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Our Domains

Our domains

Given the wide range of applications associated with outcomes arising from biofilm research, SNBC is happy to work with companies targeting various market segments including food, household surfaces, marine, paint manufacturing, cosmetics, water purification, desalination and membranes, bioremediation and resource reclamation, water and wastewater treatment, medical implants and surfaces, bioreactors in industrial production, oil and gas. Click here for the list of industry representatives in various domains.

Biofilms & Microbiomes Across Industries

Food & Beverage

  • New / smart packaging technologies
  • Food safety and QC
  • Pro- and pre-biotics

Surface Technologies

  • Anti-biofilm surfaces
  • Novel built environments
  • Paint formulations
  • Speciality ingredients – coatings, composites, anti-microbial additives

Oil & Gas

  • Anti-fouling and anti-corrosion structures
  • Biofuel production
  • Sensors

Water

  • Urban water cycle – desalination, recycled water, water treatment
  • Water quality assessment framework
  • Microbial target detection tools – real-time, in-situ sensors

Biomedical & Healthcare

  • Novel antimicrobial materials in wound dressings
  • Sterility and hygiene testing
  • Coating for implants
  • Anti-microbial resistance

Biofilm & Microbiome analytics

  • Automation to acquire and characterize biofilms signatures
  • Novel and customized technologies to analyze biofilm features
  • Improving data analysis pipelines for biofilm datasets (e.g. AI for image / pattern recognition, NGS data analysis)

Agri- & Aqua- technologies

  • Animal gut- and plant -associated microbiomes
  • Improving nutrient removal in systems
  • New aqua- and agri- culture systems
  • Alternate proteins and feeds additives

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