Featured collaboration stories
Examples of how a case-study directory can present industrial needs, scientific approaches and potential routes towards application.
Circular materials for next-generation batteries
Challenge: explore more sustainable electrode materials and recovery routes for future rechargeable batteries.
Collaboration: combine materials design, electrochemical characterization and early-stage validation with an industrial partner.
Potential outcome: a clearer route from promising laboratory materials to scalable battery components.
Flexible solar technologies for new product formats
Challenge: investigate lightweight, flexible and visually adaptable photovoltaic materials.
Collaboration: connect materials formulation, thin-film processing and device characterization with product requirements.
Potential outcome: validated concepts for integrating solar functionality into unconventional surfaces.
Faster quality control for functional coatings
Challenge: understand coating uniformity, defects and performance before industrial scale-up.
Collaboration: apply complementary microscopy, spectroscopy and surface-analysis techniques to production-relevant samples.
Potential outcome: evidence that supports process optimisation and more reliable quality-control decisions.
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Magnetic nanomaterials for targeted health applications
From material synthesis and biological evaluation to formulation, reproducibility and preclinical validation planning.
Recovering waste heat with thermoelectric materials
Materials selection, device concepts and performance testing for converting low-grade heat into useful electrical energy.
Organic sensors for rapid product monitoring
Functional organic materials and sensor architectures designed around a specific monitoring challenge and integration environment.