Development
Identifying the areas of greatest need for improved electrical efficiency,
Inventor: Dr. Teng Long, Engineering Mentor: Steve Compton Electrical power can often be a scarce or expensive resource in low and middle income countries. Cooking and lighting may be done with kerosene or solid fuels rather than electricity, and mobile phones may be recharged using car batteries. In regions without clean water supplies it will…
Exploring the need for polymeric heart valves in the developing
Inventors: Dr. Marta Serrani, Professor Geoff Moggridge, Professor Raimondo Ascione, Dr. Joanne Stasiak & Eugenia Biral, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology Mentor: Dr Bill Matthews Existing prosthetic heart valves are either biological or mechanical, both of which have limitations for patients. Biological heart valves are made from animal tissue, which means they are well-tolerated and biocompatible…
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…
Using ApRES to enhance groundwater management in arid and semi-arid
Contact: Dr. Keith Nicholls, Dr Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, British Antarctic Survey, Dr. Mark Muller, geophysicist Mentor : Gino Henry Worldwide, groundwater is the most heavily extracted of all raw materials: with an estimated withdrawal rate of 1000 km3 per year it makes up 26% of all freshwater abstraction globally. Groundwater provides 50% of the world's drinking…