Versatile Low Field Portable Magnetic Field Generation System
Summary: ISU researchers have developed a new non-resonant NMR pulse generating circuit that improves the response of the applied oscillating magnetic field, reducing ringdown time and improving probe signal-to-noise ratio. The pulse generation circuit features high pulse rate for increased bandwidth and high amplitude for improved instrument signal...
Published: 2/11/2022
Category(s): Engineering & Physical Sciences, Imaging, Medical Devices, Sensors & Controls
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Zwitterionic ionic liquids as gas chromatography stationary phases
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ISU researchers have developed an improved stationary phase for performing gas chromatography on carboxylic acids, glycols and alcohols.
Description:
Gas chromatography is the most common method of separating and quantifying carboxylic acids, including free fatty acids, but due to properties such as polarity, involatility, and thermal...
Published: 6/17/2022
Category(s): Engineering & Physical Sciences, Imaging, Research Tools & Design Tools
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Integrated selective capture, sequestration, fluidic isolation, electrical lysis and analysis of single cells
Summary:
ISU researchers have developed a microfluidic platform capable of selective single-cell capture, isolation, and rapid electrical lysis for analysis.
Description:
Iowa State University researchers have developed a microfluidic device for selective single-cell capture at an array of wireless bipolar electrodes. Thus, selective cell isolation,...
Published: 2/11/2022
Category(s): Engineering & Physical Sciences, Imaging, Medical Devices
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Logarithmic Photo-Converter with Huge Dynamic Range
Summary: This device is capable of measuring optical light levels that may vary from the single photon level up to many orders of magnitude larger illuminations. In fact, the upper range can be almost, apart from practical spatial details, as large as one desires. This device is possible due to the fact that the SiPMs can be exposed to daylight at full...
Published: 2/11/2022
Category(s): Engineering & Physical Sciences, Healthcare, Imaging, Medical Devices, Research Tools & Design Tools
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Metamaterials-Based Device for Generation of Broadband Terahertz Radiation
Summary: Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers have developed a metamaterials-based terahertz emitter that could drastically improve communication speeds and imaging resolution.
Description: The terahertz gap, which lies between the infrared and millimeter spectral regions (from approximately 100 GHz to 15THz) poses one of the most...
Published: 2/11/2022
Category(s): Ames Laboratory, Engineering & Physical Sciences, Imaging
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High-Throughput Large Scale Plant Phenotyping Instrumentation
Summary: Iowa State University researchers have developed a microfluidic device to screen genotype-to-phenotype interactions.Description: Through an array of miniature greenhouses (MGHs), vertical microfluidic seed chips (MSCs), and microfluidic control logic. The plant growth system can provide maximal environmental flexibility in large- and multi-scale...
Published: 2/11/2022
Category(s): Engineering & Physical Sciences, Imaging
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Room Temperature Ferromagnetic Gd5Si4 MRI Contrast Agent
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Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers have developed a method to create gadolinium silicide nanoparticles which retain ferromagnetic properties at room temperature.
Description:
This innovative method creates Gd5Si4 nanoparticles that retain the ferromagnetic properties of the bulk material at room temperature. These nanoparticles...
Published: 5/20/2024
Category(s): Ames Laboratory, Healthcare, Imaging, Life Sciences, Materials
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SSM Sequence Models
Description: The SSM Sequence Models (SSMs) provide a mechanism for analyzing information and the relationships that may exist for that information in a much more computationally efficient manner than any current mechanisms in use today. In its simplest terms, the SSMs can provide a spell checker that can identify a misspelled word and provide the...
Published: 6/17/2022
Category(s): Agriculture, Energy, Cleantech & Environmental, Engineering & Physical Sciences, Healthcare, Imaging, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Research Tools & Design Tools, Sensors & Controls, Software & Information Technology, Veterinary Medicine
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