CCm Research
A privately owned process engineering company, their patented technology efficiently and permanently captures the CO2 emitted from point sources and power stations and safely converts it into a wide range of polymer, ceramic and composite materials with a commercial value. CCm Research arrived at BSP in 2011.
Phone: 01865 309 605
www.ccmresearch.co.uk
Energenics
Manufactures and markets Envirox ™, a fuel-borne combustion nanocatalyst for diesel fuel. Envirox™ saves fuel, reduces emissions and cleans engines and is used by commercial transport operators, global fuel additive and fuel supply companies worldwide.Phone: 01865 233010
www.energenics.co.uk
Oxford Photovoltaics Ltd
Developing perovskite thin-film solar cells, printed directly onto glass to produce a transparent, coloured coating, delivering a significant percentage of the building’s electrical energy requirements. Spun out from Oxford University’s Physics Department in 2010 by Professor Henry Snaith, Oxford PV is moving towards the transfer of its proprietary technology into production.
Phone: 01865 309618
www.oxfordpv.com
Thermofluidics
Developing solar powered water pumps, using cheap solar thermal (water heating) collectors in place of more expensive photovoltaic cells. Thermofluidics Ltd has been based at BSP since 2010, carrying out ongoing R&D activities in collaboration with academics and students in the Cryogenics group at Oxford University.
Tel: 01865 309 692
Website: www.thermofluidics.com
Centre for Sustainable Water Engineering
Contact: Professor Nick Hankins
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Telephone: +44 1865 273179
Led by Professor Nicholas Hankins, the Sustainable Water Engineering Group at Begbroke conducts fundamental and applied research into technologies for potable water production, desalination and waste-water treatment.
Energy and Power Group
Energy and Power Group
Contact: Professor Malcolm McCulloch
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Telephone: +44 1865 283260
EPG is a multidisciplinary team of electrical, mechanical, chemical, civil engineers and physicists, developing innovative electrical and mechanical engineering tools and techniques used to produce smart, highly efficient, high performance energy system components. Strongly focused on industrial collaboration and spin-out activities, larger scale lab work is carried out at Begbroke Science Park.
Environmental Biotechnology
Contact: Professor Ian Thompson
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Telephone: +44 1865 283789
Ian Thompson investigates the role of micro-organisms including the development of bioreactors for treating industrial effluent, metal recovery and water recycling, and exploitation of microbial-nanomaterial interactions for killing water-borne pathogens.
Materials for Fusion and Fission Power
Contact: Dr David Armstrong 
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Telephone: +44 1865 273708
Dr David Armstrong, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow develops mechanical testing techniques at the nano and micro scale to study a range of important materials for both fission and fusion power. Working with industrial and academic partners across Europe his work relates micro scale mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms to macro scale behaviour.
Polymers Group
Contact: Professor Hazel Assender, Associate Professor, Department of Materials
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Telephone: +44 1865 283715
Research focuses on a range of polymer and polymer composite materials. Particular areas of interest include polymer surfaces and interfaces, nanocomposites, thin film deposition onto polymers including vacuum roll-to-roll deposition, thin film flexible electronics and photovoltaic materials.
Solar Energy Materials Initiative
Contact: Professor Andrew Watt
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Telephone: +44 1865 613456
Interested in how light energy is absorbed, dissipated, transported and stored. Combining research programmes in experimental and theoretical solid state physics as well as material synthesis and characterisation it aims to create and develop sources of sustainable energy driven by the power of the sun.