Applications

What our sensing platform is used to measure — and how far each application has got

Our instruments and electrodes are general-purpose; what makes them useful is the measurement you point them at. Below are the applications we are actively working on, each labelled with how mature it actually is.

Active — funded work under way In development — not yet a product Research — exploratory

🔵 Micro- and nanoparticle characterisation

Active — funded project

The problem

Sizing particles between a few hundred nanometres and a few micrometres normally means optical instruments that are expensive, bench-bound, and awkward with opaque or complex samples.

Our approach

Ring ultra-microelectrodes detect individual particles as current-blockade events — label-free, one particle at a time, in a format that can leave the optical bench behind.

  • •Single-particle resolution
  • •300 nm – 5 μm size range
  • •Label-free current-blockade detection
  • •Patent pending
Single-entity electrochemistry → Particle sizing project →

💧 PFAS in water and soil

In development

The problem

PFAS are regulated at extremely low concentrations, and confirmatory analysis means sending samples to a lab — slow and costly enough that most sites are simply under-sampled.

Our approach

MIP-functionalised electrodes give a selective, artificial recognition layer for PFAS, read out on a low-cost potentiostat. The aim is on-site screening that tells you where the lab work is actually worth doing.

  • •Molecularly imprinted polymer recognition
  • •Picomolar-level detection targeted
  • •Screening at the sample site
  • •Water and soil matrices
MIP electrode technology → MIP-PFAS project →

🧬 Stress and health biomarkers

In development

The problem

Cortisol and similar biomarkers are usually measured by immunoassay in a laboratory — accurate, but too slow and too expensive for repeated or point-of-need measurement.

Our approach

The same MIP approach can be templated to other small molecules, which makes cortisol a natural second target for the electrode platform.

  • •Cortisol as lead target
  • •Artificial recognition, no antibodies
  • •Suited to saliva and sweat
  • •Reusable, stable electrodes
MIP electrode technology →

⌚ Wearable and sweat sensing

Dev-kit in development

The problem

Teams building wearable chemical sensors have to solve the electronics before they can even start on the chemistry, which puts months of hardware work in front of every experiment.

Our approach

A development kit that pairs the potentiostat front-end with functional electrodes in a wearable form factor, so the sensing chemistry is the part you work on.

  • •Sweat biomarker analysis
  • •Compact potentiostat front-end
  • •Development kit — €899
  • •For product and research teams
Wearable dev-kit →

Your measurement isn't on this list?

Most of the work above began as someone else's problem. If you have a target molecule or particle you need to detect, tell us what it is and in what matrix — we will say honestly whether our platform is a sensible fit before anyone commits to anything.

Custom electrodes

Recognition layers developed for your target.

Hardware integration

Potentiostat front-end built into your product.

Applied R&D

Joint projects and grant applications.

Response time: typically within 48 hours