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Tamper-resistant, self-powered, smart nanotags covert sensors sensors in consumer goods, dual-purpose sunscreen, sunglasses, garments that change color and/or release antidote... 

For uses of more direct technological impact, LPBs can be readily prepared in a flat, thin design for powering smart credit cards, in a... 

Then, in the early and mid-1 990s, CAS developed SciFinder and SciFinder Sc ho lar to address the needs of professional chemists and other scientists. SciFinder was developed to allow more intelligence in data access, such as smart structure searching, research topic exploration, advanced author searching, and powerful refine and analysi.s capabilities including categorize and panorama". 

For small crystals, the 5 s per frame must be increased, but because so many reflections can be measured in a short period of time, it is possible to determine the unit cell parameters and identify crystals considerably smaller than was possible with conventional instmments. Currently (1996), the smallest sample for which this method has been used had dimensions of approximately 0.01 mm x 0.01 mm x 0.01 mm (about 2 n). As a result the SMART system is one of the most powerful tools for determining the identity of very small samples. 

Concern over the health hazards of the hexavalent chromium solutions used to form the top coat of conventional nickel plus chromium coatings have encouraged research into trivalent chromium plating solutions. A process with better throwing power and improved covering power than those of hexavalent chromium has been described by Smart etal". A process for depositing a chromium-iron, or chromium-nickel-iron alloy, has been outlined by Law. ... 

Technologically it is important that smart battery packages, featuring power management by electronic devices within the battery package, are becoming a necessity due to the sensitive charging characteristics of Li and Ni-MeHy batteries, it should be noted that the same principles at a fraction of the cost have been successfully applied realized by simple reversal protection and overflow components by the low-cost RAM batteries. 

For the electronic component industry, different types of plastics and processes are extensively used. Not too evident is the high powered action of electronics in the plastic toy industry. The digital revolution has opened up a variety of new applications in smart microprocessor-based toys that use technology in innovative ways. Foremost player is the MIT Media Laboratory s Toys of Tomorrow (TOT) consortium that was organized in April 1998. 

Other possible applications of smart elastomers are in the area of polymer engine which can produce maximum power density (4 W/g) and output both in terms of electrical and mechanical power without any noise. These features are superior compared to conventional electrical generator, fuel cell, and conventional IC engine. Many DoD applications (e.g., robotics, MAV) require both mechanical and electrical (hybrid) power, and polymer engine can eliminate entire transducer steps and can also save engine parts, weight, and is more efficient. 

Prahlad, H., Kombluh, R., Pelrine, R., Stanford, S., Eckerle, J., and Oh, S. Polymer power Dielectric elastomers and their applications in distributed actuation and power generation. Proceedings of ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, Bangalore, India, July 28-30, 2005, SA-13, pp. 100-107. 

Furthermore, due to modem software architecture, it is possible to mn small platforms with a tiny operating system that gives the sensor computing power and makes it smart . 

Abstract The present contribution highlights the relationship between SCCO2 properties, its solubilization power, and its use as a reaction medium for homogeneous catalysis. Current research activities under the lighthouse project Smart Solvents, Smart Ligands are presented, the focus being on criteria of conducting catalyzed processes in future applications. 

Figure 1. Smart dust mote and its components Micro-fabricated sensors, optical receiver, signal-processing and control circuitry the power source consists of a solar cell and a thick-film battery. (Derived with permission from ref 16. Copyright 2001 IEEE)...

A calculation of the power requirements of the smart dust mote underscores our point that the present generation of batteries cannot effectively power this device. Thin-film batteries are among the most advanced of the lithium battery systems, with a capability to scale down to dimensions on the same order of magnitude as the cubic millimeter of the dust mote. 3 The energy density for the thin-film system is 2 J mm , which matches or exceeds standard lithium ion systems, such as those that power laptop computers. A key design requirement for the smart dust mote is that the power consumption cannot exceed 10 juW. If the dust mote uses this power continuously over a day, it will consume 1 J. 

Can a thin-film battery supply the 1 J per day of energy necessary to power a smart dust mote At first glance, it would appear that there should be no problem the device consumes 1 J mm and the... 

The energy per unit area as reported for several lithium thin-film batteries ranges from 0.25 to 2 x 10 2 J mm. Thus, thm-fiim batteries, despite their excellent energy per unit volume, fall far short of being able to power a smart dust mote for 1 day. If the areal footprint were made 100 times larger (at 1 cm ), the thin-film approach would be acceptable. The consequences of the 2-D nature of thin-film batteries are easily overlooked. The calculation by Koeneman et al. ignored the 2-D character of thin-film batteries when they concluded that these batteries could carry out some 60 000 actuations of a smart bearing ." When one considers the actual area available for the power source on the device, only about 1200 actuations are possible. 

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