Market Focus

Molecular-engineered components will form the high value-added heart of larger-scale technologies enabling, for example, sustainable energy, regenerative medicine, environmental control, the production of purer chemicals and cleaner, more intensive, process technologies. The markets we're concentrating on at present include Home and Personal Care, Medicine and Healthcare, and Energy. Example areas of expertise across these sectors are highlighted below.

Home & Personal Care

Exploitation of self assembly processes within formulations for the encapsulation and stabilisation of ingredients
Smart delivery of encapsulated payloads in response to environmental stimuli (e.g. pH or heat)
High throughput formulation and materials synthesis to accelerate the discovery and development process

Medicine & Healthcare

Controlled drug delivery using targeted, smart and environmentally responsive systems
New materials and methods for diagnostics, imaging, biosensors and point of care diagnostics
Nanoparticle engineering for delivery and sensing applications
Combinatorial high throughput materials discovery and formulation
Block copolymers, amphiphilic polymers, hydrogels and carbohydrate chemistry
Membrane technology, liposomes, polymersomes and peptide self assembly
Liquid crystalline biomaterials
Exploitation of self assembly in device design
Pharmaceutical processing and formulation design

Energy

Organic photovoltaics - new materials, fabrication of devices, thin films, interfacial engineering
Light emitting polymers and organics
Liquid crystals for display and lighting applications
Fuel cell materials
Fabrication of functional devices and systems
Energy scavenging for mobile applications
Nanolubricants, nanofluids
Composites
Vibration damping