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Beam Me Out, Scotty. A new tractor beam technology aims to minimize biopsy trauma.

Researchers at TMOS, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, have taken an important first step in the development of metasurface-enabled tractor beams—rays of light th [...]

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New technology gives people a better sense of what they’re breathing

Physicists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems are working to address the challenge of consumer air quality monitoring with the development of a portable infrared m [...]

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New flexible 2D gas sensor soon to be protecting you from toxic ammonia

Your smartwatch could soon save you from more than missed meetings with a new miniaturised ammonia gas sensor in development. The sensor—made from 2D liquid metal and fabricated using a simple, cost [...]

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Bright idea: new LEDs can detect off food and lethal gases

Researchers from TMOS have developed a device that is essentially a tuneable LED and photodetector  that could identify a suite of gases, potentially including lethal ones, improving the safety of fi [...]

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The Good Fight: Advance in flexible photodetector could improve monitoring of greenhouse gases

There will soon be a new tool to fight global warming with the development of lightweight flexible light sensors that can simultaneously image across a wide spectral range, from the visible to the inf [...]

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A smartphone could spell the end for malaria and other infectious diseases

Scientists are about to turn your smartphone into a tool that can diagnose diseases such as malaria, making mobile medical diagnostics affordable and accessible to remote areas such as third world cou [...]

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Reimagining medical diagnostics in developing countries: meta-optics offers a new way to look inside cells

Traditional pathways to ‘see’ cells, their internal structures and the interaction between different organelles, involve staining the cells with special dyes and using phase contrast imaging. Thes [...]

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TMOS aims to bring diversity and equity to nano and micro-optics

Enchanted by sciences since he was in high school, Ken Crozier hopes that the ARC Centre of Excellence TMOS (Transformative Meta-Optical Systems) will inspire the next generation of researchers, and e [...]

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Fifteen Postdoctoral Positions – Open Now!

As a Centre, we are excited to be taking a proactive step towards our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) goals. We have advertised up to fifteen postdoctoral positions for women, gender [...]

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