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Knowhow offering
Title	Quartz Crystal Micro balance (QCM)
Knowhow is available for	An in situ quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), based on a compact embedded system, that can be used to study molecular recognition and for other scientific/ research purposes
Summary	An in-situ QCM that can be used for molecular recognition in advanced scientific -The system has a wide and continuous range of frequencies, up to 30 MHz. -Can be used to make continuous real time measurements up to microsecond levels. -The system also has an "embedded, system-on-chip software", with hard-to-copy software and could be made portable.
Advantages	-Compact system - could be made portable -A range of frequencies is possible- thus enabling a variety of measurements with a single instrument -Avoids complicated design requirements by using a -System-on-a-chip (SOC) system -Continuous monitoring of experiments possible- thus increasing the utility and flexibility -Low cost alternative to imported instruments
Knowhow is listed under following categories
Knowhow from	CSIR-NCL, Pune
Scientific/ engineering subject areas	Mathematical/ computational sciences & engineering
Investor interest categories	Others
Industries	Computing & Electronic Devices, Instrumentation ; Industrial Biotechnology
Customer categories and nature of business	Businesses and other industries (B2B) ; Consumers (B2C)
Technology readiness levels	TRL B: Proof-of-concept demonstrated in lab scale
Year of development	2009
Whether patents are part of this offering ?	No
Related documents:
Write- ups and marketing documents	http://nclinnovations.org/pdfs/available_knowhow/QCMl_Presentation.pdf
Database reference
Database record number	20130314113501
Date of upload	15 / Mar / 2013
Date of update	25 / Jul / 2013
URL to site when communicating about this knowhow	http://nclinnovations.org/khdb/viewrecord.php?recordno=20130314113501
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