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New Method Improves Accuracy Of Imaging Systems

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | February 7, 2017 at 11:44 pm , by synadmn

New research provides scientists looking at single molecules or into deep space a more accurate way to analyze imaging data captured by microscopes, telescopes and other devices. The findings, provides a mechanism known as single-pixel interior filling function, or SPIFF,...

Photonic Based Smart Needle Detects At-Risk Blood Vessels

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | February 6, 2017 at 12:18 am , by synadmn

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A new high-tech tiny imaging probe encased with a brain biopsy needle could make brain surgery safer. Researchers from the University of Adelaide developed the medical device that will let surgeons “see” at-risk blood vessels as they insert the needle;...

Smartphone-Enabled Molecular Diagnostics

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | February 3, 2017 at 12:00 am , by synadmn

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Integrating molecular analysis data with standard morphology-based pathology could improve the accuracy of healthcare providers’ diagnoses, thus allowing them to offer precise treatments based on the genetic makeup of a patient’s disease. A team of researchers from Sweden and the...

Harvard Researchers Develop A Framework For Reconfigurable Metamaterials

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | January 31, 2017 at 11:55 pm , by synadmn

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Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) have developed a general framework to design reconfigurable metamaterials. The design strategy is...

Engineers Develop ‘Smart Glasses’ That Automatically Focus On What Wearer Sees

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | January 29, 2017 at 11:33 pm , by synadmn

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The days of wearing bifocals or constantly swapping out reading glasses might soon come to an end. A team led by University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor Carlos Mastrangelo and doctoral student Nazmul Hasan has created “smart glasses”...

Virtual Reality ‘Out-of-body Experience’ Reduces Fear Of Death In Volunteers

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | January 28, 2017 at 12:25 am , by synadmn

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Prior research and anecdotal evidence has shown that people who have near-death experiences quite often find they have less fear of death. Science has not found an explanation for this phenomenon, but now, the research team in Spain has found...

Technique Enables Adaptable 3-D Printing

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | January 27, 2017 at 10:40 pm , by synadmn

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Three-dimensional printing technology makes it possible to rapidly manufacture objects by depositing layer upon layer of polymers in a precisely determined pattern. Once these objects are completed, the polymers that form the material are “dead” — that is, they cannot...

Raman Spectroscopy for IBD Detection

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | January 23, 2017 at 12:47 am , by synadmn

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U.S. researchers, led by Vanderbilt University’s Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, hope to improve the detection and classification of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with their new compact Raman spectroscopy probe—which is coupled to an endoscope that’s commonly used during colonoscopy exams. Read more...

Self-Assembling Particles Brighten Future Of LED Lighting

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | January 20, 2017 at 2:48 am , by synadmn

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Just when lighting aficionados were in a dark place, LEDs came to the rescue. Over the past decade, LED technologies—short for light-emitting diode—have swept the lighting industry by offering features such as durability, efficiency and long life. Read more...

Reducing The Roughness Of 3D Micro-Optics

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | January 18, 2017 at 12:33 am , by synadmn

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Polymer microlenses are used in various modern devices, including high-manufacturing-volume products such as mobile smartphones. Since these lenses are so small, they have to be processed with the use of novel 3D lithographic methods such as two-photon direct-write laser (2PP-DWL)...