Abstract: The present invention relates to titanium dioxide nanoparticles, titanate, lithium titanate nanoparticles, and preparation methods thereof. According to the present invention, titanium dioxide nanoparticles having a quasicrystalline phase corresponding to an intermediate form between a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase may be provided.

Abstract: The invention is related to compounds of Formula (I), (II), or (III): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, ester, and/or phosphonate thereof, compositions containing such compounds, and therapeutic methods that include the administration of such compounds.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vaccine composition including a pathogenic antigen and IL-12 encapsulated in controlled release microspheres. Also, the present invention discloses a method of enhancing the adjuvant effect of IL-12 by employing an IL-12 adjuvant encapsulated in controlled release microspheres. IL-12, used as an adjuvant for a co-administered vaccine antigen in the vaccine composition, is released in vivo for a prolonged period of time by being encapsulated in controlled release microspheres, thereby maximizing its adjuvant effect.

Abstract: To avoid arcing and shorting within a field emission device, a bottom portion of a gate electrode is protected with an insulating material to avoid or reduce arcing among the electrodes and the electron emitters in the device. In a method for manufacturing such a field emission device, an emitter hole is formed through an insulating layer such that a portion of the gate electrode overhangs the hole and is protected on its underside by the insulating layer. The device can be used in display systems, such as CNT flat panel displays.

Abstract: A LCD device (200) is disclosed that has a cholesteric compound layer (205), a backplane light (201), and one or more polarizers (203, 209) and liquid crystal smectic C* layers. The cholesteric compound layer (205) transmits elliptically polarized light having an amount of absorbance which is related to the angular rotation of the polarization. One or more of the liquid crystal smectic C* layers may be controlled as a polarization filter to select the apparent color of the transmitted light.

Abstract: A cathode structure of a field emission device includes a gate electrode that is protected by a passivation layer. In one method for manufacturing such a field emission device, an emitter hole is formed through an insulating layer such that the passivation layer overhangs the gate layer, which overhangs an insulating layer. When used in a display system, the gate layer is exposed to an emitter electrode but shielded from an anode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-toxic primer powder composition for small caliber ammunition characterized by comprising potassium nitrate coated with shellac as an oxidizer, and particularly characterized by comprising 25-40 wt % of an initiating explosive, 10-30 wt % of nitrate ester as a fuel, 32-40 wt % of a shellac-coated potassium nitrate (KNO3) as an oxidizer, 5-10 wt % of tetracene as a first sensitizer, 3-9 wt % of a borosilicate powder as a second sensitizer and 0.1-0.2 wt % of a chemical binder.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for weight reduction, comprising a water-soluble low-molecular weight chitosan and a Hibiscus extract, and optionally L-carnitine, and methods of using the composition for weight reduction.

Abstract: Provided is a power up circuit comprising: a reference voltage generator arranged in a semiconductor memory device to generate an internal voltage source of the semiconductor memory device; a first current path control unit that is turned on in accordance with an output of the reference voltage generator to increase a potential of a first node to a voltage of an external voltage source; a second current path control unit that is turned on in accordance with the output of the reference voltage generator to sink the voltage of the first node down to a ground level; and a driving unit for generating a power up signal in accordance with the voltage of the first node.