{"id":2713,"date":"2020-11-06T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:03:38","slug":"congratulations-to-dr-robert-horne-eda-and-dr-maria-alfredsoon-sps-upon-funding-for-covid-19-testing-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2020\/11\/06\/congratulations-to-dr-robert-horne-eda-and-dr-maria-alfredsoon-sps-upon-funding-for-covid-19-testing-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Dr Robert Horne (EDA) and Dr Maria Alfredsoon (SPS) upon funding for Covid-19 testing tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/826\/horne-robert\">Dr Robert Horne,<\/a> Lecturer in Electronic Systems at the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA) and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/physical-sciences\/people\/361\/www.kent.ac.uk\/physical-sciences\/people\/361\/alfredsson-maria\"> Dr Maria Alfredsson<\/a>, Reader in Theoretical Materials from the School of Physical Sciences (SPS) upon the award of \u00a3186,468.50 from Mologic Ltd for the research project entitled: <em>Developing an Electric board Prototype for Medical testing with an Aqeous Battery<\/em> which will develop a low cost ($1) Covid-19 detection tool that can provide rapid and reliable results in a single credit sized test unit, using a mobile phone to communicate the diagnosis.\u00a0 The project will also enable the University to hire multiple researchers and update EDA&#8217;s clean room for Pick and Place capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts are developing the ultra-low power electronics, communications element and low yield systems prototypes, whilst the School of Physical Sciences are developing a novel battery technology which is aqueous based, that has a high stability and can be printed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mologic.co.uk\">Mologic<\/a> is one of the UK leaders in rapid diagnostics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr Robert Horne, Lecturer in Electronic Systems at the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA) and Dr Maria Alfredsson, Reader in Theoretical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2020\/11\/06\/congratulations-to-dr-robert-horne-eda-and-dr-maria-alfredsoon-sps-upon-funding-for-covid-19-testing-tool\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":2717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[842,197042,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}