Researchers at Brigham Young University have devised a technique that incorporates glass to build tiny lab-on-a-chip devices, or flexible glass nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), that could broaden rapid medical diagnostics.
Read MoreResearchers from The Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have manufactured self-folding, biocompatible, silicon nanostructures—that can capture single live cells in solution.
Read MoreLots of interesting work happening out there: Making “renewable” viable: Drexel engineers develop new technology for grid-level electrical energy storage A team of researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering…
Read MoreThese scotch whisky packages look genuine, but are the bottle’s contents authentic? A new Raman spectroscopy method can identify fakes quickly and accurately. Credit: Wikepedia; Creative Commons license. Product counterfeiting…
Read MoreA glass stamp reproduces precise, nanometer-scale etchings in silver. This original engraving is 10 microns wide – less than a quarter of the diameter of a human hair. Credit: Kyle…
Read MoreNanoscale discovery said to open new possibilities for tiny glass electrodes in microfluidic devices
A team University of Michigan researchers say they have figured out a way to nondestructively use glass as an electrode in certain microfluidic devices. Alan Hunt, a biomedical engineering associate…
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