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Apologies if this has already featured on the thread The new polymer-based coating, developed by a team of chemists led by University College London�s Ethel Koranteng, can be used as a flexible film that can encase a wide variety of shapes, including the door handles, computer keyboards and telephones on which bacteria are known to spread from person to person. Even more interesting is that the material activates upon exposure to overhead lighting, making it ideal for use in hospitals. The material is a type of polyurethane in which are embedded �quantum dots,� tiny, cadmium-free semiconductor nanoparticles. It also contains crystal violet dye particles, so it�s referred to by Koranteng and her team as �QD-CV� material. The quantum dots absorb light and transfer its energy to the crystal violet, which then releases high-energy oxygen molecules into the air that destroy microbes. The QD-CV material looks to be impressively effective, too, �resulting in complete kill of a laboratory strain of Staphylococcus aureus after 1 hour irradiation at 6000 lux light intensity and 99.99% reduction of a laboratory strain of Escherichia coli� according to the team that developed it. It also killed 99.7% of MRSA. The polymer also performed well against a multidrug-resistant strain of E. Coli, killing 99.85% of it.
Another use of nano particles Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) that emit high-energy photons upon excitation by the low-energy near-infrared (NIR) light are emerging as new optical nano-probes useful in biomedicine. Herein, we load Chlorin e6 (Ce6), a photosensitizer, on polymer-coated UCNPs, forming a UCNP-Ce6 supramolecular complex that produces singlet oxygen to kill cancer cells under NIR light.
http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/luminar-acquires-black-forest.html?m=1 Interesting although the only large listed US corp in this space appears to be Alphabet Inc
Luminar is contending with the likes of Velodyne Lidar Inc., which supplies automakers including Ford Motor Co., and could end up having to take on Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo, which makes its own sensors and may supply hardware to other companies.
From your article. Luminar is also dramatically increasing the power of its LIDAR while reducing the cost it takes to build them, thanks to the acquisition of chip design firm Black Forest Engineering (for an undisclosed sum). That team is charged with making Luminar’s receivers out of indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) instead of silicon, which Russell said makes Luminar’s LIDAR see farther and better without the risk of damaging people’s retinas.
"In conjunction with our partner Wah Hong, we continue to develop an active pipeline of sales opportunities. The Group's key short-term focus is on TV and monitor projects with near-term potential and we are encouraged by the increasing number of Nanoco-equipped display products moving through to commercial production with customers in Asia. Materials shipped from the first commercial orders received in 2017 HAVE BEEN UTILISED in the detailed and lengthy testing process prior to mass production and we expect the first products to be in the market during 2018"
Isn't the ASUS monitor thought on this board to be equipped with an AUO panel containing CFQD supplied by Wah Hong/ Nano. I can't see how that's consistent with comments today by the company on commercialisation? Have I missed something?