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Regeneration of Ion Exchange Resins

Solving Global Water Shortages: Lowering the Cost of Desalination One third of the world’s population lacks sufficient water. The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2050 over two thirds of the world’s population will face severe water shortages. The effects of water shortage are well documented: food shortage, poor health, hunger...

Published: 3/13/2014

Category(s): Renewable Energy & Environment, Advanced Materials, Miscellaneous

Keywords(s): Agribusiness, Agriculture, Aquaculture, Chemical, Chemical Engineering, Cleantech, Defence

Inventor(s): Richard Pashley, Ganga Chandrasekara

Drug Delivery Solutions

AlbuMiz - a versatile nano-sized drug delivery system based on albumin. The system offers multiple drug delivery solutions. The Technology The nano-albumin (nab) technology has been successfully applied for the delivery of a range of small molecule anti-cancer drugs, most notably paclitaxel (abraxane). Here we developed a technology based on albumin...

Published: 3/6/2014

Category(s): Therapeutics, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology

Keywords(s): Biotech, Drug Development, Life Sciences, Metabolic Diseases, Nanotech, Oncology Diseases, Pharmaceutical

Inventor(s): Martina Heide Stenzel, Wei Scarano, Mingtao Liang, Domenic Svejkar

Improved Fuel System for Scramjets

A Fuel System developed to increase the energy density and lower the ionisation threshold for hydrogen and hydrocarbon fuel in high speed air breathing engines such as scramjets. The Technology The development of scramjet technologies has suffered from the need to improve reliability and reduce requirements for ignition speeds and minimum operating...

Published: 3/6/2014

Category(s): Mechanical, Advanced Materials, Miscellaneous, Easy Access IP

Keywords(s): Aeronautical Engineering, Chemical, Chemical Engineering, Defence, Easy Access IP, Energy, Material Science, Petrochemical, Transport

Inventor(s): Stefan Brieschenk, Sean O'byrne

Reducing Scar Tissue from Medical Implant Surgery

A More Elastic, Conductive Bioactive Hybrid Hydrogel for Medical Implant Devices TheTechnology The technology is a bioactive hybrid conductive hybrid hydrogel (BPCPH) for applications in medical implant devices where a soft electrically active coating is required. The conductive hydrogel is a softer, more elastic material than conducting polymers or...

Published: 3/9/2014

Category(s): Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Therapeutics

Keywords(s): Biopharmaceutical, Drug Development, Medical/Clinical, Surgery, Therapies

Inventor(s): Rylie Green, Laura PoolE-Warren, Penny Martens, Sungchul Baek, Josef Goding, Nigel Lovell