Sunlight-Activated Long Persistent Luminescent Coating for Smart Highways

Polymeric smart coating strategy for titanium implants

Hyaluronan based hydrogel coatings can mimic extracellular matrix components and incorporate growth factors that can be released during a progressive degradation while new tissue regenerates. This paper describes a structural characterization of a hydrogel coating made of modified hyaluronan polymers and how these coatings interact with bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2). Quartz crystal micro...

An Efficient Distributed Traffic Events Generator for Smart Highways

This paper deals with a spatiotemporal traffic events generator for real highway networks. The goal is to use the event generator to test real-time and batch traffic analysis applications. In this context, we represent a highway network as an oriented graph based on the geographic data of the different sensors locations. The traffic is generated based on a sociocultural calendar using a virtual...

A full-sunlight-driven photocatalyst with super long-persistent energy storage ability

A major drawback of traditional photocatalysts like TiO2 is that they can only work under illumination, and the light has to be UV. As a solution for this limitation, visible-light-driven energy storage photocatalysts have been developed in recent years. However, energy storage photocatalysts that are full-sunlight-driven (UV-visible-NIR) and possess long-lasting energy storage ability are lack...

Persistent Authentication in Smart Environments

Inhabitants in smart environments are often authenticated when they enter the smart environment, e.g., through biometrics or smart-/swipe-card systems. It may sometimes be necessary to re-authenticate when an inhabitant wishes to enter a restricted area or access ambient services or location based information, e.g., it is common to have swipe card terminals placed next to doors to restricted ar...

Orange and Sunlight: A Recipe for Blisters