Biomedical

• Point of care applications for cost effective muliparameter patient monitoring.
• Low density microarrays based on antibodies, proteins and DNA for disease diagnosis and monitoring.
• Micro instruments, sensors and sampling systems for minimally invasive analysis.
• Development of tumour markers and human antibody assays.
• Determination of enzymes such as lactate dehydrogenase and creatine kinase.
• Custom bioprocess development.
• Isolation and purification of biomolecules and isolation and purification of biomolecules.
• Development of novel sensors for the detection of illicit drugs.

Environmental

• Water Quality monitoring - optical and electrochemical sensors for the determination of disinfectants, nitrate, dissolved oxygen, and organic pollutants.
• Waste water/sewage analysis using non-contact optical techniques for the determination of BOD, COD, TOC colour and turbidity.
• Miniaturised industrial chemical sensing (uTAS) system for industrial and domestic water monitoring.
• Determination of pesticides and heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium.
• Air Quality-detection of solvent vapours: remote and localised sensing of explosive hydrocarbons and waste stack emissions.
• Antibody-based sensors for phenolic compounds.
• Integrated monitoring systems.
• Remote sensing systems for the longterm remote determination of phosphate with in-situ data logging and GSM-based transmisson to replace 'integrated monitoring systems'.

Industrial

• Optical methods of amine and ammonia detection.
• Chiral sensors for purity determination of the enantiomeric purity of pharmaceutical products.
• Development of sensor based systems for process monitoring, optimisation and control for the chemical/pharmaceutical and biofermentation industries (includes near IR on-line monitoring of chemical reactions).

Food Safety

• Development of Smart Packaging Technology and package integrity testing.
• Detection of amines, aflatoxins, organophosphorous pesticides, antibiotics, coumarins and stabilisers in food
• Temperature monitoring coupled with RF Technology for food transport and storage applications.
• Optical systems for the analysis of modified atmosphere packaged foods.