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New Solution For Making 2-D Nanomaterials

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 22, 2016 at 11:07 pm , by synadmn

Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials have been made by dissolving layered materials in liquids, according to new UCL-led research. The liquids can be used to apply the 2D nanomaterials over large areas and at low costs, enabling a variety of important future...

Software-defined Universal Microwave Photonic Processors

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 21, 2016 at 12:05 am , by synadmn

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In microwave photonics (MWP) devices, the worlds of radio-frequency engineering and optoelectronics are brought together to provide an interface between the highly dissimilar media. Despite its tremendous potential, the widespread use and application of MWP is currently limited by the...

Building A Bright Future For Lasers

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 17, 2016 at 11:06 pm , by synadmn

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Invisible to the human eye, terahertz electromagnetic waves can “see through” everything from fog and clouds to wood and masonry – an attribute that holds great promise for astrophysics research, detecting concealed explosives and many other applications. Terahertz lasers can...

Novel Walk-through Imaging System For Security Screening

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 15, 2016 at 11:38 pm , by synadmn

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The ever-increasing threat of terrorist attacks means screening technologies that are more advanced than common metal detectors are required at security checkpoints. Current imaging systems – working in the millimeter wave (mmW) range – have been proven to offer good...

A Step Toward Biodegradable Plastics

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 14, 2016 at 12:27 am , by synadmn

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MIT chemists have determined the structure of a bacterial enzyme that can produce biodegradable plastics, an advance that could help chemical engineers tweak the enzyme to make it even more industrially useful. The enzyme generates long polymer chains that can...

First Random Laser Made of Paper-based Ceramics

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 11, 2016 at 3:01 am , by synadmn

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Working with physicists from the University of Rome, a team led by Professor Cordt Zollfrank from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) built the first controllable random laser based on cellulose paper in Straubing. The team thereby showed how naturally...

Light And Sound Combine To Relieve Pain

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 9, 2016 at 12:50 am , by synadmn

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Researchers from the Human Pain Research Groupat the University of Manchester have developed a technique that holds promise for alleviating chronic pain, through carefully stimulating the brain with combinations of light and sound. The team provided patients with goggles that...

Laser Particles Could Provide Sharper Images Of Tissues

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 7, 2016 at 3:51 am , by synadmn

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A new imaging technique developed by scientists at MIT, Harvard University, and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) aims to illuminate cellular structures in deep tissue and other dense and opaque materials. Their method uses tiny particles embedded in the material, that...

Professor Developing Super-resolution Microscopy Techniques

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 3, 2016 at 11:07 pm , by synadmn

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For scientists developing life-saving medicines, knowing how cells interact and communicate with one another is an important part of the puzzle. The problem is, being able to see those interactions through a microscope hasn’t always been possible. But now, thanks...

Toward Handheld QCL Sensors

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | November 2, 2016 at 1:14 am , by synadmn

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Quantum cascade lasers (QCL) excel as mid-infrared light sources, a characteristic that has made them a linchpin in many environmental and industrial gas-sensing applications. But though QCLs themselves can be quite small, actually setting up a sensor system requires other...