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Nanobarrel Uses Light to Trap Molecules for Diagnostics

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Lower-cost, more reliable diagnostic testing could be a light at the end of the nanophotonic tunnel … or barrel, in this case. A barrel-shaped molecular container called cucurbituril (CB) that acts as a mini test tube has been developed by a team at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the school’s Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, as well as researchers in Spain and France. It allows single molecules to enter and effectively isolates them. Now, the researchers have discovered that by using and manipulating light — and adding particles of...Read full article

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    Published: June 2014
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    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    Basic ScienceBiophotonicsCBConsumerEngineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEnglandEuropeEuropean UnionFranceJeremy BaumbergmoleculesnanonanophotonicOpticsResearch & TechnologySpainTech PulseUniversity of CambridgeMelville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesiscucurbiturildiagnostic sensor

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