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New Optical Sensor Device Designed to Detect Drugs, Bomb-Making Chemicals

News - 1 Aug 2017

Researchers searching for bomb-making components, traces of drugs and other chemicals time and again shine light on the materials they are examining. This technique is known as spectroscopy,...

Semiconductor-to-Metallic Phase Transition Could Lead to Entirely New Class of Chemical Vapor Sensors

News - 27 Jul 2017

A team of Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) proved that monolayer 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), referred to as atomically thin semiconductors, go through a...

Chemical Sensor Elaborated by Scientists on the Basis of Materials Possessing Molecular Memory

News - 6 Apr 2017

An electrochemical sensor has been elaborated by a team of scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on the basis of polymers with molecular imprinting. This...

Liquid Crystal Design Technique Could Accelerate Creation of Economical Chemical Sensors

News - 4 Nov 2016

A new method has been developed by chemical engineers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to create low-cost chemical sensors for detecting industrial pollutants, explosives, or even...

New Chemical Reaction Kinetics Online Resource

News - 11 Oct 2016

A new collaborative online resource from METTLER TOLEDO discusses how to optimize chemistry through studying chemical reaction rates and measuring kinetics. A comprehensive listing of kinetics studies...

MyDx Introduces AquaDx Sensor Chip for Examining Toxic Chemicals in Water

News - 19 Sep 2016

MyDx, Inc., a rapidly growing chemical detection company and the makers of MyDx®, the first multi-use hand-held chemical analyzer for consumers, today announced it is launching its AquaDx™...

Researchers Work on Development of Chemical Sensors Based on 1,550nm Telecommunications Wavelength

News - 9 Aug 2016

Lasers operating at the infrared wavelength of 1,550 nanometers power high-speed fiber-optic Internet communications. MIT Microphotonics Center Principal Research Scientist Anuradha Agarwal is...

Facile Dosimetry for Chemical Hazards

News - 12 Jul 2016

Disposable, low-cost chemidosimetric indicator with smartphone connection The detection of exposure to chemical hazards can save lives. American scientists have developed a smart and simple...

MIT Designs Wireless, Wearable Hazardous Chemical Agent Detector for Armed Forces

News - 30 Jun 2016

A team of MIT researchers have created economical chemical sensors using chemically altered carbon nanotubes, that facilitate smartphones or other wireless devices to sense trace quantities of...

Newly Developed Chemical Sensors Could Provide Early Diagnosis of Cancer

News - 12 May 2016

Many cancers could be successfully treated if the patient consulted the doctor sufficiently early. But how can a developing cancer be detected if it doesn't give rise to any symptoms? In the near...