLED) is a technique to assemble nanoparticles that yields free-standing, multilayered nanoparticle films with macroscopic lateral dimensions after the sacrificial layer is dissolved.

Hollow polymeric nanocapsules have attracted great interest in recent years due to their broad applications in controlledrelease carriers, catalysis, nanoreactors, and encapsulation of guest molecules. Polymeric nanocapsules have been typically fabricated via the selfassembly of block copolymers, 5 polymerization within lipid vesicles, emulsion polymerization, 14 and the sacrificial core-templa...

We present a new technique allowing us to build freely suspended two-dimensional electron gases from AlGaAs/GaAs/AlAs heterostructures. This technique relies on an MBE-grown structures that includes a sacrificial layer. ( 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Patterned three-dimensional (3D) cell culture models aim to more accurately represent the in vivo architecture of a tissue for the purposes of testing drugs, studying multicellular biology, or engineering functional tissues. However, patterning 3D multicellular structures within very soft hydrogels (<500 Pa) that mimic the physicochemical environment of many tissues remains a challenge for exis...

A dry sacrificial layer process is presented in which microstructures fabricated on UV-transparent substrates are released by excimer laser ablation of a polymer sacrificial material using laser light incident from the reverse side of the substrate. We investigate the application of this technique to the batch assembly of hybrid microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) built from parts fabricated ...

A novel Silicon Sacrificial Layer Dry Etching (SSLDE) technique using sputtered amorphous or LPCVD polycrystalline silicon as sacrificial layers and a dry fluorine-based (SF6) plasma chemistry as releasing process is reported with a detailed experimental study of the release etching step. The process is capable of various applications in surface micromachining process, and can be applied in fab...

Traditionally the machine-learning community has viewed the No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems for search and optimization as a limitation. We review, analyze, and unify the NFL theorem with the perspectives of ``blind"" search and meta-learning to arrive at necessary conditions for improving black-box optimization. We survey meta-learning literature to determine when and how meta-learning can benefi...