UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel type of mass defect-based chemical tag for use in quantitative mass spectrometry analyses of proteins, peptides, glycans and metabolites. Mass defect-base...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a plasma ion source that exhibits a short delay between voltage application and ion beam initiation with low variance in the observed delay (i.e., jitter). Typica...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a room-temperature infrared sensor with high detection efficiency over a wide IR spectral band. Room-temperature operation makes this technology easier to use tha...
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UW-Madison and Morgridge Institute for Research researchers have created the first high throughput instrument to integrate single cell autofluorescence lifetimes with single-cell transcription (scRNA-...
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UW-Madison researchers have created a spiral inductor for on chip electromagnetic signal conversion. The spiral inductors include an electrically conductive spiral coil and a nitrogen vacancy (NV) dia...
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UW-Madison researchers have extended their previously developed "Exclusive Liquid Repellency" (ELR) multi-phase liquid system, by integrating it with a new magnetic isolation platform to permit isolat...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new way to monitor the behavior of electrochemical double layers (EDL) by bringing them into spontaneous oscillation. The inventors used a modified multivibrato...
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UW-Madison researchers, in conjunction with an industry partner, have developed a printed serpentine trace that can act as both a temperature sensor and a strain/flow sensor. It is integrated on a sin...
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Optical metasurfaces enable unprecedented control over electromagnetic wave manipulation. By leveraging powerful resonance mechanisms supported by subwavelength structures arranged in two-dimensional ...
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Real-time vibration sensing is important in a variety of applications in industry, health care, and environmental monitoring. For example, vibration monitoring can assist in the prediction of natural ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a unique inherent autofluorescent image-based classifiers neutrophil activation. The specific autofluorescence signatures are used to identify neutrophil activati...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a unique inherent fluorescent image-based classifiers for B cell and NK cell activation. The specific autofluorescence signatures are used to identify B cell acti...
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In conjunction with their industrial partner, UW-Madison researchers have created a passive capacitive sensor that uses thin-film electrodes placed in an interdigitated pattern to sense a variety of k...
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Characterizing the mechanical properties of multiphasic materials can be important in many applications. In the food industry, for instance, such characterization can help evaluate dehydration and aid...
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The range of passive RFID tags is constrained by three factors. The first is that the reflected energy to the reader rapidly decreases with distance between the reader and the RFID tag both with respe...
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Nitrate is a nutrient that helps plants grow, but too much of it can be harmful. Nitrate monitoring can be used to reduce the amount of fertilizer needed, which is better for the environment and can ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel profluorophore that binds to lithium ions with high specificity, inducing a fluorescent signal. The fluorescent indicator can be seamlessly integrated int...
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Research into new therapies for skin diseases is challenging for a number of reasons. As is known, skin cells are exposed to both atmospheric air and liquids within the body. However, conventional cel...
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Liquid handling is a critical step in biological assays and typically includes either a reagent addition or solution exchange process. However, it’s challenging to manipulate samples on the microsca...
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Lumens are tubular structures pervasive throughout all body systems. Typical in vitro cell models used by pharmaceutical industries lack the dimensional complexity necessary to mimic lumen structures ...
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Wildfires occur naturally in many ecosystems worldwide; however, the frequency of wildfires has increased in recent years. The United States National Interagency Fire Center reports that the total bur...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a nonionic cleavable surfactant (NCS) for mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics and analysis. Specifically, NCS was designed and synthesized to include a cleava...
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A UW-Madison researcher has developed a celestial guidance system that uses radio imaging of celestial bodies including the galactic plane received by an interferometric antenna array to provide robus...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a set of novel isobaric chemical tags, DiLeu-Biotin-Azide (DBA), that could be useful in proteomics, particularly quantification of post translational modificatio...
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Soil produces or consumes gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, and oxygen through normal biological and geological processes. Current soil gas-flux measurement systems are ex...
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