Science Advisory Panels - Annual Report 2023

14 April, 2024

We offer a rapid turnaround advisory panel to R&D intensive companies and deep tech start-ups to help the companies solve commercial R&D challenges. These panels are constituted by MacDiarmid Institute researchers and other scientists with capabilities directly linked to the company's area of R&D. The aims of the panels are to provide:

• Direct suggestions about how the R&D could be further developed or approached;
• Links to specific scientists who can deliver some of the R&D;
• Input about what facilities are available across our networks (specialised laboratory equipment and the capability to run it);
• Contacts with graduates with very specific skills who may be placed into company R&D projects (including for internships);
• Suggestions about funding streams that academics typically access for research projects, including consideration of joint funding applications.

Areas of R&D covered in these panels in 2023 included hydrogen containment, fog dispersal, precision fermentation, material thermodynamics, eco-jewellery, and light guides.