Freeform Enables Compact Spectrometer Designs
2D raytrace of the five-mirror freeform viewfinder design superimposed on a 3D model of the system housing.
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What's In A Name? A New Tool For Finding Sustainable Pesticides
A new way to name certain proteins is a potential gamechanger for researchers developing organic pesticides that target specific insects, which are more environmentally friendly than chemically-based alternatives.
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Catalyzing Commercialization: Two-Dimensional Materials for Versatile Biosensing
As modern medicine becomes more personalized and less centralized, the need for scalable and tunable platforms for next-generation point-of-care biosensors remains an ongoing research objective. One promising technology for point-of-care analysis is electrochemical sensors, which are portable, ultrasensitive, and inexpensive. Electrochemical sensors are compatible with integrated circuit technology, enabling integration of sensors with the necessary electronic circuitry for data acquisition, processing, and transfer.
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Catalyzing Commercialization: Novel Concrete Wall Panels Lower a Building’s Energy Footprint
About 20% of total energy consumption in the U.S. is used for the heating and cooling of buildings using conventional sources like fossil fuels. While standard thermal insulation, with its low thermal conductivity, can help mitigate heating/cooling loss, researchers have sought to incorporate thermal storage capacity within the building envelope to better control the temperature variations across building walls.
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New Insights May Improve Performance of Medicine-Producing Cells
Samples waiting to be analyzed on the mass spectrometer to quantify the incorporation of stable isotopes of carbon, which provides new insights into how nutrients are metabolized by CHO cells. Credit: Maciek Antoniewicz, University of MichiganJust like us, cells need to watch what they eat.
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