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Controlling odors and air borne pollutants is one of the most important, and yet challenging especially for wastewater treatment plants, manufacturing processes and indoor environment. The technology provider has developed four innovative air filtration solutions tailored for different applications and is keen to outlicense the technology. Drift Filter Unit - Capable to remove various harmful gases evaporated from wastewater pit, holding tanks and from pipes. The drift filter was made of a base filter, organic filter (activated carbon coating) and a cation resin that removes harmful gases through the natural exhaust process and does not require power to operate. Pre-Gas Air (PGA) Filter - Capable to remove odorous elements of chemical pollutants caused by VOCs, ammonia and sulfides. Harmful gases are chemically and physically adsorbed ont

Chemicals

Biodegradable Controlled Release Matrix Tablets for Environmental Applications

Using a proprietary matrix encapsulation technique, active ingredients are incorporated into a matrix made from a biodegradable polymer. Pesticides, biocides, corrosion inhibitors, enzymes, and bacteria are just some of the examples of the kinds of actives that can be encapsulated. Then the polymer is formed into tablets of various shapes and sizes
Novel bacillus sp. bs061 with antibacterial activity and a composition for preventing plant diseases

(Trực khuẩn mới SP. BS061 với hoạt tính kháng khuẩn và chế phẩm để ngăn ngừa bệnh thực vật) PURPOSE: A novel Bacillus sp. BS061 isolated from plant leaves and a composition for preventing plant diseases using the same are provided to prevent powdery mildew and gray mold rot. CONSTITUTION: A bacillus sp. BS061(deposit number: KCTC 10977BP) has antif
Controlling Carcinogenic Acrylamide Formation in Processed Foods

During the last decade, there has been an upsurge in the consumption of processed ready-to-eat foods across the globe. However, cooking processes, such as frying, grilling and/or baking at high temperatures (>120°C) of foods, especially starch-containing ones like French fries, snacks, breaded products, baked goods, cookies, coffee, nuts etc can re
Antimicrobial Zinc/Zinc Oxide Composite

Increasing antimicrobial resistance has become a public health concern. In addition, current antimicrobial solutions have a risk of safety under prolonged use and leaching of the compound may negatively impact the environment. Many products have selective workability that target specific groups of bacteria, or require external stimulus such as phot
Biocompatible Antimicrobial Additive for Plastics

The use of antibacterial antimicrobial functionalised material combined with well-established rules of hygiene enables optimal reduction of bacterial contamination. By incorporating antimicrobial function into widely used plastics, bacterial proliferation can be prevented without extensive disruption of daily life activities. Existing technologies
A Light Activated Biorubber for Adhesives, Sealants, and Controlled Release Technologies

This technology is a non-toxic, biodegradable adhesive that allows bonding on wet surfaces, sealing of porous surfaces, and encapsulation of small molecules for controlled release devices. It is formulated with liquid polycaprolactone, a bioresorbable polymer, that has been exploited for production of polyurethane adhesives, medical devices, and dr

Electronics

Smart Vending Machine

Our technology allows you to increase revenue, profitability and return of investment of the vending machine. This solution able to elevate the customer experience, reduce the operating cost and to improve the efficiency of the operation. Our smart vending machine creates an ecosystem for the vending operating environment and connecting each partne
Hardware Security: Preventing Microchips from Side-Channel to Reverse-Engineering Attacks

We offer security technologies to mitigate hardware attacks, ranging from side-channel-attacks (SCAs), to semi-invasive attacks to reverse engineering, on application-specific-integrated-circuits (ASICs) and embedded circuits. Our technologies include Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) crypto accelerators, and camouflage library cells. The AES cryp
Wafer-scale Uniform Periodic Gratings: Manufacturing and Characterization

A laser interference lithography system capable of defining uniform gratings over a large wafer area (> 3 inch) is presented. The on-wafer variations in duty cycle and grating period are less than 5% and 1 nm, respectively. On the other hand, this system also allows the definition of chirped gratings with continuous period change over 450 nm.To fas
Printable Low-Powered and Cost Efficient Cold Plasma Technology

Plasma technology was originally developed for surface treatment to improve surface adhesion of polymers. Recent progress in plasma technology has made it possible to generate plasmas at room-temperature, which is known as non-thermal atmospheric plasma (NTP) or cold plasma. NTP has a unique capability to remove and inactivate bacteria with the abs
Submicron, Printed, Conductive Lines.

The concepts of printed electronics offer a tremendous potential when brought to nanotechnology. Weprovidean all-in-one solution to print a wide range of nanomaterials, including metallic nanoparticles, nanowires, and semiconductor quantum dots. Printed lines are thinner than a single micrometre, with a width to height aspect ratio close to 1. The
Urban Farming System Through Digitization With Machine Learning

The technology owner designs, develops and operates systems and solutions to grow ultra-fresh, ultra-local produce in urban cities. The team has the experience in deploying different agricultural growing systems in indoor, open field and rooftop environments. The developed system democratise urban farming and food access via IoT, automation and dat

Energy

Novel Oblique-Finned Microchannels for Two-Phase Heat Transfer

This is an invention modified from the conventional straight-finned microchannels via the introduction of oblique cuts at specific locations, leaving obliquely-shaped fins with secondary branching microchannels. These small secondary microchannels provide alternative pathways for bubbles and slugs to escape before growing to channel size and obstru
Production of Li-ion Batteries with Silicon-based Anode and Li-rich Cathode

Lithium ion batteries, which are the most widely used among the secondary battery types, have high capacities and cycling life. The theoretical capacity of lithium ion batteries is expected to remain at the same value in each cycle without changing the ingredients. However, this does not take place as expected and lithium ions in the battery can be
Two Phase Stepped Fin Microchannel Heat Sink for Enhanced Heat Transfer and Reduced Pressure Drop

This invention focuses on a technique to stabilize the flow boiling process within the micro/mini channels and achieve a better heat transfer performance, by modifying the geometry. The stepped fin microchannels are formed by reducing the fin height, in steps, at certain lengths, in a conventional straight microchannel. Depending on the heat transf
Subterranean Thermoelectric Harvester for Smart Farming IoT Devices

(Máy thu nhiệt điện ngầm cho các thiết bị IoT canh tác thông minh) This technology offer is a complete subterranean thermoelectric generator system, intended for use in self-powered IoT applications. The device can harvest energy from underground temperature fluctuations to seamlessly power IoT components, and is optimized for smart farming applica
Technology to Digitize and Visualize Smell

Our society is now becoming increasingly automated where autonomous machines, artificial intelligence, and robots will perform complex tasks. For this vision to be realized, machines must have cognitive abilities including basic five sense of human, e.g., sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. However, most development of machine perception thus
Highly Robust & Sensitive Nanoplasmonic Sensor Technology

Nanoplasmonic Sensing (NPS) technology is a versatile and extremely surface sensitive sensing technology for realtime studies of atomic/molecular changes of less than one nanometer. There is a combination of several inherent strengths with NPS technology that makes it a strong candidate for different sensing applications. The technology is today us

Environment, Clean Air & Water

UV Chip – A New Paradigm in UV Light Sources

Chip-scale UV light source is a new revolution in the disinfection field. Many applications, impeded by size constraints, performance limitations and high cost of existing UV light sources, now become possible utilizing this new and sustainable technology. With its unrivaled germicidal performance, immediate startup, very low temperature dependence
Mobile Wastewater Treatment Unit for Batik Textile and Textile Industries

A major problem related to the batik industry is the discharge of wastewater produced during the soaking, boiling, and rinsing steps without proper treatment. This gives rise to large volumes of water and chemicals such as waxes, dyes, and fixing agents like silicate, resulting in a high pH, chemical oxygen demand (CODCr), total suspended solids (T
Optical Gas Imaging technology for Gas Detection

Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) consist on an IR camera spectrally adapted at specific gas absorption wavelengths. OGI technology is used by the industries for remote detection and location of gas leaks on their processes, and then reduce Green House Gas emissions for the case of environmental approach as well as reduce risk associated to toxic or explos
Membrane Development for Osmotic Power Generation

Pressure Retarded Osmosis (PRO) utilizes osmosis through a semi-permeable membrane to generate osmotic energy. In PRO, water spontaneous flows from a low-salinity feed solution to a high-salinity draw solution against an applied pressure, driven by the osmotic pressure difference between the feed and draw solutions. The permeation water flow is imm
Floating Sub-Surface Aeration System

The patented technology provider specializes in retrievable fine bubble aeration systems for wastewater treatment plants of any size and design. The company is able to offer complete and customized solutions through their unique Floating Fine Bubble Aeration system. A floating aeration system using fine bubble diffusers that approaches the challeng
Superlyophobic Materials for Immiscible Liquids Separation

Separation of oil/water mixture using wetting materials has been extensively investigated. However, the wastes released in industrial processes such as multi-phase liquids extraction, food industries or chemical reaction contain more complicated liquids components. The technology presents a novel strategy to prepare a broad range of superlyophobic

Foods

Innovative Delivery System for Sustainable Nitrogen

A natural nitrogen fixing seed coating technology was developed to provide a sustainable solution to adddress fertiliser overuse and nitrogen pollution. The technology, which is based on a food-grade bacteria, is environmentally friendly applies to rice and all major crops. It provides a cost benefit to the grower through reduced fertiliser costs a
High-pressure Thermal Sterilization Process for Ready-to-eat Meals

A research consortium focused on food processing and preservation technologies has developed a high-pressure thermal sterilization (HPTS) process and optimized its use for ready-to-eat (RTE) meals. The technology combines high pressure with heat to sterilize foods and has the ability to preserve the freshness and taste of food better than conventio
All-Natural, Low-Calorie Sweetener from Curculigo Latifolia Extracts

Technology Overview
Long-Term Insoluble Anti-Biofilm Protection Nanoparticle

Biofilm is the main form for bacteria and within the biofilm it is highly resistant to disinfectants, antibiotics or the host immune system. Biofilm is therefore extremely hard to get rid of and is associated with most human infections (up to 80%). Biofilm forms and impairs the function of almost any product or equipment stored or operated in wet o
Sustainable Food Packaging for Meal Delivery, Instant Meals and Takeaway Foodservice

This is a flexible takeaway packaging solution that is completely flat during transportation and transforms into a rigid bowl or a cup to serve the whole menu by using only one packaging format. This solution helps travel catering companies, meal delivery services and instant meal brands to reduce packaging waste and CO2 emissions, increase operati
Method for producing antifungal ripened cheese coated with natural essential oil and antifungal ripened cheese produced thereby

(Phương pháp sản xuất phô mai chín chống nấm phủ tinh dầu tự nhiên) The present invention relates to a method for producing antifungal ripened cheese and antifungal ripened cheese produced thereby, which does not generates fungi during ripening and improves the quality by coating the surface of cheese with cinnamon oil or cinnamon bark oil which ar

Green Building

Safe and Efficient Production of Hypochlorous Acid

The technology owner has developed a weakly acidic hypochlorous acid manufacturing process that uses a patent pending buffering technology which does not use acid and have minimal chlorine gas production. There are known issues with hypochlorous acid produced using the traditional electrolytic method or two-liquids method, such as low preservation
On-line Smart Air-Balancing System for Net Zero Energy Buildings

The mechanical ventilation system is one of the most energy-demanding systems in the buildings, which operates on a 12-months basis. Air balancing is a promising technique to ensure the airflow rate evenly distribution to each zone according to its requirements to achieve the purpose of energy saving. The conventional air balancing method is essent
Low Cost, Low Power, Easy to Deploy Wireless Modems for Large Scale Industrial & Commercial IoT Projects

We have developed a hardware cum software IoT platform that will make it easier and cheaperto collect data or send alerts/messages from standard machines, instruments, sensors and meters installed in remote places - over low power wide area wireless networks (LPWAN) such as Sigfox, LoRa &NB-IoT. Our first products arenovel plug & play communication
Innovative Indoor Air Purification Technology

Existing electric air purifiers applied to closed, indoor environments have to be closely monitored and controlled due to potential hazardous ozone emissions. Alternatively filter based purifiers have an issue of power losses owing to the raised pressure drop of filters as well as a difficulty in filter management. Existing filter-based air purifie
Green Approach to Cooling Tower Water Management

This patented technology, first of its' kind, is a revolutionary approach to eliminating scale, preventing corrosion and bio-fouling in cooling water systems. Through proprietary electrochemistry, anti-bacteria technology and software control, it removes water hardness, silica and control bacteria growth in cooling systems without the need for haza
Low Temperature Processing Transparent Electrode

Transparent conductive film is mostly used in flat panel displays, followed by touch screen displays and OLED lightings. ITO substitutes have been actively researched and expected to increase market share gradually. However, ITO is burdened by rising prices of raw material prices due to limitations of raw material reserves. Because ITO has a crysta

Healthcare

Ultra Low-Cost Cell Culture System

Cell cultures is an expensive technology with constant needs for foetal bovine serum and various growth factors. This has been a big limiting factor for bio-pharma, nutraceuticals, medical research, drug testing and cellular agriculture. This technology produces cultured cells and cultured serum containing various growth factors. The technology can
Pharmaceutical composition for producing lymphatic vessel containing hyaluronic acid

(Thành phần dược phẩm để sản xuất mạch bạch huyết chứa axit hyaluronic) The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for producing lymphatic vessels containing hyaluronic acid and, more specifically, to a pharmaceutical composition for producing lymphatic vessels which can effectively produce lymphatic vessels by inducing cell migr
Clay Microencapsulation of Non-Infective Pathogens for Oral Vaccine Development

Aquaculture is practiced to supplement the supply of the ocean s fish, which is not enough to serve the growing global population. While the supply of fish harvested from the oceans and seas through traditional fishing has remained at a constant level, aquaculture has been increasing around the world to catch up with the demand. As with any type of
Virtual Fitness Coach for Squats

Reinforcing the core muscle by squattraining is the core of various sports. In the past, squat training requires a fitness coach based on the state of trainingfor eachindividual to make appropriate recommendations. This system utilized a MicrosoftKinect camera and ourBluetooth insoles for analysis of real-time skeleton movement, the center of gravi
Pharmaceutical composition containing insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome

(Thành phần dược phẩm chứa yếu tố tăng trưởng giống như insulin gắn với protein-3 để điều trị hội chứng suy hô hấp cấp tính) A pharmaceutical composition containing insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 is provided to prevent the entry of inflammatory cells into the bronchial alveolar.
Photoacoustic Sensor for Non-invasive Glucose and Core Temperature Measurement

Currently, glucose levels and blood core temperatures are measured by the invasive devices and methods, and no established non-invasive devices can solve this issue. We developed a sensor to measure multiple physiological parameters noninvasively, by photoacoustic technique together with advanced signal processing algorithm to further enhance relia

Infocomm

Malay-English Machine Translation System

This is a tool to translate an English sentence into Malay and vice versa. Developing a translation tool for low-resource languages like Malay has always been a challenge. The main challenge comes from the fact that machine translation systems typically rely on a huge amount of sentence-parallel data, and creating such datasets is an expensive proc
Robust Real-Time Early Warning System for Landslides

The invention is an alternative instrument for monitoring deep-seated landslides based on tilt and soil moisture. The system is composed of a sensor column that measures the tilt and soil moisture gradients of a subsurface or underground borehole throughout its depth. It provides a better understanding of ground conditions which may lead to displac
A System for Extracting Named Entities in News Articles

Our technology is a software system for extracting named entities (people, companies, locations) mentioned in news articles, together with readers' comments. The system implements a fast and effective named entity recognition and linking techniques. It also offers an interactive visualization of the results and the linking process, with association
Socio-Behavioural Engine

Current care models have been deficient in anticipating health problems and in the design of personalised interventions to improve well-being of the aging population. Care models must be designed not only to improve the physical health of elderly but also to improve their overall wellbeing. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data s
Mobile Augmented Reality Instructional Manuals (MARIM)

The system utilises Augemented Reality (AR) Technology to provide visual instructions overlaid in the real environment for the trainee. The trainer is allowed to create these AR instructions using the editor provided by the application. A user just needs to point their device to the area of interest to view those instructions. The application is de
Cell Culture Simulation based on Multi-Agent Computational Model Describing Behavior of Cells Cultured in Production of Corneal Epithelial Cell Sheet

Regenerative medicine using a person's own cell, generally autologous cell takes a procedure that a doctor harvests cells from a patient which cells are cultured on a plate to make a target tissue, and then transplants the tissue to the same patient to cure the disease. In order to provide high-quality cells to patients, it needs technology to pred

Life Sciences

Asian 3D Organoid In-vitro Skin Model for Translational Research and Testing

With the increasing global ban of animal testing in this era, particularly for cosmetic-related products, research and development is greatly hindered. In addition, many of today's animal and cell-based toxicity testing models are burdened by significant accuracy, reproducibility, cost and ethical concerns. Adoption of In-vitro models have increas
Vegan Media Formula for Cordyceps Militaris Cultivation and Medicinal Cordyceps Tea

Cordyceps militaris, is a fungus that naturally grows on certain caterpillar in high land of Himalayan Plateau. It is widely used as functional food and traditional medicine in China and South Asia as it contains hundreds of bioactive substances. Contrary to Ophiocordyceps sinensis and other Cordyceps, C. militaris can be cultured artificially and
Microplastic Degradation

400 million tons of plastics are being produced per year. The majority of it is not recycled, but burned, processed into low-grade plastics or ends up in the environment, where it can take centuries to degrade, accumulate in the food chain and poses an immense concern. To address these issues, standardized and rapid enzyme based tests for the inves
World’s only PPC (Plant Protein Composite) Bio Ink and 3D Printed Bioscaffold

Bioscaffold, with potential to recreate structural and physical environment of a living tissue, are key components in bioprinting applications ranging from wound dressing with controlled release of medicine to tissue engineering/regenerative medicine/drug screening and cancer research. This technology involves a proprietary, faster, greener and eff
Banana Fiber and Coconut Coir Geotextile (BACONET)

Soil erosion and land degradation are global problems that pose major issues in many countries. One of the solutions employed for soil erosion is the use of temporary, degradable geosynthetics to prevent loss of soil from the seedbed and to enhance the growth of vegetation where the vegetation alone should provide sufficient site protection once es
Resource Efficient Farming Using Hydrogel Films

A novel film that utilizes functional polymer technology was developed by the technology owner to address the threat to food security due to water shortages and soil contamination. The film is made of hydrogels and membranes that enable farmers to grow safe and high-quality crops even on barren lands, such as deserts and heavily contaminated land,

Logistics

Deep Learning ( Artificial Intelligence ) Applications

Inspired by the continuous exploring of biological neural network in the brain, more intelligent models and algorithms, called Deep Learning, have been developed. They will be able to process data inputs and make classification and prediction based on machine learning. In recent years, with the fast development of parallel computing hardware where
Logistics Scheduling and Route Optimization using Digital Annealer

The technology is a logistics and warehouse optimization engine developed using Ising modelling over a digital annealer (cloud server). Solving complex mathematical problems using the Ising model allow complex relationships to be specified in a multi-dimensional array. This simplifies the number of transactions between a software application and th
GPS Security Tracking for Supply Chains

With the rise of new threats to cargo security, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to deploy electronic cargo tracking solution in their logistics operations. This technology is an integrated trip based security portal that combines the use of GPS, satellite, RFID and NB IoT to improve efficiency and security. Users of this solutio
Non-destructive Firmness Measurement Device for Fruits

The most widely used devices for measuring firmness of fresh whole fruit depend on destructive techniques which contribute to fruit losses and other limitations including inaccuracy due to low sampling points, and low portability which limits firmness assessment within laboratory setting. The fresh produce industry indicates that an accurate, non-d
Cloud-Based Standalone Secure Locking System for Access Control

The standalone locking solution leverages the functional elements of a lockset and the latest technologies to meet enterprise application demands. This locking solution is particularly helpful to improve existing solution where reliable and flexible multiple access control is required at remote location. This solution incorporate latest cloud-based
Last Mile Logistics Management

The last mile leg of the supply chain accounts for up to 30% of supply chain costs. With various demanding requirements such as customers' limited availability and site dependent vehicle requirements, increasing volume of orders with limited resources has made improving customer satisfaction levels a challenge. Last Mile Logistics Management presen

Manufacturing

Double-frequency power-driven inductively coupled plasma torch and apparatus for generating nanoparticle

(Thiết bị và đèn pin plasma kết hợp cảm ứng điều khiển bằng tần số kép để tạo ra hạt nano) According to an embodiment of the present invention, a double-frequency power-driven inductively coupled plasma torch comprises: a hollow confinement pipe for providing a space where thermal plasma is formed therein; an induction coil for covering the confine
In-Line Visual Inspection System powered by Edge-AI

Today's business environment sustains mainly those companies committed to a zero-defect policy. Therefore, the prompt detection of rare quality events has become an important issue and create an opportunity for manufacturing companies to move quality standards forward. Machine learning as a tool has been applied in many fields including quality con
Wearable Assistive Mobility Exoskeletons

A UK company is finalising the development of years of research and robot standardisation. A core wearable assistive exoskeletons technology will shortly be taken into manufacturing, starting from non-medical applications. Win-win partnerships are sought with end-users and developers, to adjust the existing prototype for existing applications, and
Smart Nano Environments for Stem Cell Differentiation

With its attractive abilities of self-renewal and differentiation capacity, stem cells are known to have wide applications in regenerative or transplantation therapies and in the development of biological models for understanding disease pathology and drug discovery. However, a high quality and quantity of cells are required for such applications a
Glycemic Index (GI) Lowering Composition for Refined Carbohydrate Staples such as Rice, Bread and Noodles for Diabetes

Glycemic Index Lowering Composition (GLC), is an advanced food additive technology, customized to product needs. Available as rice-grain shapes and food powder, it can be added easily to refined foods to lower their glycemic index without changing the taste, appearance, texture and smell of the product. The glycemic reduction is dosage dependent. F
Nano-wire semiconductor device having small occupying area and power consumption, a semiconductor memory device including the same, and a manufacturing method

(Thiết bị và phương pháp sản xuất dây bán dẫn nano tiết diện và tiêu thụ điện năng nhỏ, bao gồm thiết bị bộ nhớ bán dẫn) PURPOSE: A nano-wire semiconductor device, a semiconductor memory device including the same, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided to capture or remove electric charges by forming a silicide island at a contact part bet

Materials

Silver Nanowire (AgNW) for Transparent Conductive Films

This technology presents highly conductive, long silver nanowires (AgNW), a key coating material in the fabrication of conductive and transparent substrates. The incumbent material used in transparent conductive films (TCFs), indium tin oxide (ITO), has been used extensively in touch panel displays, liquid crystal displays, electroluminescent light
Materials by Design - Tunable Coatings using Nanotechnology

This technology presents a 'materials by design' approach to develop tunable coatings utilising functionalised nanoparticles. Coatings that incorporate these nanoparticles can be designed to impart optimised efficiency, optimised functionality, reduced corrosion, retention of appearance, improved fuel efficiency and improved airflow, and are applic
Nanoceramic Coating for Wear and Corrosion Resistance

An innovative company has developed a novel nanoceramic coating that provides high hardness, wear and corrosion resistance, and low friction to fast moving parts in environments with high wear or elevated temperature. This technology is superior to anodising or plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO). It does not require pre-treatment, performs better
Flat Optics Technologies for Advanced Photonic Applications

Flat optics is an emerging technology that uses nano-patterned surfaces designed to perform the same functions as bulk optical components. Applications for this exciting technology include 3D sensing, displays, AR / VR solutions, imaging, microscopy, holographic security and communications to name a few. These can be processed using industrially es
Nano-size Magnetic Stirring Bars(Nano Stir Bars)

Effective stirring is essential in chemical and biological experiments. This is usually achieved with magnetic stirrers and stir bars. However, this will not work in tiny channels and droplets used in lab-on-a-chip applications and for microliter-scale experiments in biosciences. To answer this problem, we present the world's smallest magnetic stir
Edible Barcodes for Food Source Assurance and Sanitation Assurance

The technology provider has developed a cutting edge solution for (1) food source assurance and (2) sanitation assurance: The technology consists of an edible, odorless, tasteless, invisible "barcodes" that are applied directly to the food during processing to ensure rapid, accurate traceability back to the source. This enables source verification

Personal Care

Assistive Wheelchair for Transfer and Bathing System

Most hospitals and Hospice care in Singapore use the help of health care workers to transfer patients or old age people from wheel chair to the bed and vice versa. Some patient's need little assistance, while some may need extensive assistance. It is a difficult task for healthcare professional to carry patients or aged people to transfer them from
Microfluidic-sonication Device for Producing Coated Microbubbles

In medical imaging applications, gas-filled microbubbles stabilized with a surfactant or a polymer coating are routinely used as ultrasound contrast agents due to their ability to significantly enhance the ultrasound backscatter signal from blood. Increasingly, these microbubbles are being used as drug or gene delivery vehicles as they allow for ta
iPLAY - Interactive Physical Learning Activities for the Young

The iPLAY is an exergaming (exercise + video gaming) system that incorporates purposeful play and physical activity enjoyment in children's play. As children's cognitive abilities are often tied to the timing of their motor milestones, motor skills development is fundamental for their cognitive development. However, current conventional physical ac
Skin Whitening, Anti-aging and Skin Care Product

Many of us love the warmth and light of the sun; however, often sun exposure causes damages to our skin, according to experienced dermatologists. When our skin is exposed to sunlight, which is the primary source of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in our daily life, our skin gets darkened and damaged, or created by various aesthetic problems, such as wri
Sugar-Based Surfactant Microemulsion Containing Essential Oils for Cosmetic & Pharmaceutical Use

This technology provides a method for microemulsions containing various botanical essential oils in combination with aqueous phase and polyhydric alcohols to be stabilized by the aid of biocompatible sugar-based surfactants for personal care and pharmaceutical application, especially as an agent for topical treatment that have excellent thermodynam
Innovative Composition for Modulation of Inflammatory Processes in Joint & Infectious Diseases

Inflammation is the body's natural response to infection, injury and/or stress with a central role in disease and aging. It has 2 forms; acute which is the body's immediate and short-term response and chronic where inflammation lasts beyond the actual injury. Whilst acute inflammation helps prevent further injury and facilitates healing and recover

Waste Management & Recycling

Food and Textile Waste Biorefinery

In the recent years, there has been a growing demand for biotechnology-based processes for material, chemical and fuel production to minimise the environmental impacts that chemical technology based alternatives may cause, and an increasing need to reduce waste generation amidst resource and environmental concerns. A research team has developed an
Low Cost and Low Energy Forward Osmosis for Wastewater Treatment

The rapid evolution of forward osmosis (FO) within the last decade has led to the commercial implementation of the technology in the power generation sector and will address the desalination markets and the re-use needs for industrial need. Unlike reverse osmosis which uses the application of high applied pressures, FO involves the energy free and
Recycling Plastics into Fuels and Chemicals Using Sunlight

This technology provides a more eco-friendly solution to convert non-biodegradable plastics into fuels and chemical feedstocks. In Singapore, about 96% of the plastics waste is incinerated, which contributes to Singapore's CO 2 emissions and aggravates global climate change. The remaining 4% is recycled only after the plastics have been cleaned and
Gold Bio-Recovery for E-Waste

The recall of the Galaxy Note 7, it has been estimated, will produce 157 million tonnes of precious metals used in the manufacture of the device. While this is an extreme example electronic waste is the fastest growing portion of municipal waste. As the amount of E-waste grows so does concern over the current treatment methods used such as chemical
Insect-based Food Waste Valorization and Organics Recycling System

The company develops intensive insect farming systems for sustainable protein production. The company produce high-quality, protein-rich and safe animal nutrition, pet food and organic fertilizer by using a novel, scalable Black Soldier Fly-based bioconversion system to recapture nutrients from organic side-streams. Their innovative circular econom
Recycling Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes Using Deep Eutectic Solvents

As the consumption of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for the transportation and consumer electronics sectors continues to grow, so does the pile of battery waste. Lithium-ion battery waste retains value particularly in the form of metal ions in the cathode part of the device, but few standardised methods exist to extract, recover, and reuse these pre