Portable cocaine sensor developed at UC Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) A real-time sensor for detecting cocaine made with inexpensive, off-the-shelf electronics has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Two local high school students and a Nobel laureate participated in the discovery. The potential applications of the sensor are far-reaching and include bioterrorism detection and important...UC Santa Barbara named to National Cancer Institute's multi-center nanotechnology collaboration
Santa Barbara, California October 10, 2005 UC Santa Barbara has been named to collaborate with UCSD and the Burnham Institute, in La Jolla, to apply its acumen in materials science and nanofabrication to the task of creating intelligent nanoplatforms that can deliver payloads of smaller particles to destroy, image or modify tumors, deliver therapies and perform key measurements. ......UCSB wil...