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NevadaNano and University of Utah Robotics Center Successfully Complete First Demonstration of Autonomous Aerial Chemical Detection System

September 4, 2017

NevadaNano today announced that the U.S. Army has awarded the company and the University of Utah’s DARC Lab the next round of funding for the “Autonomous Broad Spectrum Environmental Sentinels” Small Business Technology [more...]

Miniaturized Mass Spectrometer for Mars Exploration Has Massive Potential

September 4, 2017

BYU researchers have created a miniaturized, portable version of a tool now capable of analyzing Mars’ atmosphere—and that’s just one of its myriad possible uses. For decades mass spectrometers have offered a relatively fast [more...]

Handheld Spectral Analyzer Turns Smartphone Into Diagnostic Tool

August 16, 2017

The spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer attaches to a smartphone and analyzes patient blood, urine, or saliva samples as reliably as clinic-based instruments that cost thousands of dollars. Researchers at the [more...]

Microfluidics and Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics

November 20, 2016

Microfluidic devices offer novel time-saving advantages to researchers using mass spectrometry (MS) for proteomic analysis, and these tools have been becoming more available in MS over the last two decades. Recent papers by Redman et al. [more...]

Two-Dimensional MEMS Arrays Pave Way for Mobile Spectrometers

October 9, 2016

Figure 1. A micromirror structure with a 17° tilt angle. Courtesy of Texas Instruments. In the field of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, a system that combines portability with the accuracy and functionality of high-performance [more...]