While Sony, developer of the Betamax, has lost the battle of the 1/2-inch videotape formats to the rival VHS manufacturing camp, the company has just begun to fight on another front. In June, Sony ...
When Robert Hooke sought to depict the anatomy of an ant, he put one under a microscope and started to sketch. The ant did not wait for him to finish. Hooke captured another and glued down its feet, ...
Medical devices are getting smaller, less invasive, and more advanced. From a product development and manufacturing perspective, the desire to go ever smaller creates some big — but not unsurmountable ...
It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. —Samuel Johnson—1763 TODAY, nearly 200 years later, U.S. industry has coined ...
David Myers' hands-on microfluidics course lets students build sticker-based devices, enhancing understanding of miniaturization science through active learning. Students in David Myers' class on ...
Semiconductor nanowires are quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterials that have sparked a surge of interest as one of the most powerful and versatile nanotechnological building blocks with actual or ...
Miniaturization has truly transformed two categories of medical devices: cardiovascular and insulin delivery devices. For instance, “a heart support pump wouldn’t be possible without miniaturization ...
Pressures to save API are driving formulation developers toward smaller-scale laboratory processes, while pressures to save time put a premium on more- accurate laboratory scale tools. Pressures to ...
Dr. Milton Lee, Professor of Chemistry in the Depart­ment of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University, talks to AZoM about the miniaturization of columns in chromatography and what the ...