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The continuing miniaturization in almost all technical areas creates constant challenges for industry, development and research facilities.
This idea is the reasoning behind molecular electronics with the ultimate miniaturization being components contained in single molecules.
This market has followed an evolutionary path driven by miniaturization and cost reduction enabled by progress in design and manufacture.
Since 1980 there has been major progress in miniaturization, nanotechnology, materials science, and additive manufacturing.
Smaller reaction volumes and higher reaction kinetics, together with their great potential for miniaturization and robotization, make microarray technology an ideal tool for in situ analysis of biomarkers in astrobiology.
The quantification of the consequences of miniaturization, however, is rather problematic.
This applies equally to the extraordinary examples of miniaturization and the transfer to the meiofaunal habit.
One of the most interesting aspects of miniaturization is its apparent effect on our experience of time.
