Commercialisation opportunities
Our research has innovative real-world applications. Companies can use our portfolio of patents and patent applications in physical and chemical sciences, engineering, IT, bioscience and industrial design by working with us to bring them to market.
You will benefit from a relationship that creates lasting value for your organisation. We work with intellectual property (IP) developed across the University. We’d like to create ongoing partnerships to maximise the potential of our IP, our technology, and our knowledge to create commercially successful products.
Our technologies are most relevant to development companies, venture capitalists and other universities worldwide.
Our extensive expertise includes key specialisms in areas including physical vapour deposition (PVD) coatings and systems, sol gel coatings, intumescent paint, fluid modelling, electron microscopy, mass spectrometry and medical instruments.
The following examples demonstrate some of the technologies that we have developed for commercial organisations. You can click through to read each example in full.
Advanced materials and engineering
Identifying heavy metals and pesticides in water using planar wave guides
Analysis of drinking water is generally done using mass spectrometry techniques, taking up to a few days for results to be returned from laboratories.
Vapour sensor using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensor
Atmospheric concentrations of petrol and compounds such as toluene are potentially explosive between a lower explosive limit (LEL c. 10 per cent) and a higher explosive limit (HEL c. 90 per cent).
Intumescent paint
Structural steel begins to soften at temperatures above 600 degrees Celsius, which is easily reached in a serious fire. Current regulations demand that load-bearing steel is protected during a fire, giving one hour of extra time before softening.
Anti corrosion sol gel coatings
It has been estimated that the worldwide annual costs of metallic corrosion are over $500 billion per annum. Coatings are an effective solution to reduce corrosion activity, and are becoming more important with the introduction of new materials, and of new applications.
Industrial and product design
Cleaning system for discarded cigarettes
With the introduction of the smoking ban in 2007, people are required to leave a public enclosed space in order to smoke.
Tactile map
Most blind or visually impaired people require a guide to find their way around a large building or group of buildings that they are not familiar with.
Software and systems
3D facial image processing and matching
Facial recognition is one of many biometric security methods that have emerged over the last few years.
E-learning resources
Systems of eCare
Systems of eCare is an e-learning module which aims to prepare nursing undergraduate students for employment in an increasingly information intensive environment.
eMIT™
A unique partnership between a leading international academic in the Motivation Interviewing (MI) world and an innovative learning platform tools developer have pooled their skills to develop a new and exciting MI learning package. Together the team have brought together ideas and taken the very best from each business to create a useable, engaging and effective way of understanding and applying MI knowledge. This will change your learning experience for the future.
