Technology

GloGro

The additive for greenhouse materials that makes greenhouses glow and plants beneath it thrive.

GloGro is an additive for polytunnel sheeting and greenhouse coatings. This advanced material is designed to efficiently convert incident high-energy UV light into lower-energy red light, the most efficient colour of light for photosynthesis^[i],[ii]The result: stronger, more vigorous plant growth.

Unlike existing solutions, GloGro does not take away any colour of light of from the solar spectrum that plants need for photosynthesis.

We synthesise the GloGro molecules in-house using our labs at the University of Cambridge and scaling them with scaleup chemical manufacturers.

Lambda has won UK-government funded and European projects in partnership with academic partners from the Universities of Cambridge and Bath for the design and scaleup of the active molecules.

Prof Dominic Wright, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

Prof Dominic Wright has expertise in broad areas of synthetic inorganic chemistry and is experienced in bottom-up synthesis of photonic and energy materials. He is the author of over 360 papers and book chapters and named inventor of at least eight international patents. Lambda has been working closely with Dominic’s research group since the beginning of 2021 via several UK government grants, under which the Wright group has isolated candidate materials for down-shifting and codeveloped the molecule for Lambda’s minimum viable product (MVP).

Prof Petra Cameron, Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT), University of Bath

Petra is a Professor within the University of Bath with 18 years’ experience working in the area of advanced energy materials and photovoltaics. She leads a team that includes experimental materials chemists and engineers who investigate and characterise new light harvesting chemicals and scale their synthesis in-flow. Petra was a key partner alongside Lambda in three Innovated UK projects.