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Smart Biofilm
Durham Scientists have harnessed bio-techniques to create a new generation of smart electroceutical substrates that can be combined with bandages and surfaces to detect bacteria activity, destroy bacterial biofilms reducing the use of antibiotics, by improving their efficacy.
The team, This Professor Ritu Kataky, Dr. Heather Allinson, Dennis Camilleri, Dr. Niloofar Haghighian, Alex Britten, Professor Karl Coleman and Dr Gary Sharples developped the science to detecting and destroying biofilms. It is affordable for a global market; no batteries are required, making it cheaper and easier to sterilise; it is accurate, allowing reliable decision making about wound management to be applied; it is easy to use and implement as minimal requirement of medical expertise is needed and it is non-toxic.
Our applications are based on patented platform technology that enables detection and destruction of Biofilms at an early stage . The generic technology can be adapted to hard or soft surfaces. The platform is a robust handheld or portable device that can intercept electrochemical signals from biofilms without the use of chemicals.
This technology will be soon commercialised by the founding of a spin-out company.
Smart Biofilm
Durham Scientists have harnessed bio-techniques to create a new generation of smart electroceutical substrates that can be combined with bandages and surfaces to detect bacteria activity, destroy bacterial biofilms reducing the use of antibiotics, by improving their efficacy. This approach to detecting and destroying biofilms has several advantages. It is affordable for a global market; no batteries are required, making it cheaper and easier to sterilise; it is accurate, allowing reliable decision making about wound management to be applied; it is easy to use and implement as minimal requirement of medical expertise is needed and it is non-toxic.