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Microneedle patch for sampling body fluids

No more needles! A painless patch for blood collection A safer and definitely ‘less scary’ way to obtain blood samples The Invention The result of this discovery would be a ‘patch’ to obtain blood samples instead of a syringe or hypodermic needle. This invention primarily solves a longstanding problem of how to manufacture...

Published: 23/04/2015

Category(s): Biomedical Sciences, Diagnostics, Next Generation Materials, Therapeutics

Keywords(s): Biopharmaceutical, Biotech, Chemical Engineering, Chemical Sensor, Diagnostics, Drug Development, Research Tools

Inventor(s): Robert Nordon, Graham Davies, Zahra Faraji Rad, Phillip Prewett, Carl Anthony

Highly Efficient Polymerization Induced by Visible Light

A simple, widely applicable technique to produce polymers The Technology This invention is a new living free-radical polymerization technique which uses the external stimulus light as a trigger, and is oxygen tolerant. This invention allows for a high degree of control over the polymerization activation and deactivation such that well-defined polymer...

Published: 19/05/2015

Category(s): Next Generation Materials

Keywords(s): Biotech, Chemical, Chemical Engineering, Electronics, Material Science, Nanotech, Textiles

Inventor(s): Jiangtao Xu, Cyrille Boyer

Solving Global Water Shortages

Lowering the Cost of Desalination One third of the world’s population lacks sufficient water. The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2050 over two thirds of the world’s population will face severe water shortages. The effects of water shortage are well documented: food shortage, poor health, hunger and disease. The Technology UNSW...

Published: 23/04/2015

Category(s): Renewable Energy & Environment, Miscellaneous, Next Generation Materials

Keywords(s): Agribusiness, Agriculture, Aquaculture, Chemical, Chemical Engineering, Cleantech, Defence

Inventor(s): Richard Pashley, Ganga Chandrasekara

Improved Fuel System for Scramjets

A Fuel System developed to increase the energy density and lower the ionisation threshold for hydrogen and hydrocarbon fuel in high speed air breathing engines such as scramjets. The Technology The development of scramjet technologies has suffered from the need to improve reliability and reduce requirements for ignition speeds and minimum operating...

Published: 16/03/2014

Category(s): Mechanical, Advanced Materials, Miscellaneous, Easy Access IP

Keywords(s): Aeronautical Engineering, Chemical, Chemical Engineering, Defence, Easy Access IP, Energy, Material Science, Petrochemical, Transport

Inventor(s): Stefan Brieschenk, Sean O'byrne