University of Southampton

Scientific Generics Limited

Medisense, Inc.

Nanotecture Ltd

Philip Nigel Bartlett

Brian Elliott Hayden

John Robert Owen

Phillip Andrew Nelson

Mamdouh Elsayed Abdelsalam

Peter Robert Birkin

Duncan Ross Purvis

Brian Elliot Hayden

Karen Marie Brace

Andrea Elizabeth Russell

George Simon Attard

Gillian Reid

Andrew Lee Hector

Elizabeth Tull

Joanne Elliott

Gurdial Singh Sanghera

A process for the electrochemical deposition of a semiconductor material, which process comprises: (i) providing a non-aqueous solvent; (ii) providing at least one precursor salt which forms a source of the constituent elements within the semiconductor material to be deposited; and (iii) electrodepositing the semiconductor material onto an electrode substrate using the precursor salt in the non-aqueous solvent, characterized in that: (iv) the semiconductor material is a p-block or a post-transition metal semiconductor material containing at least one p-block element or post-transition metal; and (v) the non-aqueous solvent is a halocarbon non-aqueous solvent.

Process for the electrochemical deposition of a semiconductor material

An electrochemical cell for testing the electrochemical behavior of a plurality of materials comprises: a first electrode; a counter-electrode bearing an electrochromic material having a visual or measurable property which changes in a manner proportional to the total charge passed through it; and an electrolyte between and in electrical contact with the first electrode and the counter-electrode; wherein one of the first electrode and the electrolyte comprises a plurality of regions, each region comprising a sample of material to be tested, the regions being, in the case of the first electrode, electrically connected to a common terminal. Such a cell can be used for a 'combinatorial chemistry' approach to testing the properties of possible cell components.

Electrochemical cell for testing the electrocatalytic behavior of multiple materials

A nanoporous filter comprises a porous support having an essentially flat surface on which is deposited a nanoporous layer having a substantially regular pore structure and uniform pore size within the range from 1 to 50 nm.

Nanoporous filter

An electrochemical cell comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte is provided, wherein: the cathode comprises mesoporous nickel having a periodic arrangement of substantially uniformly sized pores of cross-section of the order of 10to 10m; and the anode comprises a mesoporous material having a periodic arrangement of substantially uniformly sized pores of cross-section of the order of 10to 10m and selected from: carbon, cadmium, iron, a palladium/nickel alloy, an iron/titanium alloy, palladium or a mixed metal hydride.

Electrochemical cell fabricated via liquid crystal templating

A method of preparing a porous film comprises electrodepositing material from a mixture onto a substrate, the mixture comprising: (I) a source of metal, inorganic oxide, non-oxide semiconductor/conductor or organic polymer, (II) a solvent such as water; and (III) a structure-directing agent such as octaethylene glycol monododecyl ether in an amount sufficient to form an homogeneous lyotropic liquid crystalline phase in the mixture. Electrodepositing the film from a lyotropic liquid phase in this manner provides a porous film having a substantially regular structure and substantially uniform pore size. Following deposition, the porous film may be treated to remove the structure-directing agent. The porous film may optionally be subjected to further treatment such as the electrochemical or chemical insertion of ionic species, the physical absorption of organic, inorganic or organometallic species, or the electrodeposition, solution phase deposition or gas phase deposition of organic, inorganic or organometallic species.

Method of electrodepositing a porous film

This invention provides methods for denaturing nucleic acids. The methods involve contacting a solution comprising double stranded nucleic acid with a surface having denaturation activity sufficient to produce denaturation within a period of not more than one hour.

Denaturation of double-stranded nucleic acids

Electrodes and their use in analysis

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