Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for
Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) based in Australia, have this week unveiled a new
3D printable smartphone microscope they have created. The small clip-on device
requires no external power or light source and is powerful enough to view
specimens as small as 1/200th of a millimetre. Enabling those interested to
examining blood cells, cell nuclei, plant cells, microscopic organisms and
more.
Harnessing the light from the smartphone flash via
“internal illumination tunnels” smartphone microscope offers improvements when
compared to other smartphone microscopes that use external LEDs and other power
sources, say its developers. The awesome smartphone microscope is easy to
assemble and requires just a single step and no additional illumination optics.
The ARC researchers have made the 3D printing files publicly available, which
can be accessed via the link below and used by anyone who has access to a 3D
printer.
