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Smart chemistry in polymeric nanomedicine.

This review provides an overview of smart chemistry developed and utilized in the last 5-10 years in polymer-based drug delivery nanomedicine. Smart chemistry not only facilitates the controlled drug loading in a highly specific manner, but also potentially controls the drug release kinetics at the targeted tissues. This review highlights the emergence of new chemistry or unique utilization of ...

A smart dust biosensor powered by kinesin motors.

Biosensors can be miniaturized by either injecting smaller volumes into micro- and nanofluidic devices or immersing increasingly sophisticated particles known as 'smart dust' into the sample. The term 'smart dust' originally referred to cubic-millimetre wireless semiconducting sensor devices that could invisibly monitor the environment in buildings and public spaces, but later it also came to i...

Reduced-Cable Smart motors Using DC Power Line Communication

A novel servomotor design that is powered and controlled through only one wire is presented in this paper. A traditional servomotor needs both a power cable and a control cable connecting the motor to a control amplifier. Cables are bulky, heavy, and expensive and, more importantly, difficult to install and maintain in many applications. Particularly for multi-axis applications, like robots and...

Elderly Daily Activity-Based Mood Quality Estimation Using Decision-Making Methods and Smart Facilities (Smart Home, Smart Wristband, and Smartphone)

Due to the growth of the aging phenomenon, the use of intelligent systems technology to monitor daily activities, which leads to a reduction in the costs for health care of the elderly, has received much attention. Considering that each person's daily activities are related to his/her moods, thus, the relationship can be modeled using intelligent decision-making algorithms such as machine learn...