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06/05/2012 - 5 urgent post-doctoral openings in the group

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Upto 5 post-doctoral positions advertised in the opportunities page

Schools of Physics and Astronomy, Medicine & Biology, £30,122 - £35,938 per annum, Start: As soon as possible, Fixed-Term for up to 2 years

27/03/2012 - Article in Nano Letters

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Congratulations to M. Ploschner et. al. for their new publication in Nano Letters

Bidirectional optical sorting of gold nanoparticles

M. Ploschner, T. Cizmar, M. Mazilu, A. Di Falco, and K. Dholakia, Nano Lett 12, 1923 (2012).

DOI:10.1021/nl204378r

(Featured as a Nature Research Highlight - "Lasers Sort Particle by size")

03/12/2011 - - Top download in OE

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Congratulations P. C Ashok et. al. for their paper "Near infrared spectroscopic analysis of single malt Scotch whisky on an optofluidic chip" becoming one of the top downloads in Optics express in November 2011.

01/12/2011

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Congratulations Dr. Praveen Cheriyan Ashok for the successful completion of his viva.

31/10/2011 - Optofluidic chip for counterfeit whisky detection

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Our recently published article in Optics Express demonstrates an optofluidic device for quantitative and qualitative analysis of Scotch whisky.

News Highlights:

BBC : Lasers shed light on counterfeit whisky

Express.co.uk : Laser that reveals if your whisky is the real McCoy

DailyMail: Laser detector 'tastes' if whisky is fake using just one drop

Sky News Australia: Teardrop of whiskey tells truth

Gizmodo: Whiskey + Lasers = Glass Full of Awesome

Scotsman: Optical fibres detect fake whisky

STV News: Fake whisky detected with lasers

Herald Scotland: Optical fibres detect fake whisky

Physics & Atronomy Website : How lasers can detect counterfeit drams

Article:

Near infrared spectroscopic analysis of single malt Scotch whisky on an optofluidic chip

P. C. Ashok, B. B. Praveen, and K. Dholakia, Opt. Express 19, 22982-22992 (2011).

DOI:10.1364/OE.19.022982

Motion passed by Scottish parliament

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/BusinessBulletin/43446.aspx

S4M-01194 Roderick Campbell: Pioneering Whisky Research from University of St Andrews—That the Parliament congratulates the team of the University of St Andrews researchers for its pioneering work using optical fibres to help tackle the counterfeiting of Scotch Whisky; understands that the work is innovative and groundbreaking and could save industry vast sums of money; welcomes the work coming out of the University of St Andrews that was once again recently announced as one of the top 100 universities in the world, and welcomes what is considered the consistently excellent research coming from the institution.

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