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Biomimetic systems and devices as nonspecific indicators of threat and response might take the form of a nanocanary, in which a few living cells are harnessed to monitor biological responses to a variety of biologically active test agents. Such biomarker systems would enable a wide spectrum of applications that are adaptable to a broad range of unknown threats, including implantable sensor devices with presymptomatic sensitivity to biomarkers. Therefore, one key to the development of biomimetic systems is to develop analytical tools that can probe in vivo and in vitro cellular processes at the molecular scale with minimal disruption of normal cell function. 

Comonomer Concentrations An important innovation made by the addition of a full spectrum UV spectrophotometer into ACOMP detector train led to the determination of the instantaneous concentration of each comonomer during the reaction, in the case of the copolymerization of comonomers with similar spectral characteristics [19, 20], The working assumption was that a UV spectrum at any instant is a Unear combination of the normalized basis spectra of the comonomers, the copolymer, and any other UV absorbing species, and that the unknown comonomer concentrations can be foimd by minimizing the error between measured and computed spectra over many wavelengths, even when spectral diffaences are small at any iven wavelength. 

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