August 2009

• Max teamed up with Tommaso Baldacchini from Newport Corporation and characterized two-photon polymerized microstructures with CARS microscopy. Their findings were published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B this month.
• Our work on detection of chemical compounds in human hair was featured in Chemistry World.

July 2009

• Potma Labs congratulates Hyunmin Kim with his doctorate degree and we wish him best of luck with his new postdoctoral position at NIST in Gaithersburg.
• Min's paper on nonlinear microscopy of carbon nanotubes has appeared in Nano Letters
• A new approach for calculating focal volumes in turbid media has been published in Physical Review Letters
• Max has published his paper on molecular adsorption in human hair this month in the Journal of Biomedical Optics

June 2009

• Potma Labs is happy to announce that a CAREER grant has been awarded to support our research on contrast improvement in CARS microscopy
• Potma Labs celebrates the phase II award to the CaSTL Center , a Center for Chemical Innovation.

Potma Labs, Department of Chemistry, Natural Sciences II, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697