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NQR Landmine Clearance

ARIES – Advanced Radiofrequency-spectroscopic Intelligent Explosives SensorMine, not Mine-like: Landmines and other explosives remnants of conflict cause thousands of casualties and keep millions of acres of land out-of-use long after conflicts end. Current approaches detect anomalies – mine-like objects or metal in the ground – or...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 11/22/2016 | Inventor(s): Jamie Barras

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Category(s): Physical Sciences

Bio-compatible Random Lasers for Biosensing Applications

Researchers at King’s College London have achieved substantial innovation in the field of biosensing with the concept of sensing by lasing.The researchers at King’s College London have constructed a bio-compatible random laser made out of materials such as silk with a disordered nanostructure that can be used as a novel generation biosensor....

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 11/22/2016 | Inventor(s): Riccardo Sapienza

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Category(s): Physical Sciences

All-Optical Signal Modulation

Summary The large bandwidth obtained using optical signals has led to the transmission and reception of vast amounts of information. Recent technologies have achieved a 1Tbps bandwidth thanks to photonic integrated circuits (PIC). This bandwidth is being further increased, as required by several new applications (Business analytics, Telemedicine, Content...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 11/22/2016 | Inventor(s): Gregory Wurtz, Anatoly Zayats, Cillian Mcpolin

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Inexpensive, Ultrasensitive Optical Hydrogen Sensor

Hydrogen detected by the naked eye! Researchers at King’s College London have developed an inexpensive, robust and ultrasensitive hydrogen detector based on a new type of optical metamaterial with sensitivity so large, 2% Hydrogen can even be detected by the naked eye! Creating a safe environmentHydrogen is increasingly used in a host of industrial...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 11/22/2016 | Inventor(s): Wayne Dickson, Anatoly Zayats, Mazhar Nasir

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Category(s): Physical Sciences

Optical Switch

Summary One of the current aims of nanotechnology is the replacement of ‘slow’ electronic devices with ‘fast’ photonic (light based) ones. Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) are a promising technology for optical devices as they are compact, inexpensive and power efficient. VCSELs have the second highest production...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 11/22/2016 | Inventor(s): Gregory Wurtz, Cillian Mcpolin, Anatoly Zayats

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Category(s): Physical Sciences

Counterfeit Drug Detection

Non-invasive, non-destructive authentication of packaged medicinesSafe Medicines, Good Health: In 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) adopted a resolution (A/HRC/RES12/24) on access to medicines that stressed “the responsibility of States to ensure access to all, without discrimination, of medicines, in particular essential medicines,...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 11/22/2016 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical devices, Physical Sciences

Novel, cadmium-free, fluorescent and magnetic nanoparticles suitable for surface functionalisation.

SummaryKing’s Inventors have developed a robust method for the synthesis of water soluble, multicoloured fluorescent-magnetic nanoparticles which do not involve the use of quantum dots, with their associated potential toxicity issues. These lipid encapsulated nanoparticles are made from well characterised, widely available conjugated polymers...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 5/8/2014 | Inventor(s): Mark Green, Philip Howes

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Category(s): Physical Sciences, Research Tools - Imaging, Diagnostics

A method for reducing or eliminating non resonant background obtained during CARS spectroscopy

CARS Microscope - Label Free Imaging: The Best of Both Worlds - Researchers at King’s College London have developed a simple and robust optical way of acquiring spontaneous Raman spectra with the speed and sensitivity of CARS.The instrument gives linear, quantitative, NRB-free signals for any laser system capable of generating CARS, including...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 5/8/2014 | Inventor(s): Bradley Littleton

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Category(s): Physical Sciences

Superior Scalable Spatial Sound

“I would like to congratulate you on the apparent naturalness, at least from a first hearing on modest loudspeakers. The source movement was easily detectable and fairly easy to locate.”Francis RumseyChair, Technical Council at Audio Engineering Society“It was great to see how the project has evolved and I'm really impressed by the...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 5/8/2014 | Inventor(s): Zoran Cvetkovic, Enzo De Sena, Huseyin Hacihabiboglu

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Category(s): Physical Sciences