Co-ordinated by the University of Oxford and funded through the ERC the PROMOFS project is a brand new research project in the field of nanoporous materials engineering. The focus will be on the discovery, characterisation and application of MOFs (metal-organic frameworks); this innovative platform will afford disruptive photonics sensing technology. Over the 5 year research…
The recently launched topDFT project will look at Density Functional Theory (DFT) and develop new theoretical approaches to density-functional methods. Awarded to the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham this 5 year ERC consolidator grant will allow the research to exploit the topology of the electron density, with accurate simulations of molecular and…
DYNAFLUORS is a 5 year research project helped by funding from an ERC consolidator grant and awarded to the University of Edinburgh. The research will endeavour to develop the first chemical toolbox for imaging the activity of immune cells in tumours, in real time, thus allowing the response to therapy to be monitored at the…
EPIDEMICSonCHIP is an ERC funded consolidator grant that will run for approximately 5 years and is co-ordinated by the Institute of Science and Technology Vienna (IST Austria). The monitoring of social insects (in this case ants) should allow the researchers to better understand how the collective defence of colonies allows the prevention of epidemics in…
Settlement patterns in Egypt and Nubia in the Second Millennium BCE were the main fields of research of the European Research Council AcrossBorders Project (ERC Starting grant no. 313668).
Materials are defined by their chemical structure – which atoms are placed where. To control their properties, one can either exchange atoms, or change their arrangement. Despite more than fifty years of scientific progress since Richard Feynman’s 1959 vision for nanotechnology, there is only one way to manipulate individual atoms in materials: scanning tunneling microscopy.…
The Don Quichote Project is a 5 year research project on hydrogen in a smart grid environment funded by the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking. Demonstration Of New QUalitative Innovative Concept of Hydrogen Out of wind Turbine Electricity (Don Quichote Project). The project demonstrates that the use of hydrogen as a large scale renewable energy…