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Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Biochip moves liquids with heat Researchers from Princeton University have made a microscopic device that uses heat to move, mix and split droplets of liquid. The device could be used in small, battery-operated chemical sensors and hand-held medical testers.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003	Chip uses oil to move droplets Researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a way to manipulate tiny droplets and particles on a chip. Key to the system is suspending what needs to be moved in a heavier liquid.
Chemistry World March 19, 2015 James Urquhart	Mystery of colored water droplets that chase and repel each other solved Researchers have solved the puzzle of a remarkable phenomenon that allows droplets of water mixed with a food coloring to move spontaneously and freely in intricate patterns when placed on a clean glass slide.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005	Surface Tension Drives Nanomotor Researchers have found a way to harness surface tension to drive nanomachines.
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Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Chip mixes droplets faster A team of researchers from Duke University has improved a method to mix droplets smaller than a nanoliter, or millionth of a liter. The method makes it possible to mix a pair of merged nanoscale-size droplets in less than two seconds rather than the 90 seconds ordinarily needed.
Chemistry World January 17, 2014 Katia Moskvitch	Life may have begun in a tiny water droplet Chemical reactions run much faster and more efficiently when they take place in tiny droplets rather than in freestanding water -- such as a puddle or a lake, say researchers.
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Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Laser bursts pierce fog Researchers in France have shown that it is possible to fire laser beams through otherwise impenetrable clouds, haze and fog. This means it could be possible to transmit data through these opaque media and remotely sense objects or chemicals within clouds, haze or fog.
Chemistry World November 27, 2014 Megan Tyler	Femtofluidic droplet manipulation now possible We've had microfluidics. We've even had nanofluidics. But now, scientists have gone a step smaller by pushing femtofluidics into the realms of possibility.
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Chemistry World July 18, 2013 Emma Stoye	Hovering reaction driven by sound Colleagues at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used their acoustic levitator to create an explosive mid-air reaction between a tiny water droplet and a grain of sodium.
Technology Research News August 27, 2003	Metal process makes heat chips Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have found a way to make tiny thermoelectric devices that can be used to generate electrical power from heat and to cool very small areas.
Chemistry World February 22, 2013 Anthony King	LED triggers microfluidic mixing French scientists have developed a way to mix fluids in microfluidic devices using light from an external LED as a trigger. The strategy is simple but offers good control over mixing without complex components.
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Chemistry World November 19, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	Sorting Droplets Digitally Scientists in Hong Kong have developed a lab-on-a-chip device that can separate and identify picolitre droplets quickly, cheaply and accurately.
Chemistry World January 7, 2014 Cally Haynes	Device runs on finger power Researchers in the US have demonstrated that mechanical energy from a human hand can power a microfluidic device.
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Chemistry World October 25, 2013 James Urquhart	Water droplets warped into weird shapes US scientists have discovered that self-assembling nanoparticles can lock water droplets into different shapes. The team suggests the work could be useful for several applications including microfluidic devices, sensors and drug delivery.
Chemistry World October 24, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	A Chequerboard of Water Water droplets cling in flat squares and dance in round globes on a smart surface created by South Korean researchers. Exposure to light wipes away the pattern, and an alternative can be written in with no etching required.
Chemistry World February 5, 2013 Cara E Sutton	'Invisible gates' trap water droplets Researchers in Japan have created a novel superhydrophobic hybrid surface that can separate water droplets sliding down it based on nothing more than their size.
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Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Simon Hadlington	A drop of extra bounce US researchers have discovered a simple way to modify a water-repellent surface so that bouncing drops of water spend significantly less time in contact with the surface.
Technology Research News March 12, 2003	Lasers tweeze every which way Researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland have found a way to use a pair of laser beams to rotate an object in three dimensions, turning it like a ball rather than a wheel.
Chemistry World April 16, 2007 Tom Westgate	Smallest Pipette Delivers Zeptoliter Volumes The world's smallest pipette has been developed by scientists. It is capable of dispensing drops of a molten gold-germanium alloy with a volume of a few zeptoliters, that is, a billionth of a trillionth of a liter.
Chemistry World August 17, 2012 Philip Ball	Getting under water's skin The surface tension of water is explained in textbooks with pictures showing water molecules pulling each other sideways and downwards at the liquid surface, producing a kind of surface 'skin'.
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National Defense June 2010 Grace V. Jean	Defense Threat Reduction Agency Beefs Up Work Force With Newly Minted PhDs Facing a large number of retirements in its work force in the next five years, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's chemical and biological technologies directorate is seeking young, ambitious scientists.
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Chemistry World May 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington	All-in-one gene detection on a chip Scientists in Singapore have invented a tiny machine that can rapidly prepare, purify and genetically analyse blood or other biological samples in less than 20 minutes.
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