Easter 2020
Identifying the market needs in Africa and beyond for a
Inventors: Dr. Ljiljana Fruk & Leander Crocker, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology Dr Fruk and her team have been working on developing flavin derivatives which have high catalytic properties. These can quickly degrade toxic dyes in water and were originally intended to be used in water purification activities. The compounds have been successfully attached to magnetic…
Investigating the requirements for air quality monitoring in the developing
Inventor: Peter Pedersen, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies for a Healthy & Sustainable Future and open-seneca Mentor: Dr. Bill Matthews Open-seneca was set up by a group of Cambridge PhD students from the Sensor CDT with the aim of using citizen science to create a global air quality monitoring network. Their solution…
Finding the best developing world applications for an innovative, low
Inventors: Dr. Ilan Adler, University College London & Peter McKay, EcoNomad Solutions Ltd.Mentor: Dr. Simon Pulman-Jones Based on over 5 years of collaborative work, the inventors have developed a novel solar-powered water pump that has no moving parts and can be made from easily-sourced materials. The water pump will be used to extract water for…
Investigating the market need for 360° 3D displays
Inventor: Dr. Ozgur Yontem, Computer Lab Dr Yontem is an expert in holography, signal processing and optics. Building on the concepts of the Star Trek Holodeck and the Star Wars Holographic Chess, Dr Yontem is developing the technologies needed to create a commercial 360° display. His goal is to produce a 3D visualisation engine which…
Finding applications for flexible printed solar cells
Inventor: Dr. Leonard Ng Wei Tat, Electrical Engineering Mentor: Dr. Alex Smeets The inventor has helped develop roll-to-roll printed perovskite solar cells in an international research project using the inventor’s patented graphene technology. Current solar cell technology is nascent, achieving poor efficiencies (∼21%), have rigid form factors and face severe recycling issues at the end…
Investigating the best markets for low-power Internet of Things sensor
Inventor: Dr Jessica Ocampos, Camnexus (formerly of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology) Mentor: Adrian Swinburne, Quintaxiom Camnexus-IoT-Network is an end-to-end “Internet of Things” solution from sensors network to real-time warning system. The solution integrates wireless battery-powered sensors through a low-power and long-power area network (LoRaWAN) based backbone to a cloud-based server. This system allows the management…
Miranda Imperial
I really loved all of the i-Teams programme! It was really great to get to explore so many new topics with a team coming from different educational backgrounds. Overall, it was great to feel really supported in the experience by having a dedicated mentor and so much input from experts in the field of commercialising…
Jenny Jiang
i-Teams is the highlight of my week! I got to establish connections with people through i-Teams I would not come across otherwise — what is the chance for me to meet someone who has decades of experience in their industry and is willing to share their experience for free?I really enjoyed working with our team…