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Chemistry World August 2, 2006 Jessica Ebert	Smart Microlenses Come Into Focus Liquid lenses that can flex between convex and concave forms in response to a change in temperature or pH could find uses in autonomous imaging systems for medical diagnostics, their inventors say.
Chemistry World August 8, 2012 James Urquhart	Liquid Gallium Lights Up US researchers have developed a nanomoulding technique for patterning liquid gallium that enables surface plasmons to become excited using visible light.
Chemistry World January 7, 2008 Jonathan Edwards	Non-stick at the flick of a switch Nano-nails can repel almost any liquid.
Food Engineering January 9, 2006	Meat tray Self-absorbent foam food tray soaks up liquid, eliminates the need for a soaker pad.
Chemistry World June 3, 2011 Emma Shiells	Ionic liquid advance over saline-based lenses Ionic liquids are the key to observing improved performance and wider temperature ranges for variable focus lenses over conventional saline alternatives, report scientists in China.
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Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between.
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Chemistry World June 21, 2007 Michael Gross	A Mirror for the Moon Cosmologists have said that a Moon-based telescope with a parabolic mirror made of a rotating liquid would be ideally suited to studying very distant structures of the universe. Researchers using a chemical approach have now succeeded in creating a liquid based system.
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Popular Mechanics March 2007 Alex Hutchinson	Forget Fisheye: A Photo Lens to Steer Robots A lens developed by South Korean researchers offers a wide-angle view without fisheye distortion, perfect for ceiling-mounted security cameras. Unlike images produced by fisheye lenses, straight lines appear straight.
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.
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Chemistry World July 20, 2009 Philip Ball	Researchers form first liquid protein Chemists at the University of Bristol, UK and their colleagues, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Research in Golm, Germany, have figured out how to convert pure proteins into a liquid state, without any solvent.
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The Motley Fool June 7, 2007 Billy Fisher	Envisioning a Clear Future at Cooper The contact lens and eye care-product company posts a second-quarter loss upon restructuring, but revenues continue to grow. The outlook is fairly positive for Cooper shareholders for the remainder of the year.
Chemistry World August 6, 2013 Chris Nicklin	Liquid surfaces and interfaces: synchrotron x-ray methods Peter Pershan and Mark Schlossman are leaders in applying synchrotron methods to understand the structure of liquid surfaces and have produced a book that will undoubtedly become required reading for both new and established researchers in this field.
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Liquid Crystal IDs Pathogens Liquid crystal is not only the stuff of computer screens and watch displays, it is also how your cell membranes are structured. Combining the similarly structured artificial and biological materials makes a device that detects viruses and toxins.
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