Most projects from Chalmers on IVA's 100 list 2022

Chalmers University of Technology

The 100-list highlights up-to-date research with business potential from Swedish universities. The theme for this year is technology in the service of humanity. Thirteen projects from Chalmers have been selected. The researchers have contributed with research projects that offer great value and potential for utilisation for society, through avenues such as industrial commercialisation, business development, or other types of impact.

"It is gratifying that we are so well represented on the 100 list. Chalmers has a strong focus on innovation and entrepreneurship" says Mats Lundqvist, Vice President of Utilisation at Chalmers University of Technology.

The selected projects from Chalmers 2022:

Architecture and Civil Engineering Project:

Real time optimization of drinking water treatment

The innovation of Kathleen Murphy and fellow colleagues measure the quality and reactivity of freshwater resources in real time, and predict the success of drinking water treatment. Their solution will be used to optimize operational conditions at drinking water treatment plants, reducing the need for chemicals and infrastructure and reducing emissions and waste. The patent pending solution, including the teams unique algorithms, will make drinking water treatment cheaper and more sustainable

Kathleen Murphy

Real time optimized drinking water treatment

Biology and Biological Engineering

Project: Fungi for the production of protein of the future

Alternative protein sources such as fungi (mycoprotein) can lead to 95 percent less carbon dioxide emissions than beef. The vision is that the protein of the future is produced by fungi, which convert bio-based residual streams from industry. The fungi are grown in closed bioreactors with little impact on the external environment.

Yvonne Nygård and Eric Öste

Project: Stabilizing seafood side-streams allowing full use for food production

The demand for fish is steadily increasing in response to dietary recommendations, population growth and wishes to consume more climate-friendly protein sources. We therefore need to convert more of each landed fish into food, as today mainly the fillet is used, i.e., only 40-50 per cent of the weight.

Ingrid Undeland, Haizhou Wu, Mehdi Abdollahi and Bita Forghani

Projects on sustainable food on IVA's 100 list

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Project: Recycling and remanufacturing of indium based semiconductor materials.

Burcak Ebin

Project: High-Quality Graphene and Highly Thermal Conductive Graphene Films Produced in Eco-

Ergang Wang

Chemistry research on IVA 100 list | Chalmers

Computer Science and Engineering

Project: EmbeDL

AI has achieved remarkable successes but at a price - neural network models are very large and need a lot of resources to train and deploy, thus leaving a very large energy footprint. Our research is about how to reduce the size of the neural networks, without sacrificing much in accuracy, and making the best use of diverse hardware so that AI can be deployed in an efficient and less energy consuming way to solve a specific problem.

Project:Repli5

The research is about creating digital twins and synthetic data. A digital twin is a replica of the real world in silico, which can be used to test and verify systems very efficiently and cheaply instead of tests in the real world which are costly, slow and error prone. Digital twins can be used to generate synthetic data to train AI systems efficiently without the need to collect real world data and annotating them manually which is costly, slow, noisy and error prone.

Devdatt Dubhashi

Project: Dpella

The world is collecting a massive amount of individuals data with the intention of building a human-centered future based on data insights. The huge challenge is how to achieve these insights that will shape the future, respecting privacy of individuals and complying with GDPR. We solve this by developing a technology for creating privacy-preserving analytics based on the mathematical framework of Differential Privacy - a new gold standard for data privacy. With our patented IP research, we provide a Privacy-as-a-service solution will enable data flows, creating the inter-organization value required to achieve a digital human-centred future.

Alejandro Russo

Project: ZeroPoint Technologies

The dramatic increase of computers' processing power places high demands on efficient memory storage. A few players today have control over processor development by owning and controlling processor architectures. Chalmers with the spin-off company ZeroPoint Technologies develops technologies for computers' internal memory that are faster and less energy-intensive and are developed to fit into an open processor architecture. This provides basic conditions for smart industry.

Per Stenström

Industrial and Materials Science

Project: Design for energy resilience in the everyday

Our increasing dependence on electrical and connected products is unsustainable from a resource point of view. It also makes us vulnerable in a future energy system where more renewable sources and climate change increase the probability of power shortages and power outages. To be able to handle disruptions in electricity deliveries, and at the same time live a good and meaningful everyday life, knowledge, new design guidelines for product development and energy-independent alternatives are required.

Helena Strömberg

Design for energy resilience in the everyday

Physics

Project: Nanofluidic Scattering Microscopy

We have developed the next generation of nanotechnology to study and analyse individual biomolecules and at the same time generate important information about them. We do this with an optical instrument combined with nanofluidic chips and software with machine learning/AI. By offering researchers this new tool, they can answer their questions in a completely new way, thereby accelerating their research in order to make ground-breaking discoveries.

Christoph Langhammer

Project:2D semiconductor with perfect edges

We at Smena have developed a new game-changing material, which is useful for numerous applications. The starting point of our material is an abundant mineral called molybdenite, whose price is only 5 dollar per kilogram. Using a scalable, patented, and environmentally friendly process, we managed to produce a large number of edges in flakes of natural molybdenite.

Timur Shegai

Two research projects from Physics on IVA 100 List 2022

Mathematical Sciences

Project: PressCise

We work with clinical partners to identify problems with today's products, and to test and verify our own inventions. We use mathematical theories to solve real problems and we realize our solutions in genuine smart textile products.

PressCise AB

Chalmers alumni

From Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Kinga Grenda

Project: Adsorbi - cellulose-based foams for air pollutants capture

After finishing her doctoral studies at the department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Kinga Grenda founded the start-up company Absorbi together with Romain Bordes, researcher at the department. She was recently named one of ten entrepreneurs to keep an eye on by Swedish Incubators and Science Parks.

More about the research and start-up company Absorbi (external link)

IVA's 100 List presents selected research projects believde to have the potientalto be developed into ninnovations, to promote buisness development or to provide other benefits. The list reflects a diverse range of research projects and researcher experise from Sweden's universities in a given field.

The complete list can be found on www.iva.se

The Presidents perspective on Chalmers' contribution to technology in the service of humanity

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