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Nanoparticle-Based GO2 Diesel Fuel Additive Receives Most Eco-Friendly Product Award 2011

A nanoparticle-based GO2 additive of diesel fuel from Cerion Energy has been displayed by ECOsuperyacht in an exhibition at METS this year. ECOsuperyacht, a European distributor of the additive in the yachting market, received the most eco-friendly product award in the DAME Awards, 2011.

19 Nov 2011

EPFL Researchers Explain Role of Optofluidics in Energy Production

The various challenges and applications of optofluidics have been addressed by the Dean of EPFL School of Enginnering, Demetri Psaltis in the latest issue of Nature Photonics, which focuses on the study of microfluidics with optics.

7 Oct 2011

Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology Opens Microfluidics Foundry

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s research institute, the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) has officially opened the SIMTech Microfluidics Foundry (SMF) on September 21, 2011.

22 Sep 2011

Researchers Discover Laws Governing Mircodroplet Merging Through Electrocoalescence

Researchers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) have discovered the laws that govern the process of electrocoalescence and the ways in which the process can be optimised, which is critical for the function of microfluidic devices where chemical reactions are carried out in micro-, nano- or picoliter volumes.

27 Aug 2011

Columbia Engineering’s Microfluidic-Based Lab-on-a-Chip Quickly Conducts Complex Lab Assays

mChip or mobile microfluidic chip, a diagnostic equipment developed by Columbia Engineering researchers using microfluidics and nanoparticles, has been successfully tested to conduct difficult laboratory assays in Rwanda.

2 Aug 2011

MIT Student Develops Innovative 3D Microfluidic Platform for Cancer Therapy

MIT and Draper Laboratory have developed a device that enables drug manufacturers to develop medicines that inhibit the spread of cancer and allows them to view the migration of diseased cells.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 30 Jul 2011

UCLA Researchers Develop Optofluidic Cytometry Device for Cell Analysis

Flow cytometry is a technique used for analyzing and counting microscopic particles such as bacteria, cells and other micro-sized particles.

28 Jul 2011

MIT Students Develop Microfluidic System to Understand the Spread of Tumor Cells

Mechanical engineering students from MIT have designed a microfluidic model to explore how cancer cells split from the original tumor and spread into the vascular system of the body.

26 Jul 2011

Researchers Trap Bubbles within Narrow Pathways of Microfluidic Chip

Researchers at the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Nanyang Technological University, and the A*STAR Bioprocessing Technology Institute are aiming to trap bubbles inside a microfluidic chip to enable the release of concentrated energy pulses that can reach pressures as high as 100 mPa and temperatures upto 5000K.

8 Jul 2011

Microfluidics Manufacturer Fluidigm Add Customer Videos to Their Site

Fluidigm has added a new genre - customer web videos to the wide array of topical information (publications, application notes, posters, newsletters, press releases) available from its website.

From Standard BioTools 5 Jul 2011