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Chemistry World October 20, 2011 Tegan Thomas |
Bubble Trouble Eliminated in Cancer Treatment US scientists have developed a microfluidic device to manufacture droplets of a specific size at high speed for a cancer treatment called embolisation.  |
Chemistry World April 27, 2011 Harriet Brewerton |
Multiple emulsion droplet design Liang-Yin Chu at Sichuan University and colleagues have designed a microfluidic device capable of producing multi-compartment multiple emulsions.  |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 |
Chip uses oil to move droplets Researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a way to manipulate tiny droplets and particles on a chip. Key to the system is suspending what needs to be moved in a heavier liquid.  |
Chemistry World September 26, 2013 Angharad Rosser-James |
Kelvin's water dropper miniaturized on a chip European scientists have modified an old experiment and converted pneumatic pressure into electrical power, which could one day help power microfluidic devices.  |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 |
Chip mixes droplets faster A team of researchers from Duke University has improved a method to mix droplets smaller than a nanoliter, or millionth of a liter. The method makes it possible to mix a pair of merged nanoscale-size droplets in less than two seconds rather than the 90 seconds ordinarily needed.  |
Chemistry World September 1, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
System for Generating Smallest Ever Biopolymer Microcapsules Researchers have developed a technique for making microscopic capsules out of biopolymers. The method, based on a microfluidic approach, can create capsules smaller than previously possible, with unprecedented control over size.  |
Chemistry World September 16, 2013 Megan Tyler |
Reprogrammable microfluidic chips The time-consuming and costly manufacturing processes required to construct microfluidic devices, makes the idea of a reprogrammable chip very attractive.  |
Chemistry World February 22, 2013 Anthony King |
LED triggers microfluidic mixing French scientists have developed a way to mix fluids in microfluidic devices using light from an external LED as a trigger. The strategy is simple but offers good control over mixing without complex components.  |
Chemistry World November 27, 2014 Megan Tyler |
Femtofluidic droplet manipulation now possible We've had microfluidics. We've even had nanofluidics. But now, scientists have gone a step smaller by pushing femtofluidics into the realms of possibility.  |
Chemistry World February 16, 2011 Harriet Brewerton |
Remote powered lab on a chip Wen Qiao at the University of California, San Diego, made a microfluidic chip that can be powered with a commercially available radio frequency transmitter for electrophoresis experiments.  |
Chemistry World November 10, 2011 Francesca Burgoyne |
Micro fuel cells for microchips Researchers from Spain and Germany have designed the first microfluidic device with an integrated micro fuel cell that is capable of both powering the device and pumping the analyte around the device.  |
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 |
Biochip levitates droplets Researchers have devised a way to magnetically levitate particles and droplets that have volumes smaller than one billionth of a milliliter. Labs-on-a-chip is one of many potential uses.  |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 |
Lasers Move Droplets Labs-on-a-chip promise inexpensive and portable biological and chemical analysis. The key to making the tiny labs work is finding ways to move and mix minuscule amounts of substances.  |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Biochip makes droplet test tubes Researchers who are developing biochips are taking two distinct approaches in devising ways to shunt tiny amounts of liquids around. One focuses on finding ways to form microscopic channels and tiny mechanical pumps. The other is aimed at using electricity to maneuver tiny droplets on surfaces.  |
Chemistry World October 25, 2013 James Urquhart |
Water droplets warped into weird shapes US scientists have discovered that self-assembling nanoparticles can lock water droplets into different shapes. The team suggests the work could be useful for several applications including microfluidic devices, sensors and drug delivery.  |
Wired Thomas Hayden |
Just Dew It: What Scientists Can Learn From Flower Petals Researchers in China have discovered why water droplets roll off a lotus leaf like mercury yet stick to rose petals like peanut butter.  |
Chemistry World January 7, 2011 Jennifer Newton |
Microfluidic pinball A device to deposit polymer layers on oil droplets has been made by researchers from Singapore, who say that their design is faster and more efficient than conventional deposition techniques and uses microfluidics.  |
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 |
Why Hong Kong's Financial Secretary Anticipates "A Soft Landing" Henry Tang talks about the overheated mainland economy and the challenges facing Hong Kong.  |
Chemistry World June 26, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Mimicking Biophysics with Water Droplets Scientists have micro-engineered water droplets into protocells. Protocell networks can mimic real biophysical events within living cells.  |
Bank Systems & Technology October 15, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Citibank Hong Kong Gets Mobile U.S. Stock Trading Mobile Money Ventures enables Citi's Hong Kong clients to trade stocks on American markets via mobile phone.  |
Chemistry World March 30, 2009 Ned Stafford |
Moving forward: self-propelling oil droplets In the latest step toward creation of artificial living cells in a laboratory, a team of Japanese researchers has developed a new variety of oil droplets that propel themselves through an aqueous solution.  |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Tschang & Balfour |
Alarming Talk in Hong Kong Its stock market is soaring, but prospects of an all-China exchange raise fears.  |
BusinessWeek November 3, 2003 Bruce Einhorn |
Chip Design Will Go East, Too That'll be the next to shift to Asia, says industry vet C.D. Tam  |
Chemistry World April 4, 2013 Laura Howes |
Droplet printing assembles soft networks Producing soft networks of droplets is now much less laborious and time consuming.  |
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Shanghai and Hong Kong: China's Twin Engines of Growth China's economy will be like a giant 747 with Shanghai and Hong Kong acting as its two main engines, if Hong Kong can reinvent itself to balance Shanghai's growing prosperity, according to Ming K. Chan, an authority on Hong Kong and Asian development.  |
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Should Hong Kong Worry When China Joins the WTO? What's good for China is good for Hong Kong, said Frederic Lau, chief representative of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's New York office...  |
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Einhorn & Balfour |
Hong Kong: How Free A Future? Anger over Beijing's policies toward Hong Kong may soon come to a head  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 |
Biochip moves liquids with heat Researchers from Princeton University have made a microscopic device that uses heat to move, mix and split droplets of liquid. The device could be used in small, battery-operated chemical sensors and hand-held medical testers.  |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 |
Channel shapes split microdrops One important component of labs-on-a-chip is the capability of handling tiny volumes of liquid precisely. Researchers from Harvard University have come up with a method for breaking larger drops into daughter drops of specific volumes.  |
BusinessWeek May 26, 2011 Frederik Balfour |
Luxury Brands Take IPOs to Hong Kong Hong Kong is becoming a market of choice for global companies selling shares to the public, with 25 IPOs raising $7.7 billion this year.  |
Chemistry World September 28, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Champagne's aromatic chemistry The bubbles that fountain from a glass of champagne ferry a complex array of flavour molecules into the air above the glass, lifting the aroma towards you as you take a sip - and the molecular profile of this aerosol blend is very different to that of the bulk liquid, say European scientists.  |
Chemistry World March 19, 2015 James Urquhart |
Mystery of colored water droplets that chase and repel each other solved Researchers have solved the puzzle of a remarkable phenomenon that allows droplets of water mixed with a food coloring to move spontaneously and freely in intricate patterns when placed on a clean glass slide.  |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Jennifer Ouellette |
A new wave of microfluidic devices Flexibility and a variety of uses are the key  |
Chemistry World May 9, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Multinozzle to Speed up Lab-on-a-Chip Proteomics The pace of proteomics research is set to increase, thanks to the development of a new device that interfaces lab-on-a-chip technology with a conventional mass spectrometer.  |
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 |
Will a Renminbi Revaluation Rock Hong Kong? A conversation with Hong Kong's Financial Secretary Henry Tang, who says he expects a reasonable movement that probably won't harm Hong Kong's economy too much.  |