• The humidity characterisation and stabilisation of local timber.


• Modification of Trinidad Lake Asphalt by Air-Blowing.


• Thin Film: The transport, optical, mechanical and magnetic properties of metallic, multilayer, alloy and superconducting thin films.


• Ceramics and Refractories: Development of ceramics and refractories for a wide range of applications using regional raw materials. Current research includes characterisation of raw materials, compositional studies, mechanical testing, X-ray and DTA Analyses, Micro-structure/property relationship and slip casting.


• Grease lubricants.

• Recordings of mass potentials as well as signals from neurons to determine the manner in which the brain with its neural network functions.


• EEG Studies.


• Blood flow studies for photoplethysmography.

Magnetocardiography using a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID).

• Nuclear medicine studies using radio pharmaceuticals.

• Statistical analysers and model building in areas of large scale structure of the universe and studies of quasars.

• This project utilises the 40-cm Meade Telescope on the Natural Sciences Building Rooftop. It is in conjunction with Tuorla Observatory in Finland. Studies involve monitoring the variability of BL Lac objects

• The design, construction and testing of low and high temperature flat plate collectors for use with:

> Solar crop dryers
>Solar air-conditioners, refrigerators and solar powered heat engines
> Solar timber dryers
This area of research is done as a joint effort with other departments.

• Various aspects of Mineralogy and Petrology of Trinidad & Tobago including resources of the continental shelf.

• Environmental monitoring with respect to sound and aerosols in certain work environments.
Use of sea surface temperatures for the Caribbean region
• in environmental studies.
Climate change studies.

• Theoretical modelling of entangled states of light, optical parametric oscillators, squeezed states.

Applications of entangled states in quantum imaging, quantum
• communication and quantum computing.

• Development of fibre optic sensors sensitive to diverse environmental and other measurands such as temperature, strain, seismic, and chemical.


• Transceivers for use in photoplethysmography.


• Steelpan analysis via optoelectronics.


• Fibre Optic Lasers.


• Communications.


• Robotics.

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