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Novel Lens Delivers Controlled Doses of Medicine

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 4, 2016 at 11:59 pm , by synadmn

A contact lens-based system that uses a strategically placed drug polymer film to deliver medication gradually to the eye was shown to be as effective as daily eye drops in a preclinical model for managing glaucoma. In a study supported...

A Thermal Lens To Peer Into Living Cells

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 3, 2016 at 12:54 am , by synadmn

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Driven especially by advances in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), infrared (IR) absorption spectroscopy has earned its stripes in recent years as a label-free technique for imaging a wide range of materials. Read more...

Lighting the Heart Back to Normal Rhythm

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | September 30, 2016 at 12:09 am , by synadmn

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Cardiac arrhythmia — a wildly irregular heartbeat, can kill a person in minutes. Implantable defibrillators can provide lifesaving electrical jolts to the hearts of patients with a known risk of arrhythmia, but these shocks can be painful. Research teams in...

Wearable Microscope Can Measure Fluorescent Dyes Through Skin

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | September 28, 2016 at 4:36 am , by synadmn

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A team of researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and collaborators has developed a mobile microscope that can detect and monitor fluorescent biomarkers inside the skin with a high level of sensitivity. The device, which is small...

Optical Techniques For Sound Processing

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | September 25, 2016 at 11:44 pm , by synadmn

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From an engineering perspective, there are several aspects to the relationship between optics and sound. For example, the notation of sound events (i.e., through the musical notation system) offers a graphical representation of sound in terms of quantized frequency along...

Judging A Book Through Its Cover

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | September 23, 2016 at 2:52 am , by synadmn

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MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books. In the latest issue of Nature Communications, the researchers describe a prototype of the system, which they tested on a stack of papers, each with...

Researchers Demonstrate Hyperspectral Imaging for Multiphoton Microscopy

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | September 21, 2016 at 1:07 am , by synadmn

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Traditionally, the study of diseases at the molecular level has required scientists to extract cells and tissues from animal models and then look for clues in the samples that can determine the mechanisms underlying the disease and driving its progression....

New Theory Overcomes A Longstanding Polymer Problem

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | September 18, 2016 at 11:48 pm , by synadmn

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All polymers have a distinctive degree of elasticity — how much they will stretch when a force is applied. However, for the past 100 years, polymer scientists have been stymied in their efforts to predict polymers’ elasticity, because the materials...

Antiresonant Reflecting Optical Waveguides for Biosensing Applications

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | September 15, 2016 at 11:04 pm , by synadmn

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Over the last few years, much effort has been devoted to the development of so-called lab-on-chip (LOC) systems that are based on optical detection methods. Applications of these systems include environmental monitoring, health care, biosensing, and industrial analysis. To carry...

New Laser Provides Ultra-Precise Tool for Scientists Probing the Secrets of the Universe

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | September 14, 2016 at 1:54 am , by synadmn

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Researchers have developed a new laser that makes it possible to measure electron transition energies in small atoms and molecules with unprecedented precision. The instrument will help scientists test one of the bedrock theories of modern physics to new limits,...