Antimicrobial Materials
More than 4 million people each year in the EU suffer from infections contracted while in hospital and around 37,000 die as a direct result……
Areas Of Expertise
Environmental
Today there are increasing levels of environmental pollution, both chemical and biological. Sonochemistry has been found to greatly assist a ….
Extraction
Over the centuries mankind has benefited from the natural materials that occur in plants. In earlier times the whole plant or an extract was ….
Food Processing
Long standing applications of ultrasound in the food industry can be divided into two categories; low power ultrasound (low energy, high ……..
Biodiesel
We have developed a new technology for the esterification / transesterification of vegetable oils using a combination of ultrasound and microwaves…
Therapeutic ultrasound
One of the most exciting areas giving new hope for the treatment of solid tumours is the use of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) which ..
Surface Modification, Cleaning and Catalyst Activation
To ensure effective adhesion of a coating to its substrate it is essential to form strong physical and chemical bonds between them. To achieve ..
About Us
SonoChem Centre is a start-up Company developed from the Sonochemistry Applied Research Centre at Coventry University. Our mission is to be a source of expertise in prototyping ultrasonic equipment for academia and industry and to take sonochemistry and ultrasonic processing to pilot and industrial scale.
This will be achieved by combining our experience and knowledge of the applications of ultrasound in chemistry and related fields through the prototyping of new ultrasonic equipment to industrially acceptable standards.
Fields of Interest
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Implementation of ultrasonic techniques in:
- Green chemistry and catalysis.
- Environmental protection and remediation.
- Food technologies.
- Materials science and Nanoparticles preparation.
- Electroprocessing and surface modification.
- Textile finishing.
- Extraction of natural products from plants.
- Platform chemicals from vegetal raw materials.
- Chemical reactions under ultrasound.
- Renewable fuels.
- Scale up of ultrasonic processes