VUB research group opens new “light lab”
Researchers of the Free University of Brussels’ (VUB) B-Phot, specialised in photonics, or light technology, have moved into the new Photonics Innovation Centre in Gooik, Flemish Brabant.
scientists to create prototypes
The lab houses valuable high-tech equipment that enables the scientists to create prototypes for business, from large to SMEs. In the innovative facilities, the VUB team will integrate components, like microlenses on labs-on-chips. Labs-on-chips are miniature laboratories of a few square millimetres or centimetres. Recently, the researchers succeeded in making plastic microchips to measure dangerous substances in solutions via fluorescence. B-Phot is one of a few labs in the world that focuses on the development of optical technology like labs-on-chips in biodegradable plastics, meant for low-cost mass production.
