Dr. Cameron Chai

Articles from Cameron

Nanomaterial Scientist Felicitated with Dual Awards

Dr. Debra Rolison, a scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has been felicitated with two awards for advancements in the field of chemistry.

2 Apr 2012

NanoString Unveils Three Assay Kits for nCounter Analysis System

NanoString Technologies will introduce three new kits for the nCounter Analysis System, a completely automated, simple-workflow, multi-purpose digital detection and counting system, at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting to be conducted from March 31, to April 4, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois.

2 Apr 2012

New Encryption Technique Offers Protection Against Quantum Hacking

A research team headed by Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo from the University of Toronto has discovered a new quantum encryption technique to provide protection against the most advanced hackers.

2 Apr 2012

Honeycomb Pattern of Nano-Magnets Paves Way to Advance Computer Processing

A research team from the Imperial College London has shown that a honeycomb pattern composed of nano-sized magnets in spin ice triggers competition between adjoining magnets, and drastically lessens the issues caused by the interactions between magnetic domains in data storage devices.

2 Apr 2012

Boron Nitride Controls Electron Flow in Graphene

A research team headed by physicists from the University of Arizona has discovered that boron nitride, a non-conducting material but structurally identical with graphene, can control the flow of electrons in graphene.

2 Apr 2012

MIT Research Center Designs Production Processes to Mass Produce Microfluidic Devices

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s multidisciplinary research group, the Center for Polymer Microfabrication is designing production processes for microfluidics from the scratch in order to mass produce microfluidic devices.

31 Mar 2012

Researchers Discover New Way to Improve Performance of Quantum Computers

A research team, comprising Vlatko Vedral, Elisabeth Rieper and Mile Gu from the National Univesity of Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies together with Karoline Wiesner from the University of Bristol, has identified a new way wherein the performance of quantum physics-based computers can surpass that of classical computers.

31 Mar 2012

Researchers Demonstrate Cargo-Carrying Bacteria to Deliver Nano-Medicine

At the American Chemical Society’s 243rd National Meeting & Exposition a research team led by David H. Gracias from the Johns Hopkins University has reported about a research on ‘backpacking’ bacteria that can serve as a carrier to deliver nano-medicine across the body.

31 Mar 2012

GenMark Inks Non-Exclusive License Deal for PerkinElmer’s Microfluidics Patent Portfolio

GenMark Diagnostics has inked a non-exclusive licensing deal with PerkinElmer for its microfluidics patent portfolio. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed.

31 Mar 2012

New Grant to Develop Peptide Nanotubes

Researchers, Professor Dek Woolfson, Dr Franziska Thomas and Dr David Fermin, from the University of Bristol’s School of Chemistry have received a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant worth £140,000.

31 Mar 2012