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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,998 Views
18 Pages

26 December 2022

This work demonstrates hydrazine electro-oxidation and sensing using an ultrathin copper oxide nanosheet (CuO-NS) architecture prepared via a versatile foam-surfactant dual template (FSDT) approach. CuO-NS was synthesised by chemical deposition of th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanomaterials: Electrochemistry and Electro-Analytical Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,768 Views
15 Pages

N, S Dual-Doped Carbon Derived from Dye Sludge by Using Polymeric Flocculant as Soft Template

  • Daofeng Luan,
  • Liang Wu,
  • Tingting Wei,
  • Liu Liu,
  • Yin Lv,
  • Feng Yu,
  • Long Chen and
  • Yulin Shi

Dye sludge is a major by-product and it will bring critical environmental problems in the textile industry. In this study, dicyandiamide formaldehyde resin (DFR) is used as an effective flocculating agent for the removal of anionic dyes from textile...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanostructured Carbons for Environmental and Energy Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,255 Views
13 Pages

1 November 2024

In this study, we designed a molecularly imprinted polymers-dispersive solid-phase extraction-high-performance liquid chromatography (MIPs-DSPE-HPLC) method, as a simple and efficient platform for the sensitive detection of two sulfonamide antibiotic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Molecularly Imprinted Polymers II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,157 Views
29 Pages

A Dual-Template Molecularly Imprinted Polymer to Inhibit Quorum Sensing Molecules: Theoretical Design, Optimized Synthesis, Physicochemical Characterization and Preliminary Microbiological Analysis

  • Khonzisizwe Somandi,
  • Tama S. Mwale,
  • Monika Sobiech,
  • Dorota Klejn,
  • Gillian D. Mahumane,
  • Joanna Giebułtowicz,
  • Sandy van Vuuren,
  • Yahya E. Choonara and
  • Piotr Luliński

19 August 2025

Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have emerged as promising materials for selectively targeting biomolecules, including quorum sensing autoinducers that regulate bacterial communication and biofilm formation. In this study, both single-template a...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,956 Views
18 Pages

Facile Hydrothermal Assisted Basic Catalyzed Sol Gel Synthesis for Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle from Alkali Silicate Solutions Using Dual Structural Templates

  • Khaled M. AlMohaimadi,
  • Hassan M. Albishri,
  • Khaled A. Thumayri,
  • Awadh O. AlSuhaimi,
  • Yassin T. H. Mehdar and
  • Belal H. M. Hussein

19 December 2024

This work presents a novel hydrothermally aided sol-gel method for preparation of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) with a narrow particle size distribution and varied pore sizes. The method was carried out in alkaline media in presence of polye...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Aerogels: From Design to Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,923 Views
13 Pages

High Rate Performance Supercapacitors Based on N, O Co-Doped Hierarchical Porous Carbon Foams Synthesized via Chemical Blowing and Dual Templates

  • Qian Zhang,
  • Li Feng,
  • Zhenlu Liu,
  • Longjun Jiang,
  • Tiancheng Lan,
  • Chunmei Zhang,
  • Kunming Liu and
  • Shuijian He

9 October 2023

N, O Co-Doped porous carbon materials are promising electrode materials for supercapacitors. However, it is still a challenge to prepare high capacitance performance N, O Co-Doped porous carbon materials with balanced pore structure. In this work, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,354 Views
16 Pages

Soft-Templating of Sulfur and Iron Dual-Doped Mesoporous Carbons: Lead Adsorption in Mixtures

  • Dipendu Saha,
  • Connelly P. Richards,
  • Robert G. Haines,
  • Nicholas D. D’Alessandro,
  • Madeleine J. Kienbaum and
  • Christian A. Griffaton

18 January 2020

Lead pollution in drinking water is one of the most common problems worldwide. In this research, sulfur and iron dual-doped mesoporous carbons are synthesized by soft-templating with sulfur content 4.4–6.1 atom% and iron content 7.8–9 ato...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Porous Carbon Materials and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,633 Views
25 Pages

Real-Time Object Tracking via Adaptive Correlation Filters

  • Chenjie Du,
  • Mengyang Lan,
  • Mingyu Gao,
  • Zhekang Dong,
  • Haibin Yu and
  • Zhiwei He

24 July 2020

Although correlation filter-based trackers (CFTs) have made great achievements on both robustness and accuracy, the performance of trackers can still be improved, because most of the existing trackers use either a sole filter template or fixed featur...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,778 Views
17 Pages

Siamese trackers are widely used in various fields for their advantages of balancing speed and accuracy. Compared with the anchor-based method, the anchor-free-based approach can reach faster speeds without any drop in precision. Inspired by the Siam...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,970 Views
23 Pages

Molecularly Imprinted Chitosan-Based Thin Films with Selectivity for Nicotine Derivatives for Application as a Bio-Sensor and Filter

  • Obinna Ofoegbu,
  • David Chukwuebuka Ike,
  • Gaber El-Saber Batiha,
  • Hassan Fouad,
  • Roongnapa S. Srichana and
  • Ian Nicholls

30 September 2021

This study reports the feasible use of chitosan as a thin film biosensor on the very sensitive quartz crystal micro balance system for detection of blends of multiple templates within a single matrix. The development of chitosan-based thin film mater...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Polymer Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,737 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2025

We successfully synthesize monodisperse sulfhydryl-modified mesoporous organosilica nanospheres (MONs-SH) via one-step hydrolytic condensation, where cetyltrimethylammonium chloride and dodecyl sulfobetaine are employed as dual-template agents with (...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy and Catalysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,821 Views
16 Pages

27 September 2024

Generative models have shown excellent results in aspect-based sentiment analysis tasks by predicting quadruples by setting specific template formats. The existing research predicts sentiment elements and enhances the dependency between elements usin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,810 Views
18 Pages

Dual Hashing Index Cancellable Finger Vein Template Based on Gaussian Random Mapping

  • Xueyou Hu,
  • Liping Zhang,
  • Huabin Wang,
  • Jian Zhou and
  • Liang Tao

28 January 2022

In the existing cancellable finger vein template protection schemes, the original biometric features cannot be well protected, which results in poor security. In addition, the performance of matching recognition performances after generating a cancel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,408 Views
12 Pages

A novel dual-template magnetic molecularly imprinted polymer (MMIP) was synthesized to extract normetanephrine (NMN), metanephrine (MN) and 3-methoxytyramine (3-MT) from spot urine samples. As the adsorbent of dispersive solid-phase extraction (d-SPE...

(This article belongs to the Section Analytical Chemistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,526 Views
16 Pages

13 May 2022

The study on the synthesis of zeolites, including both the development of novel techniques of synthesis and the discovery of new zeolitic frameworks, has a background of several decades. In this context, the application of organic structure-directing...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemistry of Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,946 Views
22 Pages

1 November 2024

Chloride ions readily react with organic matter and other ions, resulting in the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs) that exhibit heightened levels of toxicity, carcinogenicity, and mutagenicity. This study creatively employed waste walnut s...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,798 Views
12 Pages

7 April 2023

Nanomaterials have been extensively explored in developing sensors due to their unique properties, contributing to the development of reliable sensor designs with improved sensitivity and specificity. Herein, we propose the construction of a fluoresc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Applications)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1,216 Views
18 Pages

Dual-Task Supervised Network for SAR and Road Vector Image Matching

  • Hanyu Cai,
  • Yong Xian,
  • Shaopeng Li and
  • Decao Ma

21 October 2025

We propose using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images as real-time images and road vector images as reference images for matching navigation, and propose a Siamese U-Net dual-task supervised network for solving the problem, called SUDS. Unlike exist...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Monitoring of Urban Environment Using Remote Sensing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,610 Views
35 Pages

Multi-Template Molecularly Imprinted Polymeric Electrochemical Biosensors

  • Meltem Agar,
  • Maisem Laabei,
  • Hannah S. Leese and
  • Pedro Estrela

Dual- or multi-template molecularly imprinted polymers have been an attractive research field for many years as they allow simultaneous detection of more than one target with high selectivity and sensitivity by creating template-specific recognition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Review Papers in Chemical/Bio-Sensors and Analytical Chemistry in 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,696 Views
22 Pages

23 August 2024

To reduce missed detections in LiDAR-based obstacle detection, this paper proposes a dual unmanned surface vessels (USVs) obstacle detection method using the MGNN-DANet template matching framework. Firstly, point cloud templates for each USV are crea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,408 Views
17 Pages

17 April 2023

Aiming at the problem that the augmented reality system is susceptible to complex scenes and easily leads to the failure of tracking registration, a long-term augmented reality tracking algorithm combining multi-attention and template updating is pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,557 Views
15 Pages

N- and O- Doped Porous Carbon Nanosheets Prepared from Templating Methodology for Supercapacitors

  • Baoning Zhu,
  • Jinghua Liu,
  • Qijun Zhong,
  • Yaru Wen,
  • Qianqian Dong,
  • Yuhao Li,
  • Qianqian Jin and
  • Yao Lu

27 April 2025

Heteroatom-doped biomass-derived porous carbon materials show promising applications as electrode components in energy storage technologies. In this investigation, we present a template-assisted pyrolysis procedure to fabricate nitrogen–oxygen...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
591 Views
21 Pages

20 May 2026

Siamese tracking is widely used in object tracking due to its efficient dual-branch symmetric structure, deep feature matching mechanism, and flexible template strategy. Existing mainstream Siamese tracking algorithms typically employ static template...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,011 Views
14 Pages

19 August 2021

Background: Ciprofloxacin (CIP), an important broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone antibiotic, was often used as a template molecule for the preparation of imprinted materials. In this study, methacrylic acid and 2-vinylpyridine were employed for the first...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Molecularly Imprinted Polymers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,413 Views
28 Pages

4 August 2025

The proliferation of biometric technology across various domains including user identification, financial services, healthcare, security, law enforcement, and border control introduces convenience in user identity verification while necessitating rob...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Symmetric Cryptography)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,821 Views
20 Pages

15 February 2022

Authentication systems that employ biometrics are commonplace, as they offer a convenient means of authenticating an individual’s identity. However, these systems give rise to concerns about security and privacy due to insecure template managem...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,975 Views
17 Pages

26 August 2022

A molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) is a synthetic polymer that has characteristics such as natural receptors which are able to interact and bind to a specific molecule that is used as a template in the MIP polymerization process. MIPs have been wi...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart and Functional Polymers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,150 Views
14 Pages

Low-Cost Ka-Band Satellite Receiver Data Preprocessing for Tropospheric Propagation Studies

  • Vicente Pastoriza-Santos,
  • Fernando Machado,
  • Dalia Nandi and
  • Fernando Pérez-Fontán

28 January 2022

Satellite tropospheric propagation studies strongly rely on beacon receiver measurements. We were interested in performing a measurement campaign to characterize rain attenuation statistics. In this article, we outline some of the characteristics and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rain Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,391 Views
14 Pages

Block Copolymer and Cellulose Templated Mesoporous TiO2-SiO2 Nanocomposite as Superior Photocatalyst

  • Sudipto Pal,
  • Antonietta Taurino,
  • Massimo Catalano and
  • Antonio Licciulli

12 July 2022

A dual soft-templating method was developed to produce highly crystalline and mesoporous TiO2-SiO2 nanocomposites. Pluronic F127 as the structure-directing agent and pure cellulose as the surface area modifier were used as the templating media. While...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Catalysis in Chemical Industry: Synthesis, Catalyst Design, and Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
781 Views
11 Pages

21 March 2025

We conduct a small-scale linear programming simulation of an energy future based on the work of Nordhaus. We are able to link our quantity model (a primal model) quite precisely to its price problem (a dual model). Our amended Nordhaus formulation, w...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,937 Views
15 Pages

A Multi-Nuclear MAS-NMR Study on the Structural Properties of Silicalite-1 Zeolite Synthesized Using N- and P-Based Organic Structure Directing Agents

  • Joaquin Martinez-Ortigosa,
  • Jorge Simancas,
  • Jose A. Vidal-Moya,
  • Fernando Rey,
  • Susana Valencia and
  • Teresa Blasco

26 July 2021

The nature of organic structure directing agents (OSDAs) is of paramount importance in the final properties of zeolites, particularly the framework and porosity. Recently, the use of P-containing OSDAs has been employed for new zeolites, but there is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Sieves: Synthesis, Characterization and Application (Concerning to the 6th Cycle of Lectures on Molecular Sieves))
  • Article
  • Open Access
640 Views
28 Pages

3 August 2026

Biometric authentication systems are increasingly deployed in critical security applications, yet the irreplaceable nature of biometric traits poses fundamental risks when templates are compromised. Unlike passwords or tokens, biometric data cannot b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,657 Views
10 Pages

25 November 2021

A relatively static and unique bubble template is successfully realized on a microporous substrate by controlling the surface tensions of the electrodeposit solution, and a nickel layer containing macropores is prepared using this bubble template. Wh...

(This article belongs to the Topic Additive Manufacturing)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,405 Views
10 Pages

17 February 2017

2D nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon (NMC) is synthesized by using a mesoporous silica film as hard template, which is then investigated as a non-precious metal catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The effect of the synthesis conditions o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Materials in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,145 Views
14 Pages

This study develops a one-pot anodic templating electrodeposition strategy using dual-cation-crosslinking and interpenetrating networks, coupled with pulsed electrical signals, to fabricate a vessel-mimetic multilayered tubular hydrogel. Typically, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multifunctional Hydrogels for Biomedical Application (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
338 Views
26 Pages

Hierarchical Point Cloud Analysis for 3D Defect Detection of Annular Welds

  • Jingyu Zhang,
  • Yong Yan,
  • Shuaiyi Wu and
  • Chuangyu Duan

10 September 2026

Annular fillet welds on guide rods lie in stress concentration zones and are susceptible to fatigue failure under dynamic suspension loads, necessitating accurate quality inspection. However, their complex three-dimensional topography makes it diffic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Defect Evaluation and Nondestructive Testing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,435 Views
14 Pages

12 November 2021

Artificial carbon dioxide capture is an alternative method to remove the carbon dioxide already accumulated in the atmosphere as well as to stop its release at its large-scale emission points at the source, such as at power plants. However, new adsor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon Dioxide Utilization: From Homogeneous to Heterogeneous Catalysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
613 Views
11 Pages

Halogen as Template to Modulate the Structures of the Nanocage-Based Silver(I)-Thiolate Coordination Polymers

  • Chunhong Tan,
  • Li Tang,
  • Jiajia Tan,
  • Jinrong Zhang,
  • Juan Zhou,
  • Linmao Yin and
  • Xiao-Feng Wang

19 January 2026

By the reaction of AgNO3, 2-methyl-2-propanethiol (HStBu), with various-sized halogen ions as templates, three multi-nuclear silver-thiolate cluster-based chain-like coordination polymers, [Ag6(μ-SBu)6]n (USC-CP-2), [Ag6(μ-StBu)5Br]n (USC-CP-4)...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,466 Views
16 Pages

The emphasis of surgical correction in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) has been given to coronal plane correction of deformity without addressing the sagittal plane thoracic hypokyphosis. Thoracic hypokyphosis has been implicated in cervical ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Paediatric Spinal Deformity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,516 Views
19 Pages

Siamese Tracking Network with Spatial-Semantic-Aware Attention and Flexible Spatiotemporal Constraint

  • Huanlong Zhang,
  • Panyun Wang,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Fengxian Wang,
  • Xiaohui Song and
  • Hebin Zhou

3 January 2024

Siamese trackers based on classification and regression have drawn extensive attention due to their appropriate balance between accuracy and efficiency. However, most of them are prone to failure in the face of abrupt motion or appearance changes. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,487 Views
13 Pages

MiRNA Detection Using a Rolling Circle Amplification and RNA-Cutting Allosteric Deoxyribozyme Dual Signal Amplification Strategy

  • Chenxin Fang,
  • Ping Ouyang,
  • Yuxing Yang,
  • Yang Qing,
  • Jialun Han,
  • Wenyan Shang,
  • Yubing Chen and
  • Jie Du

4 July 2021

A microRNA (miRNA) detection platform composed of a rolling circle amplification (RCA) system and an allosteric deoxyribozyme system is proposed, which can detect miRNA-21 rapidly and efficiently. Padlock probe hybridization with the target miRNA is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluorescence Biosensors 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,780 Views
12 Pages

16 August 2017

Large-area dual-phase plasmonic gold nanostructures were produced using the phase-separation pattern of a polymer blend film, where two typical light-emitting polymeric semiconductors of poly (9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-benzothiadiazole) (F8BT) and poly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metallic Films: From Nanofabrication and Nanostructuration to Characterizations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,009 Views
17 Pages

Magnetic Core-Shell Nanoparticles Using Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Zearalenone Determination

  • Luis Calahorra-Rio,
  • Miriam Guadaño-Sánchez,
  • Tamara Moya-Cavas and
  • Javier Lucas Urraca

23 November 2022

This paper describes the synthesis of novel molecularly imprinted magnetic nano-beads for the selective extraction (MISPE) of zearalenone mycotoxin in river and tap waters and further analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with flu...

(This article belongs to the Section Cross-Field Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,215 Views
14 Pages

3 September 2023

The rapid, sensitive, and selective detection of pathogenic bacteria is of utmost importance in ensuring food safety and preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Here, we present a novel, reusable, and cost-effective impedimetric sensor based on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology: From Fabrication Methods and Improvement Strategies to Applications in Biosensing and Biomedicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
12,624 Views
14 Pages

23 March 2016

Herein we report a simple and green synthesis of smart Au and Ag@Au nanocomposite particles using poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/polyethyleneimine (PNIPAm/PEI) core-shell microgels as dual reductant and templates in an aqueous system. The nanocomposite...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from ASEPFPM2015)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,825 Views
14 Pages

TiO2–Bi2O3 composite rods were synthesized by combining hydrothermal growth of rutile TiO2 rod templates and sputtering deposition of Bi2O3 thin films. The TiO2–Bi2O3 composite rods with β-Bi2O3 phase and α/β-Bi2O3 dual-ph...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Nanomaterials Synthesis and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,041 Views
13 Pages

Photosensitizer-Trapped Gold Nanocluster for Dual Light-Responsive Phototherapy

  • Junho Byun,
  • Dongyoon Kim,
  • Jaehyun Choi,
  • Gayong Shim and
  • Yu-Kyoung Oh

Photoresponsive nanomaterials have recently received great attention in the field of cancer therapy. Here, we report a photosensitizer-trapped gold nanocluster that can facilitate dual light-responsive cancer therapy. We utilized methylene blue (MB)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Nanomedicines for Optical Imaging and Phototherapy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,412 Views
14 Pages

24 July 2019

The gas permeability of a porous material is a key property determining the impact of the material in an application such as filter/separation techniques. In the present study, aerogels of cellulose scaffolds were designed with a dual pore space syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Porous Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,116 Views
16 Pages

3 October 2021

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) play crucial roles in glucose and lipid metabolism and inflammation. Sanguinarine is a natural product that is isolated from Sanguinaria Canadensis, a potential therapeutic agent for intervention in...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,973 Views
25 Pages

This interdisciplinary pilot study examines the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, specifically Large Language Models (LLMs) with Prompt Engineering (PE), to analyze economic vulnerability from qualitative self-narratives. Seventy n...

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