Michaelmas 2008
Micro-droplets i-teams update – now a funded start-up company!
"As inventors we always believed that our microfluidic picodroplet technique was revolutionary, and that it could have a wide range of applications. We wanted to work with i-Teams to help us identify commercial uses outside of our own sphere of knowledge. The i-Team delivered excellent results for us, highlighting new applications and identifying the key…
Magnetic memory elements
Contacts: Christoforos Moutafis, Physics Mentors: Marc Bax, Panchromos Limited The Thin Film Magnetism group at the Cavendish, led by Dr Crispin Barnes, has developed a number of small-scale memory storage and biotagging technologies in recent years. The new technology for this i-Team project relies on topological switching of magnetic elements to create non-volatile memory. The technology can apply to both…
Microdroplet microfluidic reactors
Contacts: Professor Wilhelm Huck, Chemistry Mentors: Dr. Julian White, MDS Analytical Technologies The research team led by Professor Huck have developed a high-throughput assay technology platform that allows a number of experiments to be conducted in parallel. Each experiment is confined to a separate microscopic compartment, formed by making a water-in-oil emulsion. Each compartment consists of a…
A miniature cell-cultivator
Contact: Dr. Cyril Picard, Biological and Soft Systems Mentors: Marc Bax, Panchromos Limited Dr. Cyril Picard originally developed a self-contained miniature environmental chamber to allow him to observe biological cells over a period of a few days. Previously this was done by building a sealed chamber around the microscope stage. Since the chamber has been developed and used…
A Chinese speech recognition system
Contact: Yuandong Lin, Institute for Manufacturing & Dr. Kai Yu, Machine Intelligence Group, Engineering Mentors: Adrian Swinburne AI Speech were finalists in the 2008 CUE £5k business creation competition. The team has developed a new software product for teaching spoken Chinese to non-native speakers. This software is based on speech recognition and analysis technology which uses the…