ERC Starting Grant
Award year: 2025
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Starting Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
With the project kineticSHAPES, Dr. Carlos L. Bassani, research associate at the Professorship for Modeling of Self-Organization Processes, hopes to develop simulation techniques that will improve our understanding of the shape of nanocrystals. These tiny crystals can adopt the shape of cubes, spheres, pyramids, plates, and other defined forms. The shape of nanocrystals is decisive for their surface, reactivity, optical characteristics, mechanical strength and their self-organizing behavior. This in turn can lead to the creation of new technologies such as photocatalysis for the green energy transition or new types of treatment for cancer.