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New Biomedical Optics Express Journal Released by OSA

The Optical Society (OSA) announced today the launch and publication of the first issue of its newest monthly journal, Biomedical Optics Express. With a focus on biomedical optics and photonics, Biomedical Optics Express joins OSA's diverse portfolio of 14 peer-reviewed optics journals.

4 Aug 2010

CHAD Develops Tooling Options to Handle Smaller Sapphire Wafers

CHAD Industries announced today that it has developed wafer-handling capabilities for Sapphire wafers used in the LED market.

4 Aug 2010

Canadian Scientists Advance Development of Quantum Dot Solar Cells

One of the most promising technologies for making inexpensive but reasonably efficient solar photovoltaic cells just got much cheaper.

4 Aug 2010

Dr. Mark DeCoster Secures Patent for Electromagnetic Probe Device

The United States Patent Office has issued a patent to Dr. Mark DeCoster, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, for his invention of an "Electromagnetic Probe Device" &ndas...

4 Aug 2010

Ohio Third Frontier Contributes to Nano Adaptive Hybrid Fabric Production

Strategic investments made by Ohio Third Frontier have resulted in a thriving advanced materials industry cluster and are leading the way for technological breakthroughs that will help the state compete on a global level.

4 Aug 2010

Solar Power Generation Using Selenium-Embedded Oxide Materials

Call it the anti-sunscreen. That's more or less the description of what many solar energy researchers would like to find -- light-catching substances that could be added to photovoltaic materials in order to convert more of the sun's energy into carbon-free electricity.

4 Aug 2010

First Gold Nanoparticles-Enhanced Biochip for DNA Detection

DNA microarrays are one of the most powerful tools in molecular biology today. The devices, which can be used to probe biological samples and detect particular genes or genetic sequences, are employed in everything from forensic analysis to disease detection to drug development.

4 Aug 2010

New Research Compares Flow of Linear Polymers with Dendrimers

An octopus-like polymer can "walk" along the wall of a narrow channel as it is pushed through by a solvent. Now research in The Journal of Chemical Physics, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, provides a theoretical model that compares the transport characteristics of straight- and branched-chain polymers in smooth channels as well as in channels whose walls interact with the polymer -- work that could aid in the development of carrier molecules for delivering drugs at a controlled rate in the body.

4 Aug 2010

New Microfluidic Image Cytometry Platform Marks Advance in Molecular Diagnostics

New technologies for the diagnosis of cancer are rapidly changing the clinical practice of oncology. As scientists learn more about the molecular basis of cancer, the development of new tools capable of multiple, inexpensive biomarker measurements on small samples of clinical tissue will become essential to the success of genetically informed and personalized cancer therapies.

4 Aug 2010