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Currency security and forensics: a survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
By its definition, the word currency refers to an agreed medium for exchange, a nation’s currency is the formal medium enforced by the elected governing entity. Throughout history, issuers have faced one common threat: counterfeiting.
Garhwal, A   +3 more
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Thin films for advanced glazing applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
© 2016 by the authors.Functional thin films provide many opportunities for advanced glazing systems. This can be achieved by adding additional functionalities such as self-cleaning or power generation, or alternately by providing energy demand reduction ...
Anderson, AL   +4 more
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Paper-based electroanalytical devices for accessible diagnostic testing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (μPADs) use the passive capillary-driven flow of aqueous solutions through patterned paper channels to transport a sample fluid into distinct detection zones that contain the reagents for a chemical assay ...
Maxwell, E. Jane   +2 more
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Fabrication Technologies for Soft, Multimaterial Optical Fibers for In Vivo Diagnostics and Phototherapy, With a Focus on Extrusion Printing

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Soft multimaterial optical fibers integrate multiple functionalities—such as waveguiding, side emission, sensing, drug delivery or actuation—into a single filament for wearable, implantable, and tissue‐integrated devices for diagnostics and phototherapy.
Zahra Kafrashian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

End‐to‐End Sensing Systems for Breast Cancer: From Wearables for Early Detection to Lab‐Based Diagnosis Chips

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review explores advances in wearable and lab‐on‐chip technologies for breast cancer detection. Covering tactile, thermal, ultrasound, microwave, electrical impedance tomography, electrochemical, microelectromechanical, and optical systems, it highlights innovations in flexible electronics, nanomaterials, and machine learning.
Neshika Wijewardhane   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioinspired stimuli-responsive color-changing systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Stimuli-responsive colors are a unique characteristic of certain animals, evolved as either a method to hide from enemies and prey or to communicate their presence to rivals or mates.
Isapour, Golnaz, Lattuada, Marco
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Upconversion Nanocomposite Materials With Designed Thermal Response for Optoelectronic Devices

open access: yesFrontiers in Chemistry, 2019
Upconversion is a non-linear optical phenomenon by which low energy photons stimulate the emission of higher energy ones. Applications of upconversion materials are wide and cover diverse areas such as bio-imaging, solar cells, optical thermometry ...
Eduardo D. Martínez   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart textiles as raw materials for design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Materials fabricate the designed artefact, but they can also play an important role in the design process; as a medium or method used to develop the design.
Dumitrescu, Delia   +3 more
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Characterization of the local temperature in space and time around a developing Drosophila embryo in a microfluidic device [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper characterizes a microfluidic platform that differentially controls the temperature of each half of a living Drosophila melanogaster fruitfly embryo in space and time (E. M. Lucchetta, J. H. Lee, L. A. Fu, N. H. Patel and R. F.
Ismagilov, Rustem F.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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