Imaging is used in almost all facets of life. It is the production of a representation of the form of a particular object. Imaging includes photography, document replication, medical diagnosis, magnetic resonance, reprography, cinematography, thermography, xerography, and elastography.
In the field of science, imaging is mostly used to simultaneously measure spectra and produce visual representations of cellular components an object. Over the years, the evolution of imaging has radically improved. It continuously provides more precise images of objects and their components.
Recently, scientists have discovered closer and more explicit imaging of single cells. This does not include the use of a microscope and it is designed with an ultra-miniaturized device known as nanowires.
What are nanowires? Nanowires are 1000 times thinner than a human hair which can potentially provide the needed data regarding almost all objects around you. It can help provide an accurate assessment of the freshness of food, authenticity of objects that can be counterfeited, and chemical components of drugs. Devices equipped with these nanowires is the tiniest spectrometer designed to breakdown an object's component. Similar to the latest innovation of biometrics, these nanowires can be installed in smartphones. Isn't it amazing how all this can be done through a smartphone? Almost everything has evolved into more comprehensive, accurate, and meticulous procedures. These scientific innovations have made researches and studies more definite and punctilious. In earlier times, Isaac Newton used glass prisms to produce spectroscopy to study the interaction between light and objects. Today, in the advent of nanowires, dispersive elements were rid off to produce simpler, ultra-miniaturized systems. The data gathered from the nanowire section of devices can be directly processed through a computer algorithm that reconstructs the needed light spectrum, thus, producing the needed imaging. What is more amazing with nanowires is that it contains data points in each and every pixel across the spectrum. This provides clear-cut and intricately detailed information beyond what the eyes can see.
Nanowires can bring powerful analytical components that can be seen in research facilities to the palm of your hands!
Now, that's nano-mazing!
