Nano diamond dust in droplets makes a precise detection tool
Quantum sensors meet microfluidics as researchers combine nanodiamonds with flowing water droplets in a new way to detect trace chemicals
Berkeley Lab News report:
For the first time, researchers have combined nanodiamonds in microdroplets of liquid for quantum sensing. The new technique is precise, fast, sensitive, and requires only small amounts of the material to be studied – helpful when studying trace chemicals or individual cells. The results were published in the journal Science Advances in December.
“We weren’t even sure whether our technique would work, but it turned out to be surprisingly easy and effective,” said Ashok Ajoy, a faculty scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and assistant professor at UC Berkeley who led the project. “There are broad applications where these sensors could be deployed into interesting environments and help you find something that would usually be hard to detect.”
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