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Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

2009

Molecules

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Molecules With Multiple Personalities: How Switchable Materials Could Revolutionise Chemical Sensing, Fernando Benito-Lopez, R Byrne, Yizhen Wu, Lorrain Nolan, Jung Ho Kim, King Tong Lau, Gordon G. Wallace, Dermot Diamond Jan 2009

Molecules With Multiple Personalities: How Switchable Materials Could Revolutionise Chemical Sensing, Fernando Benito-Lopez, R Byrne, Yizhen Wu, Lorrain Nolan, Jung Ho Kim, King Tong Lau, Gordon G. Wallace, Dermot Diamond

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

Worldwide, the demand for sensing devices that can conform with the requirements of large-scale wireless sensor network (WSN) deployments is rising exponentially. Typically, sensors should be very low cost, low power (essentially self-sustaining), yet very rugged and reliable. At present, functioning WSN deployments involve physical transducers only, such as thermistors, accelerometers, photodetectors, flow meters, to monitor quantities like temperature, movement, light level and liquid level/flow. Remote, widely distributed monitoring of molecular targets remains relatively unexplored, except in the case of targets that can be detected directly using 'non-contact' techniques like spectroscopy. This paper will address the issues inhibiting the close …


Organic Bionics: Molecules, Materials And Medical Devices, Gordon G. Wallace, Simon E. Moulton Jan 2009

Organic Bionics: Molecules, Materials And Medical Devices, Gordon G. Wallace, Simon E. Moulton

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

The uses of bionic devices that can improve the quality of human life are presented. Significant among them are the bionic ear or the bionic eye which has helped to regain use of important sensory organs. Bionics is the use of a biological entity and electronic devices that are put together to create the required implant.