Joint spin-out creates holey water
20 Nov 2018 by Evoluted New Media
The University of Liverpool and Queen’s University Belfast have jointly created a spin-out company to develop a new class of materials known as porous liquids.
The material is a new class of liquid that contain microscopic cavities or pores, each the size of a single molecule. They contain up to 10,000 times the number of cavities that are found in conventional liquids creating new substances with a far greater absorption capacity than the base solvents.
Professor Andy Cooper from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Chemistry and Professor Stuart James, from Queen’s University’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, invented the first examples of porous liquids technologies in 2015 with their research published in the journal Nature.
Professor Anthony Hollander, PVC for Research and Impact at the University of Liverpool, said: “The University is delighted to be co-venturing in the spin out company `Porous Liquids Technologies’. This is an exciting innovation and we think there are benefits to be gained from further Joint Ventures between Universities in the future."
