Industry News

To cool buildings more efficiently, researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Kyung Hee University in South Korea developed a high-performance, transparent radiative cooler (TRC) using quantum annealing (QA) combined with artificial intelligence. The transparent window coating that the researchers developed minimized optical heating by allowing visible light to pass through, and by reflecting the heat from ultraviolet (UV) and near-infrared (NIR) sunlight.

Transparent radiative coolers can be used as window materials to reduce cooling energy needs for buildings and automobiles, which may contribute significantly to addressing climate change challenges. Since light in the UV and NIR wavelengths accounts for about 50% of the...

The fast identification of tocopherols is important for various applications including free radical scavenging for human health and food stuff preservation.

This application note describes the automation of the isolation of 10 perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) from tap water prior to their analysis by LC–MS.

This study demonstrates the determination of trace anions in simulated borated waters containing lithium using a borate eluent and a large-volume direct injection.

This year’s Heinrich Wieland Prize recognized Harvard University professor Xiaowei Zhuang for her lab’s development of stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), a technology that continues to bear fruit in the life sciences. Researchers have been using the superresolution method for more than 15 years, along with other techniques that break the Abbe limit, to improve their understanding of cellular functioning and interactions. Because researchers using STORM in the lab are capturing structural features at a molecular level that can provide early warning signs of disease, the technology shows great promise to become an effective diagnostic tool for clinicians.

Christoph Boehringer, chairman of the executive...

BioPhotonics spoke with Kevin Zhou, a postdoctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Duke University, who received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Schmidt Science Fellowship. Zhou and his colleagues recently published a paper (www.doi.org/10.1364/optica.454860) about a new computational 3D microscopy method — called 3D optical coherence refraction tomography (OCRT) — that enhances the resolution and contrast provided by OCT over a 3D field of view. The researchers envision that this technique will be useful for in vivo imaging of the eye or skin, and they are working to miniaturize the imaging system and interpret the data using machine...

In their study of rotary molecular motors, researchers in the laboratory of Ben Feringa at the University of Groningen have combined two light-mediated functions — motion and fluorescence — within a single molecule. The advancement is poised to benefit the construction of advanced molecular machines and, according to the researchers, provide prospects toward photoactive multifunctional systems that perform molecular rotary motion while tracking its location in a complex environment.

Rotary molecular motors are molecular machines, which can be light-activated and used to power artificial mechanical molecular systems and enable autonomous motion, particularly on the nanoscale. These machines can function in complex...

Photonic quantum computer company Xanadu has raised $100 million in series C financing. The round follows the company’s series B round, which Xanadu closed for $100 million last year.

Xanadu’s photonics-based approach to the development of quantum computers allows it to use modern chip manufacturing facilities, the application of existing optical components used in the telecommunications industry, and fiber optics to network its photonic chips.

In June, Xanadu reported that it had achieved quantum computational advantage using its Borealis photonic quantum computer. Borealis features 216 squeezed-state qubits. In a corresponding move announced at the time, Xanadu made the computer and its capabilities available to...