Illumining Hong Kong’s light pollution
Thanks for putting up with us as while our blog has been on hiatus these past two months! Char and I were settling into a new environment and we’re now […]
Tag Archives: technology
Brighter LEDs bioinspired from fireflies
A team of researchers from Belgium, Canada, and France have developed a more efficient gallium nitride (GaN)-based LED using a design inspired by the firefly. The design, fabrication, and characterization of this […]
QR Codes to be used to prevent drug counterfeiting
Think Quick Response (QR) codes are just for advertising products or transferring addresses and contact information between smartphones? Well, it turns out they can also be used to prevent drug […]
Using light to detect the internal damage of materials
You can usually tell when a material is about to fail, you might see sagging, cracks, dents, holes, etc. But sometimes materials can fail suddenly—without warning— this known as catastrophic […]
Predicting the fatigue life of pipelines
The Paris Equation should be familiar to those who’ve taken fracture mechanics in school. It’s an equation used to calculate the fatigue life of a cracked component as it undergoes […]
