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A Much Closer Look

Posted June 19, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

If you've ever been walking around and wished you had a microscope handy to take a good look at something, an accidental discovery by a team at the Australian National University is just what you've been waiting for. They almost threw out a lens they were trying to create with a deposition process, until they realized they were onto something. The polymer lens can magnify up to 160x and has an imaging resolution of four micrometers. Add a 3D printed housing and a coin battery, and it's almost ready to market.

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06/19/2014 1:12 AM

Love it....want it.....where can I buy it??

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06/19/2014 6:51 AM

Bravo! Excellent.
Something useful that is cheap, simple isn't gobbled up by commercial interests and doesn't contain the word 'nano' hoorah!

Nice one

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06/19/2014 10:22 PM

Another Aussie accidental invention. Just like Wi-Fi. Sometimes I wonder how many 'inventions' are skipped or missed as a result of being focused only on one goal and 'expected' results.
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06/20/2014 12:48 AM

I wonder if this group has contacted the "paper microscope" group that was workig here a few months back. They had developed a binocular microscope that came from a single sheet of light cardboard to be used in developing countries for blood tests.

The objective was to have a cost effective, single use (no need for sterilisation between patient samples) microscope for evaluation of blood and tissue samples that was easily transportable.

these lenses would be just the fit for them.

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