{"id":169062,"date":"2023-08-05T04:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/single-drop-of-ethanol-to-revolutionize-nanosensor-manufacture"},"modified":"2023-08-05T04:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:24:34","slug":"single-drop-of-ethanol-to-revolutionize-nanosensor-manufacture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/single-drop-of-ethanol-to-revolutionize-nanosensor-manufacture","title":{"rendered":"Single drop of ethanol to revolutionize nanosensor manufacture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-drop-of-ethanol-to-revolutionize-nanosensor-manufacture2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Macquarie University engineers have developed a new technique to make the manufacture of nanosensors far less carbon-intensive, much cheaper, more efficient, and more versatile, substantially improving a key process in this trillion-dollar global industry.<\/p>\n<p>The team has found a way to treat each sensor using a single drop of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ethanol\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ethanol<\/a> instead of the conventional process that involves heating materials to high temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Their research, published in <i>Advanced Functional Materials<\/i>, is titled, \u2018Capillary-driven self-assembled microclusters for highly performing UV detectors.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie University engineers have developed a new technique to make the manufacture of nanosensors far less carbon-intensive, much cheaper, more efficient, and more versatile, substantially improving a key process in this trillion-dollar global industry. The team has found a way to treat each sensor using a single drop of ethanol instead of the conventional process [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}