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Czech Scientists Have Figured Out How to Replace Nanotechnology with Potato Starch

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Ordinary potato starch surpasses even nanomaterials in its optical properties. Thanks to its structure, a starch grain functions as a microlens that can simultaneously focus an optical beam, change its polarization, and even spin it into a light vortex, scientists from the Brno University of Technology (BUT) and Palacký University in Olomouc have discovered.
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Czech Scientists Have Figured Out How to Replace Nanotechnology with Potato Starch

Ordinary potato starch surpasses even nanomaterials in its optical properties. Thanks to its structure, a starch grain functions as a microlens that can simultaneously focus an optical beam, change its polarization, and even spin it into a light vortex, scientists from the Brno University of Technology (BUT) and Palacký University in Olomouc have discovered.

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Česká televize broke the news in on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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