A new area is coming with communicating materials able to provide diverse functionalities to users all along the product lifecycle, during the design, manufacturing, use and dismantling phases.
They provide diverse functionalities such as data manipulation and filtering, database access, property calculation, model building and 3D structure analysis.
However, FM involves multidisciplinary activities, and hence, a BIM tool for FM should be able to provide diverse functionalities, such as visualization, analysis, and discussion (Becerik-Gerber et al. 2012; Singh et al. 2011).
Orthopaedic Sports Medicine related smartphone apps show great potential to be of significant benefit, providing diverse functionality at your fingertips.
It is capable to recursively construct composite services, which are provided by different organizations and offer diverse functionalities.
This paper describes a solution based on materials that integrate directly with the thin elastic membranes of otherwise conventional balloon catheters, to provide diverse, multimodal functionality suitable for clinical use.
Modification of PHA end groups through protein engineering will provide an effective way of introducing diverse functionalities into the biopolymer, which will further broaden its spectrum to other receptors or ligands of interest for advanced delivery systems [ 60].
The variety of 2-oxazoline monomers that are readily available or can easily be synthesized, allows for tuning of polymer properties and introduction of diverse functionalities as well as provides access to different polymer architectures.
Due to their capacity to control drug disposition and integrate diverse functionalities, biomaterial-based therapies can provide important benefits in these strategies.
Rapid advances in technology have enabled us to engineer molecular electronic devices with diverse functionalities.
This is due to their intrinsic hollow nanostructure and compartmentalized domains with diverse functionalities.
