Institucio Catalana De Recerca I Estudis Avancats

Fundacio Institut De Ciencies Fotoniques

B. Braun Surgical S.a.

Institut De Ciencies Fotoniques, Fundacio Privada

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Institució Catalana De Recerca I Estudis Avanais

Romain Quidant

Jon Donner

Renaud Marty

Gerasimos Konstantatos

Pau Turon Dols

Ignacio De Miguel

Rafael Porcar

Christine Weis

Irene Prieto Martínez

Pau Turón Dols

Jianjun Wang

Alexandros Stavrinadis

Alexander Powell

Maurizio Righini

Mark Kreuzer

Ignacio De Miguel Clave

Irene Prieto Martinez

Sebastian Thompson

Susana Santos

Luis Miguel Fidalgo

A device configured for antimicrobial, in particular bacteriostatic or bactericidal, activity, and a method for manufacturing the device. The device includes a device body having a surface. The device body is configured to anchor thermal nanoparticles supporting optical resonance, in particular localized surface plasmon resonance, at its surface. The device body includes thermal nanoparticles supporting optical resonance, in particular localized surface plasmon resonance, bonded to the surface of the device body. The thermal nanoparticles are capable of increasing their temperature by light irradiation in a wavelength range that matches with the wavelength of the optical resonance, in particular localized surface plasmon resonance, of the thermal nanoparticles. The device body also includes an antimicrobial substance that is releasable from the device body.

Device capable of having antimicrobial, in particular bacteriostatic or bactericidal, activity

The present invention relates to a method for producing a 3D object and to a system adapted to implement the method, wherein the method comprises: &#x2014;providing a powder material (G); &#x2014;providing a radiation absorbent material, in the form of optically resonant particles (P), on a region to be sintered of the powder material; and&#x2014;sintering the region to be sintered of the powder material (G), by exposing to light the optically resonant particles (P) to radiation. The method comprises providing the optically resonant particles (P) according to a distribution and proportion, with respect to the powder material (G) included in the region to be sintered, selected: &#x2014;to disperse the optically resonant particles (P) within the powder material (G) included in said region, and&#x2014;to avoid substantial agglomeration and substantial self-sintering of the optically resonant particles (P).

Method and a system for producing a three-dimensional object

The present invention relates to a hand-held microfluidic detection device, comprising: &#x2014;a microfluidic cell (M) having at least one chamber intended to at least contain a sample; &#x2014;a support (S) comprising a housing for the removable attachment thereto of the microfluidic cell (M); &#x2014;excitation light means arranged at least in part in the support (S) to side illuminate the at least one chamber of the microfluidic cell (M) to excite the sample contained therein; &#x2014;an optical detector (D) configured and arranged to detect light emitted from the sample when excited with said side illumination; and &#x2014;a casing (C) constituting an envelope into which at least the support (S) is housed and attached.

Hand-held microfluidic detection device that uses a parasitic light suppressing mechanism to reduce background noise

The present invention relates to a microcomplex containing a modified nanoparticle adsorbed on a host microparticle and to a process to obtain it. The microcomplex is particularly useful for photoepilation. The present invention also relates to a composition containing the microcomplex and to the method for enhanced photoepilation based on the microcomplexes.

Microcomplex for use in photoepilation process to obtain it and composition containing it

The present invention relates to a modified surface capable of having bacteriostatic and bactericidal activity when it is light irradiated, thus converting the surface of the substrate into a bacteriostatic and a bactericidal surface as many times as it is desired, and for a long time. According to the invention, the modified surface upon light irradiation avoids the attachment of a microorganism to this surface, inhibits the formation of a biofilm on this surface and destroys an already formed biofilm on this surface. These effects can be achieved as many times as it is desired, and for indefinite time.

Modified surface capable of having bacteriostatic and bactericide activity, the method for obtaining it and use thereof

The present disclosure relates to a thermally modulated optical lens apparatus that includes an electrically resistive element that has patterned features. The patterned features may be micro-sized or smaller and may create an electrical resistance density across the electrically resistive element. The electrically resistive element is capable of electrically connecting to a controllable electrical source. The apparatus also includes at least one thermo-optical material in thermal contact with the patterned features of the electrically resistive element. The at least one thermo-optical material can have an optical refractive index profile that corresponds to the electrical resistance density.

Adaptive thermal micro lens

The present invention relates to a composition for topical application on skin for photoepilation comprising nanocomplexes which comprise a nanoparticle supporting an LSP resonance which is coated with at least a chemical compound, wherein said chemical compound is selected from the group consisting of polyionic polymers, heterobifunctional compound of the surface assembled monolayer type, antibodies and their mixtures. The present invention also relates to a photoepilation method which comprises the steps of (i) applying to the skin surface the composition for topical application of the present invention, and (ii) applying a radiation to said surface of the skin.

Method for enhanced photoepilation based on metallic nano-complexes

A system having a micro lens array is provided. In some embodiments, the system includes a plurality of individual adaptive photo thermal lenses that have at least one cell, each cell provided with at least one photo absorbing particle; and a thermo-optical material in thermal contact with the cells; and at least one controllable light source for illuminating the photo absorbing particles, the light source having at least one spectral component which can be absorbed by the photo-absorbing particles, each cell being defined by the optical interaction area between the at least one photo absorbing particle and the at least one controllable light source, wherein the at least one controllable light source is controllable in one or more of wavelength, power, and polarisation, to locally modify the focal lengths of the individual adaptive photo thermal lenses having the cells.

Adaptive photothermal lens

An adaptive photo thermal lens comprising at least one cell, each cell provided with at least one photo absorbing particle, a thermo-optical material in thermal contact with the cells and at least one controllable light source for illuminating the photo absorbing particles, the light source having at least one spectral component which can be absorbed by the photo-absorbing particles and being controllable in wavelength and/or power and/or polarization.

Method and system of optical manipulation of micrometer-sized objects, which comprises the steps of placing a pattern () of a certain material on a surface (), wherein said material is capable of sustaining surface plasmons; placing a solution () comprising micrometer-sized objects in contact with said surface () and said pattern (); applying at least one optical beam () at a certain wavelength and with a certain incident angle (&#x3a6;) to said surface () for certain time interval, thereby creating surface plasmons forces at said surface (), in such a way that said micrometer-sized objects are trapped by the pattern () in a stable and selective way. Optical trap and use thereof as a tool for optically driven lab-on-a-chip.

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