NBL Introduction

The NBL has multiple active projects and they are listed below:

  • ARMES: Developing a new analytical method for protein analysis based on polarized multi-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy.
  • Bioanalytical: Rapid analytical methods for biopharmaceutical manufacturing (particularly for cell culture media).
  • Fluorescence Microscopy: Using advanced single molecule based methods for studying protein-protein and protein-polymer interactions.
  • Solid-state analysis: Raman and chemometric based methods for low content quantification (LCQ) and nanosuspension particle analysis.

Details and Information about some of past projects are available here:

  • Forensics application of Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics for illicit narcotic analysis.
  • Petroleum Analysis Using time-resolved fluorescence to analyst crude petroleum oils and hydrocarbon bearing fluid inclusions.
  • Metal Enhanced Fluorescence:  Using plasmonics to for fluorescence sensing applications.

Active Projects

The NBL has multiple projects underway of which the most significant are:

  • ARMES: Developing a new analytical methodology for protein analysis based on polarized multi-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy.  We've just started (2024) a new large scale reserach project in this area.  
  • Bioanalytical: Rapid analytical methods for biopharmaceutical manufacturing (particularly for cell culture media).
  • Fluorescence Microscopy: Using advanced single molecule based methods for studying protein interactions.
  • Solid-state analysis: Raman and chemometric based methods for low content quantification (LCQ) and Raman based size analysis of nanosuspensions.

Details and Information about some of past projects are available here:

  • Forensics:  application of Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics for illicit narcotic analysis.
  • pH sensing:  Developing lifetime based pH sensors.
  • Petroleum Analysis:  Using time-resolved fluorescence to analyst crude petroleum oils and hydrocarbon bearing fluid inclusions.
  • Metal Enhanced Fluorescence:  Developing nanostructures and methods.

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Key Facts

87

87 peer reviewed papers

27

PhD & MSc graduates.

57

Invited talks

147

Conference presentations & posters

22

Spectrometers

1

UV Supercontinuum laser

3

Patents

13M

>13M€ in research funding

3.M€

~3.3M€ in funding from industry.