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New Sensors can Detect Threats at the Molecular Level

We are frequently reminded of how vulnerable our health and safety are to threats from nature or those who wish to harm us.

17 May 2021

Cellphone Turns into an Instrument Capable of Detecting Chemicals, Drugs

Scientists from Texas A&M have developed an extension to an ordinary cellphone that turns it into an instrument capable of detecting chemicals, drugs, biological molecules, and pathogens.

5 May 2021

Rapid, Direct Mass Spectrometry Characterisation of Difficult Samples

The ionRocket from BioChromato Inc. is a temperature-heating device for direct thermal desorption and pyrolysis of samples, prior to ionization and analysis by mass spectrometry.

10 Mar 2021

RAFT Polymerization in Flow Chemistry Reactors

Uniqsis reports researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Institute of Membrane Research (Geesthacht, Germany) are using a FlowLab Plus flow chemistry system with glass static mixer reactor blocks to synthesise well defined polymers.

From Uniqsis Ltd 10 Mar 2021

Researchers Find New Way to Enhance the Performance of Electrochemical Micro-Sensors

A team led by researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have found a new way of enhancing the performance of electrochemical micro-sensors. This discovery could lead to the detection of biomolecules, such as dopamine, at lower concentrations than is possible today. Their findings are described in a paper published in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

22 Feb 2021

Wearable Chemical Sensor for Real-Time Measurement of Lactate Concentration in Sweat

With the seemingly unstoppable advancement in the fields of miniaturization and materials science, all sorts of electronic devices have emerged to help us lead easier and healthier lives.

18 Feb 2021

Reproducible Small Scale Reaction Chemistry at Low Temperatures

Asynt has published a case study describing how the FroSyn Cooling Station has enabled John Bower’s Group at the University of Liverpool (UK) to reproducibly conduct low temperature enantioselective catalytic react...

18 Feb 2021

Soft, Stretchy Skin Patch for Chemical Sensing and Blood Pressure Monitoring

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a soft, stretchy skin patch that can be worn on the neck to continuously track blood pressure and heart rate while measuring the wearer's levels of glucose as well as lactate, alcohol or caffeine.

16 Feb 2021

Small Scale Photoreactor for Screening Experiments

26 Jan 2021

Semiconductor Testing Chip Could Contribute to Telehealth as an IoT Gas Sensor

Third-year doctoral student Toshiaki Takahashi, associate professor Kazuhiro Takahashi, and their research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology developed a testing chip using semiconductor micro-machining that can detect volatile gasses in exhaled breath in ppm concentrations at room temperature.

20 Jan 2021