Grant Work
Securing grant work is crucial for our research and ultimately our vision for creating a cleaner and brighter future.
Below you will find the grant work we have obtained for a range of research projects relating to our polymer technology, and the extraction and recycling of rare or harmful compounds.
CERES Grant
Through a CERES grant from the University of Cambridge, we designed a series of filter materials and technology demonstrators to eliminate some of the most common Plant Protection Product used in the UK. These are known as aminopyralid, isoxaflutole, metaldehyde, quinmerac and chlormequat. Using computational design, we calculated the optimum polymer structures to trap these compounds and manufactured a technology demonstrator. Our materials (Figure 1) successfully removed most of the product from water samples contaminated with these compounds. Using different characterisation techniques, we established physical and chemical characteristics of the materials. One of these techniques is Scanning Electron Microscopy (Figure 2).
Grant Work Examples
2022. Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) Technology for Rare Earth Metals and Other AnalytesHEIF/Impact Accelerator Fund (£10000) (March 2022-July 2022).
2021. IC10C2; Smart water filters for pesticide removal. University of Cambridge CERES Connected Agritech. January 2021 to July 2021. £16,801. Proof of concept.
2020. Research internal funding University of Lincoln. 18. Rare metal extraction. COS721. (£10000) (March 2020-August 2020). Research Internal funding University of Lincoln.
2017. Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). KTP010899. Cost effective process for generating vanadium electrolyte from waste materials. Innovate UK. £152206 (2017-19) 3.
2015. Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). KTP009924. Efficient use of global mineral resources to minimise the impact on the environment by further enhancing the recovery of vanadium, molybdenum and nickel from refinery residues technology. Innovate UK. £112999. (2015-17)
2014. Development and testing of molecular imprinted polymers for the recovery of valuable or dangerous elements’ (£60000). (Sept 2014-2017) Research Internal Funding (RIF) University of Lincoln.
2010. Recycling of Rhenium from superalloys “RHENEX”, Higher Education & Regional Fellowships (HERF) (£16000). East Midlands Developing Agency. (October 2010-September 2011).