Tiny test tubes and getting to grips with quantum gravity

Nanotechnology
31 Aug 2011 15:18:30.357
A mathematician working on a new description of gravity and a scientist producing microscopic materials for the next generation of electronic devices are to receive a prestigious international grant that supports research stars of the future.

Mathematician Dr Kirill Krasnov and chemist Dr Andrei Khlobystov, of The University of Nottingham, have each been awarded a Starting Investigator Grant — totalling more than €2.5 million — from the European Research Council.

The money will be used to fund two very different but equally novel research projects — one aimed at resolving the conflict between Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum mechanics and the other at using nanotechnology to develop microscopic test-tubes, or nanoreactors, and new nanomaterials.
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More information is available from Dr Andrei Khlobystov on +44 (0)115 951 3917, andrei.khlobystov@nottingham.ac.uk or Dr Kirill Krasnov by email at kirill.krasnov@nottingham.ac.uk

 

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