The Physical Sciences team
Our Physical Sciences team are experts in advising researchers on what steps they should take to protect their intellectual property and create robust innovations to attract industry investment.
Physical Sciences Technologies
High frequency/low voltage pulsed power for dewatering mineral tailings
Dewatering method to separate water from mineral tailings such as copper, coal, red mud and diamond slime.
Contaminated waste PVC conversion to carbon fibres
UQ researchers have developed a process of converting contaminated waste PVC to high yield, lower weight and stronger fibre.
Lodomat
Lodomat is an advanced system for wastewater treatment of sludge
Solar F2D2
Solar F2D2 technology is developed around the relationship of string currents levels with fault types, location, number of PV panels and PV panel…
Orthogonal precoding for sidelobe spectrum suppression
A promising, linear technique in which the null space of a precoding matrix with orthonormal columns is designed to suppress the sidelobes.
Quantum dot solar cell
New class of colloidal QD for optoelectronics
Photo-rechargeable battery
Efficiently integrated photo-storage pack for ambient light utilisation
Safety rotor for remote pilot aircraft systems (RPAS)
A lightweight safety feature for minimising blade impact in UAV operation
Pesticide formulation technology
UV protection of actives, increased rainfastness and easy formulation of difficult actives.

Head of Physical Sciences
Alister Morrison
Alister Morrison joined UniQuest in 2018 and manages the Physical Sciences Commercialisation Team. Alister is a senior management professional with over twenty years of strategic international experience. He has held senior career roles in mergers and acquisitions, economics, business development, strategy, planning and technical asset development with Gulf Keystone Petroleum and Pioneer Natural Resources.
Innovation Pipelines
We have a suite of available technologies to give your business an innovative edge.