{"id":409837,"date":"2017-11-29T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=caf50d22ca822bffdef1648de003fca0"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:31:52","slug":"to-improve-dipstick-diagnostic-and-environmental-tests-just-add-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=409837","title":{"rendered":"To improve dipstick diagnostic and environmental tests, just add tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simple paper-strip testing has the potential to tell us quickly what&#8217;s in water, and other liquid samples from food, the environment and bodies\u2014but current tests don&#8217;t handle solid samples well. Now researchers have developed a way to make these low-cost devices more versatile and reliable for analyzing both liquid and solid samples using adhesive tape. They report their approach in the journal\u00a0ACS Applied Materials &#038; Interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple paper-strip testing has the potential to tell us quickly what&#8217;s in water, and other liquid samples from food, the environment and bodies&mdash;but current tests don&#8217;t handle solid samples well. Now researchers have developed a way to make these low-cost devices more versatile and reliable for analyzing both liquid and solid samples using adhesive tape. They report their approach in the journal&nbsp;ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409838,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409837\/revisions\/409838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}