We have designed an ultra-miniaturised device that could image single cells without the need for a microscope or make chemical fingerprint analysis possible from within a smartphone camera. This work has been published in Science as "Single-nanowire spectrometers". (DOI: 10.1126/science.aax8814)
Overview of attention for our work can be found here.
Below is a list of selected press coverage of our work:
- Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism (University of Cambridge Research News)
- Nanowire Spectroscopy (Science Pipeline)
- Chemists build the tiniest spectrometer from a single nanowire (Chemical & Engineering News)
- Nanowires become smallest-ever spectrometers (Chemistry World)
- Smallest ever spectrometer can image single cells (Materials Today)
- Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism (Tech Explorist)
- Nanowires replace Newton's famous glass prism (Phys.org)
- Nanowires Replace Newton's Famous Glass Prism (Azonano)
- Nanowires replace Newton's famous glass prism (Science Daily)
- Selected as 2019's top chemistry research by Chemical & Engineering News