The Clean Technology group headed by Dr Jawwad Darr [EPSRC Advanced research fellow and lecturer] have been awarded £122K grant for 2 years. The research will develop mixing of environmentally friendly emulsions (in supercritical fluids) to controllably grow very small inorganic materials for use in the healthcare and the pottery industries.

Figures: An 'as precipitated' titanium hydroxide nanosphere (ca. 170 nm diameter; left). produced from a 'water in CO2' emulsion droplet template at 35 0C using an ammonium salt of a Perfluoropolyether-carboxylate surfactant. The surface of the particle shows a monolayer of bound surfactant molecules (far right).