American researchers designed a smartphone octo‐channel optosensor (SOS) for low‐cost low‐volume lab tests as a mHealth diagnostic tool.
Bette Nijboer
Get Your Sunglasses Out: UV-Radiation and Eye Health
A German team of scientists published an overview on all the most recent knowledge on the role of the ultraviolet radiation in eye health and its aging process.
Plasma To Enhance Nano and Microfibers through Electrospinning
A team of scientists from Belgium investigated the plasma‐induced chemistry in organic solutions of polylactic acid (PLA), and their effects on the resultant PLA nanofibers.
Plasma Can Treat The Painkillers That Are Killing Our Water
Degrading ibuprofen in water using a pulsed corona discharge.
Raman Spectroscopy as a Diagnostic Tool for Skin Cancer
A team of German researchers created a new multimodal system for rapid, noninvasive in vivo skin cancer screening is presented, combining optical coherence tomography (OCT) and optoacoustic (OA) modalities to provide precise tumor depth determination with a Raman spectroscopic modality capable of detecting the lesion type and, thus, providing diagnostic capability.
Kidney Cancer Diagnosis using Raman Spectroscopy
A team of North American scientists discovered that Short wave infrared Raman spectroscopy has the potential to accurately differentiate normal and malignant kidney tumors.
Poly-Synthesizing Using Plasma‐Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition
A team of researchers from Luxembourg established a comprehensive mass‐spectrometry study of a set of poly(alkyl acrylate) layers synthesized by atmospheric pressure plasma‐initiated chemical vapor deposition (AP‐PiCVD).
New Simple Biomarker Imaging Technique for Critical Diseases
A simple optical imaging technique for biomarker analysis for critical diseases.
New 3D In Vivo Imaging Approach for Functional Assessment of Oviduct
A 3D imaging approach that enables prolonged functional assessment of the mouse oviduct (or fallopian tube) in vivo.
Large‐Scale Preparation of Highly Transparent Conducting Thin Films
A research team from the institute for Materials Research and Technology in Luxembourg created a simple and easily scalable approach toward the simultaneous synthesis and deposition of conducting plasma‐polymerized 3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene (ppEDOT) coatings.