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Tiny Chips promise Swift Disease Diagnosis from a Single Breath

Out of thin air: Researchers create microchips capable of detecting and diagnosing diseases
Site-selective immobilization of different bioreceptors on individual field-effect transistors, achieved through the use of thermal scanning probe lithography. Each bioreceptor can be tuned to detect a different disease. Credit: NYU Tandon School of Engineering

In a world grappling with a multitude of health threats—ranging from fast-spreading viruses to chronic diseases and drug-resistant bacteria—the need for quick, reliable, and easy-to-use home diagnostic tests has never been greater. Imagine a future where these tests can be done anywhere, by anyone, using a device as small and portable as your smartwatch. To do that, you need microchips capable of detecting miniscule concentrations of viruses or bacteria in the air.

Now, new research shows it’s possible to develop and buil...

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Organic Crystals allow creating Flexible Electronic Devices

The researchers from the Faculty of Physics of the Moscow State University have grown organic crystals that allow creating flexible electronic devices. Credit: Dmitry Yu. Paraschuk et al.

The researchers from the Faculty of Physics of the Moscow State University have grown organic crystals that allow creating flexible electronic devices. Credit: Dmitry Yu. Paraschuk et al.

Scientists from Faculty of Physics Moscow State University have grown organic semiconductor crystals which can reduce the cost of the process of creating light, flexible and transparent light-emitting electronic devices of the new generation. It has high light-emitting efficiency that promise a bright future for wet-processed organic optoelectronics. They also made a double breakthrough using much simpler and cheaper technologies that previously were considered impractical.

The organic optoelectronics is a rapidly growing area including organic light-emitting transistors (OLET) and organic lasers pumped b...

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