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Southern California Gas Co. has launched a multi-year demonstration of an advanced concentrated solar cogeneration system. The project’s goal is to benefit area ... Read More »
How many servings of vegetables did you have this week? It’s hard to recall what we eat, making nutrition research difficult. Instead of asking, some... Read More »
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Ann ConkleAccording to write-up from Yale, a compound in the carotinoids resonates strongly with the specific wavelength of blue light they are using. So, it seems to me that it could be easily adapted to other biomarkers, as long as you can find the right wavelength of light to use.
May 23, 2012
Ann ConkleAnd yes, I can hear it now..."Johnny, eat your broccoli or I'm getting out the carotinoid detector!"
May 23, 2012
Samsung and LG have positioned OLED as the next generation display technology. Both are poised to launch competing models of big, edgy TVs they hope will jumpstart a... Read More »
Photodetectors convert light into electrical signals and are widely used as receivers in fiber optic networks, converting light information to the form of an electric ... Read More »
Spider silks have long been known to posses exception material properties. "Dragline" silk, the silk used to construct the foundations of spider weds... Read More »
Nanotechnology is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and a significant hurdle to development is imagine difficulties encountered on these small scales. To image... Read More »
Dye-sensitized solar cells are not an entirely new technology. By coating standard semiconductors in photovoltaic cells, researchers are able to increase the amount... Read More »
Quantum computing involves the production and communication of entangled photons. Manipulating light at the single-photon level has previously been outside the realm... Read More »
Photonics is a class of devices analogous to our current electronics except using photons of light instead of electrons. In photonics, light serves as the... Read More »
While scientists worldwide work to develop novel materials to increase photovoltaic solar cell efficiency, researchers from the Loo Lab at Princeton University are... Read More »
Researchers in the UK and Spain have successfully created the first practical metamaterial sample that interacts with visible light. Metamaterials are a class of... Read More »
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new X-ray technique to identify tissue fibers in the heart that ensure the muscle beats regularly. A... Read More »
A team of Northrop Grumman Corporation engineers recently successfully demonstrated the capability of the company's Silent Watch Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR)... Read More »
Forests of carbon nanotubes are an efficient alternative for platinum electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC), according to new research by collaborators at... Read More »
Recently, in several articles here on Patexia, we have commented on the importance of nanotechnology in medicine, including everything from lamprey robots to... Read More »
Taking advantage of the force generated by magnetic repulsion, researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new technique for measuring the adhesion strength between... Read More »
Sematech recently announced that centrotherm thermal solutions, a 100 percent subsidiary of centrotherm photovoltaics AG and a developer of process tools and... Read More »
In the chemical industry, heterogeneous catalysis is of crucial importance to the manufacturing of basic or fine chemicals, in catalytic converters of exhaust gas or... Read More »
Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a novel 'superradiant' laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best... Read More »
Robot squirrels from UC Davis are being sent near San Jose to continue a research project on the interaction between squirrels and rattlesnakes. Robot squirrels in... Read More »