Current projects

• A novel range of aerosol valves that can replace VOC propellants with compressed gas, to improve spray performance, save costs associated with flammable propellants, and help reduce the carbon footprint of the 12 billion aerosol cans made each year.
• An advanced development using the unique properties of polarized light to improve biological microscopy. This method offers the possibility of revealing more information from living cells that currently have to be killed and stained to be viewed under a microscope.
• A low temperature film deposition process that facilitates film deposition and etching on to plastic substrates using plasma processes for nanofabrication at atmospheric pressure.
• Using light to turn on a potential cancer treatment drug: this is a new method of light activation for combrestatin-based drug candidates. This could allow the treatment to be performed just at the tumour site and therefore reduce undesirable side effects for the patient
• An innovative design for studs on football boots and other footwear that reduces the physical stresses acting on the leg joints during games and which can minimise the risk of injury to the player.
• A new innovation in the treatment of foot injuries that helps speed up the physical recovery processes in prolonged foot ulcers and other difficult to treat foot injuries.

Please contact Dr Blake Prime for more information on any of these projects.