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unlike some of its competitors, it can be used on dental mirrors and food wrap in refrigerated dis- plays.”
Tests have shown Berkeley Lab’s Nanostructured An- tifogging Coating to be more transparent, last much longer (years compared to months) and cost less than competing antifogging technologies.
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Invention of the Magnetic Resonance Microarray Imaging (MMRI) techno- logy was led by Alexander Pines, an internationally recognized leader in the
development of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and its daughter technology MRI, and by Vikram Bajaj, a Project Scientist in Pines’ research group. Other principal investigators on the develop- ment team behind this work were David Wemmer and Matthew Francis. Pines, Bajaj and Francis are affiliated with Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division; Wemmer is with the Physical Biosciences Division.
MMRI combines remote instrumentation, JPEG- style image compression algorithms, and other key enhancements to image materials flowing through microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” devices and zoom in on microscopic objects of particular interest with unpre- cedented spatial and time resolutions. Portable and magnet-free, MMRI technology can provide fast, on- site analyses of medical, environmental or industrial fluids. With its high degree of spatial resolution, it can quickly capture the results of hundreds or thou- sands of parallel assays on a single microfluidic chip.
“Our technology enables time-resolved imaging of multi-channel flow; dispenses with the need for
MMRI of water flowing through a constricted microfluidic channel as a series of image ‘snapshots’ over a given time of flight. © LBL
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large, expensive magnets for NMR analysis; is able to assay complex, unprocessed mixtures in one pass; and adds portability to NMR/MRI,” Bajaj says. “The cost of components for our MMRI technology is also far less than conventional NMR/MRI components.”