Breakthrough device creates identical nanodroplets for research and sample archiving
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 10:01
in Physics & Chemistry
A single drop with the volume of a millionth of a litre is really not very large and certainly does not look like something you can do much with. However, a simple device, constructed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, can split the microdroplet into a collection of equally-sized nanodroplets. Now, the chemicals or genetic material contained in a single microdroplet can be the starting point of even hundreds of experiments—or they can be archived in the form of nanodroplet libraries.