Soft Matter
Jan 19, 2023
New 'whipping jet' sprayer controls how aerosols move
Aerosols are tiny particles that can have a significant impact on Earth's climate and human health.
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Biochemistry
Jan 11, 2023
Organ-on-a-chip models allow researchers to conduct studies closer to real-life conditions
Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both strong contributors to today's skyrocketing health care costs and significant obstacles ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 6, 2023
Investigating the intestinal transport of mercury ions with a gut-on-a-chip device
The transport of mercury ions across intestinal epithelial cells can be studied for toxicology assessments by using animal models and static cell cultures. However, the concepts do not reliably replicate conditions of the ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 23, 2022
Microfluidic device erosion reduced with cavitation bubbles
Researchers embarked on a multidisciplinary project to determine how cavitation bubbles within micro- or nano-structures could mitigate surface erosion and enhance the efficiency in microfluidic mixing devices, often used ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 6, 2022
Rotten meat could be easier to detect thanks to new biosensor system
The supply chain that brings meat to market worldwide is highly complex and usually very efficient. But when disruptions in one part of the world can result in transportation delays an ocean and a continent away, meat spoilage ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 1, 2022
Shining a new light on oil-slick rainbows and other thin-layer physics
When sunlight reflects on an oily puddle of water in a parking lot, it creates a rainbow of swirling colors. That's because of the thin film interference principle, which explains how light reflects off of different layers, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 23, 2022
New technology maps movement of microscopic algae in unprecedented detail
The movement patterns of microscopic algae can be mapped in greater detail than ever before, giving new insights into ocean health, thanks to new technology developed at the University of Exeter.
Polymers
Nov 22, 2022
Researchers use low-cost 3D printer to develop new method for creating microspheres
Researchers use powerful microchannel droplet generation equipment to create uniform polymer microsphere materials, which have high economic values. These microspheres are spherical microparticles that can be used in many ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 8, 2022
Sensing platform for studying in vitro vascular systems opens possibilities for drug testing
The costliness of drug development and the limitations of studying physiological processes in the lab are two separate scientific issues that may share the same solution.
Biochemistry
Nov 7, 2022
Chemists develop enzyme-free cholesterol testing system
Scientists at the Ural Federal University (UrFU) have developed a new sensor device for determining cholesterol levels in blood. The system does not use protein compounds such as enzymes. Chemists replaced them with an inorganic ...
