Projects
Finding the best market for a self-cleaning anti-reflective coating for
Contact: Professor Ulli Steiner, Physics Mentor: Paul May The research team has been working on anti-reflective coatings for more than 10 years. Although such coatings are widely used already, they decided to investigate them from a physicist's perspective to try to design more optimal coatings which have good optical properties and are mechanically robust. Current…
Commercialising a point-of-care blood testing system
Contact: Dr Tanya Hutter, Department of Haematology Mentor: Karin Schmitt Using her background in optical sensors, Dr Hutter has developed a new type of blood sensor, based on microfluidic chips and optical measurement techniques. Blood tests to look at the number of red blood cells and assess if a patient is anaemic are performed regularly…
i-Teams Plus – a further investigation of a hydrogen generation
Contact: Enass Abo-Hamed & Dr. Roger Coulston, Chemistry Mentors: Dr. Julian White & John Hunter A previous i-Team in Easter 2013 investigated the uses for a new method of hydrogen-production, and concluded that the two best markets for the technology were those where hydrogen is used as a fuel for combustion, and that of hydrogen…
i-Team on Policy, Easter 2011, with the Centre for Science
By i-Teamer, Dave Bosworth Science can play a vital role in creating informed and useful policy, but often important research does not reach the attention of policy makers. Over the past three months, a group of early career researchers has been investigating the pathway to linking researchers with appropriate policy makers. The i-Team on policy…
i-Team alumni win the CUE business creation competition
This year's CUE "Technology Start-up of the Year" prize was won by AQDOT, a micro-encapsulation start-up founded by Dr. Roger Coulston and Jing Zhang, two i-Teams alumni who also went on to submit their research as an i-Teams project (MicroEnCAPs in Michaelmas 2011). This research has now been spun-out into AQDOT. Jing was also President…
Video data analysis via object segmentation – labelling video content,
Contacts: Ignas Budvytis, Dr. Vijay Badrinarayanan, Prof. Roberto Cipolla, Department of Engineering, Cambridge Interactive Video Solutions Ltd. Mentor: Adrian Swinburne Website: http://www.cambridgeivs.com The research team, working in the Department of Engineering under the supervision of Professor Roberto Cipolla, have developed a new technique for segmenting videos that enables individual objects and their respective boundaries to be…
Bio-photovoltaics – producing green electricity from algae and moss
Contacts: Professor Chris Howe, Dr. Paolo Bombelli, Ross Dennis & Dr. Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Biochemistry and Plant Sciences Mentor: Michael Katz The research team, led by Professor Chris Howe, are experts in the detailed biochemistry and molecular evolution of photosynthesis. Starting with the idea of making biological solar panels, which needed the team to find ways of…
Making sweating cool: expanding the use of a fitness device
Contacts: Dr. Christof Schwiening, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and Brian Corbett, Cambridge Enterprise International Outreach Mentors: Tom Copeland & Andrew Chapman, 42Technology Assessing fitness, during a period of athletic training, is surprisingly difficult. Whilst racing performance or maximal effort tests can indicate improvements in fitness, they are not always possible. Maximal effort during training…
Cambridge Carbon Capture update – winner of the Shell Springboard
Cambridge Carbon Capture, a i-Teams project during Michaelmas 2010 has scooped £40,000 from the Shell Springboard programmefor its Idea to combat climate change. Michael Priestnall, the firm's founder and Chief Technologist of said: "CCC has spent the last year with Professor Fray and his team in the Department of Materials Science to prove the feasibility of…
