Enabling a private individual to spot counterfeit drugs, test water samples, or check the quality of air could be enabled by an innovative, photonics-based adaptation of a smart phone – the ...

Enabling a private individual to spot counterfeit drugs, test water samples, or check the quality of air could be enabled by an innovative, photonics-based adaptation of a smart phone – the ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Technische Universität Dresden and the Fraunhofer FEP are developing a novel type of an ultra-tiny spectrometer that fits into your mobile phone. The novelty here ...

A chemistry professor has developed a method using a few basic, inexpensive supplies and a cell phone camera to build a spectrometer, an important analytical chemistry instrument, for high school ...

New advances mean that tests that once required a $50,000 machine can now be performed with just a few hundred dollars of equipment, including your phone. From eye-test machines to ultrasound probes, ...

University of Illinois chemistry professor Alexander Scheeline wants to see high school students using their cell phones in class. Not for texting or surfing the Web, but as an analytical chemistry ...

“Spectrometers are critical tools for helping us understand the chemical and physical properties of various materials based on how light changes when it interacts with those materials,” says Brendan O ...

University of Illinois chemistry professor Alexander Scheeline has developed software that turns a camera phone, an LED, and a few other cheap tools into a spectrometer. Armed with these, he thinks we ...