In The Press

How Making Chocolate Is Like Mixing Cement

20 May 2019

New York Times

Considerable media attention in the press has followed Professor Wilson Poon's recent paper in PNAS on the physics behind the conching process for making chocoloate. Examples include 'How Making Chocolate is Like Making Cement' (New York Times, 20th May 2019), 'Scientists reveal physics behind s

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ECFP labs in new facilities video

16 May 2016

Interface

The facilities of the Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership part of the Soft Matter Physics Group are featured in a new video from Interface.

The video promotes access to facilities in Universities and Research Facilities across Scotland for businesses in need of specialist expertise.

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Prospering Through Innovation

01 Oct 2014

Enquire: News from the School of Physics and Astronomy

An article covering opportunities enjoyed by start-ups and SMEs through working with ECFP.

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60,000 dog biscuits later… and it’s a new home

15 Sep 2014

Pet Business World

Scottish businesswoman is planning to expand her company, Pawsitively Natural, and open her own manufacturing unit in East Kilbride following initial development work with ECFP.

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£700,000 committed to Industrial Biotechnology innovation projects

10 Sep 2014

IBioIC News

IBioIC funding has offered GlycoMar & MicroA an opportunity to work with SAMS, University of Strathclyde, and ECFP at the University of Edinburgh to solve some of the problems we have encountered while scaling up the production of our microalgal cosmetic product.