Photograph of a WASP checking in for a WASP homecoming at the WASP museum. She is wearing a WASP santiago blue jacket, and holding a blue bag. There are two women sitting behind a table, and another woman standing behind the WASP. There are flags in the background, and a display case of WASP memorabilia in the background.

Photograph of three WASP wearing blue WASP uniforms, sitting behind a long table with WASP memorabilia on it. The women are inspecting a newspaper clipping. In the background, a silver fighter plane with blue accents on it is parked inside the large hangar.

Photograph of four WASP standing in front of a silverr plane. The women are wearing blue, some of them in WASP uniforms. The two WASP in the center are holding small awards.

Close-up photograph of the WASP Fifinella mascot painted on a metal plane part, with signatures from several WASP to the right of the logo.

Photograph of two WASP standing behind a podium, with a Texas State Technical College backdrop behind them. The woman on the left is wearing a white shirt with a WASP scarf around her neck, while the woman on the right is wearing a blue WASP uniform and holding the podium microphone steady.

Photograph of Shirley Chase Kruse sitting, smiling into the camera wearing her Women Airforce Service Pilot dress uniform.

Photograph of two WASP conversing during WASP homecoming at the WASP museum. They are both wearing WASP uniforms, and holding a jacket with medals pinned to the left chest.

Photograph of a WASP dressed in a Santiago Blue uniform without a jacket. There are Hap Arnold wings on her shirt sleeve, a WASP pin on her collar, a set silver diamond wings on her shirt pockets, and a WASP medal around her neck.

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This study describes a simple two-step approach to coat gold nanorods with a silica/titania shell. Gold nanorods with an aspect ratio of 2.5 (L = 48 {+-} 2 and d = 19 {+-} 1) are synthesized by a silver-seed mediated growth approach according to our previously reported procedure (Hunyadi Murph ACS Symposium Series, Volume 1064, Chapter 8, 2011, 127-163 and reference herein). Gold nanorods are grown on pre-formed gold nano-seeds in the presence of surfactant, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), and a small amount of silver ions. A bifunctional linker molecule which has a thiol group at one end and a silane group at the other is used to derivatize gold nanorods. The silane group is subsequently reacted with both sodium silicate and titanium isopropoxide to a silica/titania shell around the gold nanorods. By fine tuning the reaction conditions, the silica/titania shell thickness can be controlled from {approx}5 to {approx}40nm. The resulting nanomaterials are stable, amenable to scale up and can be isolated without core aggregation or decomposition. These new materials have been characterized by scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray analysis, UV-Vis spectroscopy and dynamic light scattering analysis. Photocatalytic activity of Au-silica/titania nanomaterials under visible and UV illumination is measured via …

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