| THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL Patent applications |
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| 20120034461 | ELECTROSPINNING NOZZLE - Apparatus and methods for electrospinning, electrojetting and/or electrospraying are disclosed. The apparatus includes a nozzle for the formation of a fluid jet from a fluid cone, the nozzle having a plurality of ducts arranged for supplying a plurality of fluids for use in the formation of the fluid jet. The ducts may issue onto one or more openings, for example, concentric openings for the production of core-shell nanofibres and particles, or core- multishell nanofibres and particles. The apparatus may also include a manifold for supplying the fluids to the nozzle from one or more fluid reservoirs. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20110198494 | MASS DISCRIMINATOR - An analysis device for mass discrimination is disclosed. The analysis device comprises: a sample chamber for holding a gaseous sample; an analysis chamber arranged to receive sample gas from the sample chamber; a mass discriminator arranged to discriminate in the analysis chamber between ion species generated from the sample gas; and a wall separating the sample chamber from the analysis chamber, the wall comprising a rupture zone controllable to rupture and thereby release sample gas from the sample chamber into the analysis chamber. In one embodiment the rupture zone is adapted to rupture on application of an electric current or mechanical force. The wall may be micromachined. A method of mass discrimination is also disclosed. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110049303 | SPACECRAFT SHIELD - A spacecraft is described which uses a magnetic field source to generate a shield magnetic field to protect the spacecraft from energetic charged particles. The field may be perturbed to increase the effectiveness of the protection. Injection of material into the shield cavity to enhance the local plasma density may also be used. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20100321703 | OPTICAL SENSOR - An optical sensor ( | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100213349 | Optical Mirror System - An optical apparatus comprising a first mirror ( | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100041808 | ARMOUR - A dough moulding composition for use in the manufacture of ballistic armour comprising a boron carbide particulate and a polymeric binder, wherein the boron carbide particulate exhibits a particle size distribution in which some of the particles have a particle size of 100 μm or more and some of the particles have a particle size of 50 μm or less. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20090238333 | TRANS-RAMAN FOR BREAST CANCER - Non invasive in-vivo measurement of composition of a tissue within a part of a human or animal subject is carried out by detecting a Raman spectral characteristic in light scattered through the part using a transmission, rather than a backscattering geometry. The technique is applied to the detection of calcifications in human breast tissues. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090197130 | METHOD OF PRODUCING (NH2(R2)) AND/OR HYDROGEN - A method of producing NH | 08-06-2009 |
