[nanoPost] Novel applications of water-soluble and amphiphilic polymers

1. Cellulose (cotton) - based immobilization of industrial enzymes (1985). 

2. Agarose/Acrylamide composite gels for PFGE and other large pore DNA and Biomolecular Separation and sequencing related applications. 

We also studied starch composites, chitosan composites and a few other natural polymers. 

3. Gellan Gum based novel gels for various applications. We developed proprietary technologies with which we could make stable gels at an unheard of low 0.01-0.02% w/v o gellan gum concentration. These have a variety of applications, and possibly in paper-related products. 

4. Chitosan composite gels. 

5. Novel Polymeric Micelle copolymers. A large variety of copolymers were made based on an entirely new class of materials that I invented. These have led to spin-off nanomedicine companies. One holds overall IP on these class of materials that we have developed. Another has technologies for developing specifically targeted virus-killing nanomedicines.

 

All of the above projects had various "nano" aspects to them.