PhosphonicS Technology - An Overview
PhosphonicS technology was developed by Professor Alice Sullivan at Queen Mary, University of London. What Professor Sullivan discovered was using vinyltrimethoxysilane (VTMS) as a coupling agent, a more general and economic method for silica functionalisation was possible. The first range of this chemistry used phosphonic acid, hence the name of the company. A patent for the chemistry was filed January 2009 in the UK followed subsequently by European and US filings. A full list of patents and publications are available under here.
The application areas for this type of chemistry are very broad and not the area of expertise of Queen Mary University. In 2001 PhosphonicS acquired the technology from University of London to select and commercialise areas of application. Currently PhosphonicS is focused on the industrial precious metal recovery, product purification and immobilised catalysis applications. In these areas we have also developed engineering solutions to scale our chemistry.
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