Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences report optical waveguide hydrogen peroxide sensors based on a reactive sheath and a nanowire core.
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Special Issue: Lab-on-a-Chip Based Diagnostics
The issue aims to provide a representative and comprehensive overview on the broad range of current biophotonics on-chip, spanning the full range from chip fabrication to applications in biomedical sensing and related fields.
Advanced Optical Materials Issue 3
Issue 3 of Advanced Optical Materials covers optical waveguides, plasmonics, nanolasers, and more. All articles are free to read.
Core-shell particles for acoustic metamaterials by millifluidics
Wunenburger and coworkers at the University of Bordeaux and the CNRS have used millifluidics to create hard core-soft shell microparticles.
Enhancing fertility by microfluidics and biophotonics
Lab-on-a-chip method, when combined with biophotonics, can be used to assay for metabolites, to separate gametes via optoelectrical tweezers, or to improve the vitrification of oocytes.
24th International Liquid Crystal Conference held in Mainz, Germany
The 24th International Liquid Crystal Conference was held on August 19th–24th in Mainz, Germany.
ChemCam Laser First Analyses Yield Beautiful Results
Curiosity beams back strong, clear data from ‘scour’ area on Martian surface
The Laser Beam as a “3D Painter”
A new method developed at the Vienna University of Technology can be used to grow biological tissue or to create micro sensors.
Liquid Crystal-Based Microactuators
A two-dimensional microarray is fabricated from a crosslinked liquid crystalline polymer containing azobenzene groups.
Imaging liver function
What happens in the liver during cholestasis? A novel in vivo imaging technique based on fluorescence microscopy delivers insight into the hepatic excretory function in rat.
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